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

[Kolchak]

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.

A fan in Manchester threw a yellow, banana-shaped object onto the pitch early in today's City-United derby either at Man City's Raheem Sterling or United's Ashley Young, both of whom are black.

Both players have been racially abused in the past, and it's unclear if the banana came from a City supporter (who presumably aimed it at Young) or a visiting United fan. The fact we cannot even tell who was trying to be racist tells you a lot about your typical white supremacist English soccer fan.

Update (1:24 p.m.): A fan in attendance tells us it is an energy drink bottle, but it looks awfully banana-shaped (and banana-colored) to us.

Update (2:06 p.m.): At a source's insistence, we have modified some of the language in this post.

https://screengrabber.deadspin.com/...e-back-to-hurling-bananas-at-black-1825072234

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."

 

[Twirling Time]

Banana:

Lucozade:

 

[Batman]

 

[Twirling Time]

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.