{"id":208681,"date":"2020-06-12T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T07:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208681"},"modified":"2020-06-14T08:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:12:02","slug":"dele-alli-laments-betrayal-after-one-game-ban-for-coronavirus-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208681","title":{"rendered":"Dele Alli laments ‘betrayal’ after one-game ban for coronavirus video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Aarons \u2013 The Guardian June 11, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Dele Alli has claimed a friend \u201cbetrayed\u201d him by selling a private Snapchat video of the Tottenham midfielder mocking coronavirus, after he was banned for the Premier League return at home to Manchester United next Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The England international has also been fined \u00a350,000 and must attend an educational course after being found guilty of an \u201caggravated breach\u201d of the FA rule that includes a reference to race and\/or colour and\/or ethnic origin and\/or nationality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alli posted a video of himself wearing a mask in an airport lounge on 6 February before zooming in on an Asian man sitting nearby, with the caption \u201cCorona whattttt, please listen with volume\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 24-year-old swiftly deleted the video that had been sent to a group of 160 people on his \u201cclose friends\u201d list and posted an apology. Alli alleged at Monday\u2019s FA hearing that one of them had copied it and sold it to a national newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe player explained he decided to delete the video before he boarded his flight to Dubai,\u201d read the FA\u2019s written reasons for the decision released on Thursday. \u201cIt was the following day that he became aware that he had, in his words, been \u2018betrayed\u2019 by someone on his Snapchat group and the post had been given to the media.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alli also said he focused on the Asian man because the man was coughing rather than because of his race. The three-man regulatory commission decided Alli was making an obvious connection between an Asian man and the virus and had used an \u201cunacceptable racist stereotype\u201d in a misguided attempt at humour but ruled it did not think Alli was a racist and that he was telling the truth<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAn apology was made in which the player detailed that he had \u2018let himself down\u2019 but it was the player\u2019s evidence to the commission that he did not regard the content of the video to be of a kind to \u2018cross the line\u2019 into conduct answerable under Rule E3, in particular as the video, in his opinion, \u2018had nothing to do with the ethnicity of the man\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Alli told Tottenham\u2019s website: \u201cIn response to the FA decision I would like to apologise again for any offence caused by my behaviour. It was an extremely poorly judged joke about a virus that has now affected us more than we could ever have imagined.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful the FA has confirmed that my actions were not racist because I despise racism of any kind. We all need to be mindful of the words and actions we use and how they can be perceived by others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shades of 1984 as Spurs player fined \u00a350,000 for posting a video of himself in an airport lounge, which zoomed in on an Asian with the caption \u201cCorona whattttt\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208684,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208681\/revisions\/208684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}