  “It is key to note that Patrice Evra himself in his written
statement in this case said ‘I don’t think that Luis Suarez is
racist’.  The FA in their opening remarks accepted that Luis
Suarez was not racist.”  So asserted Liverpool Football Club.
It seems to me that one of the toughest things to prove in life
is that you’re not a racist. So keen are we to clamp down on the
vile nature of racism, we don’t really give a comeback to those
accused of it; it’s an accusation that sticks. If it’s just your
word against your accuser’s, what can you do? How do you prove
you didn’t say something? – because the absence of evidence
means nothing.  Most of the things we say are not captured;
although, with loads of cameras on us, the chances should be
higher, and the absence of evidence should present some doubt.
If you were taking part in an event filmed by a dozen cameras
for 90 minutes, then if 10 accusations were made, there’s a
chance that they’d be picked up. None were on video (and I know
a source who has forensi