Day Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 The Football Association has charged Burnley's Andre Gray with misconduct over homophobic posts by the striker on Twitter in 2012. One tweet from the 25-year-old Premier League player's account appeared to condone killing gay people. The tweets from four years ago were posted when Gray was playing for non-league Hinckley United. Gray, who is charged with bringing the game into disrepute, has until 6pm on 31 August to respond to the charge. He apologised and asked "for forgiveness" for the posts, saying he was now a "completely different person" and did not "hold the beliefs written in those tweets". The posts, which also contained offensive terms, were deleted on Saturday soon after being highlighted. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37169558 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Happens Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 2 minutes ago, David said: The Football Association has charged Burnley's Andre Gray with misconduct over homophobic posts by the striker on Twitter in 2012. One tweet from the 25-year-old Premier League player's account appeared to condone killing gay people. The tweets from four years ago were posted when Gray was playing for non-league Hinckley United. Gray, who is charged with bringing the game into disrepute, has until 6pm on 31 August to respond to the charge. He apologised and asked "for forgiveness" for the posts, saying he was now a "completely different person" and did not "hold the beliefs written in those tweets". The posts, which also contained offensive terms, were deleted on Saturday soon after being highlighted. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37169558 Hard to know what to think, idiot for saying them, but 4 years is a long time. That said you are guilty of something regardless of how long ago it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimmu Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Andre Gay my lord, andre gay, andre gay my lord, andre gay, oh lord Andre Gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted September 23, 2016 Author Share Posted September 23, 2016 Now banned for 4 games, kinda harsh on Burnley that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GboroRam Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Make him do some work with the LGB groups and a donation from his huge salary. I'd imagine everyone would be happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 What kind of sad, lifeless, goon would be trawling a footballers historic tweets to find stuff to be outraged about? He's an idiot for writing it, and since it has been brought the the FA's attention they have to ban him. Maybe one day people will learn not to use their real names on the internet, then you can act like a complete ******** with impunity. Anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEL Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Blame the numpties who dragged the tweets up... Shouldn't get ban over Twitter etc. Bloody hell it already got mad.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satty atwal Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Hahaha can imagine ginges face hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskination Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 12 hours ago, Anon said: What kind of sad, lifeless, goon would be trawling a footballers historic tweets to find stuff to be outraged about? He's an idiot for writing it, and since it has been brought the the FA's attention they have to ban him. Maybe one day people will learn not to use their real names on the internet, then you can act like a complete ******** with impunity. Anon. Probably the same guy who sued Subway for selling him a sandwich that was 11 1/2 inches long, even though it was advertised as a footlong sub. That's why there's an asterix next the word 'footlong' every time you go to a Subway, anywhere in the world. A bit like when you get some garments that say you must ensure you're not wearing them whilst ironing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 They should have taken away every goal he ever scored and readjusted the league to reflect what would have happened without them...we might have gone up then... seriously, he is a dick of the highest order, hanging out with a big bunch of other *****.... What he said was worthy of a much longer ban in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Le Mesmer Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Twitter ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Sheriff Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 It's harsh. Purely because it's burnley who are the ones being punished for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 2 hours ago, Simsy said: It's harsh. Purely because it's burnley who are the ones being punished for this. screw them, they signed the stupid pr1ck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 I think it's ridiculous if I'm being honest. His personal views should have nothing to do with the FA, he probably wrote the tweet when he had about 10 followers! They have set a dangerous precedent here, are they going to review every professional football players twitter for the last 4 years? What about players that used homophobic language when they were in the school playground, are they next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 10 hours ago, G STAR RAM said: I think it's ridiculous if I'm being honest. His personal views should have nothing to do with the FA, he probably wrote the tweet when he had about 10 followers! They have set a dangerous precedent here, are they going to review every professional football players twitter for the last 4 years? What about players that used homophobic language when they were in the school playground, are they next? I think the problem comes from the tags used. The tweet I think he's been banned for reads, "Is it me or are there gays everywhere?" followed by the tags #burn and #die. That could easily be construed as inciting violence. I'm probably giving the FA too much credit though. I doubt the organisation that banned Robert Huth for playing a game where you had to guess if someone was transsexual or not from a picture are particularly concerned about context or free speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 38 minutes ago, Anon said: I think the problem comes from the tags used. The tweet I think he's been banned for reads, "Is it me or are there gays everywhere?" followed by the tags #burn and #die. That could easily be construed as inciting violence. I'm probably giving the FA too much credit though. I doubt the organisation that banned Robert Huth for playing a game where you had to guess if someone was transsexual or not from a picture are particularly concerned about context or free speech. Just another money making exercise to pay for Wembley... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete2 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 On 25/09/2016 at 17:45, MuespachRam said: They should have taken away every goal he ever scored and readjusted the league to reflect what would have happened without them...we might have gone up then... seriously, he is a dick of the highest order, hanging out with a big bunch of other *****.... What he said was worthy of a much longer ban in my opinion. Yes it was very bad what he wrote, but why wasnt he punished at the time? Its Burnley who are being punished now when they had nothing to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 2 hours ago, PistoldPete2 said: Yes it was very bad what he wrote, but why wasnt he punished at the time? Its Burnley who are being punished now when they had nothing to do with it. They interviewed him for the job, they have employed a sexist homophobic pr1ck therefore they deserve every bit of punishment coming their way. Personally I think the punishment is way to light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 48 minutes ago, MuespachRam said: They interviewed him for the job, they have employed a sexist homophobic pr1ck therefore they deserve every bit of punishment coming their way. Personally I think the punishment is way to light. Firstly, is it really the employers responsibility to sift through several year old social media posts? Secondly, I probably haven't seen all the posts, but the only one I consider worthy of a ban is the one I posted above. The others are ignorant and cruel, but I fail to see how they fall under the FA's jurisdiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 5 hours ago, Anon said: Firstly, is it really the employers responsibility to sift through several year old social media posts? Secondly, I probably haven't seen all the posts, but the only one I consider worthy of a ban is the one I posted above. The others are ignorant and cruel, but I fail to see how they fall under the FA's jurisdiction. They don't have to sift through his Twitter feed to realise he is a pr1ck that much would be obvious on first meeting him. But yes, it is a huge part of an HR persons job these days to look at their social media posts etc I would have thought, I know our HR department do it. He deserved a huge ban, he got off very lightly the stupid little tosser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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