But choc-ice doesn't mean "fake" does it? Or only in as much as it means "fake black man" or race-traitor. It's a pretty nasty thing to say. I can see that it could open up a can of worms.
Sounds like Ashley Cole's statement (via his lawyers) is basically the first sensible thing I've ever heard him say or do.
Didn't read the statement tbh.
Agreed it's a nasty thing to say (and Rio had to lie about what it meant to avoid, absurdly, being branded a 'racist') and no doubt very hurtful to Ashley Cole, along the lines of calling someone an 'Uncle Tom'. I personally think Rio should be targetting the FA for refusing to do anything about the whole thing, and not Ashley Cole, cos he was also put in an impossible situation. Anyways, obviously what is being said is racially charged, but for people to describe it as 'racist' is just...no, my brain hurts again.
The effect of this whole sorry trial has been to make it even more difficult to talk about the realities of race in and around football (and the silencing of Rio Ferdinand is part of that - the conversation should be out in the open rather than curtailed by absurdly calling 'racism', whatever its merits, as these are real feelings about a white-dominated football establishment that chose to drop Rio at the Euros rather than John Terry, redirected towards Ashley Cole for his perceived collusion with the white establishment. Sweeping them under the carpet is the whole problem, and clearly nothing has been learned). We'll wait to see if the FA do anything.