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I'd like to ask all those who want to see footballers continue taking the knee whether they have introduced taking the knee each morning in their places of work?

I'll admit to being a bit naive to this sort of situation myself. So is referring to a person's skin when trying to reference someone out of a group racist? Is it only racist if that person is black? Ill admit, its entirely probable if there was one white guy with 4 black guys and I was asked which one I probably wouldn't hesitate saying the white guy. I think a lot of people would be the same without having any racist thoughts so is the comment itself racist? Of course, its upset some of the black players who heard it and they're the ones to say if its hurtful or not. If its hurtful I fully support that; but does that automatically make it racist?

I will disagree with you there, I think Hanley and Gibson have done pretty well together and have looked more solid.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1336209266768752641 Patient 1 vaccinated (jab 1 at least...)! Just another 7 billion to go!

You brexit ******. You done this to our country because of this arschloch??

Well thankfully you're not picking the team as you clearly know nothing about football and you had your eyes shut when Hugill played against Rotherham and Maclean against Brentford when those two players won us 3 points.

Best wishes to the two guys who will be manning a Portacabin in Larne🤣

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Problem is that issues at the back were foreseeable and not wholly unexpected, given that this season was more compact and would see weekend-midweek matches than normal. To go into it with so few players in some positions was plain daft.

The topic of this thread is far less tiresome that the bickering of the usual suspects that keep derailing it. Can you guys please take it to private message so you can continue your lovers tiff without the rest of us having to partake?

If you wish, but the EU got everything they wanted and the UK got checks on animals, plants and derived products, export declarations, the supply of medicines, the supply of chilled meats, and other food products to supermarkets between GB & NI that Johnson said would never happen.

has mouse brain hacked Ricardo's account ?

Maddison is by far the better player - so much better than Emi that it shouldn't even be a question for a normal person. It's like asking if Harry Kane is better than Pukki.

From an Ipswich town perspective... utterly amazing moment

The UK decided to leave, after that the EU had no obligation to give unprecedented access to EU markets. It is called sovereignty Thank you for proving my point @SwindonCanary

Just hoping for a long, hot summer with plenty of cold beer.

I still find it a little ironic that as a relatively new poster on this site and of mixed race I received nothing but insults from those who supposedly support taking the knee So here is a serious question to those who are clearly virtue signalling for their own pompous, woke importance and have no idea about racism Other than yourselves, a few high profile sportsmen and TV presenters (Lewis Hamilton, Piers Morgan etc) and of course the elite behind BLM, who are actually benefiting from footballers taking the knee? If you think its the average BAME person you have been fooled

It’s very simple. Taking the knee, which was around before BLM (small detail but hey ho), should be respected for the sole nature of which the act is intended - the condemnation and awareness of racism. I’m not buying the bullshoite on here where people pretend they can’t recognise that, and are trying to make it a political issue just to suit their (not very) closet agenda. They can. So that leaves no other conclusion unfortunately.

Time to call it a day, players now going through the ritual also fed up with the BBC explaining the reason prior to every game on MOTD All lives matter full stop

Knowing how much some of you love the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2020/dec/08/david-squires-on-the-booing-of-footballers-taking-a-knee

Deaths still mounting up, another 616 !

Dear Paul, as we say in Texas, “ah bless your heart”

Seriously think we should consider recalling every player out on loan in January....just cant afford for this to continue and be caught out like this in the second half of the season

Generally roll my eyes with the repetitive nature of most of it, occasionally titter, once I actually laughed . Hows that for a straight answer to a straight question.

You ignoring Emis nonstop almost constant play acting?

I’m thinking this isn’t about taking the knee and more about forcing politics onto the main board to ruin it basically 🤔

Agreed, right back is probably the area with the most depth right now. Alexander-Arnold, Walker, Trippier, James, Wan-Bissaka and now probably Lamptey are all ahead of him, and four of those are under 23. If Aarons were a left back, he'd be knocking on the door of the squad already. I'd say he's in the top one. Had the premature decision to scrap the Balloon D'Or this year not been taken, Lewandowski would've won it.

I thought he played OK on Saturday as well. I also wonder, do we forensically dissect every goal single Krul concedes like we are doing here?

Many people use the well-known tactic of pretending that you are saying something different to what you are actually saying in order to give the appearance of defeating your point. It's called a straw man argument. By pretending that making a simple gesture for racial equality is somehow linked to a sinister undercurrent, racists are attempting to silence and undermine the call for change.

