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TBH it’s all just guess work based on internet rumours and hearsay. It could be a simple case of Occam’s razor - we don’t actually think he’s that good.

I had the Pfizer jab but I kind of want to get the new iPad mini when that comes out. A bit worried something may have gone wrong.

Not sure that's entirely true, we'll have had whole teams of coaches and analysts monitoring his career for years in the lead up to this decision. 22/23 is basically crunch time for a footballer, if you're not getting regular football by then you're probably not at the right level. Good luck to him.

Wearing trainers is a personal choice, don’t expect to get let into too many night clubs. If it’s a personal choice, you aren’t being excluded.

A worldwide global Illuminati which controls the way we think and they didn’t think to change one of their crisis actor’s Instagram handles to something other than ‘crisis actor’. Ignoring the fact that this bloke can’t spell ‘academy’ and there is no Oscar in such a category anyway.

When people say, "I could care less."

With hindsight, we were mathematically safe after we beat Liverpool in the New Years Day fixtures. I’d say that was fairly comfortable.

Fair point, from now on I’ll add ‘split’ to the title if stuff gets moved.

Remember in 2014 when we had to sell players just to get a loan from Athletico Madrid and sign a player from FC Twente…

If I leave it on the original thread - people complain If I just delete it - people complain If I split it off onto a separate thread and let people carry on - people complain If I drink three bottles of buckfast and run, naked, through a Bat Mitzvah - people complain I suppose the last one’s less relevant but the point is I can’t win, whatever I do, so you’ll just have to live with it.

There's nothing grim about it. Aside from a brief purple patch before his injury this season, he's been pretty average across his three years here. A good passer and physical presence but with some pretty obvious flaws.

Of all the phrases I’ve ever seen used to describe Jan Bednarek, that’s the least believable.

In an ideal world he’d be replacing Stephens, who would leave for first team football but I’d agree the Vest theory is more likely. If this rumour is true of course.

Managers mud-wrestle naked?

Extra time but both teams have to remove one player from the field every 5 minutes.

You guys remind me of this:

Yes, and I’d very much like to keep it that way. If you start controlling who uses social media, you’re eroding that protection. Every dictator in history has basically started off with controlling the media. The biggest differences between us and places like China or Russia is that we do have a free press and social media. It’s not always pretty, sometimes it’s downright disgusting, but it is free. It’s only possible IF you make it possible for somebody in authority to have access to the personal details of the user of every single account registered on social media. To say that’s easier said than done is the mother of all understatements. You can’t just apply that singularly to the U.K. either, a large amount of online abuse doesn’t even come from this country. It amounts to the same thing, it can be abused in the same way.

Actually we got rid of them because they were no where near Premier League quality and there was nothing to lose in letting them go. Clearly those who’ve analysed their performances in training and in matches decided we were no worse off with JWP, Stephens, Bednarek or Salisu filling in if needed.

Why is that a ‘lol’? Seemed like perfectly reasonable speculation to me, even if it did turn out to be spurious.

Still missing the point, it’s not about consensus. If something is a law, it’s a law for everyone and can be exploited as such. Just look at the countries and people who already want/have censorship of SM, control over who uses it and access to the personal data of those people - Trump, China, most of the Middle East, The Taliban, North Korea, Turkmenistan - are these really the people you want to emulate?

It's not whataboutery, you're missing the point. You're talking about introducing a law, which you only want to use for yourself, for what YOU think is right and wrong. People like Trump and the regime in China WILL use exactly the same arguments about 'terrorists' and 'traitors'. They will use these laws against anyone who opposes them.

Which is the problem, where are you drawing the line? You can’t just legislate for what’s on the table now. Racist/monkey stuff is obvious but what about if a Christian says homosexuality is a sin? Is that homophobic or is it true, to the letter of the law as written in the bible? This has already come up with the gay pride/cake incident a few years ago. What if somebody tweets that trans women aren’t real women, can you use the same anti hate crime legislation to persecute them? What if someone like Trump tries to claim that ‘traitors’ are a threat to National security (I say if, he’s already said it) and tries to do what China are doing, using similar legislature.

The new contract does seem a little odd for a 22 year old who's not really made any impact, even sporadically like Sims, on the first team. Perhaps we genuinely believe League 1 experience will push him along, or perhaps the plan is to sell him to a Championship club next summer if he does alright.

Twitter alone is worth $56 billion. I'm not sure your ancient proverbs are going to get it closed down. Also, your suggestion to 'change the law to make them a publisher' isn't in any way feasible either. You might as well say, 'lets change the law to make Portsmouth Football Club Ltd. illegal human traffickers and get them closed down' - you can't just do that because it's what you want to happen. First and foremost it's not true. They aren't publishers and will have an army of top lawyers to make sure it stays that way.

There’re a lot of deeply cynical, click bait headlines going around with the deliberate aim of making people jump to conclusions. It was the same with all the ‘BLM leader shot in the head’ stories and is unlikely to be the last time either. I also assumed the Rashford graffiti was racist, before I saw SKDs post a couple of pages back.