Deadspin story on racist soccer fans wrong, keeps headline for click bait

I don't know what this article originally looked like, though it sounds like very little was altered, but after two updates this guy was still singing the same tune to chase clicks. In the end, right or wrong doesn't matter, because once you get your clicks you've won. The headline was originally "Racist Soccer Fans Are Back To Hurling Bananas At Black Players." I think this whole thing tells you a lot about Timothy Burke, to throw his own words back at him.

I appreciated this comment:

This is an unbelievable post.

“Racist soccer fans throw a banana at either Raheem Sterling or Ashley Young”

Update: “According to witnesses it probably wasn’t a banana, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”

Update: “It absolutely wasn’t a banana. Turns out that it was most likely a yellow energy drink. Doesn’t matter though, I’m leaving ‘banana’ in the headline. It looked too much like a banana at first to change the headline now.”

Update: “It was definitely a yellow energy drink. I’m still not taking ‘banana’ out of the headline. If it HAD been a banana then this would have been an extremely racist situation. In fact, it still might be racist because the energy drink is yellow, and bananas are yellow. But school buses are yellow, too. So now I’m not sure. Check back later for more updates.”

 

Banana:

Lucozade:

 

Lucozade is more of a sport drink (a la Gatorade) than an energy drink of the likes of Red Bull and Monster. Really blew up in the U.K. during the rave/ecstasy era of the 1990s. I wish they sold it in the U.S., actually. It's quite tasty.