Blackmail

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    NotoriousBingo
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    English footballer Eniola Aluko has stated that a executive from the FA tried to blackmail her to sign a statement about the FA not being racist.
    Any thoughts on the subject?

    #1546985
    Alfie07
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    Terrible if true, and heads should roll. The strange thing being that she made the original claim about the coach, Samson, and not the FA. So no one thought the FA were racist in the first place!

    Have the FA replied yet?

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    nine nine nine
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    “Amid a number of highly damaging revelations, it also emerged that the FA had withheld half of an £80,000 out-of-court settlement it had reached with Aluko and, according to the player, invited her to a meeting last month at which Glenn tried to cut a deal that she either put out a statement saying the organisation was not institutionally racist or would not receive her money. “I felt that was bordering on blackmail,” Aluko said.”

    #1546998
    Alfie07
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    If the out of court settlement was based on that statement then fair enough, but I assume it wasn’t.

    But if it wasn’t then her solicitor should advise her (seem to recall she might be a solicitor?) and you would have thought it would be easy to get the full, agreed settlement.

    #1547295

    NOLU
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    I am still struglging to understand that after being cleared by two independent enquiries, a £80,000 out-of-court settlement figure was agreed in the first place.
    Sampson was cleared of discrimination against Aluko by an internal review and an independent investigation led by a top female barrister.

    The whole affair stinks and Chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn should be removed with immediate effect.

    #1547414
    liquidator
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    Aluko agreed the £80k settlement (I have no comment on the whys and wherefores of the settlement itself) on the basis of making no further public comment, and half was paid initially. Aluko then broke the agreement by way of a tweet about the issue, hence Clarke called the meeting requesting she made a statement that the FA was not institutionally racist, to repair the damage she had done in breaching the original agreement, in which case she could be paid the balance of £40k of her settlement. They could have just refused to pay her the balance at that stage. Therefore, for her to suggest it is blackmail is highly disingenuous, but it feeds off the whole toxicity of anything considered remotely discriminatory, so despite grabbing the cash and breaching the agreement, she goes for and gets the public sympathy. Nice!

    #1547457

    NOLU
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    If she really cared about racism then no money would have changed hands and it would just have been made public. She should just have gone to the right authorities (Kick it out maybe) The fact she took the money just feels plain wrong

    #1550023

    NotoriousBingo
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    So she finally received full payment over two racially inclined jokes aimed at her and her team mate.
    It’s funny how the zero tolerance policy disappears when is comes to the staff of the FA instead of the players involved.

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    Alfie07
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    Does the FA have a zero tolerance policy to racism?

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    NOLU
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    Not sure zero tolerance, I think it starts around the £80k mark.

    It certainly did for Aluko anyway.

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