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White power. Lol.

I don't agree. Load sof home performances that were awful and looked like training games. Admittedly some of them were under previous managers but it was the same group of players. Thankfully Ralph seems to have been able to get through to some of them and the system we now have is paying dividends.

No I'm trying to highlight the fact that high levels of stop and search against black people are not necessarily due to racism in the same way that high levels against males are not necessarily due to sexism. I don't want any racism in society but I suspect our definitions of it would differ and I'd also like a sense of proportion- not chalking up every difference between races as a sign of racism.

Are you a ginger?

Think you need to have attended the majority of games over the last two seasons. There's been a load of games where we looked like we had just given up and were going through the motions. Let's not let an amazing result airbrush history, fans were getting absolutely fed up for a reason.

I'm not having that. We've been completely and utterly awful at home for about two seasons. Absolutely fantastic that we seem to have turned a corner but they've given no indication that they were going to play like that at home before tonight.

Really chuffed for Mccarthy as well. To think some people were calling for him to be dropped.

Remarkable to give them so many chances yet restrict them to just six shots on target.

Joint most satisfying win of the season alongside Leicester. On the BBC as well which is amazing. Have we been the best team to emerge after lockdown? Maybe behind united but there's certainly a case for it. Brilliant to have some professionalism and team spirit back.

Literally no idea how city haven't scored. Please hold on saints.

It's American-centric but still funny:

So so happy

Do we have to have a new mlt on twitter thread every week or two? No one really cares that you don't like what he says on twitter.

Brave people. Max verstappen was already my favourite F1 driver and this just confirms it. Well done to all of them.

Or just go with what I've actually said rather than what you imagine I may have said.

Yes. I never claimed otherwise. Although looking at some of the violent messages on signs you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise from at least a percentage of the protestors.

The only reason I've had to repeat myself is because of posters like you who wilfully refuse to concede the clear and obvious links. Initially you said there were no links and then when more and more people started speaking out and expressing concerns its morphed into there only being links that somehow I've been desperate to find. Any reasonable person would conclude that the links are incredibly obvious and incredibly clear which is why so many organisations are issuing these clarifications and expressing reservations. My concern from the start of this alongside the Covid issue was these links and that concern has proven correct. I do think there are a number of people who have inadvertently supported this organisation with views they disagree with and they quite rightly feel annoyed about it. If an organisation called the royal British legion had started ten years before the current organisation with unsavoury views then I'd be expressing similar concerns that there would be confusion there and that people could end up lending their support to things they would rather not be associated with. I'm sure there are plenty of financial contributors to blmuk who would have been duped into giving to them and that's a big concern. I don't want those people to have any more unearned power. I also think that every life matters so we can agree on that at least.

I'd suggest that the F1 drivers expressing their opposition to taking the knee have just as much validity as a compatriot like multimillionaire Lewis Hamilton with his aggressive twitter posturing and attempts to publically pressure his peers by implying they support racism. Your point also weakens the argument for taking the knee. If ex footballers (and presumably current footballers) are not reliable judges of inequality then who are they to start publically supporting these organisations? You've got it entirely the wrong way round. No one in the UK that I have seen has ever said that someone cannot kneel down if they want to. No one has been vilified for kneeling (although the police were rightly criticised for it but that's a separate issue) but plenty are attempting to villify people who choose not to. Your plea not to villift people would be better directed at the likes of Hamilton.

Now you've completely lost me. When I said "as more speak out" I was referring to ex footballers, the Premier league, F1 drivers who have expressed reservations about taking a knee, keir starmer and other politicians and I'm sure more will continue to do so. It's got nothing to do with anything right wing and you look a bit silly for suggesting it. Not supporting black lives matter or not taking a knee has no impact on support for minorities in the slightest, in fact I would argue that the entire exercise has been more divisive than anything else.

You're using the phrase "suspiciously convenient" like the connection between black lives matter and black lives matter is some far right invention to discredit the whole thing. In reality, black lives matter has been in existence for a decade, has official social media and websites, spokespeople, has made millions recently in fundraising recently and shares a number of members. There's nothing suspicious about the connection at all, the connection is explicit as the Premier league, keir starmer, ex footballers, mlt and F1 drivers etc have made clear. They have all now had to issue clarifications or express concern about the links yet you continue to act as if it's some wild crackpot theory. I would suggest that you have your own agenda for playing down these clear links because then your narrative falls apart but as we've seen it's becoming increasingly difficult for you as more speak out.

Is it their choice? Lewis is saying that "silence is generally complicit." It sounds to me like he is saying that if they don't want to kneel that they are complicit in racism. (oh and "suspiciously convenient"? Do me a favour. It's hardly a great leap to link the two supposedly separate movements when one of them pops up and starts using the same name as the movement which has been around for a decade, when that same movement sees a spike in funding at the same time as the other "separate movement" starts to use their name and they share the same iconography and messages at protests etc.)

Interesting. Looks like F1 drivers don't think it's so clear either (and they don't like Lewis Hamilton who is obviously a fantastic driver and not someone you'd want to hang out with outside of the sport.) Apparently objecting to kneeling is now a lack of understanding of racism, who knew!

What happened to Taider?

Nope.