Quote (excellence @ 9 Dec 2020 15:26)
evidently it wasnt a player it was an assistant coach.
the last sentence is interesting - neither wanted to play from the get-go but why? Istanbul makes sense but if the other match resulted in a draw P$G had to at least match that result
He was referring to a player, who commited a foul:
The assistant coach overheard and flipped his shit.
Quote (fender @ 9 Dec 2020 16:37)
you know that's not quite the same. there hasn't been a centuries long history of systemic discrimination of blonde people that would make describing them by that attribute 'problematic'. i think you're very much capable of making your valid argument against fake outrage and oversensitivity without using false equivalence.
i fully agree that we should take cultural and language norms into context while evaluating such incidents, but to me it doesn't seem quite as clear cut as you're trying to suggest. there was more than one basaksehir player / official involved in this, one of the most prominent ones was demba ba btw - so pretending it was just one person, who knowingly and deliberately misrepresented what was said, doesn't really seem to be a fair description of the situation.
also, why do you think psg didn't want to play the game? what would they gain from that?
The other players that jumped, lie Ba, Neymar, etc... joined the conversation later. And none of the involved were reasonable enough to calm down and let the ref explain himself.
PSG was better off playing after knowing Utd's result, obviously.
Quote (Mr_Mill @ 9 Dec 2020 14:34)
I agree that it most likely had no racist intention but still it's not smart of him to do it imo. You know millions are watching and that people will jump on anything at the moment.
Yeah, but how would he was he supposed to physically describe him? His job is to provide useful information quickly, not please oversensitive people who thinks any mention of color is racist.