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To what end? This is what makes me doubt the motives and sincerity of some people; the fact that you consider this kind of reaction to be in some way a success is disconcerting. When you say, "encouraging racists out of the woodwork," that’s just a roundabout way of saying it stimulates racial abuse. If that’s you’re idea of ‘clearly working’ I’m afraid I don’t agree.

Come on, there’re many more fun things you can put in a water canon.

I could see it but I’d rather be in our shoes than those of Norwich, Watford, Palace, Newcastle, Burnley or possibly Wolves. As I say every season; you don’t need to out run the wolf pack. You just need to out run the fattest person in the group.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love all of that to be true but in all honesty it just seems like wishful thinking. I don’t think we are are going to be leaving the fight in any better a state than we started in. History has shown it can have quite the opposite effect and the confrontation can be used to recruit people on ‘the other side’. Just look at last year’s US election; everyone publicly slaughtering Trump and he gets the second most votes of any presidential candidate in US history.

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Protests raise awareness of something which is currently mainstream but lacks the desired attitude of general population. In the days of Rosa Parks and MLK when there were federal laws requiring African Americans to sit separately on busses and use different restrooms, the need for that is obvious. What we have now is the equivalent of protesting murder or tax fraud. It’s wrong, everyone knows that. What we have now is the far more difficult proposition of what to do about people who know they’re not nice and don’t care.

The Kick it out Campaign has achieved anything you can reasonably expect from a gesture or slogan. There is nobody ‘more aware’ racism because of BLM, simply more emotive and confrontational. We’ve done the awareness, we’ve reached a point of almost hysteria whereby some random nobody posting on Twitter 5,000 miles away is now front page news. The world is quite unequivocally aware of racism, it’s now receives disproportionate exposure above all other crime. So now what? What’s the next step?

On a slight tangent, I thought the whole point of the kneeling was to fight racism? Surely, the fact that it gets such a negative reaction by the people whose opinions it’s supposed to be changing, shows that this is demonstrably not working. It’s all well and good saying they’re terrible racists and it’s disgusting that they boo taking the knee but if this is YOUR strategy for tackling it then clearly there needs to be a rethink.

I thought it was only rugby players who drank cups of p*ss.

Apparently the shirt was a tribute to some Twitch streamer who died from Covid.

I am a twat and I did buy one, have to say the image is astonishing. The first time I watched sky sports in 4K they were interviewing David Moyes, I never knew he was quite so grotesque.

That bloke who just signed for United looks quite handy.

Considering the known basis that we are skint as a club and our owner wont put money in, I'd be inclined to agree. We've got fresh faces and young blood, none of whom are guaranteed to succeed but I'd rather give them a go than cling to the likes of Bertrand forevermore. We've added depth and competition at fullback, which was a big omission from last year's squad.

He may well do but he won't get to that level here. He needs a couple of seasons of regular football.

I expect everyone to work to curb their emissions to the best if their abilities. The Chinese government will know the affect their emissions are having on the area and the health of their citizens. Having an ageing population all dying of respiratory problems (thank god there’re none of them going round at the moment) will probably kick them into action more than any international pressure.

Nobody gets a pass but you can’t just sweep the fact the fact they have an obscenely large population under the rug. I doubt it’s much consolation to the residents of Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, Mexico City or Karachi that they are actually less polluted per person than a picturesque village in the Cotswolds.

Supergoat car park eats mountain disappointment ghost jealousy astronaut. I’m willing to bet you can’t provide any evidence that I’m wrong.

The very real and ultimately correct fear that you may be about to die from severe respiratory failure, when you’re barely into your forties, tends to do that to people. When you’re a 35 year old widow and single mother, you probably start to wish you could go back in time and get a free, ten minute vaccination. You may also start to doubt that some of those pictures with text on Facebook are 100% accurate.

It's more than possible to wince in anticipation of something unpleasant happening, even if it doesn't necessarily come to pass. I do it every time Shane Long shapes to shoot.

Article published on Monday with the quote, "died on Friday." I'm fairly sure this was NOT their first thought on the situation.

That’s not a foul, the still frame doesn’t do that justice. Watch the video, his toe barely flicks Neves’ shin pad. Neves sets off after the ball absolutely fine, not even a hobble, then when he sees the ball’s gone straight to Varane, he looks round at the ref and collapses in a heap. I’m not exactly one to side with United and Pogba but Wolves can’t complain about that.

Which 90s, budget supermarket bags are Man Utd wearing?

Training alone because Bournemouth didn’t offer him a contract in the Championship. I’ll pass thanks.

But writing him back on again after one fairly good game against substandard relegation fodder is perfectly rational?

I’m certainly more optimistic for our season than Newcastle’s. They look like they’re reliant on teams like us throwing points at them, rather than ever actually outplaying someone.