This is absolutely no reflection of Rudiger's claims. I'm sure a Premier League footballer who knows the severity of accusing someone of racism/knows that there are cameras everywhere that will likely back him up would never make something like this up. But as a few on here have brought up whether or was mistaken or misheard the 'abuse' I thought I'd share a pretty wank experience I was part of last year.
I played a game at the end of last season and one of our lads called a member of the opposition a fat, ugly cunt after he received a blatant elbow to the face at a corner.
The guy was a well known cunt in our league, trying to snap legs every 5 minutes, giving out abuse constantly and he was indeed, fat and ugly. It just so happened that he was black as well.
The referee was standing no more than 5 metres away and clearly heard every single thing that was actually said (it was clear as daylight and very loud). My wife who was standing 40 metres away could hear what he said too. Yet, the twat claimed he was called 'a fucking n*****'. The ref looked around as if to say 'what the fuck am I supposed to do?!', everyone else (including some on the other team) were shouting 'what the fuck are you talking about', 'fucking bollocks' etc... but sure enough, out came the red card. Not only did he get sent off but he was subjected to a police enquiry which went on for absolutely fucking ages. Thankfully nothing came of it, but sure enough, the bloke who made it up is still playing week in, week out. He's still a complete prick but no one says a fucking word to him now. We played them again a couple of weeks ago and a load of the team flat out refused to play on the same pitch as him.
I guess the point I'm making is that the amount of weight a racism accusation carries nowadays is a sign of how seriously we take things. So when you hear stuff by certain people implying that we're all a bunch of racist neanderthal cunts in England, it pisses me right off. It's just a shame that there are some people out there who take advantage of this.