Mourinho accused of using a homophobic slur before CSKA Moscow vs Real Madrid

[ex-cafune.livejournal.com]

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has been accused of making a homophobic slur prior to Tuesday's Champions League game away to CSKA Moscow.

Mourinho is alleged to have called match officials "faggots" prior to the 1-1 draw in Moscow.

The European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation (EGLSF) has filed a complaint against the Special One, while co-president Louise Englefield has urged UEFA to take action against the former Chelsea and Inter Milan boss.

"Homophobia is unacceptable from anyone in football, much less from one of the game's most senior figures," Englefield was quoted by the Daily Mail as saying.

"We are deeply disappointed that Mr. Mourinho is casually using homophobic terms of abuse in his workplace.

"It is especially sad that these comments have been made during the International Football v Homophobia campaign week.

"As long-standing partners of the FARE network, we call on UEFA to take action and impose appropriate sanctions."

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NOW WITH ADDED VIDEO PROOF

at last there is a reason for my hatred of him that isn't "but i hate all the teams he coaches/he's an asshole, really"

Comments

[lafuriarosa.livejournal.com]

Please see my reply above on this issue.

I'm not denying he used the word, because we can all obviously hear it, but it's one of those times when context and words being lost in translation has to be taken into account. At the same time, I am disappointed in Mou and I hope that he apologizes and cleans up his language.

It's not so much a bias, more the inaccuracy of the reporting that I have a problem with. Just from your comment to me, it seems that from what you understood from this article, Mourinho was hurling verbal homophobic abuse to refereed during a game, which is not what happened. So that leads me to believe that anyone else reading the same article would come to the same conclusion and therefore in the end label Mourinho as a homophobe. As I said, that is a serious charge to make, and I just feel that the facts need to be straight before we start labeling Mourinho as such.

[mardia.livejournal.com]

First, I didn't refer to Mourinho as a homophobe. I have no idea what he thinks of gay people, I can't tell you what's in his heart/mind. Much in the same way I don't know whether Suarez is a racist, Terry's a racist. All I can do is judge them on what they did, I can't say accurately what they believe, and the same goes for Mourinho.

Also, again, I don't see where the article is being inaccurate. It says, clearly, that this incident occurred BEFORE the game. Here's the direct quote: "Mourinho is alleged to have called match officials "faggots" prior to the 1-1 draw in Moscow." And honestly--I don't see that it makes much difference whether he said it before the match or during the match, he still said it, it was still a homophobic, irresponsible thing to say.

[verses.livejournal.com]

But he didn't actually call them names directly, which is what people are taking from this article without watching the video. This is not comparable to Suarez or Terry calling someone a name. This is someone wrongfully using maricon as slang for an asshole.

[lafuriarosa.livejournal.com]

OK, so we at least agree that Mou was irresponsible and should never have used the word maricon.

As for the other issue of whether or not there was some lazy journalism at play here, we're going to have to agree to disagree.