Oh dear Sepp!

[Wycombe Fox]

The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has claimed any racist abuse between players on the pitch should be settled by a simple handshake.

The Football Association is currently dealing with two incidents in which a player has been accused of racially abusing an opponent. Chelsea's John Terry and Liverpool's Luis Suárez, both of whom deny any wrongdoing, are still awaiting the outcome of FA investigations.

Blatter's insistence that there is no racism on the field of play is bound to prove controversial – as well as his suggested solution.

Asked if he thought there was racism on the pitch, Blatter told CNN World Sport: "I would deny it. There is no racism. There is maybe one of the players towards another, he has a word or a gesture which is not the correct one, but also the one who is affected by that.

"He should say that this is a game. We are in a game, and at the end of the game, we shake hands, and this can happen, because we have worked so hard against racism and discrimination.

"I think the whole world is aware of the efforts we are making against racism and discrimination. And on the field of play sometimes you say something that is not very correct, but then at the end of the game, the game is over and you have the next game where you can behave better."

[Austin]

He's a ****ing idiot.

[VinceNoir]

Sepp would, without a doubt, hit the town with the people who call him a fat, miserable, corrupt twat.

[Guest MattP]

I really don't see the problem with the comments, its down to the player at the end of the day, I've been racially abused on a cricket field (you fcuking lucky white cnut!), I shook the guys hand after the game had finished and we had a drink after, I realised it was heat of the moment after and I very much doubt he meant it.

We have become absolutely obsessed with racism in this game over here to a point where we risk losing any grasp of reality and bringing down our own game on a few off the cuff comments from a handful of individuals. They are footballers remember, they are mostly of a working class upbringing without much of a brain.

In fact I would struggle to think of a least racist industry than football in Britain, I can't think of something that had made more black people rich in this country than it.

[I am Rod Hull]

I was going to post a racist comment about the Swiss but soon realised that I`v got nothing on them other than holes in cheese, triangular chocolate bars, a knife with a nail file (wupptyfookingdo), Nazi gold (prised from the jaws of dead Jews) hoarding banks, clocks that go cuckoo (fooking great) and big hills with snow on them....

Boring cvnts....

[21st Century Fox]

Unfortunately it doesn't always seem to be in the heat of the moment comments, sometimes its premeditated to get a rise out of the opponent with the hope they see red and get sent off. Thats certainly a typical scenario in Spanish football. I agree if its in the heat of the moment then its up to the individual to decide whether to brush it off and shake hands but if its deliberate and used to get a shove and a red card then that kind of thing needs to be properly dealt with.

[lcfcadam]

I've been racially abused on a cricket field (you fcuking lucky white cnut!), I shook the guys hand after the game had finished and we had a drink after, I realised it was heat of the moment after and I very much doubt he meant it.

Christ, your tolerance levels are higher than mine then...

[Guest MattP]

Christ, your tolerance levels are higher than mine then...

Yeah I just dont let anything rile me, it's a positive thing believe me, I actually pissed myself when he said it.

[Corky]

He really has the worst PR skills around.

[lcfcadam]

Yeah I just dont let anything rile me, it's a positive thing believe me, I actually pissed myself when he said it.

Well I'm not the kind of person who would get pissed off or feel insulted if someone shouted that at me. I wouldn't, however, be sharing a drink with him after the match!

[Guest MattP]

Well I'm not the kind of person who would get pissed off or feel insulted if someone shouted that at me. I wouldn't, however, be sharing a drink with him after the match!

What happens on a cricket/rugby pitch stays there, real games for real men, we arent all over protected fannies like footballers.

[StanSP]

FIFA now have Sepp hugging a black man on their homepage to go with the retraction of his earlier comments.

You can't make this shit up .

[MikeyT]

FIFA now have Sepp hugging a black man on their homepage to go with the retraction of his earlier comments.

You can't make this shit up .

You can't indeed.

