"Liverpool have wriggled on the hook all the way through"

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05Jan

“Liverpool have wriggled on the hook all the way through”

Having only reluctantly accepted Luis Suarez’s eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra and continually insisting the Uruguayan is innocent, Liverpool have done an “enormous amount of damage” to their club, according to the Life’s A Pitch panel. Plus, it will take a considerable effort by the club to recover its reputation, says the panel.

The Daily Express’ Ian Ridley believes Liverpool’s continued opposition to the independent panel’s findings, and only a qualified apology from Suarez, has caused ”an enormous amount of damage”. And he feels “they’ve wriggled on the hook all the way through” this issue. “They’ve done a disservice to their many fans worldwide who would be looking for a rather more dignified response from such a great football club. Liverpool have got a lot of work to do to recover from this.”

Kenny Dalglish has been pivotal in the club’s defiance to the verdict and the Sunday Telegraph’s Duncan White feels the Liverpool manager probably now wishes he’d kept his own counsel more. ”Dalglish has said some things I’m sure he now regrets, but at the same time he’s very passionate and wants to defend his team,” Duncan explains. “Sometimes those decisions have to be taken out of his hands by someone higher up in the club.”

The Daily Mirror’s Martin Lipton feels Liverpool’s handling of their defence was totally flawed. ”There are some valid points that Liverpool can make on this case,” he explains. “It’s a shame they didn’t make them at the start, or in the middle, but right at the end when it was too late.”

The panel goes on to discuss how the impact of such negativity towards the club and Suarez’s ban will affect results on the pitch.

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jj

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l4_fQXwIV4E
35 minutes in
Evra racially abusing Chelsea players in 2003 using the N word which he said in the FA report he didn’t like using!!!!!!
scan

Clap trap in the extreme
nowwhatsaythee

evra video -WOW
Cerasstar

Perhaps these smart media types should listen to Daglish instead of dissing Liverpool!
hilmi

To be more precise…
Extract from panel report page 69 – “271. When, shortly after the match, he went to see the referee with the manager, ………..,,, Mr Evra’s answer was that even when
he pronounced the word “n*****s”, it was not a word he liked to use. He added that……….”
Ken

this shows how the fa are bent they dont need proof if anybody reads there charges and thinks its fair,then im sorry but if u can take a mans life apart with no evidence then not charge evra on his own words,its sad to say but to me it looks like u only have rights if your black,this is very sad as im from a mixed race family and i think the fa have done more harm than good.and unfortunatly alot of people will look at this way.
Ken

just been on phone with fa they not going to charge evra they are a joke
Independant

Once more, the knives
are out for Liverpool. Interesting how the media never says Liverpool
F.C. during their continued diatribes on the situation, isn’t it?
You’d think with such a sensitive issue unfolding under a blanket of
negative coverage that the distinction would be a priority, after
all, your not attacking the city, are you?

…are you?

Merseyside will never
trust the media after this, you burned your bridges with us in 89.
Your rash and inflammatory handling of this case just compounds what
we already knew, you can never be trusted.

Backs to the wall?
Siege mentality? Of course, as if you left us with any other choice.

So be it.
guest

yes some of these idiots were discussing..paul ince said sign iniesta while he actually said sign someone LIKE iniesta.just because you dont react properly doesnt mean you are guilty and those who said they should ave had solid evidence to ban him for 8 matches..now they say the word probably used by the panel is an honourable way of handling the case and Evra a credible witness who changed his claims as well and in the report it is mentioned suarez used ‘dale negro’ with yaya toure and he might ave used it here…evra doesnt like to use ni**er and and he changed claims from ni**er and he is mistaken because he doesnt like to use the word,and the explanation given to the verb’tu’ and ‘vos’..he spent time in europe and so it is possible he might ave used it and i wonder how much european spanish is there in dutch.you cant pass a guilty verdict based on what one person says and for the rest of his life he will be called a racist..in a case as sensitive as this you cant pass guilty verdict based on probably because one guy wasnt consistent according the panel..so we will go by the word of the guy whom we think is consistent…everything LFC did was terrible in this case and the t-shirt gesture was criticised..journalists should ave parity in their thinking and what they publish if not they shouldnt call themselves a journalist..even now there isnt solid evidence to back the verdict other than what evra said and still LFC is the one everyone is talking about and LFC cant challenge the verdict,they can appeal the length of the ban.For verdict which cannot be challenged you cant base it on probably(even that one seems unlikely the word should be ‘possibly’) and everyone is defending the panel and no one(media world) seems to care about the evidence..the media thrives on sensationalism and so they will sell the lies..
guest

evra doesnt like to use N-word…what a joke
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