If anything, it should be Man utd who decides the punishment. It’s has got fucking nothing to do with FA. Fix your fucking VAR & referee first
FA is trying to score easy PR points and it’s backfiring
Why do players get harsh penalties and not officials who mess up all the damn time?
Doesn’t matter how his teammate took it or how it was intended because nuance is not allowed. Social media faux-rage is the only barometer for things like this.
The FA should unleash the firing squad on him.
The FA should unleash the firing squad on him.
Maybe send him over to their friends in Saudi Arabia to be stoned?
Any Argentines/Spanish speakers that can clarify what this was meant to convey? It obviously looks absolutely awful in our cultural context, but it also makes zero sense to think he was trying to be insulting. Curious what he was trying to say
Doubt it has anything to do with where he’s from and maybe just him being a bit innocent and not immediately associating the gorilla with racism.
Josip Juranovic posted the same emoji in the Instagram comments of Cameron Carter Vickers whilst he was at Celtic, CCV is known for his strength so everyone knew he was making a comment about that but he deleted his too because of the same reasons here.
Not sure if related but “mono” = “monkey” is also a kinda popular nickname for goalkeepers. I would say gorilla is a better version of the nickname
Some examples
Navarro Montoya = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Navarro_Montoya
Burgos = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germán_Burgos
Monetti = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Monetti
Sanchez = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Sánchez_(footballer,_born_1987)
Martinez = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_Martínez_(footballer)
(some of them you might have to open spanish version of wiki to see the nickname)
Beast!
Probably just meant to convey strength and size and general “power”
Paywall. What did he post?
Surely Onana can just say “oh nah it’s fine he meant nothing by it” and the FA will drop it
Not really, what if there’s a serious case of racism but the player is forced to say that he’s OK with it due to the pressure from the club
Just a general thought
I doubt teammates are racist to each other when they celebrated the win together
well from the people who banned rooney and scholes for red cards in pre-season, and banned Rooney for saying fuck, and banning Cavani for speaking with a friend in his own language, im certain they will get it right…
City tried the same thing with Bernardo/Mendy and it didn’t save them
Instead the FA have skipped the whole " what does the percieved victim aka onana thing" of this all and are straight into interviewing Garnacho
Oh, nah nahh it’s fine fam!
In a sane world based on logic this would be true, but we all know the world doesn’t work that way
When the whole saga about the Bernardo Silva-Benjamin Mendy tweet happened, Mendy actually wrote a letter to the FA defending Bernardo & saying that he didn’t view the tweet as racist, but the FA still fined & banned (& forced him to attend educational classes about racism) Bernardo for the tweet
LMFAo
The FA is ridiculous lmao
He didn’t meant like that but deserved
The fact he deleted it means he knows it was “wrong” meaning the FA are free to throw the book at him.
3 games, 100k. Same as Cavani. The fine may be lower since he earns far less than Cavani did.
The fact he deleted it means he knows it was “wrong” meaning the FA are free to throw the book at him.
Absolutely fucking not.
United losing all of their forwards lol
Complete joke if they try and ban him, now I’m a United fan so there may be some bias here…
but he tweeted a picture of him, Maguire (who scored the winning goal) Onana (who saved a last minute penalty) and Mctominay with Maguire and Onana clearly being the main 2 in the photo.
Garnacho didn’t use 1 emoji of a gorilla directed at Onana… he used 2… the way I see it, he clearly meant it as being 2 beasts who won us the game.
If anything, he should be under investigation for his awful haircut. Piss off FA
The world needs to stop being offe dedicated for everyone else. Onanas post was spot on, who can tell him who he should be offended by. The mostly all white male FA will judge if it should be offensive to Onana.