- Dec 8, 2005
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Reading about the 8 game Casilla ban, this could go very badly indeed for Dele.
This is all about how the game is presented abroad as the prem gets half its TV income there.
The product has to be spotless. The championship is held to the same standard.
Potentially what Dele did was far worse than Casilla.
He didn't make the video in the heat of the moment - he spent hours constructing it. A lot of thought went into it.
The absolute stupidity of the guy.
Plus AIA are projecting vitality and health - they want to sell life assurance to rich young Asians. They want to be linked with young fun athletes like Dele. But not if he is in any way thought to be mocking all asians as being sickly.
It a PR disaster.
So what is a suitable punishment? Well if he was a Chinese player, he'd be 6' underground now minus his organs.
But the Chinese are not unreasonable and appreciate there are cultural differences. If a state official is driving this and said we don't want to hear about him until next season - a 10 match ban, is that unreasonable? When hopefully the virus has died off a bit?
It all seemed so trivial, but Dele's whole future could pivot on how this turns out.