adrian lord

V 10 men to boot

FFS

Clueless baldie

This half is dragging

Great stuff Tella

Excellent

New Statesman? Don't make me laugh! That's the Speccie of the hard left. Gibb was appointed precisely because of the bias I described, in order to address it at Board level. He will still find himself drowning in a sea of lachrymose Remoaner tears gushing from the dewy-eyed, pronoun-toting Guardianistas as they choke on their granola. 😘 https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/bbc-chief-mark-thompson-admits-leftwing-bias-6509105.html https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/21/john-humphrys-attacks-bbcs-liberal-bias-days-after-retiring-from-radio-4

In the opinion of a far-left Sociology lecturer at Aston University, on an obscure far-left activist website.

Indeed. There remain islands of excellence at the BBC but it is a sorry shadow of the colossus that once bestrode broadcasting across the globe. The problem with the BBC News and current affairs output in particular, is that it is all produced, directed, researched and presented by a workforce from a very narrow, navel-gazing self-appointed elite echelon of Metropolitan society. All with the same set of left of centre political views. An incredibly unrepresentative, homogenous workforce recruited almost entirely from the careers pages of the Guardian, or nepotism. This has led to a myopic, arrogant, patrician culture of "we know what is best for you" and this has severely compromised their impartiality. The bias was perhaps an unconscious process initially, but since 2016 has been increasingly widespread, less subtle and premeditated.

It has - but perhaps not in the way I think you mean. Covid - the governmental and societal response to it - has led to the fetishisation of health and the NHS, elevating it to a pseudo religion, and spawning a mawkish, voyeuristic health fascism which apparently now seems to require the match to be stopped every time a person gets taken ill in the stands.

3rd game in as many days suspended due to apparent medical emergencies in the stands. Why does the game need to stop? It is a disproportionate response. And no, it is not disrespectful, nor callous to carry on. Suspending play only serves to focus the crowd's attention on the casualty and compromise their dignity and confidentiality still further. With 10s of thousands of attendees at games, medical emergencies and events such as epileptic fits are simply going to be very common. If fans cotton on that a "collapse" now apparently mandates interrupting a game, and so potentially allow a losing team to regroup for 15-20 minutes in the dressing room, and simultaneously wreck the momentum of the term in the ascendancy, then you can bet some clown will fake it.

Clearly, the songbook needs re-writing. Here's a start: "Can you see us, can you see us, can you see us holding hands?"

Petering out, this game.

feck off Vardy

Hanging on.

Ralph: make changes or we are going to lose.

Leicester have done nothing ... apart from score twice.

3rd game in as many days suspended due to apparent medical emergencies in the stands. Why does the game need to stop? It is not disproportionate, not disrespectful, nor callous to carry on. It only serves to focus the crowd's attention on the casualty. With 10s of thousands of attendees at games, medical emergencies and events are sadly going to be very common. Further, if fans cotton on that a "collapse" now mandates interrupting a game, and potentially allow a losing team to regroup for 15-20 minutes, and wreck the momentum of the term in the ascendancy, then you can bet some will fake it.

good lad!

YEEEEEES!

Tella groin.

McCarthy acting like a pinball cushion.

Dear oh dear.

Peals before swine...

Competitive sports, especially team sports, are male aggression and violence, sublimated. As such they perform a vital role in civilising society, by facilitating the controlled, lawful discharge of male aggression in a harmless manner. This holds for the crowds spectating as much as the actual participants. The partisan, team and city based hostility, so channelled, is healthy. Of course unlawful abuse based on race and sexuality and gender and disability cannot be supported, but we must be careful of emasculating the game so much that it loses any passion, and the unintended consequences of innate male aggression being discharged elsewhere in damaging forms.