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Maybe not on the same scale but it still happens here. As someone said yesterday, 1 person making monkey noises is racist abuse just as it is if 100 people do it. 2 of the top people in English football yesterday stated that we also have a problem here. They wouldn’t of said that if we didn’t have a problem still.

Southgate was right to say that we can’t take the moral high ground as we too still have a problem. We clearly have our own issues and do need to get our own house in order. UEFA needs to take much tougher action, not only against the right wing Ultras we saw last night, but also against the mindless idiots from England who think that it is perfectly ok to go abroad a trash foreign cities. Many of us can remember a time when our clubs were banned from playing in Europe. Perhaps it is time to bring back draconian measures again. As ever, it is a moronic minority spoiling it for others, but we also have an element of morons here who behave in the same way and can’t just pretend it is a problem elsewhere. What sanctions we expect against the Bulgarians, we should expect the same treatment when our supporters behave badly.

Considering the racist chants continued in the second half I think the team should have walked off. Just because it was less noticeable doesn’t make it ok if it wasn’t ok in the first half. They were trying to make out that it was some massive step forward because the game was stopped twice and they took notice. Great. It didn’t stop the moronic chanting though.

One step away from an International football match being abandoned due to racism.

He was tried, found guilty and was serving a very long sentence. We do not have the death penalty in this country. Whoever murdered him needs to be tried for murder.

Can we blame her for our poor form?

I was just too young to catch them first time round but did get to see them eventually at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, when he took them back on the road in 2003.

So she was had of our analysis department for 3 years and no one knew who she was.

I too was a big ELP fan in the 70s. Very much a product of their time. Keith Emerson was a musical genius and could play anything. He also pioneered the use of synths, which at the time were not considered “proper” musical instruments. The Nice were a cool band too. They got slagged off a lot as their influences were white European music rather than black American. The early 70s were all about musical virtuosity for many bands, especially the Prog rock genre. ELP, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson and others produced some amazing music in the early to mid 70s. Listen to Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, Nursery Chryme, Foxtrot, Selling England By The Pound, The Yes Album, Close To The Edge and In The Court Of The Crimson King to give you a taster. I was lucky enough to see all of those bands live at the time. It’s not music to dance to, like classical music it needs to be listened to and takes time to appreciate. Record companies used to give bands time to develop and used to indulge them, mostly for better (sometimes for worse) but now music is pretty much just product. Some of the artwork on the album covers was awesome at the time too. Roger Dean’s covers for Yes, early Genesis covers, Giger’s(from Alien) cover for Brain Salad Surgery, In The Court Of The Crimson King etc. Sadly many of the artists have now passed away but some are still going strong. I saw Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman play an evening of Yes music a couple of years ago and they were still on good form. Robert Fripp is still doing the rounds with King Crimson. Steve Hackett is still touring playing Genesis stuff as well as his solo material. There are a number of really good tribute bands out there too who are keeping the music alive. Not everyone’s cup of tea I guess but if you ever get bored of radio friendly music there is plenty of stuff out there produced by outstanding musicians that can blow the cobwebs out of your brains.

Head analyst non first team?

So she was promoted to Head Of Analysts a few years ago. How many do we have? Didn’t we just recruit someone as an analyst?

Head of performance analysis Natasha Patel is apparently leaving for the USA. Anyone heard of her?

Dreadful. It seems that the American police are so sure they are facing danger in every situation that they are wired to get their retaliation in first.

How much experience did Cortese have in football matters? If Gao asks the right questions of the right people there is no reason why we can’t find the right guy. We keep running ourselves down but this is a decent job opportunity for someone. Let’s just hope it’s the right someone.

Step up or step down? Rangers are a big club yes, but as we know Premiership football is where it is at.

Which is the point that Rupert Read made on QT. It is a shame that you have to go to such lengths to get news editors to take notice. It is not as if climate change hasn’t been on the agenda for some time.

Tell that to those who have been stabbed or people who have lost loved ones. We have a choice. We don’t have to stick a piece of metal into another human being.

They will, but for a while it has all been about knives. It has long got to the stage now where kids feel it is the thing to do to prove themselves as tough guys. These aren’t ****ed up older men fighting at closing time. Kids are murdering other kids in broad daylight.

Two more young people stabbed to death in London. 5 people slashed in Manchester. It is almost a daily occurrence. How do you combat it? Nobody should be carrying a knife. More stop and search and harsher penalties for carrying? Longer sentences for convicted stabbers? Where do you start?

For all the sympathy I have for the protests, the Met says that they are being severely stretched. Not great when they have enough on their hands trying to deal with knife crimes etc.

I thought that Rupert Read spoke well on Question Time tonight.

I agree totally that some of their exploits have gone too far and they are ****ing some people of when they should be trying to get them inside.

It has been, but very infrequently. The worst case I can think of is the Yvonne Fletcher case when her murderer was allowed to walk away. I can see why countries sign up to the whole diplomatic immunity thing, but it can’t be right that people get away from facing justice just because of diplomatic expediency. Even if they faced investigation and trial in their own country, that would be something. In this case it would appear that it was a very unfortunate accident, but there ought to be consequences for the woman driving on the wrong side of the road. She is not even the diplomat, she is his wife. Why does she get to bigger off and leave the family without closure? I suppose it will be on her conscience for the rest of her life, but that doesn’t help the family.

It’s an easy shot to take the rise out of people because they continue to use products that are constantly mass produced for the society we live in. Just what Piers Morgan does. The problem is that it detracts from the message. It really doesn’t matter if someone is being hypocritical about their stance and wearing palm oil products or whether they are seen nipping in to McDonalds. It just plays into the hands of those whose vested interests are to do nothing. The bigger issue at the moment seems to be not what Greta Thunberg says, but by what method did she get to that particular venue. So what if she didn’t arrive in a horse drawn cart that was drawn by a horse fed on organic hay. A few more flight or a few more burgers will make no difference. It is wholesale changes that are needed and they will only come from increased education and understanding. Less whinging about hypocrisy and more questions about what changes we need to implement would be good.

So Donald isn’t going to waive diplomatic immunity so that Harry Dunn’s family can get justice for his death. You can imagine the Trump tweets if a British women with diplomatic immunity had caused the death of an American in the USA and hightailed it back to the UK.