08 Jan 2026 17:37:59
It goes to show football has become woke and referees are scared of being called a racist. Keane red card was an example of it.
08 Jan 2026 18:58:54
I’m not sure I get what you mean Luke.
Keane pulled the lads hair. Whether he was white, black, yellow, brown, red, orange, it was a red card.
If someone pulled Grealish’s hair I’d expect them to get a red.
Keane shouldn’t have done what he did. It was childish and stupid.
{Ed025's Note - im with you BR..
08 Jan 2026 19:08:14
What a daft post, Luke.
08 Jan 2026 20:16:01
1928 arrived and everything was fine then Mary Whitehouse arrived and messed our World up. 1970's I was called a white honkey, a quick kick in the nuts sorted that out while my future wife and best mate laughed in the blokes face.
All gone to pot now a days, but it has nothing to do with Keane pulling a blokes hair and a pro like Grealish being stupid, Refs second game and did okay.
08 Jan 2026 21:01:07
Had to look up what a "white honkey" meant dms. It was bad enough being brought up in West Derby in the 1940's, then you were either a papist or a proddy. Stupid really, the Catholic kids walked on one side of Leyfield Road and the Protestants on the other throwing insults at each other and quite often stones.
However a mixed marriage meant one of the families followed Everton and the other Liverpool. My Dad's were Evertonians and my Mum's followed Liverpool. Had some interesting family parties.
09 Jan 2026 00:35:12
I, personally, think a yellow card and an apology from Keane would have sufficed, but i think to suggest that the race of the players involved had Anything to do with it is mad.
As BR said, I would expect the exact same result if it had happened to Jack.