lagos wrote:
Tactics, bear in mind a few things
1) Like Klaus said, the dutch league is a much smaller league, less exposure, less publicity
True less coverage, less exposure, but it wasn't seen as an Ajax problem by those who watch the league. So bigger exposure would have yielded the same result.
Ajax came out of the incident with a lot credits,: Suarez was fined 'huge sums of money' and given a 2 match ban by the club. Now compare that to Liverpool printing t-shirts and making up all sort of stories to supoort Suarez.....
lagos wrote:2) Continental Europe as a whole is more "tolerant" of racism and it gets less coverage, so maybe he has been getting away with it for years because it isn't reported.
I wouldn't say Holland is more tolerant to racism than say the UK. I live in Amsterdam.
lagos wrote:3) Suarez has been in trouble wherever he has been
Is this a point of discussion?
lagos wrote:but ofcourse Liverpool screwed things up but that doesn't exonerate Suarez. It just means that by their small minded show of "solidarity" they associated themselves with the problem and it became a Liverpool problem as well as a Suarez problem. I highlight the as well as
Well that's exaclty point, Liverpool made a mess of the situation and it also became a Liverpool problem. Had they dealt with it like Ajax did, It would only have been seen as a Suarez problem.
And no, no one is exonerating Suarez of anything, he's a massive cunt.
