I think it’s hilarious that Suarez’s fine is over ten times what Terry faces as the MAXIMUM penalty for his charge today. When he is convicted, the FA will say it has been handled already and will not rule on it. Because it falls to February, and with god knows how long the appeal process, it will either extend past the Euros so they don’t have to worry about it, or it will come before them beforehand and they’ll let him go. No way does the FA suspend their captain for the Euros. No way.

We’re gonna have to agree to disagree or we’ll be here all day and end up shooting pistols at dawn or something.

Still, what’s laughable is you suggesting that Rooney gets punished unfairly by the FA. See: V sign. See: them going to bat for him with UEFA over a stone cold red card.

Players aren’t caught swearing INTO the camera every game though. Drogba was suspended for the exact same thing by UEFA two years prior, and it was initially a much longer ban than what Rooney got.

This is laughable. Drogba was suspended because he sprinted up to the referee and screamed/cursed directly in his face. Sure, he happened to yell into the camera on the way off the field, but that is not why he got banned.

/Chelsea fan
//best I can come up with
///still better than what Terry came up with

I’m not clearing Evra of any wrongdoing here. Just saying that the FA and their subjective application of the rulebook are ridiculous.

Switch his name with Suarez and I’m in the same boat.

This is a political banning by the FA, nothing more.

Personally I’m waiting on an explanation for the FA saying Rooney never made a V gesture to Chelsea fans when the evidence clearly shows him doing it.

/unbiased
//honor bound

Maybe if Evra hadn’t been criticized for the FA for exaggerating racist claims in the past

Another “he said-he said” though. I certainly wouldn’t put it past a Chelsea groundsman to make a racist comment.

And let’s not even get started on the non-racism issues. I’m still waiting for the explanation of Rooney’s ban for swearing given that players are caught swearing on camera in every single game.

Only he knows what his intent was. I don’t believe him for a second, but it’s his word against Evra’s.

Which is exactly what I will be saying when Evra gets his eight match ban.

But anyways back to reality. Evra said in the report that he did not think Suarez was racist. This was a complete statement move by the FA outside of the facts of the case. I would be more pissed if I weren’t expecting it to happen. But then given the fact that they decided to charge Suarez for flipping off the fans when they didn’t do the same for Cole and Rooney, I don’t expect consistency from the FA.

That said, 8 games is harsh. His honesty is going to cost him.

Yep. I mean honestly had the FA decided to say “look, we can’t really prove it and there are issues here, but we think he should have known better so we’re banning him three games for improper conduct but not for the racism charge” and the club could have accepted it. Now they have to fight it and it’s going to be a messy legal battle.

Maybe if Evra hadn’t been criticized for the FA for exaggerating racist claims in the past and hadn’t yelled at the ref in the match for “only booking me because I’m black” I’d feel a bit bad for him. Probably not though, fuck him.

Only he knows what his intent was. I don’t believe him for a second, but it’s his word against Evra’s.

Terry is the England captain. They found their scapegoat to counter Blatter and he’s a foreigner, Terry will go free.

That said, 8 games is harsh. His honesty is going to cost him.

And that’s why Terry will get off. No way in hell does Terry even get charged.

Except it was caught on tape, yes? One thinks something will happen.

/Spurs fan’d

What sunk Suarez is that he admitted to saying it.

And that’s why Terry will get off. No way in hell does Terry even get charged.