Bernardo Silva tweet condemned by Kick It Out

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The UK is a joke..1 match ban :rotf:
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A one match ban is a measured and proportionate punishment in relation to the crime and the context.
Bernardo Silva: Man City forward banned and fined for Benjamin Mendy tweet

Manchester City's Bernardo Silva has been banned for one match and fined £50,000 after an FA commission accepted he "did not intend" a tweet about team-mate Benjamin Mendy to be "racist".

Silva compared Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos - a chocolate brand available in Spain and Portugal.

Silva deleted the post 46 minutes after he published it before tweeting: "Can't even joke with a friend these days."

The FA report said: "Many persons would have taken offence to the content."

It added: "The player did not himself intend the post to be insulting or in any way racist. It is clear that the tweet was intended to be no more than a joke between close friends.

"However, this was not a private communication between two friends.

"The post was on a social media platform exposed to the 600,000 followers of a high-profile and well-respected professional footballer.

"Many persons viewing the imagery depicted in the tweet would have taken offence to the content as being insulting by reference to race, colour and ethnic origin in a way that unquestionably brings the game of football into disrepute."

The Portugal forward, 25, must also complete a face-to-face education for his tweet on 22 September, after admitting a breach of FA Rule E3.

There was no hearing after Silva admitted the initial charge on 2 October, acknowledging some people may be offended by the "historical connotations of the Conguitos character".

The FA commission also say they received a letter written by Mendy in support of his team-mate.

"We accept Bernardo Silva's admission that he did not mean to intentionally cause offence, and welcome The FA's move to provide education as part of the sanction," anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out said in a statement.

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Simon Stone, BBC Sport

Manchester City have decided not to appeal against the punishment, meaning Silva will miss the match against third-placed Chelsea at Etihad Stadium on 23 November.

However, that does not mean the City hierarchy are content at how this case has worked out.

They feel Silva has been very harshly treated. It has been pointed out that in its written reasons for the case, the FA accepts Silva saw no racist element to the cartoon character he compared Mendy to.

In addition, as Mendy evidently treated the social media post as a joke, the club feel the punishment does not fit the crime.

It has also been pointed out that as recently as May, Leicester's Hamza Choudhury was only fined £5,000 for historical posts on social media that had a racial element.

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green4life wrote:
cic old boy wrote:One match ban.
No surprise there. There's no real interest in putting a dent on racist conduct in the sport. Status-quo decision which pays lip service to anti-racism efforts in England and Europe as a whole.
If he wa s black will he get a one match ban?
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green4life wrote:
cic old boy wrote:One match ban.
No surprise there. There's no real interest in putting a dent on racist conduct in the sport. Status-quo decision which pays lip service to anti-racism efforts in England and Europe as a whole.
More like anything else would have been a overreaction to something that had blown out of proportion.
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kajifu wrote:
green4life wrote:
cic old boy wrote:One match ban.
No surprise there. There's no real interest in putting a dent on racist conduct in the sport. Status-quo decision which pays lip service to anti-racism efforts in England and Europe as a whole.
If he wa s black will he get a one match ban?
More or less the same

Rio was not banned for the "choc ice" incident, only fined. Maybe because he only liked the tweet and didn't post it.
Balotelli was banned for one game and fined 25k for his "grabs coins like a jew" tweet.

Again both i feel were not racist. Just an overreaction to attempts at humor
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Interesting, just when through the balotelli thread

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=255950&p=4380345

Only 2 pages, no outrage
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