It's all bollox. Apparently the immortal words of Matthew Simmonds.....
"Fuck off you French Motherfucker" is racist too.... or at least that was the best Lanny Wadkins could come up with to get Cantona out of a GBH charge. Because it was Man Utd it worked too!
Surely Cantona would have deemed
"French" the only bit that
wasn't and insult. I know I would have if the roles had been reversed! Since then the racism issue in football has been vastly overplayed. It's just pathetic and if this country really is racist and psychologically damaging it certainly hasn't put any of football's imports off coming for the money has it?
People need to toughen up, wise up, shrug their shoulders and move on. Nothing and no one will ever stop discrimination. It is part of the human psyche. Discrimination is not solely a matter of skin colour it's all kinds of things but no one in the press and media etc appears to recognise that as such. Real discrimination is not a few verbals etc, real discrimination is a 3 on 1 violent attack in a back alley and that is certainly not the sole domain of white people.