Liverpool Great Robbie Fowler ‘Blacks Up’ As Lionel Richie, Causes Minor Twitter Outrage (Photo)
By Alan Duffy
Lionel Richie? I was going for Craig Johnston meets Bruce Grobbelaar…
This hasn’t been the best of periods for Liverpool FC, certainly in terms of PR. With the club tying itself in all kinds of knots over the Luis Suarez affair, and then Anfield legend Alan Hansen getting lambasted for his out-dated use of the word “coloured”, it’s been a heck a few weeks for the club.
Well, they say bad things come in threes, so I guess it was inevitable that someone else with links to the Merseyside club would have to jump on the bandwagon. And with that we say a big hello to Robbie Fowler, Kop idol, player/manager of Muangthong United and, apparently, amateur Lionel Richie impersonator.
The former England man posted a photo of himself ‘blacked up’ and in full Richie garb on Twitter, in a perfect example of bad timing. After getting a whole load of abuse from Twitter users who were practically dancing on the ceiling with rage, Fowler promptly took the incriminating photo down, but only after it had been up on the web all night long, and not before it had seeped into the judgemental hands of the media.
Anyway, to be honest, Fowler’s whole Lionel Richie thing is utterly harmless. However, rather ironically, for a player whose timing in the box was super sharp, he could have picked a better moment to ‘black up’ on Twitter, couldn’t he?
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Lolol…..jheeze….Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Plonker
I’m sorry, but the political correctness of the world we live in today is just nauseating. The people that whined and complained about this have way too much time on their hands.
Still less embarrassing than being seen playing for Perth Glory…
OMG! He has no shoes on him! Flog him! Shoot him!
If we have to be so fucking politically correct about stuff, then we better go all in…
@ Guy… Or L**ds
Farking rediculous, take your fingers out your arse, you rediculous numptys.
Apparently bad things come in fours. Looking forward to your article on the racial abuse of Tom Adeyemi of Oldham F.C by Liverpool F.C supporters tonight.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/fa-cup/8997279/Liverpool-caught-up-in-new-racism-row.html
Way to over-react… damn.
Da beez raciss n’ sheeeeeeit!
its only a bloody costume! F**king PC brigade again! He could hardly dress up at a white lionel ritchie!
quick! someone abuse Gene Wilder for his racist portrayal of a black man! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f0bvyZMrZ9k/SemGdgz7-BI/AAAAAAAABLc/2h2QQgzUqmM/s400/silverstreak.jpg
Looks more like he is sunburned.
If you ask me it looks more like Barry, Terry or Garry just back from their ollidayzzz in Benidorm …………. calm down , calm down. Eh they do don’t don’t they do !
If you ask me it looks more like Barry, Terry or Garry just back from their ollidayzzz in Benidorm …………. calm down , calm down. Eh they do don’t don’t they do !
Unreal. How could anyone be offended by that? Next time someone goes to fancy dress done up as Mr T will they end up in the dock? PC gone mad.
Funny picture. Don’t change your lifestyle or personality/sense of humour because a black person got offended by some racist idiot.
Because of a minority of racists and the majority of black people I may not be able to dress up as Mr T, Lionel Richie, Al Jolson……….??
Ther world has gone mental and the race card is being pulled out at every oppurtunity
Shoot, I am an Ethiopian(meaning Black), but this is just too overrated, what will happen if I wear George Michael’s attire, lol, with no cloth… that’s being racist???? Relax!!
I am from Zimbabwe. I am black. I think this is funny. There is nothing racist about this. He is a fan… period. No need to blow things out of proportion. Suarez, that was racist but Fowler… hilarious!!!!! :-)
Everybody needs to get a grip, for god sake, he’s only put some face paint on, and he has no ties with LFC anyway, so he used to play for them so what, he left ages ago.
The Suarez incident has been totally blown out of proportion, if they looked at the video evidence they would have seen that Evra starting the argument by going up to Suarez calling him a dirty south american, now come on!!! isn’t that racist???
This article is typical journalism trying to cause a stir, leave it out!!!!!!