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Introduction: sport matters.

On Saturday October 15th 2011 Liverpool Football Club played Manchester United Football Club at Liverpool’s home ground, Anfield. England’s two most successful football (soccer) teams played out a closely fought 1-1 draw but the result of the game would be overshadowed by a series of verbal exchanges between two players. By the end of the year the incident and the reaction to it would come to dominate not just the sports press but Britain’s wider news media. During the second half of the game, the Manchester United defender Patrick Evra got into an altercation with Liverpool’s star striker Luis Suárez. Both during and immediately after the game Evra informed the referee that he had been racially abused by Suárez. The body that oversees professional football in England, the Football Association (FA), launched an investigation whilst Liverpool FC announced it believed Suárez was innocent of the charges and would stand by their player.