Sheaf Saint

You make some valid points, but public services by their very nature are obviously going to attract a higher number of people with left-leaning views, so it's surely not surprising to anyone and that's a far cry from claiming that the entire public sector is controlled by left wing ideology. But you weaken your argument significantly here by citing the conclusions of an opaquely funded Tufton Street lobby group on the subject of left wing political bias in public institutions. The suggestion that their findings are in any way unbiased is laughable. It would be like appointing three Skate fans to the panel investigating Tonda's involvement in Spygate and expecting them to deliver an objective and balanced verdict.

And I would say, as someone who works for an arms-length government body, that this is complete and utter bollocks. EVERYTHING we do has to be 100% transparent, legally defensible, and free from any political or ideological influence. For you to make such a sweeping generalisation, based on nothing more than your own paranoia and your need to feel like the victim of a political injustice, makes you look frankly ridiculous. And this makes you look even more ridiculous. This is precisely the sort of baseless, scaremongering drivel that the likes of Reform and Raise the Colours spout in order to appeal to angry, uneducated people who need some form of boogieman to blame for their own shortcomings and won't bother to fact check it. Only last week you were trying to claim you have a higher IQ than most on this forum. Yet here you are parroting something that is so batshit absurd that I don't even know where to begin. I would ask you to provide some evidence to support your claim, but I know you'll just ignore that and give this post a laughing emoji instead, so I won't bother.

I imagine many people said the same thing about the SPL and Rangers.

I guess that would depend on what TE is found guilty of. If the panel rule that he is responsible for creating a toxic culture where analysts are unduly coerced into deliberate rule-breaking activities then they will have no choice but to sack him. And without jumping the gun here, IF that turns out to be the case then it will reflect very badly on the club that they didn't investigate internally and take action sooner. Especially in light of the offer in the public statement at the time to work with the FA / EFL and create a task force to eliminate such activity from the game.

Well you can exclude Pompey from that for a start if you're looking for objectivity, and Boro of course. Could probably add in Wrexham and Millwall as well. But this is just a pointless graphic without additional context. I bet 90% or more of those canvassed don't know any details of the case or the charges and just lazily assume Tonda bears sole responsibility for it. I'd also like to know which Saints fans they asked, because the overwhelming consensus that I see among us is that he absolutely should face some kind of punishment if the FA have evidence of deliberate wrongdoing on his part. The only major disagreement seems to be over the severity of said punishment. I really don't see what point SS were trying to make with this.

Who to trust... A spy in the sky or a guy behind enemy lines? 🤔

I've said this many times before but it bears repeating... Where SR are concerned, If you're wondering why they've been silent on something or have communicated in an odd way then you should always, always lean heavily towards incompetence as being the explanation. Every time. In the run up to the hearing in May, I really wanted to believe that they were just keeping a dignified silence and didn't want to show their winning hand. But deep down I knew that was just wishful thinking. They are a bunch of hopeless incompetent clowns, and I won't be the slightest bit surprised if it turns out they don't have a plan to replace Tonda when he inevitably gets royally shafted by the FA. Parsons is a fucking muppet who should be absolutely nowhere near the boardroom of a multi-million pound business.

Not really. The Tories didn't have to hold the last one, and they didn't have to act on the result of it either, what with it not being legally binding.

Ref is just making it up now.

We're obviously trying to invite them onto us to find space behind but they're not obliging.

I'm watching with a mate who's a WH fan. Told him at the start I would be happy with a draw from our perspective. At HT with Millwall 2-0 up, he said he would probably be happier than me with that result!

Another Russ masterclass today. 1-1 at Barnsley despite playing 3/4 of the match against ten men and having 78% possession. Can't wait to hear the excuses for this one.

Leicester failing to beat 10-man Barnsley despite 77% possession. Classic Russball.

Radcliffe's opinion on all this isn't worth shit. I don't deny that he has worked hard to achieve his success, but to complain about the decline of the UK when his company goes to extreme lengths to pay as little tax as possible on UK revenue through a complex system of offshore shell companies and intellectual property rights is about as hypocritical as you could get. So fuck him and his opinion, that is just a transparent attempt to influence government policy in his own favour. https://taxjustice.uk/blog/sir-jim-ratcliffe-the-billionaire-finger-pointing-at-migrants-and-picking-britains-pockets-from-monaco/

Watching a scene in Stranger Things with my teenage daughter where they are calling a number from a phone booth and hearing the sound of a modem on the other end, then trying to explain that's how we used to have to connect to the internet. She just looked at me with bemusement when I told her it would sometimes take about 5 minutes to download a single picture and would disconnect when my mum would pick up the phone to call Aunt Betty in Scotland so I would have to wait an hour before I could reconnect.