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Fair enough, that’s a bad example but the original point still stands; he was offside when a Newcastle player played the ball.

Irrelevant, he was offside when the ball was played by a Newcastle player. Using your interpretation of the rule we can just stick a striker two yards from the keeper at all times and get other players to slam shots at him from 25 yards. Anything he saves, the striker can just tap in the rebound even if he’s ten yards offside because, in your view, an opponent played the ball.

He was a yard offside when the ball was first played forward by another Newcastle player (Isak). If he’d been onside for that but had then moved off by the time a Forest player had played it, the goal would have stood. He was initially passive but became active when he touched the ball.

I don’t know which game you guys are watching but that was clearly offside.

He’s never played domestic football outside of Croatia, a couple of decent Europeans and international games here and there don’t really count for much. Moi ran the show against Man City in Europe once, El Hadj Diouf was one of the stars of WC 2002. I was sceptical before we signed him that there didn’t appear to be much in his career to indicate a top league player and he’s looked completely out of his depth here.

Because he makes Moi look like Rivaldo. We’ve spent £6m on another Filip Djuricic.

Sh*t, I hope he wasn't injured.

Thanks to Jones, that kind of thinking is irrelevant. To have any chance of staying up we’re going to need regular points from games like Man Utd and Spurs, regardless of how ‘winnable’ they are. Picking one winnable game out of three simply isn’t good enough, when you’re bottom of the league in March.

For the reason of three games in seven days, I’d imagine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64957792 Oops.

The irony of this is that it’s an absolutely textbook example of exactly what I’m talking about. I said absolute nothing racist or in any way supportive of anyone else who said something racist, yet you chose to post the bit in bold. Why, because you’ve given yourself a small hit of endorphins, by reaffirming that you’re slightly better morally than someone else. People get addicted to that kind of thinking and there is an endless supply of trolls all too eager to provide the morally inferior viewpoint in exchange for some attention. The media of course are all too happy to be the middle man and profit from this with likes, clicks, adverts, etc. That’s not unpopular at all. In fact it’s hugely popular with the governments of Russia, China, Turkmenistan, Burma, Afghanistan, Syria and North Korea. They would absolutely love to know the identities of everyone posting everything online. The very few people who dare to speak up against them usually do so anonymously, in fear of their lives. So no, it will never happen and a good thing that is too. In principle your right to post online is no different to your right to speak verbally face to face. Imagine if the government announced tomorrow that every time you went out in public, you were required to carry an I.d. microchip so that every word you said in public could be recorded and cross-referenced with your identity. There’d be riots. Even if, by some absolute miracle, you managed to convince every country in the world to agree to this I.d. database AND agree a moral code which every country in the worlds agrees upon, for what is and isn’t acceptable to post online, AND get every country to police it seriously when countries like Somalia, Yemen and Haiti barely have a functioning government at all… people will still find ways around it. People will photoshop fake I.D.s, they will hack other peoples accounts, they will leave their accounts logged in on public devices and even if these things don’t happen people will claim they did if they get caught.

By person you mean the free, anonymous, easy to set up social media account. You can delete as many of them as you like, people will just set them up in less than a minute. Not only do racists have a place in modern society, they’re in huge demand, whether you like it or not. To say something which is front page news has no place in society is quite clearly a massive contradiction.

The reason this will never go away is that racist posts on social media are a three way symbiotic (symtriotic?) relationship. People with sad lives who don’t get much attention get infamy, in many cases on the national news. Media outlets get a shocking and outrageous story they can overhype. People on the internet get to be offended and tell everyone else how shocked and disgusted they are. So everyone’s a winner and is getting what they want, except people like KWP obviously, but none of the other three actually cares about his feelings.

Even the admin who runs Man Utd’s Facebook page went with a screenshot which looks like an even, 50:50 challenge, rather than the much clearer angle of him jumping in both feet off the ground and going studs first over the top of the ball. Even taking my Saints glasses off, I can’t see how anyone could defend a challenge like that.

I’d have thought you’d want to utilise space and movement more, TBH.

I’d rather bring on Louis Armstrong and Myra (closest I can think of) Hindley

Nothing that happens at OT is why we are bottom, even against ten men. We’re bottom because we lost all the winnable games against crap teams.

For a couple of years we had nothing but all to wall coverage of debates and news reports on a variety of issues including but not limited to; the health risks posed by the virus and who was most at risk the potential implications of new variants, their transmissibility and effect n society the availability and effectiveness of vaccines as and when they were roles out. The priority and efficiency of the vaccine programme. The people who refused to be vaccinated and the associated risks to society The effectiveness of lockdowns, face masks, social distancing and other non-medical preventative measures. Politicians breaking their own rules and things they had said which were misleading or incorrect. The balance of risk between the virus, missing appointments for other diseases, mental health etc. The effect on the economy from being off work, WFH and the industries worst affected. The pros and cons of all of this and much, much more were debated ad-nauseam but you clearly lacked the will or capability to listen. The simple reason being that people like yourself and Tiss don’t really want reasoned, open, informed debate. You want a smoking gun, a shocking revelation that the whole thing was being orchestrated by some Machiavellian super villain in a Transylvanian castle who wants to enslave the world with a gene-altering vaccine in response to a fictitious virus. Get a life.

Without wanting to get into the Covid stuff again, Tiss is the absolute antithesis of an open mind. He is firmly welded to the world of online conspiracy, blocks anybody who upsets his own views and spends his days retweeting nutters like that Kate Shemani nurse, who called for doctors and nurses to be hanged like the people at Nuremberg. Open minds do not dismiss the overwhelming consensus of actual doctors, supported by actual medical research around the world, in favour of Twitter accounts with names like @truthtellingdave and @bringdownthesystem

According to this you are either, "Olympic gold medallist Joanna Rowsell-Shand, England batsman James Taylor and British 400m star Perri Shakes-Drayton." https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bhnk08

No, they were ruined by Saints, years ago.

Correct, one is a political party, the other is an infectious disease. Hope this helps.

By definition, they are illegal immigrants. You aren't an asylum seeker if you only claim asylum when you get caught, that's a cop out. I think you're confusing them with refugees who should, by law go to the first safe country they can reach. It's then up to the international community to decide how to redistribute them, if applicable, like with Ukrainians. You can claim asylum anywhere, much like Assange with Ecuador.

He should be allowed to speak his mind, that said I do find GL to be a massive weapon, especially after his comments on Just Stop Oil after last years British Grand Prix.

If you’re going to make hypothetical arguments, at least make them plausible and within the laws of the game, rather than arbitrarily adding two more fixtures which we lose and the teams below us all win, for some reason. Hypothetically, if we’d played 2007 Derby County 38 times (or 40 if you like) we’d be in the Champions League this season; it’s meaningless. We were safe at the beginning of March and even our appalling run of form thereafter was never going to send us down.