Lighthouse

How do you know he had the chance? A manager who made a point of wanting to give everyone a chance, including the likes of Ramsey, Gunn, Johnson, Slattery and Gallagher but decided an Italian international wasn’t worth checking out for a couple of games, or worth having as an option when Ings was injured? I reckon RK knew we had offers for Cédric and Gabbi and told RH not to get too attached to them.

The situation has been skewed massively by our head to head games, where we have rather embarrassingly provided Cardiff with 1/4 of their points for the season. Their form against the 'rest of the league' is 0.76ppg whereas ours is bang on 1. If you extrapolate that over the remaining games, they will finish on 33.4 (call it 34) and us on 36.

Had a flick through the last few years. Udders with -30 last year is the best I can find. Hypothetically, had Camara not scored against Norwich AND the Skates drew with WBA, then Norwich would have stayed up on -34 (and 76 GA ) all other things being equal.

I fully believe Ralph wants a leaner, tighter squad to work with but I doubt it was his plan to be relying on Long for goals in order to survive. By a remarkable coincidence the striker who, "doesn't really suit Ralph's style," just happens to be the one we had a £10m offer for. Who'd have thought. I think given choice Ralph would have signed a striker and sold Austin, rather than Gabbi but I guess we'll never know. I also doubt we said to Ralph, "so about Cedric...?" and he replied, "no, get rid immediately and don't replace him. I want the only RB in my squad to be a mediocre academy player who isn't really ready yet." This has boardroom fingerprints all over it and RH is just putting on a brave face IMO. If we stay up, he'll be straight in RK's office saying, "right, I've done my bit, now go and get me 2 proper f**king strikers."

Er... Which Ralph are we talking about here?

It'd surprise me. Saints and Cardiff are that crap, they MIGHT even be safe already on 32, although in reality I think anything above 35 will be enough. If he can achieve peak Puel, he will probably finish 9th and pundits will applaud another steady top half finish, when in reality they're about 4 points above 16th.

Verbal - there’s just too many strawmen there for me to bother with. Just saying ‘you don’t know anything you’re racist’ over and over doesn’t make you right. I don’t think you have to ‘act British’ I never said you should lose your citizenship if you disagree with my opinion I’ve no idea how not having an issue with people like Farrah being British makes me ‘more racist’z I’m not racist, I don’t have any problem with peoples religions or nationality. Just those who join murderous death cults. You say British law trumps Assad’s law. If I took a kilo of heroin into UAE, I wouldn’t expect 10 years in jail because I’m British. I’d get shot because I committed the crime in UAE. I’m simply trying to find out where people draw the line on citizenship. Would you agree that the woman in the Westboro Baptist church example is Japanese?

Not at all. Do you have an actual answer to my hypothesis? I assume from the tone of your post you think it’s a ridiculous suggestion. So if you also think Begum is obviously a British citizen, where are you drawing the line?

A lorry coming through Calais gets checked in Dover and customs discover half a dozen migrants in the back. One is a heavily pregnant lady and the stress of the journey sends her into labour. A paramedic is called and she gives birth in the back of said lorry, an hour after arriving in the UK. The baby is a British citizen and has the right to live here the rest of its life?

We aren’t great but Fulham are on another level. We’re at least capabale of picking up points here and there, even at Stamford Bridge. Fulham are hopeless at the back, as soon as Babel scored I thought, “yeah, they’ll still be losing by HT.”

1 from 5. No way Fulham are getting out of this, they can’t defend to save their lives.

