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TBF it’s no different to people like Adams, Fox and Quashie suddenly being ‘Scottish’.

So what are we renaming Henman Hill / Murray Mount now?

I still think Southgate is just McLaren but with a couple of world class forwards and nicer fixtures.

Yes, they had to deny an awful lot of conspiracy nonsense back in early spring, that we were going to be locked down forever and they were conditioning us for the ‘new normal’.

What, like getting everyone vaccinated and opening up he country on schedule so that we can pretty much go about life as normal?

Sometimes Darwinism gets a little help, it would seem. Perhaps we should start a rumour about rat poison or petrol curing Covid but ‘they’ don’t want you to know that, might move this pandemic on a little.

Part four of ‘fixtures we never win’. I’d take a point.

I believe he was referring to consent, rather than any structural issues.

I think we should just borrow the honey wagon from an airport.

After the Euro penalty shootout a number of people were arrested or questioned by the Police regarding the racist tweets. I believe it was only around 35 who could be ascertained as being in this country. I don’t know how many of those people were charged but I don’t get the impression this is being ignored by either the Police or the FA. I agree though, FIFA and UEFA need to take a tougher stance with closed door matches and competition bans for certain clubs and countries.

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.

Which one

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.