It's fairly clear that every once in a while, the Premier League goes through trends. For example last winter it was the snood that captured the imagination of players and newspapers, but now, it's something slightly more serious. Racism allegations. For some reason, God knows why, there have been two racism allegations from players within the past week. First it was the Evra vs Suarez incident and now it's John Terry vs Anton Ferdinand.
The first thing to note about Patrice Evra is that he has a huge history of winding people up and creating controversy. He always comes out before big games and says how the other team are not title contenders, and he sometimes likes to fight groundsmen for a bit of fun. Luis Suarez is new to the Premier League so, you would assume, he does not know this. Seemingly this incident has passed now, but the fact that it took up the front pages of the sports sections in newspapers shows how silly the whole incident was. Everybody has forgotten about it now, but Evra achieved what he wanted to do in creating a bit of controversy and tension.
Racism row two: Anton Ferdinand vs John Terry. Terry allegedly called him a "something black something". Also let's just point out that this wouldn't have escalated had some fan put a video up on Youtube accusing Terry. Honestly, I think this has been blown way out of proportion, along with with Evra incident. What sense would it make for Terry to racially abuse somebody he knows quite well?
It's time for football to find a new trend. I'm bored of this one already, it wasn't amusing at all and quite honestly racism is a term coined way to easily today. Practically everything's racist. In the 60s/70s/80s, these incidents would have been completely overlooked. They happened all the time.
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