hypochondriac

Happy to oblige

Looks like it's the horrible kit.

Erm. OK.

You're hilarious.

I don't give a toss about what the shirt looks like but it is pretty funny is that's really it. If I was in charge of it I'd just come up with really odd stuff just to mess with people.

Seems like a nice bloke to me, certainly less divisive than many other media "personalities." It's just a shame that the media attempt to use him and other black ex players mostly in this way.

I'm not really annoyed at Barnes about it, it's more that the media has to trot out a series of black people every time something happens with a black manager. It's patronising and divisive when the only reason they are interested in talking to you is because of your skin colour.

The real question should be why the media is continually lumping managers together based solely on the colour of their skin. I'd like nothing better than a black man to be an Alex Ferguson type figure and smash the prem so we never have to talk about racism every time someone black is fired due to poor performance. People thought the Adkins sacking was ridiculous when he was at saints but no one was insinuating it was a racist act. If anything the absurd overreaction to a perfectly reasonable sacking is the kind of thing that is going to put some people off hiring black managers because they don't want to deal with the negative PR once they are let go.

Hold on you claimed to have blocked me. Liar.

"Until we get rid of racial bias, sexism, homophobia in society, it will exist in all walks of society. Thata an amazing quote. Seriously though why are people interviewing Barnes about it? If I were Houghton I'd be insulted that people have to continually refer to my colour and interview other black people about me who may have absolutely nothing in common with each other other than the colour of their skin. It's pathetic.

Even if he had why is that a subject of derision? That's a pretty prestigious job I would have thought.

This is why people hate them

There's no accounting for taste.

Isn't that land contaminated?

I'm confused by the itk on this thread. If Gao isn't the issue here then who is?

Say no more!

It's not just the dodgy sponsor though, it's that combined with the shady nature of the original takeover combined with the recent takeover of lander combined with the bloke owning us never being heard from and the entire thing lacking any sort of transparency.

Yeah but it's a bit suspicious that this happens after all the lander dodgy dealings.

Ultimately the fans are powerless on this scenario but it would look better if we didn't just blindly accept this rubbish with no fuss befpre it turns sour like so many other clubs.

If posters on here are honest with themselves, they know that there is something incredibly dodgy with what is happening here. I expect that most fans will be happy to turn a blind eye until things start going wrong but it would be great if more had a concerted effort to try to get some answers. You would hope the likes of Adam Blackmore would be pushing to find out what's going on.

Just imagine for a second that we do actually spend a load more money net this summer than we have previously. I predict now that you'll get a load of people on here saying how great it is but the reality is that it will be another sign that something dodgy is going on here and ultimately its going to be detrimental to the club I love.

This has shades of lls, Saint David and helpmerhonda.

Let's hope the association of black lawyers fella feels the same way. Personally I think it would be fantastic if a black British man started tearing it up with one of the top teams. It would hopefully stop the whinging from some of those types.

Some people trying to explain it all away as absolutely normal are hilarious. Just imagine for a second that this was going on at another club. Would you be defending it in the same way? We might never see any I'll effects from this sort of thing whilst we stay in the prem, but when we get relegated it's these kind of shenanigans that ruin clubs. Shame on those who turn a blind eye to dodgy dealings simply because we might get a bit of a short term boost.

It's stayed on air because it's watched by millions. Depressing that's the case...