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Frimpong sent off for reacting to racial abuse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33577956
He was sent off for sticking his middle finger up at fans who were racially abusing him. His own club's general director is siding with the other club against Frimpong.
I really wish that if/when the Russian FA ignores the racial abuse and just tries to ban Frimpong for his response, UEFA get involved.
He was sent off for sticking his middle finger up at fans who were racially abusing him. His own club's general director is siding with the other club against Frimpong.
Ufa general director Shamil Gazizov said his club would not be calling for Spartak to be punished, describing it as an "unfortunate incident".
"What Frimpong did was wrong. Sometimes you even have to hold back the tears and just put up with it."
But in March former head of Russian football Vyacheslav Koloskov said too much is made of racism in the country and has also questioned why monkey chants are assumed to be racist.
I really wish that if/when the Russian FA ignores the racial abuse and just tries to ban Frimpong for his response, UEFA get involved.
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And to think FIFA awarded them the World Cup
I honestly wouldn't blame him if he just hopped on to a flight somewhere else and never returned. He doesn't really owe his club anything after this.
"They had it coming"
You can sympathise but what else could the referee do? Of course he has the power to abandon the match and probably should have but if he's not then his hands are tied. Just because something is justified doesn't make it lawful and the referee isn't really there to interpret morality.
The first is the red card which was fair enough under the circumstances at the time. The second is what has happened since.
I am in the camp that says the ref had no choice but to produce the red, however it could have been quashed after the event or even if it wasn't you would hope the clubs and the authorities would come out afterwards and deal with the root cause of the red card. The fact that that has not happened is the actual disgrace.
Nothing will be done against Spartak as apparently no evidence of anything racist occurring. Country is a joke
If Frimpong had any sense, he would make overtures to get the hell out of that country.
No action is taken against racist scum showing that Russia sees this as acceptable >:(
Yes you cannot blame him for reacting but it is still against the rules and when he did it he knew that.
If the red card had been quashed or no further punishment then you would have found clubs and players using this case to do the same for when they get a red card.
Just because he was right in a moral sense he was not right when it comes to the rules and that is the most important part when it comes to a suitable punishment. The rules of the game have to be black and white and there is no room for moral issues or "right and wrong".
The way to address it is a mixture of stadium bans, criminal investigations, and better education etc towards individuals. That of course needs fans to do self policing, I'm not saying anything here that everyone on this thread does not already know.
Don't be absurd. That will NEVER happen in Russia. Russian football is institutionally racist.
As was football in England until we did that here
England is a more internationalist, forward-thinking country than Russia.