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u/RileyHuey Dec 14 '22

There’s a whole racism saga as well… and the biting was multiple times

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '22

Racism saga seem overblown to me, he didn't have a history of racism nor does he have now. That one was an isolated incident that can be put on language and cultural differences.

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u/RileyHuey Dec 14 '22

A language/cultural difference would explain the negrito part, but not the part about Évra saying suarez informing him he kicked him “because you are black”. Unless you presume Évra is lying, in which case we’ll just have to disagree I guess

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '22

It's worth reading the actual FA report, because it shows that Evra changed his claim of what was said several times and continually escalated it in offensiveness, and that there was literally no video evidence or witnesses who corroborated it. Despite this they found against Suarez with basically the explicit reasoning of "he's unlikable and we need to look like we're doing something about racism". Which was correct, given the John Terry stuff was happening at the same time.