Following my recent blog post regarding the events of Saturday's clash between Swindon and Millwall at the County Ground, it would appear that "Big Kev" has had enough of the situation. As i mentioned before it would appear it has been blown out of all proportion, and a 2nd Club Statement has been released:
Despite yesterday's statement relating to the Kevin Amankwaah and Neil Harris verbal exchange during the Millwall FC fixture last Saturday, which contained Kevin Amankwaah's apology for any offence that his remarks may have caused, the issue has not been allowed to rest.
Kevin Amankwaah would like to dispel any suggestion that he was forced into making any statement by his teammates, he made the statement entirely under his own volition and his action enjoys his teammate's full support. Furthermore, Kevin would like to state that it was the racial abuse that he was initially subjected to that provoked him into responding in the way that he did.
"I had hoped that my statement of yesterday would have brought closure to this regrettable situation but now it would appear that I am being held up as the scapegoat. Therefore I feel compelled to make people aware of the racial and physical abuse that I received on the day, which included passing comment on my origins and physical assault - both of which were totally unacceptable," stated Amankwaah.
"My comments may have been misplaced but equally racial and physical abuse has no place in football. I have held my hands up and apologised for what I said, but now I think it would be appropriate if others did the same."
Swindon Town FC is fully committed to Kicking Racism Out of Football and this coming weekend Swindon Town FC will be participating in the Kick Racism Out of Football initiative and over 1,000 school children are anticipated at The County Ground for the Hartlepool United fixture, as part of this initiative.
It would seem that the "mild mannered" hero that The Sun newspaper and various other media outlets built Neil Harris up to be, isn't quite living up to that standard, with the new allegations of racial and physical abuse to Kevin Amankwaah. Just because you've had testicular cancer and have built are the patron of a successful charity apparently doesn't negate a person's true colours.
As expected its now apparent that Saturday's events go much deeper than just the surface that was scratched by the media in order to run a "hero and villain" news piece that has in turn wrongly damaged the reputation of STFC and Kevin Amankwaah.
Morale of this story, don't believe everything you read in the paper's kids.
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