Vini Junior

[KrolMong]

I don’t know whether any of you have followed what happened with Vini Jr during the Valencia v Madrid game on Sunday.

Basically, he was racially abused, the referee followed protocol (warnings etc.) and players of both clubs had a pop at the fans. Vini then gets sent off at the end of the game.

Now, he’s turned to social media and basically said that it’s too many times and LaLiga have turned a blind eye to it. LaLiga have then had a go at him, Infantino has issued the usual awful statement and now even Nike have come out in defence of Vini. Sponsors are unhappy with LaLiga and are reviewing there own agreements.

The federal prosecution group have now got involved and are issuing punishments against fans because the clubs are deemed to not be doing enough.

This is going to get messy very quickly.

[Hirstys 12th Pint]

Did I see Valencia have had one of their stands closed ?

 

[KrolMong]

4 minutes ago, Hirstys 12th Pint said:

Did I see Valencia have had one of their stands closed ?

 

You did. Reduced capacity for 5 games, but only after pressure.

[Delseeds]

Spanish have a historical blatant flagrance for racism. almost to a point where its a sense of pride to be. Not at all surprised that they turn around and blame the victim

[Tylluan]

Good point made yesterday. How is Jude Bellingham viewing this and will affect his decision on his next club.

Others suggesting that PSG may make a cheeky bid for Vini Jnr

Edited May 24, 2023 by Tylluan

[HoylandOwl]

It's horrendous what happened to Vinicius Jnr. Nothing new in Spain for such horrendous overt racism in football, and the limited responses to it in the past help facilitate what's (not) happening now. 

Massive fines, numerous totally behind closed doors games, and FIFA actually giving a shit would go SOME way to maybe swinging the pendulum the right way. 

[Tylluan]

Brasil were due to play a couple of friendlies in Spain and Portugal against African opposition but they're now trying to pull the fixtures and move them to England or France

[1banana2banana]

As already said Spain isn’t new to this, awful racism inside stadiums for a long time now closely followed by the Italians. The problem is, this story will sink into the abyss as the crackpot left over here spend every day calling things that aren’t remotely racist, racist.