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/president/news/newsid=1544067/index.html

[accessory]

Unfortunately it doesn't always seem to be in the heat of the moment comments, sometimes its premeditated to get a rise out of the opponent with the hope they see red and get sent off. Thats certainly a typical scenario in Spanish football. I agree if its in the heat of the moment then its up to the individual to decide whether to brush it off and shake hands but if its deliberate and used to get a shove and a red card then that kind of thing needs to be properly dealt with.

And English football too, it would seem.

Ask Anton Ferdinand. Or Patrice Evra..

[Guest MattP]

FIFA now have Sepp hugging a black man on their homepage to go with the retraction of his earlier comments.

You can't make this shit up .

:crylaugh:

Absolutely brilliant!

And English football too, it would seem.

Ask Anton Ferdinand. Or Patrice Evra..

Inoocent until proven guilty of course......

[21st Century Fox]

[DJ Barry Hammond]

If I have read the comments the way they should have been interpited, in that Sepp feels the majority of perceived racism is more a case of mis-used words and terminology rather than a real deep ceted racist thinking culture then I would be inclined to agree with him.

True, I am a single, white, male so do not suffer at the hands of racism so what would i know and Seppis a little silly though, as he must have know the English press would run a muck and his later response looks very forced, but a mountain is being made out of a molehill.

[Guest MattP]

If I have read the comments the way they should have been interpited, in that Sepp feels the majority of perceived racism is more a case of mis-used words and terminology rather than a real deep ceted racist thinking culture then I would be inclined to agree with him.

True, I am a single, white, male so do not suffer at the hands of racism so what would i know and Seppis a little silly though, as he must have know the English press would run a muck and his later response looks very forced, but a mountain is being made out of a molehill.

There is no doubt that Blatter isn't a racist, what he has done for African football is beyond anything in the history of the game has.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

There is no doubt that Blatter isn't a racist, what he has done for African football is beyond anything in the history of the game has.

I think he's showing an old English trait of 'just get on with it!'

Mean the French must have called us english all and sundry when we were at war (long time ago, given), but we didn't stand around being offended, we fired all of the English navy back at the frog loving, onion wearing, snail eating, ooh laa laaing French fancies.

[Nick]

I've got no idea where to start with this thread.

[Wycombe Fox]

That's priceless

Almost as good as the caller to Talksport earlier.

On hearing that Blatter had issued a retraction of sorts, the caller said that "he was backtracking faster than an Italian tank".

Oh the irony

[woddyuk]

caption competition "get this fuc&ing n*%ger off me" ??

Seriously though, once again SB shows what a complete and utter knob he is..

"and "they" voted for him ???

Talk about out of touch.

Yes, what goes on the pitch should stay on the pitch and once the game is over shake hands after,,but there are just some things that are taboo and you just dont go there.

Besides most of these players would know the difference between a sarcastic or heat of the moment remark from another player and a malicious one, be it racist or otherwise insulting.

BUT for SB to suggest all in the garden is rosey and there are no problems at all and nothing is wrong & then to follow it up with "football is modern slavery" comments,, beggers belief.

Les Ferdinand summed it up on SSN. He basically said SB comments are not worth listening too if he has no knowledge or experience of racism. and the guy is a twat

[woddyuk]

Sepp would, without a doubt, hit the town with the people who call him a fat, miserable, corrupt twat.

Alledgely

[woddyuk]

And English football too, it would seem.

Ask Anton Ferdinand. Or Patrice Evra..

Look,, these monkeys at FIFA & UEFA (no pun intended) cant even bring themselves to implement over the goal line

technology,or 3rd umpire reviewing like cricket,rugby tennisetc,, instead they come up with lets have another 2 "assistant referees"

So what chance have you got of them dealing with deliberate abuse to get a rise from an opponent to get him sent off ??

More chance of stopping deliberate diving

[John Matrix]

run amok or run amuk

run a muck sounds dirty.