Quote (grahambo @ Jan 6 2018 11:08am)

He called him a bitch. You bitch.

Quote (Pozer @ Jan 6 2018 05:43am)

Quote (lepInTheHood @ Jan 6 2018 10:57am)

that everton player was a prat anyway, he pushed firmino into the crowd, then throw the referee out of the way. both should of been sent off.

Quote (Pozer @ 6 Jan 2018 05:29)

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/06/roberto-firmino-liverpool-everton-mason-holgate

Truly sickening football club, have they learnt nothing from the Suarez saga?

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But, while the six clips of the incident we used showed that the Brazilian had uttered a curse in his native Portuguese, according to the lip reader, no evidence of racial abuse was found.

Lip reader Tim Reedy said: “Firmino, in retaliation to the push, confronts Holgate, shouting some words at him, to which Holgate does not react.

Holgate does not compute because Firmino is speaking in Portugese. My findings are that Firmino did not use racist language.

Instead, he says the words, ‘Es maluco, filho da puta?’, which translates as ‘Are you crazy, you son of a b***h?’. Then Holgate, upon speaking to the referee, thinks that racist language was used and tells the referee, ‘He called me a n****r.