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Originally Posted by devo22
of course he was a pos, but I think that suspension is harsh. Swiss players with Albanian roots were openly mocking Serbian players at the WC 2018 and were not banned, but this is suspension-worthy? Okay then.
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Both are wrong but I find quite a significant difference between the two.
The first is a couple of players making an eagle gesture with their hands to demonstrate their ethnicity. Yes, provocative towards a crowd wearing butcher of Bosnia tshirts.
The second is an individual of one ethnicity talking about raping the mother of another making a point of naming the ethnicity of the individual. And given there is a history of rape between the two ethnicities.
Who cares what Shaquiri and Xhaka got? FIFA took the cowardly route then. Does that mean UEFA need to match? Opportunity lost imo. The tournament and the world would be no worse off if he was kicked out of it and a message of zero tolerance would have been sent.