Everyone will have seen or heard about Andre Marriner sending off the wrong Arsenal player against Chelsea yesterday.
We all know most referees are useless but this takes it to another level, the man should never referee a game again.
Now he's quite rightly getting slated in the media for his incompetence but no one seems to be asking the obvious question - is Marriner a racist? Is he guilty of reinforcing the stereotypical racist slur that "all black people look the same"? If the two players in question had been Rosicky and Podolski would he have made the same error? I doubt it.
Marriner has got off lightly in my opinion, the worst that will happen will be sitting out a weekend of fixtures on full pay. Big deal.
What do you think, could he honestly not tell the difference between Gibbs and Oxlade-Chamberlain or is he just an honest but incompetent fool?
We all know most referees are useless but this takes it to another level, the man should never referee a game again.
Now he's quite rightly getting slated in the media for his incompetence but no one seems to be asking the obvious question - is Marriner a racist? Is he guilty of reinforcing the stereotypical racist slur that "all black people look the same"? If the two players in question had been Rosicky and Podolski would he have made the same error? I doubt it.
Marriner has got off lightly in my opinion, the worst that will happen will be sitting out a weekend of fixtures on full pay. Big deal.
What do you think, could he honestly not tell the difference between Gibbs and Oxlade-Chamberlain or is he just an honest but incompetent fool?