A slight shift on my offence-o-meter was recorded, when I read about the latest scandal involving professional footballers.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with
the recent junk food news from the tabloids (and being the intelligent man that
I am, I have) then you may have heard that three Leicester City players were
involved in a sex orgy in Thailand – with smartphone video footage leaked to the
press of course.
The Leicester City players were on an end
of season tour to Thailand, to promote the team, which is owned by Thai
billionaires.
Now I may be stating the obvious, but inviting
over a load of footballers to Thailand, is a bit like inviting a pack of wolves
to sheep’s birthday party. It has bad
news written all over it.
But the problem isn’t the shenanigans the
footballers got up to. That’s almost to be expected. Just like diving to the ground and rolling around like a cissy
on the football pitch whenever you receive a hard tackle, it’s part and parcel
of the modern game.
The problem of course is the racist
language that was used. On one occasion the footballers referred to their Thai acquaintances
as “slit eye”.
Now I may not be Thai, but every time I
hear any vaguely racist language directed at any East Asian, a little part of
me feels anger. It’s almost as if I feel they’re insulting a whole region of
people.
Sadly though, it seems that despite their
sacking from the club, these players will probably see it as simply a bit of
banter with the lads that went too far.
And most likely this won’t cause as much
outrage to the British public, then if a black person had been called the N
word in the video.
But hey just a bit of bants with the lads
on tour right?
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