hypochondriac

Yes but also the amount we have had in such a short space of time. You can swallow one hoedt, carillo, lemina, elyonoussi etc but having them all on the clubs books at once is crippling for a small club like us.

If it's fucking tedious then imagine how tedious it is for others to read your reply calling it tedious.

Certainly on here. Part of me thinks that a bit of it is a persona. I refuse to believe that someone like him actually exists offline.

I see soggy has gone off the deep end again. Saying someone is living "rent free in his head" is calling him mentally deficient! You couldn't make it up!

Exactly. It's like he can't trust himself to simply see the poster and then just skip over their posts. No willpower.

Why would you stick someone on ignore and then keep mentioning it? They're clearly still living rent free in your head regardless of any ignore list so it seems a bit redundant.

You forgot about when he labelled Nazis Christians because of their belt buckles and when he called people rape apologists for calling into question the verdict of a man who was ultimately acquitted (and then refused to apologise.)

Don't get me wrong I think the racism moral panic from the media and particularly on social media has been laughably overblown and mostly exacerbated by the pandemic. I'm just saying that I can see why the players would be annoyed about direct racist abuse from social media users. That doesn't excuse it being continued for what seems like weeks now after the final or as you state to basically not mention some of the other burning injustices when this feels rather minor by comparison but I do see their point of view.

TBF you can oppose all of these things at the same time. On another note, I see that saka is going to become the youngest recipient of the freedom of Ealing award for his "courage." I mean ffs isn't this getting a bit much now? The team lost, can't we celebrate properly when they actually win something?

That's very sad that you got beaten up. I would say though that isn't a universal experience. My wife is also Asian and has been called a "paki" twice in her life which I would say was racist but otherwise has not encountered any racism like you describe. She's never been beaten up, never been served last, never been spat at or been refused a taxi. She has just been offered a new job from people who were happy to have her and her weird sounding name and if she was asked where she was really from she would reply that she was born in England but her father is from Iraq and think nothing more of it. I'm sure those things do happen but its not something my wife or any of her friends have ever had to deal with and most of them live in Southampton or London. Thanks for the post though it was interesting to hear what you had to say and I'm sorry you've had some terrible experiences by the sounds of it. I hope the people involved got their comeuppance.

Is that a crossword clue?

It's fascinating how you can tell the colour of someone's skin based on what they post on here. Remarkable.

Would mean we could bring in a half decent keeper hopefully so I'd be happy with that.

So weird that you can tell the colour of someone's skin just from what they write on a message board.

Thank goodness sue whistle is here to misrepresent everyone's views again. I'm disappointed though that the post made no mention of playing football or alcohol as I'd come to expect those topics from a sue whistle post.

Stand down lads. They've got him.

That channel is a joke. Why anyone thought a TV channel would work in this era I have no idea. They should have launched it as an online streaming service on YouTube or something like that.

Good because I haven't booed them so we are in agreement with that. I disagree that the gesture is "doing something about racism" as I believe it harms more than it helps and the fact you think the link is tenuous is ridiculous and says more about you and your wilful blindness to be honest but we've discussed that issue a number of times. You're welcome to believe that the link is non existent or tenuous and I'll continue to see the evidence in front of my eyes that the link is clear and obvious and was only distanced by football governance once they realised the controversy. It doesn't really matter anyway as the point being made is that regardless of what you believe the gesture is divisive for a number of people who hate the gesture but don't support racism and it should be changed for something that virtually everyone would support.

Hold on I thought we have been told repeatedly that BLM has nothing to do with the BLM that called for the abolition of the nuclear family and defunding the police?

That's what I've been saying from the start. It's totally intolerant to say that you have to accept this symbol and actively support it or you are just happy for people to be racist.

I didn't say that the players are saying defund the police and that they are anti-capitalist. I've never said that.

Taking the knee doesn't help people to know that racism exists. There's never been any disagreement about the existence of racially motivated abuse, it's only ever been about the response and about the taking of the knee.

Indeed and the same thing applies to those who aren't a fan of the taking the knee gesture. Perfectly reasonable and rational to believe racism is wrong but not to like that gesture.

An article on the guardian said 143 I think but they included "criticism of taking the knee" in that.

Well done sir you put it much better than me. You are entirely correct.