I'm all for not letting people get away with shitte online but I feel this is a bit harsh on him. It's nothing that we all haven't said about opposing fans at some point or another.
Don't you think what he said was prejudiced much like racial slurs which would have had this guy close to being lynched? I think what we saw was akin to casual racism.
Yeah maybe. He was a little over the top with his abuse but should his livelihood be ruined because of it? A little perspective is needed in this world sometimes.
This is what he wrote on his blog:
Mr O’Connell was also revealed to be apparently behind a blog which
described older Liverpool men as looking like Jimmy Savile .The blog, called ‘Driver on the Wing’s Weather for Chelsea v Liverpool’, was attributed to Mr O’Connell by multiple Chelsea fan sites and has since been deleted.
One post said: “At one time Liverpool looked outwards to the world and its people reflected that and their accent was derived from many different places.
“But today, Liverpool looks only inwards. The accent that it adopted in the 1950s has not gently merged into the more refined accents of the surrounding areas.
The accent of the docks is now a more pronounced accent of the dole queue.”Actually I'm glad he has been punished. This blog is not the result passionate knee jerk reaction but of a prejudiced, poisonous mind. How would people react if a Muslim preacher had called Scousers scum and to crawl back to their horrible Merseyside and that they speak like people who are typically on the dole? That would be a hate speech. I mean the guy went on to reinforce his views on a blog!!!
