Karlos13 wrote:
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Scousers demanding apologies from the likes of Oliver Holt over on RAWK. His view on proceedings:
Oliver Holt @OllieHoltMirror
A number of Liverpool fans backed up Adeyemi's allegation in statements to police, including one who was so upset she left ground
1m Oliver Holt Oliver Holt @OllieHoltMirror
Tom Adeyemi believed to stand by allegation of racist abuse against LFC supporter but accepts insufficient evidence for police to prove it
Oliver Holt @OllieHoltMirror
But many more Liverpool supporters insisted fan had been shouting 'Manc ba*tard' not 'black ba*tard' and sound evidence was inconclusive
I never said he needed support. Saddened said "or that you should support him", I was merely replying to that. Either way, the point still stands, if some Liverpool fans wanted to support his view that he said "Manc b*stard", is that wrong? Nobody said - or alluded to - that he needs overwhelming support from our fans, but I'm sure if a United fan was accused of something, and people like Piara Powar were coming out saying "Liverpool fans should take collective responsibility for their own fans' actions", and the fan was getting a fair amount of grief from all corners of the media, wouldn't you be a little bit pleased to see him relieved of any wrongdoing? It's not nice for anybody to be branded a racist if there's 'overwhelming evidence' to prove they haven't done it.
With regards to Holt, his 'reporting/tweeting' at the time of the event was a little sly. There was a journo, Nick Parrott, who was sat near the whole thing and he claimed it was "Manc b*stard", when Holt heard about this, his reply was typical Holt: "Are you accusing Adeyemi of lying?". He was also lapping up Darren Byfield's comments, that included this "So a liverpool fan racially abused an oldham player,I'm not surprised cuz when u have kenny dalglish backing suarez wot the hell do u expect." He then went on a tirade all night, Holt was loving it, "it's good to see black players not standing for it anymore", and so on.
