Lighthouse

I actually want to see it. Just having the boot on the other foot and the big teams moaning about City outspending them.

I’ve haven’t said anything otherwise but having blow the whistle a second time, he stopped play - before the goal crossed the line. That is what VAR correctly rectified, even in-spite of Mason’s poor refereeing. Therefore not a ‘VAR shambles’ of any sort. Jeez, now the ‘taters don’t know why a free kick was given after the pen. Saying it may have been offside. 🙄

The mess was purely down to Mason, he should never have given the goal. All VAR did was stop a goal from being given after he blew for a second time, which would have been an absolute farce.

VAR covering for his f**k up, eventually.

Having rewound the video, he definitely blew the whistle a second time a fraction of a second before it crossed the line. They should disallow this.

Brighton seem to have copied our free kick routine.

Who really has a team with more than one or two academy players in it, in this league? The vast majority don’t make it, that’s always been the case at every club.

All of this is beside the point. You're trying to justify something you know to be wrong by basically saying, "yeah but other people are doing it too."

Because that’s two people who haven’t had the vaccine, instead of just one. Two is a larger number than one, that’s how it works.

Imagine if it’d been the other way round... "How are Saints doing?" "You lost 9-0 again!" "🤣🤣... no but seriously, how are they doing?" Seriously though, good news. Like you say it could happen to anyone.

What difference does it make if I don't pay my council tax? If everyone else is paying it, we'll have enough money to pay for public services, so what difference does it make? I can't believe the BIB has to be explained again. Every person who refuses the vaccine is a transmission to people who either can't take the vaccine for medical reasons or for whom it isn't effective. Much worse than that, in the grand scheme of things, you're another save haven for the virus to mutate, until eventually we get something properly nasty and vaccine resistant.

The fact that some people are unable or ineligible to take the vaccine means there's an inherent risk, which is not their fault. The rest of society should be doing everything in our power to try and minimise this risk by ensuring that anybody who can be vaccinated is vaccinated.

Anti-discrimination laws apply to things like pubs saying, ‘no blacks’. In some cases there is a grey area, like when those Christian bakers were asked to make a cake for a gay pride event a few years ago but this isn’t one of them. Terms and conditions are there to protect the wellbeing of a business and its customers, staff and facilities. Covid quite clearly falls under that umbrella and isn’t a case of prejudice.

I’ve highlighted the key difference in bold for you. You are kidding right? That’s the definition of terms and conditions. Restaurants with dress codes, go kart tracks who say you can’t be drunk or pregnant, religious establishments with all sorts of cooky requirements, bars with a minimum drink limit, professional snooker tournaments where the crowd must be silent, cinemas who say you can’t bring in your own food.... there’s a near infinite list of all the small print listed by every business, ever.

Going to Reading festival, The Grand National and on an EasyJet flight to Mallorca aren’t civil liberties. You’re free not to have the jab but you cannot demand private companies accept your admission if you don’t.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56202975 This kind of ‘have your cake and eat it’ mentality annoys me. If people don’t want the vaccine, nobody is forcing them to, but to refuse and still expect to be treated the same is ridiculous.

If you think Levy can phone our players up and say, "yes, if you wouldn’t mind playing sh*t for six months, so we can sign you a bit cheaper that’d be great. Oh by the way, we’ll also be able to offer you lower wages if you don’t have any competing offers, so make sure you properly suck. Cheers," then you are grossly mistaken.

Absolute nonsense. If he goes anywhere cheap it's because his contract is running down, no other reason.

Just for the record, my post wasn’t a criticism, I just think it’s going to be a hard sell.

I think it’ll be determined by rates of infection and hospital capacity more than actual numbers of fatalities. If admissions start to climb again, sphincters will start to twitch.

327 deaths on 19th Feb (the most recent complete data) and dropping by roughly 30 per day. At that rate it’ll be zero by 1st March, in theory. In reality, it’ll be interesting to see what level deaths actually plateau at and how the government reacts to it. It’ll be a hard sell keeping businesses closed for another month if we’re down to single figure deaths.

You’re confusing the issue of whether a particular crime is right with whether group X has a problem with Y. For example, if I murder my wife and so do 50,000 other people this year, then the UK clearly has a problem with murder. If however that happened to be the only murder committed in the country all year, then clearly we as a country don’t have a problem with murder. In either case, the crime I have committed is equally bad. There is no attempt to excuse the actually act of murder, just questioning the rate at which it is committed.

I wouldn’t disagree on that, the point I was getting at is that these are individual tweets out of a total football viewership in the millions, in this country alone. Peak viewing figures for a big game on Sky are apparently touching on four million. Supposing 40 of them sent racists tweets, or 1 in 100,000. Is that ratio unacceptable?

Genuine question; what frequency or severity of racist abuse constitutes a ‘problem’ in your eyes and what level would it have to drop to in order to not be a problem?

So hard to judge him in a team playing this badly. I agree with those saying play him up front. Armstrong —————- Tella -——-Ings ——— Mina