shurlock

Thought Boro played well and passed it around slickly. Indeed if you believe the stats, they were more direct last night than other games this season.

We’ve all flirted with Stoke and Tony Pulis in the innocence of our youth.

@Kbilly - what’s tmrw’s team news?

If I was mod, the first thing I would do is wipe out all your infractions pal.

Have you seen what curry does to the drains?

To one of his happy hot tub sessions? Nah. Stop projecting gummy

Try not to agree with Granty too much - next he’ll be inviting you to share a curry with him in a happy hot tub.

Dodger?

Needless to say, Hitler wasn’t your bogstandard antisemite - whereas older Christian notions of antisemitism which offered Jews the escape route of conversion, Hitler redefined life in Nazi Germany in purely racial terms. Drawing on all kinds of dodgy pseudo-science fashionable at the time, Hitler effectively biologised Jewishness, transforming it into an analterable characteristic. Contemporary antisemitism, at least on the left, has nothing in common with this. By definition, fundamentalists do not get irony. No doubt some Zionists tick that box (as do some Corbynistas). Invoking Englishness, in this respect, was utterly gratuitous. However whether Corbyn was attempting to essentialise a group and mark it out as non-English or rather was employing hyperbole in the context of a speech by a foreign speaker in order to patronise his opponents is debatable. Either way it was extremely offensive.

Pakistani and Zionist are not strictly comparable. Islamist is perhaps closer to Zionist in the sense that both are loosely political ideologies but again is unsatisfactory.

Your stock photo for a Guardian feature on the confessions of a former male escort.

Why do you have that avatar pal? A friend is asking.

No I wasn’t, though I was at Beer Sheeva where he was completely out of his depth and dragged off after 30mins.

Never been impressed when I’ve seen Hesketh play.

Dogs**t

2014? The same Toulon tournament that any young player worth their salt was held out for the World Cup? The fact is that in the only major tournament Southgate managed for the under-21s, he subbed JWP after 50 odd mins and then benched him for the rest of the tournament. The rest of your cut and paste job is irrelevant to the point at hand. Ultimately lots of players have decent runs in the u-21s but don’t progress to full international honours or have a long and successful club career. On your silly little metric, it is arguable that your bête noire Redmond was far more successful than JWP. You need to make your mind pal

Is the same Southgate who dropped JWP after the first game in the only major tournament he managed for the U-21s?

He missed the Liverpool preseason tour to the US because of a foot/blister problem.

Don’t worry I read your posts

RIP Bertrand

I like Redmond but it’s only been three games in which he’s been good, not great. Frankly he was as good in the first three games he started for Puel and we all know the frustrations that followed. Redmond will have to do a lot more to convict potential suitors that this is not just another flash in the pan. As for his England call-up, he was part of a radically experimental squad, so not sure what lessons you can draw.

You clearly know nothing about the British Election Survey.

I hope you’re not tired of experts too pal? Let’s be clear: this is not a poll or survey in the sense you’re implying - one based on voters intentions. Intentions can be an unreliable guide for various reasons: voters may make up their minds only at the last minute; others may not actually bother going out and voting; and others may be shy about revealing their preferences. The survey in question is conducted after the election, based on voters actual behaviour and thus far more robust. Surveys generated in the heat of an election have other limitations. They are typically smaller, though elementary statistics tells us that’s not a problem in and of itself. More problematic is that they are not always random -thus certain segments of the electorate may be more likely to pick up the phone or use the internet when pollsters try to interview them. Survey companies can use weighting techniques to correct for these biases but these are often very messy. All this will necessarily skew the survey’s representativeness - regardless of size. This is less of a problem for something like the British Election Survey which is carefully designed to ensure a random sample (if only by virtue of the fact that it doesn’t face the same time constraints). In this respect a survey of 30,000, based on a robust sample frame, is more than sufficient to be representative of the UK electorate.

#clueless

Sessegnon is still very young - for all his potential, he’s struggled so far to adapt to the PL (hence why he was dropped on Sunday). Right now Zaha is a proven PL performer and I’d take him everyday of the week over Sessegnon. Ask me in a few years time and I’ll probably give you a different answer.