CKR: No regrets about homophobic gesture

[The Large One]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...m-richards-corinthians-brazil-racism-football

Would he describe that as “football banter” or racism? “The first time I think it’s more ignorance,” he says, “but then it really is racism after that, because they’re not listening, they still think it’s funny. And then you retaliate and you get labelled a bad boy.”

He has had to deal with racism all his life and appeared in court after making a “homophobic” gesture towards Brighton fans in 2013. He does not regret it. “I’ve got more racism in England for being Turkish than being black. That ‘homophobic’ thing all started from people calling me a Turkish kebab. ‘Go back to Turkey you f*cking Turkish kebab!’ People have quoted that I’ve got charged with homophobia but I didn’t, I got charged with public disorder.”

Kazim-Richards does not see any difference between what he did and what the Brighton fans were doing to him and he feels the colour of his skin has made it easier for people to label him a bad boy. “I think if I was a different colour, my career would be held up as an example rather than ‘ah he’s a journeyman’, because I don’t suit the label.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What a load of old incoherent lying gibberish by CKR.

 

[narly101]

Read that earlier today. He justified his actions as responding to chants from the Brighton crowd. So that's ok then..............

Imbecile.

 

[Exile]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...m-richards-corinthians-brazil-racism-football

Would he describe that as “football banter” or racism? “The first time I think it’s more ignorance,” he says, “but then it really is racism after that, because they’re not listening, they still think it’s funny. And then you retaliate and you get labelled a bad boy.”

He has had to deal with racism all his life and appeared in court after making a “homophobic” gesture towards Brighton fans in 2013. He does not regret it. “I’ve got more racism in England for being Turkish than being black. That ‘homophobic’ thing all started from people calling me a Turkish kebab. ‘Go back to Turkey you f*cking Turkish kebab!’ People have quoted that I’ve got charged with homophobia but I didn’t, I got charged with public disorder.”

Kazim-Richards does not see any difference between what he did and what the Brighton fans were doing to him and he feels the colour of his skin has made it easier for people to label him a bad boy. “I think if I was a different colour, my career would be held up as an example rather than ‘ah he’s a journeyman’, because I don’t suit the label.

The guy is a lazy, deluded, arrogant knob, with a massive chip on his shoulder, who has wasted a fair chunk of his talent.

He got into trouble in Holland for threatening to beat up a reporter, for criticizing his temperament He literally has no self-awareness. Utterly repugnant behaviour throughout his career, and people's reaction to it have nothing whatsoever to do with his skin tone or nationality.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Read that earlier today. He justified his actions as responding to chants from the Brighton crowd. So that's ok then..............

Imbecile.

Can't remember the game all that clearly, but pretty sure the chants would have been bog-standard stuff along the lines of 'should have stayed with a big club' or 'what a waste of money'. If CKR claims otherwise, he's a lying ****. As well as a homophobe.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Brighton fans are well known for their racism in recent years aren't they?

Bloke is an absolute txxt who went for the easy option of calling the race issue as an excuse for his behaviour.

 

[Withdean South Stand]

The guy is a lazy, deluded, arrogant knob, with a massive chip on his shoulder, who has wasted a fair chunk of his talent.

The sad thing about this post is that it could be about any number of different players.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Can't remember the game all that clearly, but pretty sure the chants would have been bog-standard stuff along the lines of 'should have stayed with a big club' or 'what a waste of money'. If CKR claims otherwise, he's a lying ****. As well as a homophobe.

It was along the lines of 'you fat *******.' as he was overweight. It was a public order charge with a homophobic element.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...hards-guilty-homophobic-gesture-brighton-fans


He was also in jail twice when he played in Turkey, and dropped from their national team for excessive drinking, but he seems to want to be a victim.

Edit - the stars denote an illegitimate person which the swear filter has picked up.

 

[sparkie]

So how many teams has the 'non-journeyman' had then ?

 

[GT49er]

Bit of a poor man's Joey Barton in the footballing philosophers stakes, eh?

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

'Go back to Turkey you f*cking Turkish kebab!’ - just a fat lad with kebab on the brain.

Hmm, kebab.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Agree with all the above. Not even put in to context that he was our ex player either, it's a very long, sycophantic article that implies he went straight to Turkey from Bury.


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[Hiney]

Absolute cock-juggling thundercunt

 

[Justice]

Kebab kid or Coca Cola kid?

 

[Easy 10]

Taking out of his arse. I'd completely forgotten he was "Turkish", as I daresay had most fans. He was born in Leytonstone ffs.

The bloke is an utter waste of skin.

 

[spence]

Taking out of his arse. I'd completely forgotten he was "Turkish", as I daresay had most fans. He was born in Leytonstone ffs.

The bloke is an utter waste of skin.

To be fair Brighton fans like to be offended easily. So he made a gesture big deal

 

[portlock seagull]

Taking out of his arse. I'd completely forgotten he was "Turkish", as I daresay had most fans. He was born in Leytonstone ffs.

The bloke is an utter waste of skin.

I think we all know, he's just not a very nice person. It's not as if the Amex incident was a 1 off. And yes, anyone called Colin isn't someone you think of as foreign. Like you, never even crossed my mind he was 'Turkish' until he reminded us. FFS, I think the guy has almost chosen to grow and cultivate a huge chip on his shoulder going by that article.

 

[portlock seagull]

To be fair Brighton fans like to be offended easily. So he made a gesture big deal

What a load of bollocks.

 

[jackalbion]

Don't who else needed to double check but I'm pretty sure like me most people didn't even know he was Turkish

 

[Mackenzie]

So it's our fault?