[ritchiebaby]

It might depend on what Rafiq said to him, and perhaps others. Ballance seems to suggest that he was responsible for "some" of the offensive terms, but not all. As Ballance says, sometimes best friends miscall each other in an attempt at "banter". I know I did when I was a young man, but we were all white men, so the words would not be considered too controversial nowadays.

As already stated these racial terms should not be said nowadays and would not be considered banter. But context is everything and I feel a lot more detail is still to come out.