Jeez, can you really not see the difference between Begum and the BIB? How is it in any way racist, unless of course fanatical, medieval murderers have suddenly become a race? If Buddhists, Druids or Jedi were doing the same thing, I'd have exactly the same opinion. I have no problem with migration from any of those countries or the fact that their children and grandchildren are British. I just don't see being born here as the end of all discussion on whether or not a person is British. Mo Farrah for example, I would regard him as British, despite being born in Somalia. She was born to Ethiopian parents and followed a strict Islamist lifestyle based on ultra conservative Saudi teachings, and left when she was 15 to impose these beliefs on Iraqis and Syrians. Other than being born here what actually makes her British? Put it this way, supposing a group of people from the Westboro Baptist Church moved to Tokyo (no particular reason, that's besides the point). Two of them have a daughter, bring her up in line with their beliefs and aged 15 she hears about an upcoming pride march in Brighton. She flies to Britain and starts parading through Brighton with a sign saying, "God hates fags, burn in hell!" Would you being saying, "those bloody Japanese, I wish they'd sort their citizens out."? Where she should go is more of a problem. I don't think she is "their responsibility", I think it is the Syrian/Iraqi/Kurdish right to impose justice for crimes which have been committed against them. In much the same way as Saddam was tried, convicted and executed by an Iraqi court. Obviously they will need a lot of help and if that means foreign aid and UN peacekeepers then so be it. I never said it should be the Syrians who should incur the cost and trouble, that's not what I believe. I don't personally believe she belongs anywhere but that's not really a solution. I don't think Syria, Iraq, Britain, Bangladesh or Ethiopia should have to put up with her but obviously she has to go somewhere and there is no right answer. If anyone deserves to put up with her it is, IMO, the Saudis as she was following the mad Wahhabism they have spent centuries exporting. I realise this is akin to saying Philip Green doesn't deserve to be rich and there is absolutely no legal basis for it and it will never happen but if she is anyone's 'fault' it's theirs.

Legally, yes she is British and I have a feeling we will end up being landed with her again one day. Morally though, I'd say the fact that she has walked out on Britain to go and fight for a political/religious terrorist group in another country is on loose footing. It's not that her parents were born abroad. It's the combined facts that they were born abroad AND she left when she was 15 to fight in a foreign holy war, which makes it dubious for me. She was just born here, that's all. She's British to the same extent that Ian Hislop is Chinese. I would even differentiate her from the likes the likes of Michael Adebolajo. In my personal opinion it's that critical interference in matters of another state that sets her apart.

How on Earth did we lose to that absolutely useless pile of steaming sh*te.

I'd disagree with that. All of this has come from her taking a blatant disregard for what you might call 'British values' and a failure to integrate properly with British society. Supposing a couple of British expats in Dubai had a child, who grows up to be a teenage junky, somehow avoiding the authorities along the way. Age 16 he moves to Brixton, starts dealing heroin and gets arrested. Would you say that was clearly an Arab problem, caused by an Arab who was created in the UAE? I agree with Duck when he says, "telling people they’re not really British because their parents were born elsewhere, you’re really moving into Griffin territory," but that does come with the condition that you abide by British rules, namely not running away to join a fanatical, murderous, medieval Islamist Caliphate.

Been randomly tested a couple of times for drugs but never breathalysed. Not sure what the score is on that one, whether they need just cause or can do random breath tests.

Check out Lion Air in Indonesia, they’re usually good for a laugh.

Did he mention where he went on his summer holiday? I’ve heard Blackpool is lovely that time of year.

She’s alright but she’s no Norma Major.

That reads as if a whole bunch of ISIS fighters turned up in duty free at Gatwick, causally wandered through border control and went back to work on Monday. The idea that we’re knowingly letting Jihadists back into the country, as if they’ve just had a week in Benidorm, is ridiculous. If a bunch of tabloid journalists apparently know these 400 people who’ve come back to the UK, our intelligence services will too. They will be ‘dealt with’ eventually.

That was me, need all your card details to order some more papadums. Seriously though, it’s been passed on to the admins.

If we are doing that, I’d put JWP where Redmond is and push the latter up front in place of Long/Austin. I’m not sure we will be changing our defence that drastically away to Arsenal however.

She should be tried for whatever crimes she has been accused of in the country she allegedly committed them. Personally I think that should be an autonomous Kurdish state in Northern Iraq/Syria but I’m guessing there will be opposition to that. I really hope we doing screw over the Kurds to appease the Turks.

Maybe it's a cultural thing I don't get but why are most of the Argentine and French people at the funeral wearing jeans and trainers. Even Sala's family.

Seemed to think Man Utd were going to come and buy him because he'd won the Euro's, or at least that was the gossip at the time.