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Pope tweets under investigation by FA


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2 hours ago, Warren said:

I had to do my online diversity training recently. Good package, very informative and 95% in agreement with the Equality Act 2010 etc. But the place we have reached is that positive discrimination in favour of an ethnic minority candidate in a drawn job interview situation is legal if that ethnic group is under represented in the workforce. Then we can talk about situations that turn daft. Like recruiting from a group of employees to a project that needs to be completed urgently. But you can't take account of Mary being pregnant and going of on maternity leave next week if she has applied; have to ignore that issue completely. So Mary maybe the best candidate and get appointed, but the outcome is the project get's postponed or a second appointment has to be made so it can go ahead. There all sorts of acceptances and tolerances that people from my generation have to adapt to with equality legislation and other sensitivities. Sometimes I am not prepared to do that myself; but here Tom Pope just needs to be more careful because the amount of things to fall over is enormous irrespective of twitter being a medium that tends to get people to say stuff they wouldn't normally - whilst at the same time as allowing Trump centre stage of course. Profit talks as well.

In other words, the world has gone pc mad. 

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2 hours ago, Joe B said:

Our Chair Lady Carol has just liked the following tweet:

I see Tom Pope “saying what he wants” has gone well for him again

Make of it what you will. This is on her public Twitter profile, is still there as far as I can see.

I wish she would keep off twitter as well. Thats something Norman would come out with.

If she got a problem with him, then keep it behind closed doors. This kind of tweet wont achieve anything.

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7 hours ago, sandyford_valiant said:

I wish she would keep off twitter as well. Thats something Norman would come out with.

If she got a problem with him, then keep it behind closed doors. This kind of tweet wont achieve anything.

I don’t think she actually tweeted anything. 

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4 hours ago, MelbourneValiant said:

He has been warned before. He should receieve a massive club fine for the ban. You cannot have professional players being ruled out of games for their behaviour outside of the club. They represent the club. Regardless of it being petty he hasnt learnt his lesson.

Three strikes and you are out, club legend or not. Bringing the club bad publicity yet again.

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9 hours ago, sandyford_valiant said:

I wish she would keep off twitter as well. Thats something Norman would come out with.

If she got a problem with him, then keep it behind closed doors. This kind of tweet wont achieve anything.

She didn’t tweet it. The post said she had just “liked” it. 

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Regardless of what anyone may think about social media, it's a fact that people like Pope know fully the consequences of saying certain things, irrelevant of joking or not. He is under the spotlight now as this is his 2nd ban so obviously he needs to learn a lesson.

Vale are bigger than one player and his actions are bringing our club the wrong headlines that our new owners are attempting to eradicate.

It is not a matter of Pope being a "legend", it's common sense that he now needs to act and prevent this happening again.  

 

 

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1 hour ago, onestepatatime said:

Regardless of what anyone may think about social media, it's a fact that people like Pope know fully the consequences of saying certain things, irrelevant of joking or not. He is under the spotlight now as this is his 2nd ban so obviously he needs to learn a lesson.

Vale are bigger than one player and his actions are bringing our club the wrong headlines that our new owners are attempting to eradicate.

It is not a matter of Pope being a "legend", it's common sense that he now needs to act and prevent this happening again.  

 

 

Totally agree, once is forgivable twice is not.

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Why has he not deleted his account?  If Tom wants to discuss non footballing issues, why doesn't he just set up an anonymous account and "say what he likes" without bringing the club into disrepute in the process?  Of course he might not get as many followers reading him then but so what.

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13 hours ago, sandyford_valiant said:

I wish she would keep off twitter as well. Thats something Norman would come out with.

If she got a problem with him, then keep it behind closed doors. This kind of tweet wont achieve anything.

She's 'liked it'. Never did I mention her posting it.

I'm sure he's been pretty clear with Pope as to how daft he is being. Its not about whether its right or wrong; he was questioned by the FA last season, he was warned by the club last season, he's been banned this season, and now he's been banned again, not relating to the anti-Semitic line.

He's now missed 2 games this year because he can't keep his trap shut about daft things on Twitter. Its fundamentally a joke, and if it was any player bar Popey there would be absolute hell up on here/social media.

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1 hour ago, Santa said:

I looked to see if the written reasons are up on the FA website yet. They aren’t, but the ones for the previous one are.

the-fa-v-tom-pope---21-november-2019.ash

Didn’t realise that’s what Stuart Ripley does with himself these days. Boro bastard. 

Sounds like a one match ban coming up for you Santa.

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