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  1. 6 points
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    You're clearly not Bill with that response 😆
  3. 4 points
    There are few more ludicrous campaigns that the uprising against this supposed cancel culture, exemplified by the absurdity of Piers Morgan trying to make himself a martyr. For several decades he has had the opportunity, given to very few, and gleefully taken, to shout his opinions to the world. As a print columnist and later as the editor of a national newspaper. Then as a nationwide TV presenter/interviewer/opinionator in the US and later in the UK. Finally one person gets fed up with this foghorn bellowing and answers back, with a valid point, and Morgan claims he is the victim. Adding for staggeringly self-important good measure a quote from Churchill he is too stupidly self-centred to realise actually applies against rather than for him. And then, if he hadn’t already proved his lack of self-knowledge saying ‘’Freedom of expression is a hill I am willing to die on,’’ while still having the Daily Mail as his fan-club mouthpiece and knowing he will walk into another job that gives him freedom of expression whenever he wants. The general point is that the others on that list of Fen’s are more or less in the same privileged position. If one organisation blocks Jordan Peterson another will let him speak. With his book deals and talks and website he is hardly unable to get his views across to the world. Selina Todd was barred from one event, but still has her job, her academic publications and her own website to say what she likes. Jenni Murray was banned from one talk but over decades she has been able to influence people via the BBC, and she has twitter and even now the columns of the Mail to go on doing so, with Prince Harry the latest target. That idiot Laurence Fox still finds ways to make a public fool of himself despite painting himself another martyr of victim of cancel culture. And so on...
  4. 4 points
    Clickbait sh*t!!!! Skipp may be here next season and he may not. One thing is for absolute sure though - and that's that Football Insider haven't got a clue what's going on and are just making stuff up!
  5. 4 points
    I think the jab Paul was given was the Aztra Xenephobe one.
  6. 4 points
    It makes me shudder at the thought of it. After so long away I'll just be delighted to be back at football so it probably won't seem so bad but I fully remember not being able to celebrate a goal properly. Pukki against Spurs just completely ruined it for me. Now this one isn't getting as much attention as it should even though it is all over social media, simply because it didn't impact the result. But its simply not good enough and every single person involved in the VAR room watching that should be sacked on the spot for incompetence. Its incomprehensible and mind numbingly painful to watch awful quality referees being 'helped' by a system which is then decided by even worse referees. I'm not close to a Man City fan. But that sort of decision makes me angry, because its the exact sort of thing you can see happening to us next season should we get promoted.
  7. 4 points
    The BBC with rabid Tory Tim Davie at the helm and Boris' mouthpiece Laura Kuessenberg as chief political editor? Jesus christ. Try a variety of sources instead of listening to exclusively the Express or random nutjobs on youtube.
  8. 3 points
    Self righteous fool detected. Ignored.
  9. 3 points
    I don't remember Burchill (who once wrote a piece saying she was delighted John Lennon had been murdered) being forced to leave The Guardian any time recently, if ever, and if one publisher doesn't want to publish her book another will. That is capitalism and press freedom for publishers. The alternative would be state control of publishing in which companies were forced to bring out books they did not want to. As to the rest, one would need the context as to why these people were cancelled, in whatever way. A list like that is meant to give the impression all these cancellations were unjustified, when that is unlikely to be the case. As it happens I susbscribe to the NYT and Bennet being sacked was a much more complicated case, with some previous incidents being taken into account, to be simplistically categorised as an example of cancel culture gone mad.
  10. 3 points
    Don’t know if anyone saw Dortmund v Seville last night? Var was used very well: Dortmund scored a goal which was disallowed by var for a push - but they also checked for a penalty in an earlier play, which was given. It’s not var that is the problem, it is the complete idiots running (and ruining) it at Stockley Park.
  11. 3 points
    Jaberry2 are you Oliver Skipp? 🤞🙏
  12. 2 points
    Team wins 7 out of 7, Draw the 8th And they're now 'feeling the pinch' Wow.
