Racist name-call earns island player maximum ban
Friday 16th January 2009, 2:30PM GMT.
A FORMER Muratti footballer has been suspended for racially abusing an opposing player.
Belgrave Wanderers’ Jason Le Cheminant (pictured), who used to be known as Neil Clegg, admitted making the comment to black player Naro Zimmerman – the captain of this year’s victorious Guernsey under-21 Muratti team.
The Guernsey Football Association has banned Mr Le Cheminant for the maximum 112 days and fined him £100.
‘The outcome of the disciplinary process is an illustration of the GFA’s full commitment to providing everyone with the opportunity to play football without fear of prejudice,’ GFA chairman Mark Le Tissier said yesterday.
‘Football takes racism very seriously. There is no place for it in our game.’
The incident took place in October during a friendly match between Bels and the under-21s.
Mr Le Cheminant’s use of the N-word came a month before Deputy Chief Minister Bernard Flouquet’s golliwog gaffe and the subsequent controversies over Prince Harry referring to a fellow soldier as a Paki and Prince Charles’s ‘Sooty’ nickname for a Punjabi polo player.
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Why did he ‘used’ to be called Neil Clegg? That name suits him much better, a “clegg” being a slang word for a horsefly…..brains of an insect from pond life and all that.
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It’s a good job that Bernard Flouquet does not play football.
I guess Lyndon Trott does not manage the FA’s administration on Guernsey then….
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why do people start to get personal in this forum? just say what you are thinking and get on with your life.
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Ah leigh haines
What we have here is a young lad that blurted out ‘what he thought’ in a moment of DURESS and immediately knew that that sort of insult is UNACCEPTABLE and apologised within seconds and ate his humble pie. He knew the book would be thrown at him. He has taken his punishment and has been publically humiliated (he’s had the “birch”, if you like). One thing that our love of football has done is highlight the infantile behaviour of racist insults.
The ‘kick racism out’ movement in football is a product of public outcry. It is proving more successful than the political democratic process.
Well done the GFA. There is no excuse for mindless racism.
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