Traction on the racism thing is hard when you read tripe like this: “Mark Bright says racism is 'still a problem' for football”. This is all based upon a tainted view of what Sepp Blatter said.
I shall go on record now as stating that I think Sepp Blatter represents most of what is wrong in the modern corporatized game. The whiff of corruption around his permanently blazered person seems not to be able to wash off giving the fact the English a permanent taste and in some cases lust for his blood; a hypothesis given credence by the fact the majority of the slabbering press hounds already have his foot in his mouth before he speaks.
However not everything this shambling bureaucrat says is akin to a rapist having a wank on the evidence during his trial; he was kinda right about racism; "There is no racism [on the field], but maybe there is a word or gesture that is not correct, the one affected by this should say this is a game and shake hands." That quote has a satisfying ring of my mum’s own advice to it.
My mum doesn’t work for FIFA; not yet anyway.
Racism, as I have previously stated is, according to various online sources (this time I’ll use Merriam Webster…possibly not the first time I have done so):
1. A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2. Racial prejudice or discrimination
I am not sure, running with the understanding delineated above, what Sepp Blatter has actually said that is so out of order that even the media whore that presides over government has had to jump on the band wagon about. Rather nice that a deliciously slender non-story would needlessly erupt out of a lack of news elsewhere to illustrate how desperate for attention of any kind Mr. Cameron is; I’m currently torn between describing him as the fat bird at a party that makes up for a lack of looks by being easy or as a rabid dog with a strange wee lip stick like hard on that chases the ice cream van and almost comes with delight when he gets within 20 metres of it. Either way I’m sure we can all conclude that both images sufficiently portray the stinky desperation of a tub thumping fop with a shite hair cut and a tie to fuck up any occasion that has his job title shortened to PM. This, and the sheer brass neck shown by jumping on the Poppy appeal whilst getting ready to axe 16000 UK troops is sickening. But that a raw cut of meat to be grilled another time.
Back to Blatter though. Racism is not rife in football. There are loads of black, Asian, white and other ethnicities playing football. I don’t imagine that Samuel Eto’o and his (world record) €10m per annum salary makes him a particularly good poster child for how racist and inherently unfair football is. Blatter in, what the BBC has termed a gaffe, went on to say "I would like to make it very clear, I am committed to the fight against racism and any type of discrimination in football and in society". Shocking stuff, time to nail this fucker to the mast it would seem.
The fact of the matter is that racism is now providing those with a cross to bear a road to drag the sorry timber structure up and a long procession of people to gawp at them as they drag it. David Cameron and David Beckham, the two of the figureheads of England’s doomed World Cup bid have an axe to grind and they are endlessly doing it in the public eye; a nice pantomime distraction from the nightmare infinitely more horrible than 12 non-stop hours of Davina McCall presenting Big Brother with that Halloween mask of a coupon of hers; the collapse of the Euro zone and the rise of austerity and having the arse ripped out of society by morally bankrupt and seemingly financially bankrupt fuckwits.
I did wake up in a good mood and the glass is still half full. I just like ranting.
But let’s drag this thang back to racism and why it is relevant before irreversible tangentialism sets in. The point is essentially this: do not ever, for one fucking second confuse things for what they really are. Football is a sport and things should be dealt with sportingly as not to give confidence to silly behaviour. Abuse is abuse, and aye, it can be hurtful most good abuse should be; like good whiskey, it should be strong. But it is in how folk deal with abuse. Garth Crooks throws his 10p in with "Clearly Sepp Blatter is a man who's never suffered from racism," he said. "I'm shocked and somewhat dismayed." How does he know? What does Garth Crooks know about growing up in Switzerland? Likely about as much as I except that fucking neurosurgeon likely thinks all the kids can yodel before talking and the Toblerones are served in the school cafeterias.
Strip the outrage at the circus of stupidity peddled before my eyes (by no less than the “impartial” BBC) and the point is one and the same. Hurt. Who is to say that one group’s pain at being ostracised is greater than another’s? Pain hurts rather fortunately. It is also universal and in our quest for equality I think we should all take the time to remember that we are all human, we all feel pain, offense, hurt, joy, hungry, sad, happy, sleepy and we all have an equal ability, and right might I add, to be complete fannies.
Big Sepp is a fanny, there can be no doubt. His remarks may not be in good taste, they may not even be required or funny for that matter, but in a game as politicised as the one we’re watching right now the one thing we must be clear about is that those telling us of their “outrage” and their “shock” are about as useful and milk chocolate butt plugs in the grand debate about racism. Everyone knows inequality is bad, lets try and fix it and stop using divisive issues like this as political whips otherwise we risk turning racism into something far more serious than it is and undoing all our good work toward a more fair and balanced society.
And as for MarkWright, nobody with more than 3 working brain cells gives a flying fuck about what he has to say for himself.
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