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So have we gone from wanting a Villa win to now wanting Fulham to win?

How do you know, who fingered her?

Dick discharged. Mets Clapham protest response has been exonerated by an independent review https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/met-police-acted-appropriately-at-sarah-everard-vigil-review-finds-12260633 Khan criticised for bashing Dick in public, without knowing all the facts. The report mentions the poor optics of arresting women, strange thing for what was an equal rights protest.

Your reaction is due to your immune response rather than from suffering from 'a little bit' of the virus. There could be a connection beween vaccine reaction and how bad you get covid, if some of the covid symptoms are caused by your immune response as well as the virus. The Spanish flu mortality was influenced by the strength of your immune response, meaning the under 40's who have a stronger immune response were the vulnerable group that time. I haven't a clue, just thinking aloud, but I'm sure the eggheads are looking into this type of stuff.

Like chips without mayo, isn't chips.

It looks like a prisoner counting down the years until they are free...perfect for Saints.

🤣🤣 you are too easy to trigger.

It's not our traditional shirt.

Thanks, that makes sense. That's was why more fans got to go to the league Cup final in the past, less old boys getting tickets.

Yeah I agree it would be better if the semis were at a neutral ground, but given the finances I can see why it had to change. I don't know the facts on this but are there less corporates at the semis, do more proper fans get to go?

The FA cup lost some magic with mass tv coverage of other football. Growing up in the 70's and 80's the sport on TV calendar was a big deal, the FA Cup final, league cup final, Wimbledon, pilkington cup final, 5 nations, snooker final, darts, grand national (I think the Derby was still on in the week), the open, even the boat race. You would watch them all, now football is on everyday and we are busy doing other stuff.

Would the new Wembley exist with out the extra games, or would we still be in the crumbling twin towers. The extra two semis and three play off games made it financially viable.

You were obviously one of the better ones with a higher motivation. I remember the kids at school who became refs and the refs I played with, there were all of a type. Occasionally you would come across a good one and they stood out. You'll have to admit the current elite bunch are a bit shit and Mike Riley isn't fit for purpose.

You'll have to do that for the final.

Offside wasn't introduced, it's always been there. Over the years it has become less stringent and the balance has always moved in favour of the attackers, it's gone from 3 defenders down to 1, then from behind the defeader (remember the 80's Sunday League shouts of 'I can see daylight' when their dodgy linesman flagged your team offside) to in line with defenders. The only place to go is to allow attackers to be in line but infront of defenders. Anything else and there is no offside and as Fry says and it becomes a different game. The flag has to stay down until the end of the move otherwise the advantage is with the defender. When a goal is scored the defence still has a chance to get it struck off by VAR, if a linesman wrongly flags an onside move, the attack has no recourse. There are some obvious ones that they could flag a bit quicker. This could be improved Where ever you draw the line there will be slow laborious marginal calls. Foorball has moved to a system of binary rules; over the goal line or not, handball or not, offside or not, to provide the consistency that managers and pundits always called for and I guess in part to remove the accusation of bias. It works for some rules like goal line decisions but it clearly doesn't work for handball. It should work for offside but the technology isn't good enough. This is the main problem with VAR for offside at the moment, is the insistence by the FA that it can make the right call when it really can't and we can all see it can't. They should just acknowledge this and then make a decision what to do in the grey area, avantage to the defence or advantage to attack. I think people would accept it better. VAR is killing the celebration of a goal, in a low scoring sport to damage your usp is utter madness. Football was a game of few rules and it has to move back to that and maybe the best way is to allow refs to be subjective again, ref the match and ref the moment. The intrinsic problem with reffing games is that it's run by refs and we all know you have to be a twat to be a ref, they are less in love with the game and more in love with their knowledge of the laws. So what ever system is employed they will fuck it up.

I can't see the real problem with a sunday evening slot; late sunday roast and then settle down with a nice bottle of wine and watch the football. Hopefully a good end to the weekend.

My son said it was the Zoom man, who to believe?

In hospitals they have computer stations on wheeled trollies called computer on wheels or cow They were renamed workstations on wheels, wow, when a lady patient complained when she heard one nurse asking another, if she still had that cow in her room.

The Tories have pitched themselves as anti political correctness, woke, culture wars or whatever it's called nowadays and I think it's a tactic that will work for them. So expect to see this response union jack and this response a lot more. In my opinion there does need to be a sensible rebalancing on these cultural issues but I hope this is done in a clam manner and the Tories won't look to incite culture wars trying to chase votes. The school have apologised, the teacher has been suspended, they have made their point, what more do these protesters want. They should he dispersed and reminded that they live in a pluralist society and that their religion doesn't trump the law.

I was talking generally, religious nutters have been outraged for centuries.

This was a moment that the school should have stood by the teacher. They could have said something about reviewing course content for the future blah blah blah, if they really had to. The teachers position is untenable, that's why he sould resign sue for constructive dismissal. We are encouraging people to complain about everything nowadays. I am changing some windows in a student block at the moment and I got an email from a student quoting laws and stuff about the noise of the works and requesting that the work starts after 10am. Buses no longer have 'not in service' on the front anymore they have 'sorry not in service', why be apologetic for a bus not stopping to pick you up that is not meant to stop to pick you up. People are so fragile nowadays.

It's totally wrong that the teacher was suspended, he should sue for constructive dismissal.

The fake woke outrage is wearing a bit thin. Just say what you really think.

But if you stop considering it as erasing history you won't get yourself tangled in these mind games. No one is asking history to be erased, how do you do that anyway. The reconsideration is about what is celebrated by society.

Too much outrage, there's the outraged and the outrage at the outraged. We are all guilty 😔 Another reason to bin social media.