Boro player charged over social media posts from 2012

S.S.R.. said:
Pretending that we're all the same, that we never dislike each other, never saying anything that might hurt someone's fragile feelings is not being nice, it's being obsequious. It's being a slave. All it means you'll bottle all this stuff up and develop a lovely set of neuroses.
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But isn't the whole point of pointing out that you should try and be considerate to others to highlight that we are all different. It is not treating everyone the same, it's understanding that what you find a joke and a laugh could be offensive to someone else. You mention that bottling it up will be bad for people's mental health, but what about people who get offended by what people say? Do they not matter or is it just their 'fragile' feelings?

I think we need to see what was said and what the punishment is before we decide if it is too much.
 


Frankel said:
So we should turn a blind eye at the abuse of Saka and Sancho in the summer by those under 16?
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no you educate, they are kids, you dont retrospectively ruin a career of someone who may possibly have matured... Have them.come.out and say i was wrong now i see why.
 
alicante mackem said:
Crackers. The radical left wing are ruining the Western World and true socialist ideas on both sides of the Atlantic. We'll be left with the fascist right wing controlling us for the foreseeable future. Idiots.
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They are basically the same thing with different names - both intolerant, totalitarian groups who want to remove free speech and general freedoms in their desire for power.
 
hank williams said:
Wouldn’t surprise me if the FA or EFL employ someone to trawl the players SM history
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They don’t need to. There’s any number of sick twats out there with f**k all better to do that will do it for them. How can these lads not delete this stuff?
 
hank williams said:
Wouldn’t surprise me if the FA or EFL employ someone to trawl the players SM history
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You don’t need to pay a person to do it, AI can do the same. Anyone who uses office 365 at work will have access to Yammer, behind that is the ability to measure what they call sentiment. Basically. If your employees are posting pissed off rants, the machine knows. If they’re all happy. The machine knows. If you reduce the bonus this year, you can measure the size of the paddy as a mathematical equation and decide how much you can slash it by next year.
 
So allegedly this is related to a homophobic social media comment when he was 14? What is the FAs views on the World Cup hosts views of homosexuality? Rank hypocrisy I'd suggest.
 
like me getting done for pinching red noses when i was that age. i would also like several occasions of pinching milk after camping out to be taking into consideration.
 
I fail to see what business this is of the FA, no matter what it was Marc Bola allegedly wrote or said. Would he have been under the jurisdiction of the FA at the time he made the alleged post? At 14, presumably he wasn't on a professional contract, so surely he can't be beholden to the FA for things he might have said when he was not obligated to them in any way?

If it was a police enquiry that might make more sense, if actually he broke the law (and the law as it was at the time, not the law now - the move towards retrospective criminalising of people for things they did when it wasn't even illegal is a scary development).
 
TheDataGuy said:
But isn't the whole point of pointing out that you should try and be considerate to others to highlight that we are all different. It is not treating everyone the same, it's understanding that what you find a joke and a laugh could be offensive to someone else. You mention that bottling it up will be bad for people's mental health, but what about people who get offended by what people say? Do they not matter or is it just their 'fragile' feelings?

I think we need to see what was said and what the punishment is before we decide if it is too much.
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I appreciate what you're saying, that it's important to display tact, be considerate to peoples' feelings etc., but I clearly said 'NEVER saying anything that might offend'. Sometimes in life it is necessary. Sometimes you have to say it in private to someone else, merely to vent and get it off your chest. It's increasingly becoming like there is no space to say anything in private, or just express yourself in case someone takes umbrage literally more than a decade later. It's insidious and genuinely frightening.
 
The fact that no one seems to have details of the tweet suggests maybe no one else had seen it and he could've been told to simply take it down 9 years later.
 
Really need to stop witch-hunting these guys but also the FAs and clubs have a responsibility to get someone to do this for players now. If I was him I’d check if the rule was in place 9 years ago and if not claim he had freedom of speech back then when he was a dumb teenager.
 

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