Liverpool's Moronic Monkey Man

 The Merseyside police have arrested a man over his actions at Anfield yesterday, aimed almost certainly at Patrice Evra. I had to think long and hard about adding this picture into the post as the 'fan' doesn't really deserve any publicity for his gesture but I eventually decided if I'm going to write about it properly I would have to include it.

The problem Liverpool fans have with Patrice Evra is the complete lack of evidence to support his claim of being racially abused by Luis Suarez, this is not to say Suarez is certainly 100% innocent but Liverpool fans (and I'm sure fans of any other club) are not willing to turn on one of their own without actual PROOF of any offence. It was not Evra who decided the FA panel could reach a decision without real proof, it was the FA who gave the panel license to reach a verdict based on probability rather than the traditional British justice system value of guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, but Evra is the public face of Suarez' conviction and is the only real visible target for those choosing to protest against this type of 'justice'. In a court of law Luis Suarez would have been found not guilty as the claims made were not proved beyond reasonable doubt, it boiled down to one man's word against another with nothing to back up the statements of either player. It will be very interesting to see how the FA handle John Terry should he be found not guilty of a similar offence in a court of law, will he then be subjected to the same kind of trial as Suarez or will the FA simply say 'not guilty is good enough for us, go ahead and captain your country John'. I know what my money is on. 

Liverpool fans will be pleased the gesture yesterday was caught on camera and the man causing damage to the reputation of our club will be dealt with in hopefully the harshest possible way. I suspect the gesture was made with the intention of being offensive rather than openly racist but in any climate, regardless of recent events it's an incredibly stupid act. Saying to Patrice Evra 'we believe you have invented or at least exaggerated claims of racial abuse by one of our players' by aiming racist abuse at him doesn't make any sense, it's an incredibly stupid way of failing to make a point and you really wonder just what kind of a moron this man is. I'll tell you what kind, the kind who will never be welcome back at Anfield.