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I watched One night in Miami yesterday and Sam Cooke pointed out that one day there would be one music chart (there was a separate black music chart at the time in the US) and progress would obviously be when there wasn't a distinction between music from people with different colour skins. MOBO seems to go against that. I reiterate though, that not highlighting skin colour (as Freeman says) is not the same as not highlighting racism. If and where that exists, it must be addressed. Turkish mentioned that there are lots of groups and efforts doing just that, but until racism is no more then efforts must continue and new ideas and possibly ramping up campaigns are needed.

Good description. There was some moves that I just thought were beyond our ability. We could replicate in the second half, but boy was it good to watch in the first half.

interesting. When you have a good side, that is the time to go for it in the FA cup, not when you are league 1 team and realistically you have no chance.

I agree with that. As I said, I think I agree with Morgan about not calling each other black and white and not having MOBO awards. I think there is a counter argument as the MOBO awards continues, but it seems less supported every year.

he's saying stop talking about race, not racism, isn't he? He says "stop calling me black'. That doesn't mean he is saying racism (hatred) should be ignored or we should stop talking about racism. In fact he often places racism under the spotlight: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/morgan-freeman-sparks-outcry-tea-party-racist-239872 https://www.nme.com/news/film/morgan-freeman-share-peoples-experiences-racism-social-platforms-2682978 So he continues to talk about racism.

wasn't Freeman saying `stop calling me black as I don't call you white - stop highlighting that we are of different colour' (I am paraphrasing). I don't think he'd want racism (hatred) ignored, do you? I think I agree with him. By highlighting the differences in skin colour (black music awards) we suggest there is a difference between us. That said, I imagine a fair few people of colour don't agree with Morgan?

I was wondering if Bayern move might be `agent placed' to increase his bargaining position. Good point about value though Williams signed a new deal with United last year so will be on a `healthy' amount - I read £40k+ a week I think - which is not to be sniffed at if he is second choice. Bertie's new deal might be key here.

good post. We have punched above our weight. We don't create a huge number of chances and need to continue to look to add better players that can offer pace and guile up front.

I am minded of a comment on here a week or too back when he said if Leicester can win the title so can we, and the reply was that they didn't have ANY real injuries over the entire season, which was correct and a major factor in their win. Lot of luck there and we just don't have that right now and we will never know what could have been.

showed real belief in himself when holding the ball up and then carrying is right across the width of the pitch until he found a pass actually worth making. loved that. Nice cameo. Very interested to see more.

Very interesting video Lighthouse. Terrific story and not one I was aware of. I watched a BBC (I think) programme about US race issues last year and there was a fella called Daryle Jenkins that had a very different approach and one that I applauded. Your video makes me wonder how effective his (Daryle's) approach is in solving (eradicating) the issue of racism. I guess he is trying to stop it spreading by extremist becoming comfortable preaching their hatred to impressionable people. Very different situation over their compared to the UK of course, but I have read that we have a Proud Boys organisation here in the UK. I wonder which approach should we take to people who are members.

and I don't have rose tinted specs, hence in the same sentence saying Dialla should have gone and the ref had a decent game apart from those two decisions. Be well stknkowle.

what a phrase. Agree with it though.

I have to say I have been a huge fan of his over the years, but he does look (on recent outings at least) like he has lost a yard of pace. He still is a good player, but I worry about paying his top money but not getting the player we had over the last three or four years. I wonder if he can adjust his game to cope defensively (a few more fouls for yellow cards may be needed) and be effective going forward. I'd like to see Vokins play against Shrewsbury to see what we have coming through.

In the end, it matters not. We didn't do enough in the second half and didn't take the half chances we created in the first. Have to applaud Rogers for his tactical change. He returned the favour, as Ralf had the tactics in the last game against them.

No problem. Discussion is good and seeing things from the other point of view essential to find the best solutions to problems. Many people of colour obviously don't think enough is being done. The black lives marches and taking a knee enabled them to express on mass and brought their issue right into the spotlight. "Things are not all good. Things can improve". It created attention. Job done. What happens next? What can be done to improve things? I don't know the answer to that. Three word slogans solve nothing. I hope others with a better understanding of this subject do.

away games aren't quite what they were, to be fair. Still, its a good record. Hopefully we can get a few senior players back and start scoring a few goals.

Lots of room for improvement, but bring back Ings and we have a cutting edge up front and that relieves pressure on the defence. We are a mid table side punching well.

maybe you need some specs, tinged or otherwise.

Amen. We ran them ragged first half. We did everything we could, but they were too good on the day. Lots of positives to take from this game. We are so much better than two years ago.

we do have some injuries

I disagree. We were excellent to a man in the first half. Second half we weren't goof, which was largely down to Leicester stepping it up big style. We lost. No need to throw the whole side under the bus.

the decision on the Diallo foul was atrocious. As was not sending Diallo off. Rest of game he was pretty decent.

Tactically Leicester got it right in the second half and Ralf either couldn't adjust or didn't have the players on the bench to do anything. For me the ref not giving us the foul on Diallo changed the game. It left us scrambling in defence and we couldnt recover. Going a goal down killed us.

Leicester stepped it up and we were already on our limit in the first half. They have made it very tough to pass it out fro the back and we have turned over possession to easily.