The Foolish Luis Aragones

From www.football365.co.uk


Aragones creates new stir
Friday December 31 2004

Spain coach Luis Aragones has dug himself deeper into a hole over his remark about Thierry Henry by now referring to Jose Antonio Reyes as "a gypsy".

Aragones faces disciplinary action from the Spanish FA, who have launched an investigation into his comments to Reyes about his Arsenal team-mate.

Now, in an interview with Madrid newspaper El Mundo, Aragones tried to defend himself but succeeded only in making things worse.

Aragones said: "Reyes is ethnically a gypsy, I have got a lot of gypsy and black friends, I consider myself a citizen of the world, I don't care about their skin colour.

"All I did was to motivate the gypsy by telling him he was better than the black."

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Now, I don't know if this is true, but if it is,

Man, some people really ought to learn when to shut up.