Quote Originally Posted by joellufcprice View Post
Honestly, I think the whole 'racism' thing is a nonsense. From what I can gather all Casilla has said is the Spanish word for black telling his players to mark someone. Like someone saying mark the ginger guy or mark the tall one or mark the prick with the top knot. Reminds me of John Terry calling Anton Ferdinand a '**** black *****', that is directed at him and racist using his skin colour as an insult, Casilla telling his players to mark him and identifying him by colour of his skin is not racist and if it is then bloody hell.

This is why I think Bielsa, Radz, Orta etc haven't cast him out, they know it was not him being racist. If he had genuinely racially abused this player he'd have been kicked out. It has just been shown to be the FA wanting to be shown to take action so they don't get accused of anything.

Honestly think if the Spanish word for black was 'Bod' or something none of this would ever have happened. I'm not a massive Casilla fan but just think at this point if he had genuinely done anything racist he wouldn't be here anymore.

Might be wrong, might be right.
With you on the racist thing, and you'll see from my earlier posts that apart from the fact he was banned meant Meslier got an opportunity he might have had, that issue wasn't my main concern, but the impact on Meslier of being dropped (apparently for no better reason than releasing him for international duties, bit spurious IMHO) and Casilla getting the opportunity to keep, at ER, in front of fans for the first time since we returned to the PL. Didn't even see Meslier at the post-match celebrations, was he at ER?

Not sure we have heard the last of the matter, given the malign influence that agents can have, particularly on younger, more impressionable players.