Verbal

Ckarke didn't 'resign'. He actually resigned. And it was for a whole lot of racial stereotyping - hardly something you want in a senior executive running such an inclusive-driven sport as football. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54894864 Also, the reason 'coloured' is taken as a term of abuse is explained in my previous post. It has a nasty history.

'People of colour' is a bit of an Americanism. The truth is - contra the EDL (Saintsweb division) - you can call black people black, Asian people Asian, Hispanic people Hispanic...and so on. We also don't typically append each ethnicity with nationality like the Americans do (Irish-American, Native-American, Asian-American, etc) - and when we do we invert it (British-Asian, for example), often to make a distinction about birthplace or to distinguish between UK nationals and people with other nationalities So there are fewer 'rules' around now than before. The term 'coloured' - used by S-Clarke above (which dates him as a 'British-Boomer') - was actually a term of abuse in Britain in the 50s and 60 ('No Coloureds, No Irish, No Dogs'), much used by Enoch Powell and his superfans, as well asa the Tory party activists who came up with campaign slogans like 'Vote Labour, Get a N****er for a Neighbour) In the 80s there was a countervailing demand from some pressure groups to refer to all UK ethnicities as 'black' - an idea that collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity. So relax - contrary to the snowflakes, people generally don't get offended unless your intent is to abuse.

But...but...but...there are some utter dimbulbs out there, and at least one and a half on here, who'll tell you the players are Marxists. As if Raheem Sterling is demanding the socialisation of the means of capitalist production and the overthrow of the bourgeoisie.

Welcome to Turkishworld (along with hypo, trailing along behind him like a tin can tied to a wedding car).

Is Sergio Romero still a free agent?

For this window? Highly unlikely.

AM-N would have been a brilliant signing. It won't happen unfortunately.

Reported.

I swear I've heard this line in Ted Lasso.

I'm not sure if this is a really clever technical explanation of how the press worked against Man U - or a bit mad. Either way... https://twitter.com/maramperninety/status/1430183631914405893

That's nothing. I had to rely on hand-written updates via the Pony Express.

You are Sam the Eagle and I claim my £5.

You *actually* think that?

Odd that no one has reacted to this. It's as if it's just a tad inconvenient.

So pure speculation then.

Has that ever happened?

Well you wouldn't consider turkish's (I actually think inflated) '1/10' acceptable. In the UK that would mean we have seven million racist abusers. As you say, zero tolerance is the only way, and we were making progress until populism became all the rage. Now, not so much...

Announced. Good signing!

You have something sheep-related in mind?

MLG isn't being pedantic here. He's just right. And what dictionary gave that definition? It's weird.

Crook + Nixon = Watergate, so no one. Good signing, shirt-back confusion aside.

Harry Wilson off to a good start at Fulham, scoring on his debut (though I'm waiting for the inevitable late Boro equaliser). He seems a decent signing.

In English, we say 'two out of three words.'

The sight of posters trying, and abysmally failing, to out-pedant MLG is hilarious.

He might, but - excuse me while I lose my mind for a moment - if Real Madrid also come in for him, where does that leave Chelsea? Doesn't the buy-out become a base release clause for anyone else?