Originally Posted by carefree_blue:
“How do you know it wasn't taken into consideration? It's quite possible they would have given him more than a 4 game ban if he'd only just posted it.
Good to see the FA not letting it slide. Serves him right.”
“How do you know it wasn't taken into consideration? It's quite possible they would have given him more than a 4 game ban if he'd only just posted it.
Good to see the FA not letting it slide. Serves him right.”
It's not about letting it slide, it's about recognising that
- the FA's moral authority to impose a punishment is lessened by the fact that it took them FOUR YEARS to spot the offending comments, and
- that there might be some truth to Gray's claim that he was a different and less mature person when he made those comments.
The fact of the matter is that if Gray had had the foresight to delete those tweets - once he realised that he was going to be a Premier League player, for instance - he would have got off scot free despite the comments having existed for years simply because the FA would not have seen them within that time.
And, as I mentioned earlier, if Gray doesn't score the winning goal against Liverpool, would we even be having this discussion?
Slippery slope.
Originally Posted by batdude_uk1:
“Well after Roy Keane got a ban for what he wrote or said in his book, about the infamous "tackle" on Haarland, the precedent was there to ban someone for a past crime. ”
“Well after Roy Keane got a ban for what he wrote or said in his book, about the infamous "tackle" on Haarland, the precedent was there to ban someone for a past crime. ”
That situation is slightly different because nobody definitively knew at the time that Keane's tackle was deliberate, therefore he couldn't be punished for it at the time.



