After the Football Association announced that they had fined Manchester City striker Bernardo Silva £50,000 and banned him for one match for a 'potentially-racist' tweet he sent to Benjamin Mendy, the club's hierarchy have said that, in order to avoid a repetition of the incident, he is to undergo brainwashing.
City officials have said that, the tweet, which was a joke between two friends, having been manipulated in such a way as to make it potentially offensive to the masses, has now become so toxic, that they can't afford to sit idly by and watch Silva make the same mistake twice.
The tweet was so innocuous, that even Mendy, himself, laughed at the suggestion that there was anything racist about it, but the FA having to make an example for the good of the reputation of football, came down heavily on Silva, and he will now miss the game against Chelsea.
Meanwhile, Silva will use his free time to prepare himself for several sessions of 'Re-education', in which he will be forced to relive his tweeting experience over and over and over again, to confront his crime, and, by a process of self-loathing, turn himself away from ever tweeting anything quite so evil ever again.
