AOG - //Regarding the so called by some, 'the racist abuse of a professional footballer'.
He made a remark about a certain professional footballer, which if aimed at any other player would have been 'non reportable' it just happened that, that particular footballer's GRANDFATHER happened to be black. //
I think the supposed ethnicity slur is simple mixing by other media - I don't think for one moment that Mr MacKenzie intended his reference to Mr Barkley to be racist.
No, I think just referring to a professional footballer as 'thick' and the look in his eyes as being that of a gorilla in a cage, and that large wage packets in Liverpool were held only by drug dealers - that was enough to get him suspended.
So I would entirely agree that trying to conjure up a racism charge from this situation is simply making mischief, but that is not why Mr Mackenzie was suspended - it was his comments about Liverpool as a city, given that he has form with that populace, that got him side-lined.