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No it does not nor do I expect it to. It's just for the Rudiger issue which should have died down a lot more than it has done.
It’s Rudiger that keeps flogging it to death though. Why not accept that being booed is part of the wonderful entertainment that is sport?. There is always a bad guy or the team you hate. He just happens to be the bad guy in the eyes of a lot of Spurs fans. Has nothing to do with his colour. He is making it about colour and instead of leaving it be, he is compounding it by blaming the nasty Spurs fans for racist booing in spite of an exhaustive enquiry through the club and the Police the first time around.No it does not nor do I expect it to. It's just for the Rudiger issue which should have died down a lot more than it has done.
He's an attention whore. He knows the only way the Guardian and the BBC will give him any light of day is by bitching and moaning about being a victim of racism at the hands of the white devil Tottenham supporters.It’s Rudiger that keeps flogging it to death though. Why not accept that being booed is part of the wonderful entertainment that is sport?. There is always a bad guy or the team you hate. He just happens to be the bad guy in the eyes of a lot of Spurs fans. Has nothing to do with his colour. He is making it about colour and instead of leaving it be, he is compounding it by blaming the nasty Spurs fans for racist booing in spite of an exhaustive enquiry through the club and the Police the first time around.
I think if you took an unbiased view the answer to that question is obvious.It’s Rudiger that keeps flogging it to death though. Why not accept that being booed is part of the wonderful entertainment that is sport?. There is always a bad guy or the team you hate. He just happens to be the bad guy in the eyes of a lot of Spurs fans. Has nothing to do with his colour. He is making it about colour and instead of leaving it be, he is compounding it by blaming the nasty Spurs fans for racist booing in spite of an exhaustive enquiry through the club and the Police the first time around.
Put this in a court setting for one moment if you will.
On the one hand you have a man clearly overreacting on camera like he’s been shot, before miraculously running round the pitch making monkey gestures as soon as he is understandably booed like a pantomime villain by the home crowd for the consequences of his cheating.
on the other, you have an extensive enquiry by the club and the largest police force in the land under the close scrutiny of the press that doesn’t turn up one shred of evidence that people were making monkey chants. He then compounds this in the next game because he is still the villain of the peace and gets booed, claiming racism has won.
Fuck it. I won’t change your views on this bloke so you carry on thinking that he’s an innocent party in this, when in my view he’s proven himself to be a cunt in consecutive games against us, by using racism to hide behind.
Just ban booing. That’s the way forward. Then there’s no room for error.
No, but if I were a Chelsea player, management, or board member, I'd have to think LONG and HARD about the type of club, and despicable FANS I was representing.... unless, deep down, I kinda agreed with them!!Putting football tribalism aside, you're surely not saying Chelsea players, management and board agree with what their racist fans do?
I think if you took an unbiased view the answer to that question is obvious.
He made racial allegations, he believes it happened but there is no evidence, next thing he knows he's being booed. Surely you see how he might come to the conclusion that fans are racist even if you don't agree with it. If the wasn't booed this would no longer be a story.
You set them straight Mrs Perryman. Thank you.Think that Rudiger needs to have his hearing checked - he claimed to hear monkey chants, not booing. Quite a difference IMO, and if I had been at either game, I would have booed him as well.
All I'm concerned with is the good name of our Club, and how this individual is diverting the attention from his bad behaviour. I don't care if he's white, black, green or yellow with pink stripes, he's a tool IMO.
Bit thick me. What unbiased view gives me the answer to the question?I think if you took an unbiased view the answer to that question is obvious.
He made racial allegations, he believes it happened but there is no evidence, next thing he knows he's being booed. Surely you see how he might come to the conclusion that fans are racist even if you don't agree with it. If the wasn't booed this would no longer be a story.
Well said by a genuine Tottenham fan.Bit thick me. What unbiased view gives me the answer to the question?
And if you are suggesting that your next paragraph answers the question, it doesn’t.
Is he so stuck in this “racist world against me & I stand alone in this (interestingly no support from his own club)” that he has lost sense in the reality? Behave like a cunt, you get booed. It’s not because you are a black player. He gets paid millions a year. Getting booed is part of the territory if you upset an opposing teams fans. In the same way us same fans will give a superb opponent performance, or a bad injury a standing ovation when that player goes off the pitch. If I was getting paid what he is, someone could boo me all the fuck they wanted. If I felt I was being targeted because of race, I may say it out loud. I wouldn’t keep banging the fuck on about it when I’d been shown to be mistaken in the teeth of all the available evidence.
I wouldn’t say racism won in the next game against that team- seeking desperately to show I was still right even though I was demonstrably wrong. If I had to say anything in response to a question of why I was booed I’d say that I was booed (not monkey chanted) on both occasions and perhaps I got it wrong and it was part of the decades old tribal nature of the sport I excelled in, & whose fans paid my wages. If I wasn’t asked the question or didn’t have to answer it , I’d keep quiet.
And it’s not like Rudiger doesn’t have form for making unfounded allegations about race issues in the pitch.
Behave like a cunt, you get booed. In all walks of life no matter what you look like.
I think if you took an unbiased view the answer to that question is obvious.
He made racial allegations, he believes it happened but there is no evidence, next thing he knows he's being booed. Surely you see how he might come to the conclusion that fans are racist even if you don't agree with it. If the wasn't booed this would no longer be a story.
You have a chip on your shoulder. Deal with it kid
I don’t thinkBut you don’t know if he truly believes that he heard any racial chants at all
You are just saying that you ‘think’ that he might have heard them which suits your WUM agenda like it does on other threads
I feel that you don’t really believe in any of the arguments that you put up
You just like disagreeing with people and baiting them accordingly
Just my opinion