I have a question.
Where in the FA’s remit does it say that any independent panel, sitting in judgment on alleged racism, can declare whether someone is or isn’t racist? Why does any three-person panel presiding over the kind of offences that would get you or I sacked from our workplace even feel the need to include such an assessment?
An independent Football Association panel’s job is to decide whether any individual is guilty or not. End of. Not to make any kind of presumption over said individual's character, to seek to soften the impact of any punishment it dishes out or to tell us what we must think of that person.
