East Kent Saint

This thread was worth it just to hear from Bearsy ! He always made me smile .

A picture of him scoring last night shows him several feet off the ground so he does jump for headers !

Defund the police is a poor choise of words for the actual policy suggestion . The suggestion is that money is spent improving peoples situation to reduce the causes of crime rather than spending more on law enforcement . Ideally spend money on both that way you might meet a police person in the street rather than only seeing them in patrol cars on the motorways or outside bars on match days !!!

“Attacks on this nations heritage” , our slave trader past , our empirical past you mean ? After the Amritsar massacre, General Dyer , responsible for the killing of several hundred unarmed civilians and injury of hundreds more , was forced into retirement . The British people had a whip round to erect a statue to him but this was vetoed so the £250000 was used to give Dyer a pension for life. Looking back Churchill could be viewed as racist but his views at the time were not out of step with our attitudes as leaders of a vast empire.

You miss the point entirely , if non white people in football had been given a fair chance then they would be better represented in football now. We have read endless stories about discrimination in top clubs and this year FA boss Clarke embarrassed the FA by opening his mouth to prove he was a totally out of touch with regard to non white people and women in 2020 . I do not support quotas etc just fair chances for all . This is not just a white country problem, just look at India in the past and now ...

Football should have shown their support under the "Kick it out" banner to take the political slant out of their gesture of support . Employing more non white coaches , managers and board members etc would be a better move for credability .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55173300 I would like to see adverts for betting banned . People will carry on betting but regulation has proven to be difficult especially with the internet. Tobacco adverts were banned years ago no one is moaning about that anymore.

Clash of heads means instant sub , over and above number of subs. Heading is a big part of the game (Canavani) so It would be a massive change to outlaw it . Headers by centre backs from long balls by opposition make me wince more than glancing attacking headers .

Oh no ! That old sinking stomach feeling has returned.......

The drivers practice bailing out , they should get out in under 10 secs but .....

Isn’t Moss one of our anti Saints refs ?

Shilton was trying to punch the ball and would have if Maradona hadn't raised his hands (both) above his head and deflected the ball over Shilton's outstretched arm .

After listening to english players who played against him and reading some of the articles about his football career I have to admit that he was an extremely talented footballer whose ball control was even better than Messi's. He achieved this by by practicing a skill until he mastered it etc R.I.P.

I remember G Hurst admitting a hand of god goal when West Ham won 6-2 years ago ! I remember the outrage when South American teams in the world club matches kicked our teams off the pitch and European cup matches with the spitting and rolling over and over when tackled. And the late/ off the ball challenges etc . Also Gatusso with his bad tackles and his strategic “sack of spuds” collapses to win a foul to break up an attack .I think Salah has modelled his penalty winning collapses on those .

I think “the hand of god” forever clouded my opinion !

Don’t agree with England player bit , I ‘m not suggesting he wasn’t a great player but the drugs , dodgy connections , health decline , shooting incidents etc lost any respect .

Replay today shows the whole of the England team complaining to the the ref , not only did he cheat (in the heat of the moment) but tried to justify it ( normal for South American players , he said !) On a good day he was excellent and came from a slum upbringing . Later in Italy used drugs , dodged taxes etc and faded away . Another wasted talent like G Best etc . You would think youngsters of today would learn but Grealish , Greenwood etc don't seem to get it .

I thought Walcott was sold as Saints were desperate for cash and accepted a poor deal . The spin was his Dad was desperate to get him a move to Arsenal !! Saints have got all season to see if he's worth a contract. Perhaps Ings could coach his finishing ??

Time to lock the thread until the club has news !

Unfortunately also played for Portugal and lost at home !

He did improve at Arsenal but still did not take enough chances. He did make public his desire to play as striker and Wenger gave it a go but he did not put enough chances away and got moved on . He is not a “natural” goal scorer ie if given time to think he waits too long or duffs it . He seems better when he just “does it”! Hopefully his good games will outway his ineffective games for Saints this season and possibly beyond .

Rod Liddell do you mean ? If so ignore him !

Celtic seem to be missing FF !

Club doing the right thing , end of debate/thread IMHO .

Giggs sidelined while Depp takes the lead .