RANGERST1LLADIE 33 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Is this for real because a just seen that Naismith received a 12 game ban, Whittaker 10 game ban and Davis 15 game ban. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
therightway 65 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 This seems to be real but still strange that nobody is making any official announcement about it...his club, agent or the FA Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
East London Loyal 420 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 That comment from the Rotherham fan makes him look like a complete prick. As for the FA - As bent as it could be. Archaic, corrupt and run by people who have no understanding of the game. The inconsistency of the ban revived can by Broadfoot in relation to that of Suarez is staggering. I have to know the justification behind the FAs decision because it laughable, not least because as far as I know, the sectarian laws that plague Scotland aren't relevant in England. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 It's a wind-up, I had a massive rant about it last night, raging just to find out it was a piss-take Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueshoff 11,750 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Just had a look on the Mirror mobile website - it's all down to Kirk's 'certain cultural traditions'!! Can't find it on main websie)Also saw on the main Mirror website one of their journo's praising his bravery - Asking God to save the British Army's commander-in-chief would, to quote one of his critics, be “insulting, stupid and hypocritical” to those he cares about There are several ways a footballer is usually shamed on the news pages, rather than the sports ones, during a summer.He lets his country down by blasting a penalty over a bar in a foreign stadium, lets his club down by getting drunk in a Las Vegas swimming pool, or lets himself down as a kiss-and-tell merchant spills the beans on his inability to rise to the occasion in a budget hotel in Stoke.But it’s rare for a player to get slaughtered on the news pages for refusing to let down his own people.That is what has happened to James McClean, after turning away from the flag of St George and refusing to sing the British national anthem before a game on West Brom’s US pre-season tour:“Fury at Premier League star who turned his back on God Save the Queen” screamed a right-wing tabloid, extracting that fury from a rent-a-quote Democratic Ulster Unionist MP.Meanwhile, a broadsheet football writer told his audience of retired generals that McClean’s behaviour was “insulting, stupid and hypocritical. This was a disrespectful act that hints at something ugly in his views.”Naturally, there followed a thunderstorm of ill-informed, scum-based bile on Twitter with social media’s finest brains likening him to Jihadi John and calling for his deportation (which would be the first internal deportation ever).As the Mail reminded us, Derry-born McClean is “no stranger to controversy” when it comes to Anglo-Irish politics, having previously refused to wear a shirt with a poppy sewn into it, as he saw it as “a gesture of disrespect for the innocent people who lost their lives in the Troubles.”For those who don’t get that principle (or those who refuse to), let me explain.McClean isn’t just another rabble-rousing Fenian who refuses to let the past go.He is a man from a specific area of a specific city which, until recently, was so subjugated by the British state that voting was rigged to ensure the unionist minority always ruled.That, in turn, saw the Catholic majority kept at the bottom of the housing and job vacancy lists.They took to the streets in civil-rights marches, which became anti-internment marches, like the one in 1972 in which British soldiers opened fire on 26 unarmed civilians, killing 14, many of whom were shot while fleeing or helping the wounded. And the truth of Bloody Sunday was denied and covered up by the British state for more than a generation.That is why McClean can’t find it in him to pay tribute to the British Army, including its commander-in-chief the Queen.Do you really think he should be forced to sing a ditty asking God to save her so she can reign over him, gloriously?Christ only knows why the Yanks choose to play national anthems at club games anyway, but if a Palestinian whose relatives had been bombed in Gaza was playing for Maccabi Haifa in Texas, would we call him a hypocritical scumbag for refusing to join in with the Israeli anthem?How about a black American playing in Alabama and refusing to salute the Confederate flag?Surely, unless you’ve lived inside their skin, you cannot moralise about their instinctive reaction?McClean wasn’t saying he hated his English fans, team-mates or employers, but the symbols of the British state.To many Derry Catholics that flag, and that anthem, open deep wounds.Some, like Martin McGuinness, have been able to let the wounds heal. Others, like McClean, haven’t.That’s why he feels uncomfortable asking God to save the head of the British Army. Because to quote one of his many hysterical critics, to do so would appear “insulting, stupid and hypocritical” to the people he cares about.Which is why instead of attacking his treachery we should be commending his courage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
therightway 65 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 It's a wind-up, I had a massive rant about it last night, raging just to find out it was a piss-takeThere are a few papers already carrying the story on their online editions including the Rhecord, be fantastic if it is a wind up that these cunts have fell for Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Robot 21,138 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 If true well done big man but it's a petty you never snapped the cunt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I was told it was a wind-up by timmy but if it turns out to be true then it once again shows how messed up and backwards this country is Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gascoigne8 3,378 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Je suies kirk Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaudrupsPatrickBoots 13,510 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Was certain this was fake last night. Couldn't find anything at all relating to this incident considering it supposedly happened months ago.Seems to be plenty of stories on it now though so if it is a hoax it's a fucking good one Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigg 2 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 There is nothing on the BBC website at all a great hoax?????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wully 47,189 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 The Rotherham manager is of the same mindset as McClean. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Rotherham are staying quiet on the situation which says to me it's true, if it was bullshit they would have came out and put it to bed by now, surely? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamFyfe 1,438 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Daily Record ran with the story. Bigger game ban than Suarez got for racism Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AljayBoy 2,298 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoramsLeftThumb 27 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Definitely appears to be true, at least as in reported by the Rotherham Advertiser. Although, strangely, it doesn't appear to be on their website, however, one of their reporters has tweeted about it.There also seems to be a clamour for every other paper to print it, and every news outlet to talk about it. But, this was reported in the shitty little Rotheram local paper, about something that was subject to some kind of non-disclosure. All very odd. Be interested to what the real story is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights 2,526 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Pretty ridiculous if true. Pro-IRA is fine and anti-UK is fine, but anti-IRA is forbidden?If it's fake then fair play to whoever did it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Corinthian 74 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Advertiser Sport @rothtisersport 4m4 minutes ago#FA confirm our front page news, #Broadfoot has 10 game ban and £7,500 fine. Has to attend education programme too. #rufc Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnysidparto10 37 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Good on yer kirk!!! McClean has strong beliefs apart from when it is an Englishman paying his wages!!?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Corinthian 74 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hopefully the education programe inludes cooking classes Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather 71,713 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 BBC running with it nowhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33651775Kirk Broadfoot: Rotherham United defender banned for 10 gamesRotherham United defender Kirk Broadfoot has been banned for 10 matches by the Football Association after a misconduct charge against him was found proven. Reports suggest the 30-year-old former Rangers player is believed to have received the ban for sectarian abuse of winger James McClean in the game between the Millers and Wigan in March. Rotherham are not planning to comment on the suspension. Broadfoot played 27 games last season. More to follow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights 2,526 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 If a guy came out saying how great IS were and somebody had a pop at him would it be the same punishment? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBluebells 6,898 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 What an absolute disgrace that is. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hilts 12,819 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 well in the White Cafu fuck you McClean ya terrorist loving wankstain Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 You get less for racially abusing people, this is a complete and utter farce.McClean can do and say what he likes thoughForever protecting the enemy in this country, scunnered. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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