Yes, I was particularly disappointed to miss the Stoke game and the Rotherham games recently, both are so easy for me to get to and I've been there regularly over the years. Home games are not the same without a match report by @ricardo to read afterwards !!

I have a strong feeling he will come back from his loan in January, making up our 4th CB, and we’ll keep our powder dry on any permanent signings (unless talented youth) until the summer once we know which division we’re in. Makes perfect sense to me if Famewo is seen as good enough, which it sounds like he is. Famewo will be our January ‘CB signing’ - just a hunch, anyway. Ironic that after the outrage of not getting that mysterious CB over the line in the last window, it’s been about the one area where we’ve not really had significant injury problems thus far - you couldn’t write it!

Don't forget it was also Bowie's dying wish that Jonah Joolsiani should design the coin for his memorial. Honest! Apparently he whispered something in his last breath about how there was no-one he knew who was more attuned to his drug-taking, gender-bending, open-minded, love oriented approach to the world.

Swindon, all I can say is what we say to people like you in Texas. Which is "ah, bless"

Boris is standing firm that we are now an independent country I've no need to say anything different

Here's the latest totals including Diesel Doris' win in the Norwich match picks....

Me too

Time to walk away.👍

Villa for me. Spent over £200 million and stayed up last season due an outrageous stroke of luck. Leeds second, just because of their supporters’ massive sense of entitlement (ditto Villa on that one).

I don't mind Wilder - in fact it's nice to see a manager who was a former player at his club do the job so well, and let's face it, he's definitely done that to get the Blades from League One to a second season in the Premiership. With him there's always that extra bit of emotion about it just because he happens to be a lifelong fan of the club he's managing, and that comes through quite clearly, I think. Consider how much we were rooting for Gunny or Neil Adams to come along as managers, then in Wilder's case double it, and you get the idea.

This quote from a poster on their message board made me laugh 😂 ‘We will absolutely batter them, raining down 2 shots on their goal, both off target. Figueiredo will staunchly lead our stubborn defence, restricting the frustrated Canaries to just 3 goals. A 0-3 loss and we march onwards (to league 1)‘

This is explicitly not in support of the BLM "organisation", it's a general anti-discriminatory statement that black lives matter as much as any other. There is a fairly influential social media effort to try and conflate the two, and also to depict this simple anti-racist gesture as an endorsement of Marxism etc.

And just image the massive virtual signalling backlash against any player who chooses not to do it? On this one the naive football powers have allowed woke merchants to grab the game by the gonads.

Absolutely love the guy. The stuff he had to go through I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Showed incredible strength of character (not to mention loyalty) to get through it and focus his talents in other areas. Still doing a sterling job and is an important member of the NCFC family.

I wouldn;t boo it but i think its maybe time to draw a line under it at the start of every game (not least as now this incident will Millwall has happened sides and views may become entrenched and I think we will see more incidents) and I can certainly understand fans who would prefer the game not to become politicised in this way. I wholeheartedly support any anti racism or anti-discrimination campaign in football but BLM is in itself a policitical organisation with some fairly radical aims. I'm not sure all of those who take the knee or who slag of those who don;t fully appreciate some of the details of the BLM organisation. i'm sure also there are a fair few players who would probably prefer not to have to do it but feel compelled to do so due to the public flogging they will get if they don't.

It's time it was ditched or we all agree to wear a poppy 365 days of the year.

Lets not get ahead ourselves, yes we won a game with an injury crisis.... but Sheffield Wednesday are bottom of the league and have scored 9 goals all season, not much more than 1 goal every 2 games. Brentford, Stoke, Bournemouth all strong sides (Stoke notable for choosing to go into this season with a lot of depth all over the park, rather than their quality, it could be an excellent decision). We'll be in the mix, but desperately need our injury crisis to ease and that may not necessarily be the case... it could get worse. Who knows what teams are going to lose players to covid or injury. We will see. I'd absolutely love it if Farke was the first manager ever to win the second tier twice with Norwich, and for us to win promotion and make Gibson and possibly Xavi permanent. But we're only an injury to Pukki away from struggling again.

Go back to the Luton boards and tell them the championship is our league. It’s the Norwich City championship and you are being allowed to exist in it for now.

Ironic as they need Ham Saladeyes