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TheBrownDog
Thought it was worth its own thread, as it looks as if he will be contesting the charges. This is translated from his facebook page.
The dumpling I believe is the english translation for the Quenelle.
The English football Federation hired an expert to decide the meaning of my dumpling... The latter concluded that my gesture had an anti-Semitic connotation, which led to my indictment by the FA.
It would have been legitimate that this expert is french, living in France, and that could have an exact knowledge of my gesture.
What better expert than Mr. Cukierman, president of CRIF (Conseil Représentatif France Jewish Institutions), which explains it very clearly that my quenelle could not be considered to be anti-Semitic!
He also explained accurately and at what time this gesture could have such a connotation.
I therefore ask the English Federation to kindly remove the loads that me is accused. And I repeat, I am neither anti-Semitic nor racist.
The dumpling I believe is the english translation for the Quenelle.