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Like it’s been for the last 50 years you mean?

Was Foden injured? Surely the perfect game for him to play and unlock a well organised team. Can’t think of any other reason why he wouldn’t get at least half hour.

You’d have found out love island winners are heading to Verona for a new series if you had, plus the Welsh can wear their rainbow hats today.

I’ve just seen ITV are making a wagatha Christie 2 part drama in a way only ITV, can’t wait!

I Know you were racking your brains trying to think of an example and managed to come up with South Africa but just because you think it’s a good one doesn’t mean it is. It’s a very poor one, perhaps not unsurprisingly. in fact it’s almost as bad as lighthouse claiming people think we should have just let the nazis get on with it. For starters apartheid only lasted for 50 years, it wasn’t based on a religious belief 1000s of years old that is ingrained in the culture and belief system. Everyone told South Africa it was wrong, with extensive embargo’s. Countries will quite happily take Qatars money though. then there is your muttering and stuttering but but but what if we’d held a World Cup there. We didn’t in part for the reasons above, so it’s made up scenario and really not relevant to Qatar whatsoever, you really don’t get it not for the first time!

No one said it’s right, what people are saying is that there is this arrogance that we insist our way of life is the only way of life, everyone must agree. Muslims come here and try and enforce their way of life in certain areas, that’s met with the same response.

Once again you’re confusing political policy with religious law governing an entire country which the majority of the residents believe in. You should probably bow out now pal, you’re struggling once again to understand what’s going on.

An ever recurring theme for over 10 years on this forum

Oh come on. GMB is worth watching for the fact that it’s got the ever sexy Suzannah Reed as lead, backed up nicely by the fabulous Charlotte hawkins, Laura Tobin on weather, Ranvir is a tidy piece and I’ve even have naughty thoughts about Kate Garroway. Plus the male presenters are generally cocks. Richard Madeley, Ed Balls, Alistair Campbell, Adil Ray. It’s the perfect combination of terrible TV, bellend presenters with staged arguments but enough early morning eye candy to make you take one extra squirt of after shave before you leave the house in the morning.

I don’t think they were pal, IIRC lots of clubs wanted to sign him but spurs didn’t want to sell.

Don’t worry all the fuss about the rainbow armbands will have them all voting with their feet against Allah 🤣🤣

The official rule now is at our age groups (under 10s) is that all kids have to get equal game time. Some clubs don’t enforce it, ours does which means you get kids who aren’t really interested only there because their friends play or parents make them but if they turn up and want to play they have to get equal time regardless of ability. There is one club in the area that hoover up a lot of players and have 3 teams at each age group but they have about 40 registered players and will move them up and down the teams, some don’t even play so a lot of the players and parents are unhappy that whilst they’re a good team with good facilities they don’t have a good club spirit and the players never really bond as they’re constantly moving up and down teams depending on their recent performances. They’ve approached some of ours but they’ve all said they want to stay with us. Ridiculous at the age of 8 and 9. difficult one and see it from both sides the better players that are super keen get frustrated because they are off the pitch while players no where near as good get their time on but most of the time are just standing around not really that interested in being there, but then you’ve got to let them play if they want to. It’s frustrating, like the game we lost 2-1, both their goals were scored when 2 of the 3 weaker players were on, then one of them missed an open goal from about a foot out. Everyone was disappointed to lose and some of the better competitive players were very frustrated by it but it is what it is. Generally we’ve got a really good set up and the parents are supportive, as we do tell the kids and parents that at their age it’s about enjoying it and developing rather than results, but sometimes it’s really frustrating that kids who aren’t really that interested and would rather be in the playground or patting dogs are taking game time from players who love being there and are always first to arrive and last to leave both matches and training

How many Qataris have you spoken to about this?

What is odd is they seem to want us to spread the values of a country that we are constantly reminded is broken and an absolute mess. Guess it’s not that bad if the rest of the world needs to raise itself to our level

She should have been educating the savages right?

We live in a democracy and you whine and bitch and moan about that as well. Who are you to say they’d be better off living in one.

Don’t you think it stems back to that western arrogance that we know so much more than them, we know so much better than them, they should live how we live. I certainly think there is an element of that. Soggy even went as far as to say it’s our responsibility to educate the savages. Breathtaking arrogance.

People aren’t protesting, they’re making token gestures that they withdraw from when it means they might be negatively impacted by it. You can argue all you like about the rights and wrongs of the laws but they’re the laws of the country and western countries are trying to push their values on other countries who don’t have them at the moment. It doesn’t mean their values are right but it’s what they are doing.

Everyone is as long as they obey the rules, same as anywhere else.

So people are trying to impose their beliefs on a countries laws, which is exactly what I said.

I think that was what we wanted for Jay Rodriguez and they told us to do one. Rather than that was their offer. Les would have bitten their hand off for that.

Seriously ITV are employing him now to agree with whatever decision was made on the pitch?

In fairness, it's not really going to work for players in their 20s and new to it, it's absolutely brilliant for kids though. Some of the things they can do with a ball are night and day to the "get rid of it" when i played at that age where the players who were big and fast did well but anyone else didn't get a look in. My lad is 9 and has been going for nearly a year now along with 2 other lads from his saturday team plus another has just signed up after his parents saw the difference it's made. The touch, skill, speed of though and movement and awareness they are miles ahead of the rest of the team and lot of other players in the league. It's coming through in results too, last season was their first year playing competitive football and they struggled getting beaten most weeks, sometimes quite heavily, they lost one game this season so far and really should have won that, they've drew 4-4 with a team who hadn't lost in 2 years and who beat them 8-0 last season. The biggest problem we have is that we have a strong 8 or 9 players then 2-3 not so good but if they're all there they have to get a fair amount of game time each regardles of score or ability. I honestly think if those rules weren't in place they'd have won every game so far.

if a gay person wanted to become a muslim should muslims change their entire belief system to allow that person to join the faith?

Salisu, Bella-Kotcha, Yoshida, Caceres, Van Dijk, Lovren, Alderwiereld, Bednarek. If you're in this world cup and haven't played centre back for Southampton you are no one.