Thursday 27 September 2012 22:05, UK
Marseille midfielder Joey Barton has criticised the Football Association for their decision to hand a four-match ban to John Terry for racially abusing his former QPR team-mate Anton Ferdinand.
MP Damian Collins, a member of the culture, media and sport committee that produced a report on racism in football earlier this month, said Terry should now admit what he did was wrong. "It would be good if there was some sort of recognition on John Terry's part that what he did was wrong," said Collins. "This is something football should learn from." Collins added the FA must establish a consistent scale of penalties after Liverpool's Luis Suarez was given an eight-match suspension for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra earlier this year.(reopens) Kick it Out's Lord Herman Ouseley told BBC Radio 5 Live: "This is not about recriminations. It's about how football moves forward from here after it has spent 11 months going through the wringer. "People are trying to make the game a better place to be. Seven million people play on a regular basis and we want them to play in an atmosphere of no abuse."