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These conspiracy theories are hilarious. Dean has nothing to gain by going out of his way to treat us unfairly, and everything (well his job) to lose. Trying to support the argument with stats is a proper straw clutching exercise. The latest stat in that red card list overlooks the small fact that JWP wasn't given the red card by Dean! All he said was take a look, the foul was a shocker (which it was) and the ref gave a red card (which it deserved).

He also said “You know that when Mike Dean is the VAR, he will send him to have a look at it (the monitor), and then it was okay from me, I think. He gave it." He added: “But this is his job, I don’t want to say it is his fault because I haven’t seen it so far." Struggling to see anything particularly wrong in any of that, factually speaking, but I guess the insinuation of bias will mean he'll get a financial slap.

State

Loan payments may not have started, but I suspect interest is accruing. Either way, loans have to be repaid, and it's pretty obvious we're in a mess financially if we get relegated - acknowledging that we'd have to sell players all but accepts that, and replacements will need to be funded.

Seattle

Yep - I'm guilty of it, I suspect most of us are!

Good line up. I reckon that's a top 4 team. Pretty amazing that the likes of Mane, Bale, Shaw, and Danny Wallace can't even make the bench. We've had some great players down the years.

You say "we could have tried moving on redmond to Norwich" and also that he is "not good enough for premier league football". If he ain't good enough to play Premier league football, we won't be selling him to a Premier league football team. On the rest of it, hindsight is a wonderful thing. I can say with certainty though that people would have whinged to high heaven if we'd signed Andros Townsend and only spent £1.2m on Demari Gray.

I have no doubt that many of those Hungarian twats are racist, and their reaction to the knee has exposed them for what they are. That achieves nothing though. The branding is out there, and it's been in here. Zaha, Toney et al highlight the stupidity of that branding.

Daydreamer

I don't agree that there was an issue to be highlighted. Racism exists. We know that. The issue is what is the solution, if there is one. The conversation has come down to some people believing that the knee is part of the solution, and others feeling that it ain't working and won't. We then people saying that all of those who can see that it ain't working must be racists. That's a sad fall out from a well intended thing, and that is a bad thing.

For me it's no more complex than this action has achieved nothing positive, and never will. I'm not persuaded by your shifting along the spectrum point - I'm struggling with the concept that racists can be shifted from their ideology by footballers taking the knee. In short - lovely idea, but ultimately a counterproductive one.

Influencing what opinions? How do the opinions of right minded people non racists need to be influenced? Is this campaign going to influence racists to not be racist?

Nice theory, but didn't go well. The front 5, or whatever it was supposed to be, just weren't making enough runs. Grealish looked good until he was taken off, Foden decent enough, Kane shit, ditto Sterling, and barely noticed Mount.

He's hooked him now, but agreed, Grealish had looked dangerous.

But there is no takeover talk?! I'm not what the issue is about discussing the city in which the club is based. If people were discussing Lincoln or some other random place you'd have a point though.

Resting him so that we can unleash him on Leeds. Very kind of him I say

Absolutely. I can just see the King of Jordan's yacht moored alongside Jim Davidson's. That city of culture honour is all but in the bag.

Airport links for players, owners, sponsors etc, has to be a consideration.

Thanks for that bit of enlightenment. Anyways, some people think the city is relevant to a possible takeover, and no harm in a discussion about that. You know what to do if you're not interested.

Veysey or Ralph?

It was only available to me yesterday as well...I assume Lighthouse could see as he's a mod...very odd if some users could and some couldn't.

Free

Ooh, that is an interesting feature. Amazing how many lurkers react but don't post.

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