Holgate escapes punishment over old tweets

If you're racially abused, the offender will get off Scott free due to lack of evidence..

However you will be made to go on a course for something you said in school.

Nice one FA - good to make a stance and encourage anyone else racially abused to speak up.

Complete hypocrites, the lot of them.

As for Mason's schoolboy tweets; heaven help us all. Been covered at length when the story broke so I appreciate there will be a spread of opinion on this and a lot of nuance to the debate, but just seems petty to me.

The FA, and Southgate, have made a big deal this week how the Under-17s are still subject to racial abuse. How is this an incentive for any of them to report it? If they do and they said something in school, they'll be the ones in trouble. It makes a mockery of the ‘Kick it out' campaign as the person who has come forward is vilified for something that happened as a schoolboy.

I've not looked at the details of Andre Gray; I can only presume he was an adult when his occurred.

It's even more ironic when the FA have introduced the Rooney Rule to give players from ethnic minorities opportunities to manage at National level, but do this when an ethnic minority makes a serious allegation.

I think that the wording in the enquiry was “insufficient evidence” which is a whole lot different to “not guilty”. The way Holgate reacted makes me certain that something was said that he considered offensive.

I hope that no-one ever checks up on things I may have said in the fifties when I was a kid. And my mam thought that the Black & White Minstrels were great. Does that mean that she was a racist? Along with the millions who also watched every week.?

Times have changed but you can't castigate every one for things that they may have done years ago.

Who said it takes two to tango?

No the law doesn't distinguish between ages except if the age is incorporated into the legislation. For example, age required for Driving Licence, age for possessing a firearm etc.

Next thing we know, Dixie Dean's great great great granddad knew a guy who drank in a pub frequented by a business man who owned a ship hired by a bloke who sailed it to Africa to take slaves to the Caribbean. Dixie's legacy now tarnished as a result!

Fuck me, the World's gone mad!!!

Yes, there is such an age – that age is 10 years old.

Has anyone anywhere got evidence that Holgate was racially abused? Weren't Everton quick to put it all behind them when the enquiry was complete? Did Holgate post silly tweets when he was a young fella?

What the fuck has any of this got to do with Liverpool FC? Fucking nothing.

However, post-event distraction of the twitter comments of a 15-year-old, and the similar commentary regarding Mr Gray – both coming after a Liverpool questionable affair... well, suspicious to say the least.

The incident that really pissed me off most about the BBC / FA bias, was the Lallana clear dive in the cup game. Clear dive, referee saw it wrongly, game changing penalty given, media go into quiet mode. Bit of a contrast to the lynch-mob mentality and the ban handed out to Niasse?

There is a clear agenda to support Liverpool and promote their interests, whether it is saturation coverage when they do well, to silence when they do not. A complete about-face contrast to the coverage granted to Everton. What makes it 'clear' is the sheer consistency over time with which the examples of the bias come to the surface.

Just keep on sucking it up, Evertonians, and hope somewhere, sometime, the tide will turn. Perhaps in the next derby?

COYB