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Are you suggesting that I have been supporting Tommy Robinson? You are the one with the alt right avatar hypo. Or perhaps you just have a thing about frogs?

Not really surprising as your thoughts are never far from Tommy are they Delldays?

Danny Baker isn’t stupid so I am surprised that he didn’t realise how his “gag” would be interpreted. He has never come across as a Tommy Robinson type and it is a shame that he should lose his job over what seems to be clearly a misjudged attempt at humour. A slapped wrist and a few weeks garden leave would probably have done the trick. Ironic that we have someone clinging on to her job despite the fact that most of the country want her gone for massive ineptitude whereas Baker has to go for poking a bit of fun at a minor royal. If he had meant it as a racist comment of course he had to go, but I don’t believe for one minute that he did mean it that way.

Choked about the result but fair play to Liverpool, that was some come back. I can only hope that the final goes to penalties and that Lovren misses the vital kick.

Now there’s an image that is going to haunt me for the rest of the day!

There were 2 different milkshake incidents. I was quoting what the person involved in one of them made of the incident. It sounds like this was the other incident.

Flushed out another Yaxley-Lennon supporter I see.

You tell me Delldays. You don’t seem to have a problem with the far right.

It is interesting that those of a far right persuasion seem to play down the level of racial abuse still endemic in this country. Despite high profile footballers coming out and saying that it is still an issue, there are regular reports that this is still a big issue here. This morning I was reading about the problem reported to Leicester FA about children as young as 7 being targeted for racial abuse and the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Football Forum has started to collate grassroots experiences from across the country. There have been monkey chants and Islamophobic remarks made towards players at kids games. One team of Asian children were told that they should be "blowing things up, not playing football." One parent offered a kid a banana saying that he should be used to it. We are used to high profile racism as practiced by the likes of Tommy Robinson. Apparently one of his milkshake episodes was caused by him constantly berating an innocent Asian guy about Asian rape gangs to the extent that the guy got fed up with him and emptied his milkshake over him. This heinous act has since caused the guy to receive death threats on top of the beating that he received from Tommy and his thugs at the time. Sadly we are used to these things happening on our streets, but when you hear of racist abuse being aimed at young kids it is very clear that there is still a strong racist element in this country. To pretend that we dont have the depth of problem here that they have elsewhere is not only foolish, it is covering up the threat that the far right still poses in the UK.

To be fair, it is not difficult to be morally superior to far right supporters like you hypo. Funny too that you ignore the others who post supposedly “morally superior” posts. I guess you are afraid that they will give you are harder time than I do.

This is what will really happen:- The Board will be reshaped. The squad will be reshaped within our financial constraints. We will finish midtable. The usual suspects will continue to snipe at every decision made by the club.

I didn’t know that we were wearing yellow and wore a yellow jumper. It wouldn’t have been a problem if I hadn’t been sitting in the United end! What an amazing day.

Remember, he also thought that Pelle was cr ap. Ings is a quality player and well worth £20m if we can keep him fit.

Don’t get why some don’t rate Ings. He is a quality player. The only problem is keeping him fit.

It looks like Sheffield United are up so delighted for Sharp, McGoldrick and Cranie. I wonder how many of them will be retained next season though?

Be careful Dusic, Shurlock and hypochondriac were very upset when I bumped a thread in the Lounge on the same theme of a Saints player written off far too soon. The player in question was Jan Bednarek.

Now would seem to be as good a time as any. Forum gold.

If Grealish goes, it will be to a bigger club than Palace.

Thanks for sharing your viewing material Duckie. No wonder you don’t have time for Facebook!

Your comments are straight out of the Tommy Robinson speech book mate. I joined Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family and particularly like any of the political guff that finds its way onto my page. I have blocked loads of extremist guff from both sides, but mainly from the far right because they have sent most of it! A lot of it still gets through because people I know share it. Do you think it is okay that organisations promoting hatred can send unsolicited stuff out on social media? Do you think it is ok for ANY political organisations to tell blatant lies through social media? As for being a good person, isn’t it better to aspire to being good than to aspire to being an ar5sehole?

If you were Putin why wouldn’t you want Trump to be POTUS? TV and radio have regulatory bodies, why not privately owned social media bodies. Are you not aware of the recent issues over a girl’s suicide which her father feels was prompted by stuff on Instagram?

Smoking too much week again Duckie?

It’s not that simple though, is it? Millions of people use these and millions of people are being targeted with unsolicited information, not all of which is kosher. During the EU referendum I got all sorts of stuff sent through from the Brexit camp, much of it untrue. We know that Russia used social media used social media to try and influence the American presidential elections. These platforms are being used more and more to inform and try and change opinions. To say they can do what they like leaves us open to unchallenged propaganda on a global scale. The fastest and most effective way of spreading information/misinformation is via social media. Saying they can do what they want leaves the door open to all kind of problems. Ok, they decide to ban far right organisations, but what if they also had decided to ban Brexit organisations at the time of the referendum? I don’t particularly like censorship, but surely there must be some kind of regulatory body to ensure that social media is not misused? People use social media to keep in touch with friends and relatives. Is it realistic to expect people to leave things like Facebook in droves because they don’t like some of the content?

I am not talking about those of either side of the spectrum who are clearly off the scale! And where do you get this "the left are full of hate" from? You sound like hypochondriac with his "socialism is dangerous" nonsense. I thought that you were smarter than that?

Which seems to support what I said. Ken Marsh, chairman of the Met. Police Federation is quoted as saying, "This is very, very difficult for us because my colleagues have never come across the situation that they are faced with at the moment. They are dealing with very, very passive people who dont want confrontation whatsoever with the police or anyone else but are breaking the law." Not something you hear said about right wing gatherings, to be fair.