Court: Luis Aragones is not a Racist

February 7th, 2007 | by: WC Bob |

A court in Madrid has decided that Spain manager Luis Aragones’ remarks a couple years ago about Arsenal striker Thierry Henry and Britain’s colonial past weren’t racist. You’ll recall that Aragones was fined by the Spanish Committee for Sporting Discipline (SCDD) for calling Henry a “Black Shit” in remarks captured by video cameras. The court backed Aragones’ appeal and revoked the SCDD’s decision that his behavior could have fostered “violent, racist or xenophic acts.”

Aragones might have won in the courtroom but in the court of public opinion he still has a long ways to go. His team faces England today in a friendly.

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Wendall

Court says one thing, everyone knows another.
http://france.theoffside.com sam

Good call. XenophOBic, by the way.
Claude

If a US politician were to utter those words his political carrer would be over in seconds. Also a sports commentator would be finished too. Recall Howard Cossel saying “look at that monkey go” or words to that effect on a Monday night game and it is well known that Cossel may have had a big ego to match his mouth but a racist he wasn’t.
german cilliani

what will happen if a black comenteror does any can of racist remark?