There are degrees of eye gouges, just as there are degrees of broken bones, hamstring strains or concussions.
Just because Robbie’s eye didn’t look like that doesn’t mean a gouge didn’t occur. His eye was pretty damn red, and there is video evidence of Burgess sticking his finger into his eye.
I propose a definitional meeting of minds as to the term gouge in the context of this incident.
I can accept that his eye was a tad reddened afterwards ( although no media has checked to see if his eye was red beforehand).
But I would argue that the redness was the natural result of a vanilla flavoured facial, that is caused by friction of his hand across his upper face region including the externalities of the surface of his eye socket.
The bold claim as to existence of footage into the eye itself, well I have not this in common media. I have seen images that suggest this only, but naught conclusive.
Unless it’s beyond a reasonable doubt, I can’t subscribe to this overbearing public outcry that embraces crude and destructive stereotypes.
On that basis, the possibility of a standard facial (albeit couched in obscene visual atmospherics) remains not only alive, but indeed, likely.
Thank you for your post.