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Are you OK?

I think the reversed colours is the third kit and the away kit is blue.

Do you realise how condescending "white people" sound why they treat black people like they are one hive mind who all think the same thing and ignore "black people" who vehemently disagree with them?

Doubt it I think his time has gone.

Can't see us getting two in. Romeu, jwp and one other cm then someone like smallbone will deputise.

Rb, CB and CM for me. With longs new contract I can't see us getting a striker, Armstrong and redmond have their places locked down, we don't need a keeper and we will only need a lb if Bertrand leaves (I think he was set to go but the virus may have changed those plans.)

Someone got sacked for leaking last years one so I'm glad theres been no picture.

I'm not sure if we were quite good or Norwich wrre just particularly awful. I think maybe a bit of both. Still it's the 3 points we needed and once we get to 40 points we can hopefully throw a few youngsters in.

I thought obafemi was crap.

We were quite good and Norwich were awful. We are now safe which is great so we can enjoy the rest of the season now. I feel like the break was a good thing for us.

Are Norwich the worst team we've played this season? I haven't seen a worse team.

Should be 3 at least. Norwich are abysmal.

Obafemi did nothing but we should be winning.

Well for a number of reasons. There's a host of British attitude surveys which suggest that's the case, it's very obviously vastly less racist than when you could openly discriminate against someone due to their skin colour (no Irish, no blacks etc), all people are happier for a member of their family to marry someone with different colour skin than even ten years ago, there seems to be a greater number of successful black people in the UK than ever before. I read a stat the other day that higher percentages of black people now go to university than white males (I'd have to find where I read that though). I think one of the downsides of some campaigns is that it seeks to divide people on racial lines rather than focusing on what we all have in common as UK citizens.

A bit? It's night and day.

People who consider it acceptable to post openly racist statements on a public forum aren't going to stop doing that because someone kneels before a football game or puts a black square on their twitter. Sadly racism is always going to exist but all attitudes surveys demonstrate that this is the least racist that society has ever been before which is surely a good thing.

I expect a few will have died of boredom by the conclusion.

I can't think of another time in history where it could be clearer that racist views are outdated and unacceptable.

Don't have sky

Is there a way to turn the crowd noise off?

I really don't think you can blame the players here. Honestly what choice do they have? Imagine if one of them didn't kneel. They'd be pilloried, called every name under the sun and probably lose their livelihood. I genuinely think if I were a young lad and skilled enough to be playing for a prem team I'd just keep my head down and kneel regardless of my personal feelings- it's not worth dissenting. I do agree though that I'd like to see some more action over the blatantly corrupt system that gave Qatar the world cup but unfortunately I think its too far gone.

That's pretty close from what I've seen.

Oh dear. Rather like how coronavirus is racist as it continues to attack black people, we have now learnt the sobering news that it's anti-semitic as well. How worrying: "Jewish men are twice as likely to die with Covid-19 and Jewish women 20% more likely to die with Covid-19 than Christian men and women, according to analysis from the Office for National Statistics. The analysis is based on deaths that occurred between 2 March and 15 May for which coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate and that could be linked to religion from the 2011 census. The risks for Sikhs, people who did not state a religion and people of no religion was slightly lower than for Christians."

I haven't seen campaigns against modern day slavery with anything like the same level of engagement which I would have thought would be of greater importance for those who view historic slavery as such a huge modern day problem. I actually agree with cb fry that if there's actual grievances that can be defined and tackled then that's a good thing. At the moment we seem to have some of that and then a hell of a lot of twitter mobs, outrage at statues, removing old comedies and children's TV shows, coco pops being called racist, Robert the Bruce being denounced as racist etc and then all the anti capitalist, anti family stuff I already outlined. In my opinion, virtually everyone in the UK would agree that black lives matter. The point where you're going to lose the average person is all the other stuff (and I am well aware that not every person kneeling or supporting black lives matter necessarily supports all the other stuff but a faction do and I think it's going to lose the cause support.)

It's terribly arrogant to proclaim that discussion of modern day slavery is not a relevant topic when discussing learning from the past.