Lighthouse

There will always be bigotry and hatred in society, it’s part of human nature. Pharaoh Rameses II treated the Israelites as second class humans 3,000 years ago, it’s nothing new and won’t go away any time soon. What we can do, and have done very well in Britain, is minimise that level of intolerance and at least contain it. To that extent, we have changed massively from the 70s, when ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ was considered acceptable television and fans were kept in cages to stop them kicking the sh*te out of each other. The problem is 32,000 is a lot of people and there are bound to be a few racists in there. Statistically speaking, a couple of people at the game on Friday went home and looked at indecent images of children on their computer and somebody in their will (or already has) murder somebody. All it takes is one idiot to have a few too many white wine spritzers before the game and lose his inhibitions and there you go...

I think we’ve reached the sell by date on this thread.

Wow. MOTD just literally didn’t even bother to mention us in their post match analysis. Not even a reference to our goal, any of our chances or how it will affect the relegation fight. Just 5 minutes of masturbation over Salah and Henderson and how passionate they all are.

Verbs, I'll add this to the obscure list of reasons why I'm a racist. Apparently questioning a black man's assertion that his career is unbearable, makes me 'an unpleasant racist, trashing the uppity black man'. I do wonder how some people would deal with incidents like the Clattenberg/Mikel incident a few years ago.

I'm a bit 'meh' about that one. If anything I think we can catch Bournemouth, in fact I'd say it was more likely than falling behind Cardiff. Anything up to about 12th is still achievable.

Whitesplaining? Ah yes, just like mansplaning, you can pretty much say anything and be automatically right because you're the victim of discrimination. I've been going to Saints matches since I was 15 and I've only ever seen one instance of racist abuse. The Pompey cup game we won and Oakley scored that belter, some guy made a monkey noise when Primus was on the ball. You're never going to get a Utopian society where there are crowds of 20, 40 or 50,000 people and literally none of them are a racist kn*bber. Fact of life, it will never be completely wiped out. We just need to catch the (very small) minority who do it and ban them.

The buzzword before the game was this being a 'free swing'. In the end it was a swing and a miss.

I'm not saying it wasn't a foul or that the goal should have stood. Just pointing out that that the lino not spotting a marginal offside, on first viewing, isn't match fixing.

But he isn't like them. He probably travels to an East European away game once every two years or so. It's hardly like he's getting bananas chucked at him every week. It's wrong what they faced in Montenegro and shouldn't be accepted but making out his whole career is some insufferable hell because of racism is being over dramatic.

Salah's offside was very marginal, so why you believe they deliberately ignored it I'm not sure. It was hardly like the farce at Cardiff last weekend. Yes, if you analyse it, the goal shouldn't have been given but we had plenty of opportunity to clear our lines after that. Bednarek should have done better.

We’ve already signed him and if we don’t pay we will be punished accordingly. The Toby situation was different, we had an option to buy, which they could buy us out of for a couple of million. The fact that he didn’t actually want to sign for us once Spurs became interested was also a problem.

That’s not a nice mix of attributes, they would be a terrible collection of strikers. Redmond is decent but not a striker. That basically leaves us with Carrillo and two cripples, one of whom us only made a handful of senior appearance anyway. If that’s what we end up with next season, I’ll be p*ssed off. We need to buy two decent strikers, not zero.

People used a similar logic to defend Carrillo's scoring record in France. If he isn't scoring because he keeps getting dropped and subbed off early, that's a poor reflection on him and not an excuse. Having the most succesful dribbles per game and only getting 5 goals/assists out of it really is Boufal in a nutshell. All show, no end product; like entering a dressage pony in the Grand National. I know many are saying he will be like a new player when he comes back and Ralph will get the best out of him etc. but really, this is the 4th manager in succession he has failed to perform for.

Because race and colour has been used for centuries as a means of inciting hatred and intolerance. Gingers have never been rounded up and taken to America to be sold as slaves. Lanky gits have never beaten to death in their own homes by the KKK.

I think FIFA/UEFA/FA or whoever would have to take each individual case on it's own merits. One drunk idiot making monkey noises is something you just have to take on the chin and deal with him afterwards by way of a fine and a ban. On the other hand if it's quite blatantly a large section of the crowd and heard by numerous sources, I think they have the right to walk off. Personally I think Rose is being a bit of a tit. He's already made many times more money than I will ever see in my life, if it's that bad quit now and go and play golf. If on the other hand he'd rather have a couple of new Bentleys and some more jewellery then it can't be all that bad.

He has improved massively since he first signed, especially over the course of this season. He was better towards the end of last season but I don’t think he had done enough to earn an automatic spot in our team.

We're talking about Les here; a man who once hired the wrong manager but rather than sack him tried to cover it up by paying £19m for a Sunday League striker, then sacked him anyway. Little of the Ings deal made any sense to me and I'm still none the wiser. Stinks of deadline day desperation to me.

I said he was very good (although I think exceptional is going a bit OTT) what I said is he will have to do it consistently. A couple of assists 2 years ago are about all he’s really got to go on before that.

Remember last summer when they won the transfer window and were leaving us behind already. Their stats in 2019 are hilarious (although I do feel a bit sorry for them) - 14 games, 13 defeats, 35 goals conceded. Conceded 2 or more in EVERY game (that includes a home cup game against Oldham)

Ramsay scores, there'll be a few celebrities losing sleep this week.

You have a point but JWP and Valery are the only two I actually take pride in seeing play. Gallagher really isn't a Premier League player and will probably end up in League 1. Targett is alright as back-up but that really is a kind way of saying he's a Championship player. May well end up at Fulham afterall. Sims looked good against Spurs but has been very much hit and miss and needs to do something consistently. They're the only academy players I can think of in the squad. You can't count Stephens, he was 17/18 when he joined us and had already made first team appearances for Plymouth. That's 5 academy players, 3 of which would be nowhere near our squad if the other options we have weren't so poor.

Looked just on to me, no idea what you're all on about.

Ah well, we can only do our bit, after all we got a bit of luck with Spurs wasting their chances. Whatever happens we've dragged Bournemouth and Brighton right back down towards us this weekend.

I mainly remember him from a midweek trip to Rochdale, where he was completely outclassed in the middle and we lost. That was a crap away day, didn't even make it to a pub.