Boro player Marc Bola charged over 9 year old Tweet

JazzG

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58435485

Wonder what he said but sounds ridiculous that they are looking at the stupid shit a 14 year old said and charging him over that. Find it worrying this trend of combing through people's social media past and pulling up comments they made when they were young.

Sounds like something which is homophobic. Clearly that is unacceptable but I'm sure we all said pretty stupid things when we were young. Surely he should be educated rather than all this.

Qwiss

Didn't Harvey Elliot get suspended for calling Kane a "mong" on video at a party. He was only 16 at the time too.

Irishgunner

That's pretty ridiculous- he was 14 when he posted the tweet

Burnwinter

Thing about this is that it's not going to do much to help with prejudice in football. Feelgood punitive theatre for the FA.

flobaba

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

Ricky1985

JazzG wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58435485
Sounds like something which is homophobic. Clearly that is unacceptable but I'm sure we all said pretty stupid things when we were young. Surely he should be educated rather than all this.

It was nearly a decade ago, in that time he has become an adult, possibly a husband and/or father - I'm sure he's learned plenty, and the assumption that he needs educating because he wrote some dumb tweet as a child is absurd.

The FA make a rod for their own back by legitimising Twitter and the nonsense written on it, as if it is representative of a wider problem, I suppose.

Sigh. I shouldn't comment because I don't want to argue with anyone that might disagree, but this is too much. How is it taken seriously?

QuincyAbeyie

Can't imagine anyone disagreeing with you Ricky, it's ridiculous. Guy was a fucking kid.

flobaba

Ricky1985 wrote:
JazzG wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58435485
Sounds like something which is homophobic. Clearly that is unacceptable but I'm sure we all said pretty stupid things when we were young. Surely he should be educated rather than all this.

It was nearly a decade ago, in that time he has become an adult, possibly a husband and/or father - I'm sure he's learned plenty, and the assumption that he needs educating because he wrote some dumb tweet as a child is absurd.

The FA make a rod for their own back by legitimising Twitter and the nonsense written on it, as if it is representative of a wider problem, I suppose.

Sigh. I shouldn't comment because I don't want to argue with anyone that might disagree, but this is too much. How is it taken seriously?

Thank you for your opinions Ricky, and your ability to stand by them, and hold your position.

Coombs

Absolutely absurd.

JazzG

Ricky1985 wrote:
It was nearly a decade ago, in that time he has become an adult, possibly a husband and/or father - I'm sure he's learned plenty, and the assumption that he needs educating because he wrote some dumb tweet as a child is absurd.

The FA make a rod for their own back by legitimising Twitter and the nonsense written on it, as if it is representative of a wider problem, I suppose.

Sigh. I shouldn't comment because I don't want to argue with anyone that might disagree, but this is too much. How is it taken seriously?

It depends on what he said, it was the usual homophobic slurs of a young kid then I agree. If it was something deeply offensive or out of order I don't see any harm in someone having a chat to him about it. I'm sure he probably has grown out of it but we don't know what he said either.

This all could have all been handled privately and in a more productive manner but instead he has been shamed publicly which is disgraceful. All because some idiots have too much time on their hand to crawl through people's past tweets to get them in trouble.

Mirth

JazzG wrote:
This all could have all been handled privately

Pretty much. I can understand why it shouldn't remain unchallenged but a private, collaborative chat would be much better. But hey, the FA 'showed' they care.

Anzac

Between the PC Police and Social Justice Warriors social media has a lot to answer for.

The idea of charging players for tweets made years ago before adulthood is absurd, as is the idea of requiring them to undergo some form of corrective education process. I presume this is meant to show The FA as having a zero tolerance stand, but for mind it only makes them seem petty and ineffective if they didn't know and/or there were no further instances over the passing 9 years.

goon

Mirth wrote:
JazzG wrote:
This all could have all been handled privately

Pretty much. I can understand why it shouldn't remain unchallenged but a private, collaborative chat would be much better. But hey, the FA 'showed' they care.

The funny thing is you can only imagine what many of those dinosaurs in the FA are guilty of in the past (and probably present), as adults.

I agree, a private slap on the wrist or chat would suffice.

Qwiss

It doesn't even need to be dealt with privately beyond "delete that tweet" He said it when he was 14 FFS.

Burnwinter

Football's a political sport, there's stuff you hate to see, like Di Canio's overt fascism and his love for building a rapport with ultras, and stuff you love to see, like James McLean's objections to wearing a poppy or Paul Pogba with the Palestinian flag.

Dredging up forgotten teenage tweets is a procedural spectacle that substitutes for meaningful convictions.

BWooley

It's not just football, is it? Ollie Robinson has been going through the same thing over the summer right? I don't know where that ended up, but wasn't that exactly similar?