Brendon Santalab

[Sime11]

#inb4smurfswhingingaboutnopunishment

[wswanderersfc]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/ffas-independent-disciplinary-committee-dismisses-brendon-santalabs-racism-charge/story-fnk9a3dc-1226879799866

cant wait for the statements

fc will basically say he is a racist and just cant prove it and as the club has done through out this whole thing will stand by santa and expect apologies i think

[Erebus]

Twitter is in meltdown haha

[mack]

Yes

[Shogun]

Inb4 #justiceforabbas

[DontCallMeJacko]

So much butthurt from smurfs. Totally worth it

[wswanderersfc]

all i can say is bring on abbas at next derby. whistles all around people 

[wswanderersfc]

ok i will say one more thing santalab to score in the next derby and run up to the cove with an i cant here you celebration i think i just jizzed 

[ydoow]

PARRASFC, on 14 Mar 2014 - 11:32 PM, said:

 

You seem to suggest that the club should have taken action against him already.

Exactly.

 

WSW has a point to prove, that the 'community club' ethos and embracing 'multiculturalism' wasn't just a clever boardroom marketing stunt. This is an opportunity for WSW to show that they may be 2 years old, but their values are rock solid. That they are a club and not a franchise.

 

Any attempt from WSW to shield Santalab from criticism, and they will prove that the core values of WSW are a joke. 'These colours unite us all' - LOL

 

 

 

WSW should hire PARRASFC as a consultant and then do the opposite to everything she says

 

Edited April 10, 2014 by ydoow

[Cazorla]

 

PARRASFC, on 14 Mar 2014 - 11:32 PM, said:

 

You seem to suggest that the club should have taken action against him already.

Exactly.

 

WSW has a point to prove, that the 'community club' ethos and embracing 'multiculturalism' wasn't just a clever boardroom marketing stunt. This is an opportunity for WSW to show that they may be 2 years old, but their values are rock solid. That they are a club and not a franchise.

 

Any attempt from WSW to shield Santalab from criticism, and they will prove that the core values of WSW are a joke. 'These colours unite us all' - LOL

 

 

 

WSW should hire PARRASFC as a consultant 

 

 

 

Such smurf. So wisdom. Wow.

[Guest Southy]

Its done and dusted santa should be given benefit of the doubt. 
but hardly worth abusing Ali abbas either wish it didn't happen at all 

[Sime11]

ok i will say one more thing santalab to score in the next derby and run up to the cove with an i cant here you celebration i think i just jizzed 

 

please let us play them in the finals series and let this happen.

 

then at FT, Santa claps the crowd & rudely walks in front of Abbas and rubs it in more, like Evra did to Suarez a year or so ago (im sure someone here has that in a gif )

[DontCallMeJacko]

Its done and dusted santa should be given benefit of the doubt. 

but hardly worth abusing Ali abbas either wish it didn't happen at all 

 

 

God damn it, Southy. Stop making sense.

[ManfredSchaefer]

Its done and dusted santa should be given benefit of the doubt. 

but hardly worth abusing Ali abbas either wish it didn't happen at all 

 

No, it's not 'benefit of the doubt'...it's called 'burden of proof'. The onus of proving any charges in any legal or disciplinary situation with such binding ramifications are not on the defendant, but on the accuser. That's the golden thread of justice that runs through so much of our liberal western legal system, and for all it's faults still is the best way to judge the guilt of anyone in such matters. 

[Neverbloom]

So much butthurt from smurfs. Totally worth it

i cant wait to see the reaction on their forums, i need a good laugh

 

simply there was not enough proof

[HillsWanderer]

Does Abbas now apologise to Santalab for dragging his name through the mud? After all one is innocent until proven guilty and this 'one' was proved innocent..................

[wswanderersfc]

Does Abbas now apologise to Santalab for dragging his name through the mud? After all one is innocent until proven guilty and this 'one' was proved innocent..................

   

 

Does Abbas now apologise to Santalab for dragging his name through the mud? After all one is innocent until proven guilty and this 'one' was proved innocent..................

   

 

yeah and then after that the FFA will let us play a final against esfc at wanderland and hotamato will no longer be employed

[MartinTyler]

Let's face it, both Abbas and Santalab are 'chirpy' characters who enjoy verbally getting in the face of opposition players. It is highly likely that Santalab said something unpleasant but at the end of the day there was no conclusive proof that a) Santa said exactly what Abbas thought he heard, and b) whether it could be considered racial vilification.

[Zelinsky]

If Abbas and Santalab were playing cricket and an incident like this had occurred during The Ashes then the public would have been looking at this matter very differently. I doubt that Michael Clarke would have found himself in front of a tribunal.

 

FFA has found words which keep the integrity of both players intact, and avoids any further damage to the game. We can speculate until the cows come home about what Santa said or meant and what Abbas heard, misheard, or wanted to hear. It is neither here nor there now. Let's move on.

[wanderersfanatic]

Does Santalab have rights to sue Abbas for public defamation?

[ManfredSchaefer]

What also needs addressing is the manner in which certain parts of the media leaped on the story like a blowfly on a warm turd...and the worst offender from the get-go was FoxSports. Any responsible director of their coverage should have told their on-field correspondent not to talk to Abbas straight after the game, giving him the chance to go off like a pork chop. Now he had a right to bring his accusations to the attention of the authorities, but giving him a mic and letting him have a spray with no appropriate filter or responsibility was ***** ridiculous. 

 

Such difficult issues need calm and rational examination, not a public brawl egged on by media types just wanting to fatten their ratings or come across as PC heroes. The judgement may not be to everyone's satisfaction but it should draw a close to all the whining and yelping from those outside the situation. Course it probably won't...

[Erebus]

Does Santalab have rights to sue Abbas for public defamation?

no, because of this:

1. That Brendon Santalab accepted that Ali Abbas genuinely believed that the offensive word had been used and did not challenge the fact that Ali Abbas believed he had been the subject of racial abuse.

[Guest mickisnot]

Its done and dusted santa should be given benefit of the doubt. 

but hardly worth abusing Ali abbas either wish it didn't happen at all

 

Cool southy. I'm sure you'll do the rounds and tell that to all the appropriate supporters who aren't willing to give Santa the benefit of the doubt.

[Malone]

If Abbas and Santalab were playing cricket and an incident like this had occurred during The Ashes then the public would have been looking at this matter very differently. I doubt that Michael Clarke would have found himself in front of a tribunal.

This is because society deems that you can't racially abuse an Australian or an Englishman.

[Torcida]

santalab was never guilty. **** abbas

[zola]

Due process has had its day.

[mark675]

No man! i wasn't trying to be racist. I'm one of the 90%. Just trying to follow the tune. Bad joke gone bad. Tried the edit but doesn't rhyme. sorry

 

Admin: As per request of user have removed the original post and one that quoted it.

[koji]

Is there any way to read more about the hearing and decision? Does a transcript or anything like that exist?

 

Surely if the only evidence Abbas had behind him was what he thought he heard - that was never going anywhere. I'm genuinely curious about why it took so long. 

[Burztur]

Crowd too loud = Blaming the RBB.

 

Anyway, time to move on everyone.

[OglenLangden]

 

If Abbas and Santalab were playing cricket and an incident like this had occurred during The Ashes then the public would have been looking at this matter very differently. I doubt that Michael Clarke would have found himself in front of a tribunal.

This is because society deems that you can't racially abuse an Australian or an Englishman.

 

 

Wasn't this whole thing about someone allegedly racially abusing an Australian named Ali Abbas?