Churchill is a hugely contradictory figure, made a lot of friends and enemies in high places, did some good eg championing tanks but a lot of bad such as the dardanelles fiasco amongst many things
Yeah - the biggest figures in history are never anything other than complex and contradictory. Churchill's career seems to be a series of catastrophic errors and then getting one big thing right. That leadership during WW2 doesn't excuse the horrendous judgements he made beforehand but at the same time it would be equally petty to use that to dismiss his influential role in defeating Nazism. How he is judged is, as in all cases of history, down to the reader!
Even football is littered with them. Our own Tommy Smith - a brilliant, stoic player yet by all accounts a pretty nasty racist off the field. That fact doesn't make me unappreciative of what he did for this club (if just one of our current players was half as influential on the field as he was then we'd be twice the club!) but at the same time his brilliance doesn't make me apologetic of some terrible racist comments he's made.
This alleged 'racist' scandal however continues to be nothing but a joke instigated by, at best, a misunderstanding and at worst, troublemaking on the part of Holgate. It says everything about the scheming and incompetent FA that this continues to be an issue over a week on.
That referee Bobby Madely allowed the situation to fester and the anger to bubble over rather than do the obvious thing and send Holgate off is also at the heart of this issue. It should never have got to the opportunity where Holgate can start mouthing off some serious allegations just to, I suspect, force the referee to try and send Firmino off.
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