"I can understand attackers wanting a penalty like you but Stevie was an attacking player wasn't he so maybe he thought there was a little bit of contact. When players in my position, English defenders who are commentating, I am putting myself in their shoes. "I can understand where he is coming from.
"I mean he was liable, every now and again, to go down himself under a little bit of contact, always contact. "He is an attacking player, isn't he?" the former defender said. Much to the delight of co-pundits Thierry Henry and Micah Richards, Carragher backtracked on his previous comments before taking aim at Ferdinand. However, embarrassment was to come for the 45-year-old when Kate Abdo produced a tweet from BT Sport's coverage of the semi-final where Gerrard had described Martinez as being unlucky to see the penalty overturned. "I think anyone out there who is watching the replay and seen what VAR do and still believe that is a penalty, they must be a clown," he declared on CBS Sport. Initially the spot kick was given for Simone Inzaghi's men but the decision was overturned by VAR.ĭiscussing the decision, Carragher immediately set his stall out. I totally would.Ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said he was happy to call Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand a clown after mistakenly slamming his old teammate Steven Gerrard during Inter's victory over AC Milan in the Champions League.ĭuring the 2-0 win at the San Siro, Inter felt they should have had a penalty when Lautaro Martinez went down in the area. Also, maybe shout “boo” at some people on your way in, just for kicks. So it would have been nice to see Garena actually take some responsibility and note that their initial decision was total nonsense, because it was.Īt the very least, if you’re gay, trans, or gay and trans, and you were thinking about joining the Iron Solari league before all this baffling BS went down, know that you’re not going to get turned away at the door for being who you are. On the other, they can’t unring the terrible bell that they’ve rung-now they’ve inadvertently given ammunition to the dark side of the gaming community that thinks “special snowflake SJWs” are trying to invade their space just because they would not like to be subjected to inexplicable restrictions against their very presence.
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On the one hand, I don’t know that I can 100% fault them for having no idea how to backtrack when a day ago they were literally on record as suggesting that gay and transgender women are inherently better at video games for some reason. “Created a lot of good discussion and debate?” I don’t know, team, I feel like that’s the sort of thing you’d say before you lay down a mandate, not after when everyone is pissed at you. We hope you will tune in to support these awesome teams and players in this upcoming tournament.
We’ll also be keeping our promise of having an open dialogue with all parties as we plan this and future events. Hence, we are grateful to our players who have consistently provided their feedback to help us learn and improve as we strive to develop an inclusive gaming environment for all. Our original intent when we put together this tournament was to promote diversity in the competitive gaming community. We sincerely apologize for any offense we caused to the LGBT and gaming communities. This means that any player who self-identifies as female will be allowed to participate. After discussing the ruling with our partners and re-examining our approach, we have decided to remove these restrictions completely. Our initial ruling on LGBT player restrictions within the Iron Solari League has created a lot of good discussion and debate over the past 24 hours. This is all well and good, of course, but I can’t help but feel like the rest of the apology smacks a little of “sorry you were offended,” particularly the sentence they open with:
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