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They have said what it was about from day one. A bunch of lads in mainly their teens and twenties decide to do something to help stop racial discrimination and you think it’s right to boo and abuse them because the slogan they use might get confused with some groups within a social movement that have different political views to you. That’s pretty pathetic.

Their statement was about taking the knee.

I’m guessing it was a response to abuse from a bunch of racist cunts.

The players have made it crystal clear that there is nothing political in their gestures, it's purely anti-racism. That was long ago, I thought it would have sunk in with even you by now.

True, but to disagree so strongly that you boo your own players for making an anti-racism gesture - I dunno. I get that people think it's pointless and virtual signalling can be a bit annoying, but would any sane, non racist Saints fan boo Theo Walcott and Ryan Bertrand if they chose to make an anti-racism gesture?

Thanks for posting that Crab Lungs, hope it doesn’t return! You are a living, breathing (just!) example of why we should ALL get vaccinated.

The players made it crystal clear what their taking the knee was for, it was nothing to do with defunding the police or any other weird political idea, it was a simple anti-racism message. Anyway, BLM Is a protest movement and like any it’s going to have weird groups and extremists associated to it. Just like climate change protests have all sorts of anti capitalist nut jobs tagging along - it does not mean the main message is wrong. It’s blatantly obvious to anyone with a brain what the players are wanting to get across.

How is wearing a poppy not virtual signalling?

Oh no, not the black friend again

Brilliant! I suppose the footage of your statue protector pal getting a kicking was all staged as well then. Maybe the whole protest and counter protest was one big staged event?

Plenty of sports people haven’t taken the knee, no one gives a shit.

Are you Pap in disguise?

If you don’t agree with taking the knee, don’t take the knee. Booing someone for making an anti racist gesture is an odd thing to do if you’re not racist IMO.

Probably because this guy was a Millwall fan. Can’t be nice seeing one of their fellow big hard racist fans being beat up then carried out like a baby in the arms of a black fella.

Only an idiot would make such generalisations.

Disliking Diego Maradona.

I don't doubt there is a link, just wondered about the 3.5 times figure.

My point is that if you live longer you are probably more likely to get dementia anyway wether you have headed balls all your life or not. If you are obese and smoke 40 fags a day you will probably have a heart attack and pop your clogs in your 50s. I only make that point because may Nan died from dementia aged 96 - she lived a super-healthy lifestyle and ending up suffering big time in her later years. It's a horrible disease.

Maybe, but I find it hard to believe that being a professional athlete doesn't have a positive effect on life expectancy. Surely the best way to gauge the effects of heading would be to compare outfield players to goalkeepers, both are professional footballers with similar lifestyles the only difference would be one lot don't do headers. It may be that the lifestyle you mentioned (being very fit then letting yourself go and hitting the bottle) is a big influence on wether you die from it.

3.5 times more than who? I don't doubt that there is a link but doesn't the fact that footballers are professional athletes mean they are more likely to be fitter and live longer than the average person so are bound to have a higher percentage of deaths from a neurodegenerative disease? If outfield players are 3.5 times more likely than goalkeepers then that would show the true effect of heading.

No shit. Most behaviour of football fans is for the play ground.

Fuck me it’s not rocket science, a lot of England fans don’t like him because his cheating knocked us out the World Cup. It’s really not that hard to understand.

This is a good write-up of the whole shit-show: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-overturn/2020/11/28/34f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html Trump was, in the telling of one close adviser, like “Mad King George, muttering, ‘I won. I won. I won.’ ”

Me me me!

That wasn’t opinion it was facts.