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Yet you are constantly trying to ignore both hard factual evidence along with compelling anecdotal evidence. Ok. What about the thousands of emails displaying racial hatred that are shared in the media but do not get taken to the police for action. Do you discount those?

You say you deal in facts, you might recall then that it is a fact to say that the Sewell Commission’s report was widely discredited. One group said that it was a “deliberate attempt to whitewash institutional racism.” Keir Starmer himself was “deeply disappointed” with it.

I think that you are just desperately trying to pretend this isn’t a serious issue.

There is plenty of official evidence on the internet if you care to look. There is a big difference between being a tolerant country and being a racist country. I’d also be interested in how you define a racist country. I’m sure many countries are tolerant and are not seen as being racist, but that doesn’t mean to say that they don’t have serious issues with racism. The fact that it is being talked about virtually every day shows that it is a serious issue, surely? If an Asian guy came up to you, clearly upset, and told you that he had just been called a fkin p*** and was told to go back to his own country, would you show him empathy or tell him to go away and come back when the perpetrator had been charged and convicted?

From Putin’s own library?

Why did the USA get involved in North Korea and Vietnam? Why did the USA (once upon a time, not now of course) take such a strong stand about the spread of Communism? Why are they still supporting Israel so staunchly if they are getting fed up with our part of the world?

Are you nic? They are “reported” which means they are “reported” to the police. The CPS said there was an 86% success rate in these prosecutions. What interests me is why you are only bothered about stats but don’t seem remotely concerned by personal experiences.

As it says clearly. These are reported crimes and is not a “potential” increase. It is an actual increase. These are only the crimes that are reported. As I am sure you understand, many more go unreported.

In the year up to March 2025 there was a 6% increase in race hate crimes. During the same period religious hate crimes increased by 3%. Muslim hate crime in particular increased by 19%. I gave you a ten year figure earlier of an increase of 190%. You could also try listening to people’s personal experiences if you want to know how it affects them. It lands for more powerfully than looking at a bunch of figures.

Left leaning? What has that got to do with anything? Who do I listen to? A random bloke on the internet who bases his opinions on perceived left/right bias or members of racial and religious minorities who are sharing their experiences about what is happening to them? I can provide plenty of evidence that actual race crimes are increasing if you really aren’t bothered about these people’s every day experiences. I guess you only believe woman when they say they have been sexually assaulted too if there is a legal conviction to back up the claim?

https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/politically-acceptable-uk-racism-is-on-the-rise-and-worse-this-is-under-progressive-labour-rule You can put your head in the sand, but you really need to try and find reasons not to disbelieve what people tell you.

https://theconversation.com/is-racism-becoming-more-acceptable-in-the-uk-269838 https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2025/7/29/the-uk-is-slipping-into-racist-dystopia

Evidence? Between 2013 and 2023 there was a 190% increase in reported race hate crimes. Reported. Makes you wonder about how many were not reported and what the true figure is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjyqz1xp9zo.amp

Ask people with brown skin, black skin, Muslims, Jews about their daily experiences, the vast majority of which are not recorded or make the news. Ask the people who fronted the Black Lives Matter campaign or the take the knee protests. Read the reports about institutional racism in police forces. If you are standing in a queue in a supermarket and someone walks past you and tells you to go back to your own country, do you think that a league table will make any difference to how you feel?

But we didn’t finish with 46 points in a vacuum did we? The point you seem to ignore is that we were the 8th best team in the EPL that season. We weren’t well beaten. We had a perfectly good goal ruled out. I watched the game with a friend of mine who is a United supporter and he said that we were the better team and they were lucky to win. We probably would have beaten them if VVD had been playing. As for the playing style. Win first, entertain second.

Call me old fashioned but if SR could deliver a manager who could provide beating Liverpool in the semis, more than matching Manchester United in a cup final and finishing 8th in the EPL I would bite their hands off.

See the post above. See the grey out section which would normally contain the posters post. If you click on the options it gives you an option to read the post if you want to. Do you get it yet?

I skim read SOME your posts. Some I read. Some I ignore completely. Do you understand yet?

Never directly, so indirectly then Nigel? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/24/nigel-farage-responds-to-racism-claims-saying-he-never-tried-to-hurt-anybody Given his history of what he has said as an adult, he is guilty as hell of doing those things when younger. Of course he can’t come clean and admit it, but it is a giveaway when he says that he did stupid things as a kid. His issue is that he didn’t grow out of it and still does it now. And people still vote for this person.

It doesn’t mean to say that we don’t have a problem with racism though, because we clearly do. It is also on the increase if you listen to what the racial minority groups are saying. You don’t have to look for racism, is is there right in front of us. We even have MPs making overtly racist comments on an all to frequent basis. A tolerant country doesn’t need to tie hundreds of flags to lampposts and motorway bridges. A tolerant country doesn’t have Farage/Reform leading in the polls. That tolerance started to dissipate the day after we left the EU and things aren’t getting any better. It doesn’t help when people play it down either.

What worries me is that he identifies Stephens as the only “leader” in the group. He isn’t the only one who has said this. The lack of strong characters has long been identified as a problem in various squads over recent years and it speaks volumes that the only “leader” we have is one of our poorest players. Little wonder Romeu has been brought back in but this is something that really needs to be addressed more fully in the next couple of transfer windows.

So we are bouncing from a Russian wish list back to an Ukraine wish list again. There was no way that Ukraine were going to agree to the latest plan out before them, not that Trump had any interest in the details. He just wants this off his desk and to use to get his converted peace prize. This will only work if Trump puts serious pressure on Putin, as the aggressor. He seems unwilling to do so and it looks highly likely that we are in for even more rinse and repeat peace plans until he either grows a pair or croaks.

Says the person who doesn’t answer questions! 😂 Yep, I will give it up thanks. On the one hand you berate me for not answering a question and yet after being asked multiple times what that question is so that I can answer it for you you continuously refuse to do so. And I’m the dope? 😂 Take a minute out of your precious time to look at the ignore function and educate yourself as to how it works. People with huge intellects do this kind of thing. It helps them not to look stupid on football forums.

To be fair to him, he did say upfront that he was uncomfortable in those situations. It was also said that he was a lot better in the training ground. I wonder, when you do your coaching badges, if you have media training as part of the course? Not a part of the job that I think many actually enjoy.