Quintin Jardine's blog

This from the Football Association in the Dave Whelan case:

The FA Commission said in a statement: “We are satisfied on the evidence before us that Mr Whelan is not a racist.

“We are equally satisfied on the evidence before us that Mr Whelan did not intend to cause any offence by his comments.”

But the commission added that it had to “view the comments objectively and Mr Whelan’s subjective intentions were irrelevant as far the ruling was concerned”.

Okay. Now can anyone explain to me what it means? The way I read it, they’re saying, ‘He isn’t guilty, but we’re still throwing him to the wolves to satisfy the PC brigade.‘