  13. 2 points
    This thread is bait people just be aware
  14. 2 points
    expecting the Jools/Moy/RTB thing to tell the truth is rather as hopeful as expecting Father Dougall (swindo) to have a clue about brexit
  15. 2 points
    Do you think Jool's could rename this thread again as the Warning : Fake News Brexit Thread or perhaps the Warning : Mythical Brexit Thread. At least it would then be consistent with the Trade Description Act. With SC & PM putting up debunked rubbish I was wondering if we could let them then rant in their own little padded asylum. We'd look in occasionally to see if sanity had returned. I will return to my 'Reprise' thread - rational factual arguments or opinions please.
  16. 2 points
    I'm gutted he didn't write SHEEPLE at the end. Could have won a tenner. 😉
  17. 2 points
    https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2021/Real-World-Evidence-Confirms-High-Effectiveness-of-Pfizer-BioNTech-COVID-19-Vaccine-and-Profound-Public-Health-Impact-of-Vaccination-One-Year-After-Pandemic-Declared/default.aspx Some pretty stunning data coming out from Pfizer real world findings... roll on summer! Perhaps then people will stop ****ting themselves from both sides of the extreme Covid spectrum (they probably still won't)...
  18. 2 points
    In the case of off-side calls I would have all VAR decisions based on a maximum of 3 replays at normal speeds only, and with no lines on the screen. If they can't determine from that that the decision of the ref needs overturning then it falls within an acceptable margin of error and stands as originally called.
  19. 2 points
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/mar/11/trade-survey-finds-74-of-british-firms-hit-by-delays-with-eu-markets Trade survey finds 74% of British firms hit by delays with EU markets This is the reality of voting to become a 'third country', if you voted for Brexit you voted for this. Catherine Bedford, founder of Dashel, which makes carbon fibre and recycled cycle helmets, said the disruption was killing her business. “Thanks to Brexit, we’ve gone from profitable to barely scraping by,” she said. .................... And it's only going to get worse. Ray Singh, managing director of Russel Finex, a London-based manufacturer of high-performance sieves and filters, said his firm was still experiencing delays with exports to the EU and to a plant it operated in Belgium. “Eventually we manage to get the goods over, but it just takes a lot longer. It’s not smooth like it was. There are additional checks and paperwork and it sounds like in a few months’ time that’s actually going to ramp up, which is more stuff not to look forward to. It’s created a lot of extra bureaucracy that just wasn’t there before,” Singh said.
  20. 2 points
    Ok I'll humour you, By your own logic (Lotus), car crashes ruin lives too, so we surley we shouldn't promote fast cars?
  21. 1 point
    Here it is actually embedded.
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    This will likely become apparent when we see the data for excess deaths. Most countries will look very similar when this is all over.
  24. 1 point
    I reckon his wage demands would outweigh any value he adds to our team. He's always struck me as an unashamed mercenary. I was a big fan of his style of football back in the day, but he must represent everything that Webber and farke are not looking for in a player.
  25. 1 point
    For a woman of a certain age, you carry that dress off very well Cambridge
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    National 6753 - 181 over 1.5 million tests!!!!!! Local Almost 100k second doses.
  28. 1 point
    That would work better for our friends down the road, since they've spent the last few decades getting shafted like a stepmum stuck in a washing machine...
  29. 1 point
    We ended up with 140 booked and 17 mental health groups representatives so even if we get 20 odd no shows as you sometimes do with free tickets, it ll still be a massive turnout. If we help just one person, it will all have been worthwhile. Zoom links will be sent out in batches from 7 to 7:15pm , if its not in your inbox check your spam/ junk boxes as they sometimes end up there. Any queries re zoom link email Emma at csf.fundraising@norwichcitycsf.org.uk and she will sort you out.
  30. 1 point
    two down, three to go
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    Ah got it The trial of a new drug treatment against Covid-19 appears to have been so successful it has been stopped early. According to GSK and Vir Biotechnology, the pharmaceutical companies behind the monoclonal antibody treatment called VIR-7831, it has reduced hospitalisation or death by 85%. The drug was tested on 583 patients in US, Brazil and Spain who were all at high risk of being admitted to hospital with Covid – but we have little more information. The full data on the trial has not yet been published, making it difficult to judge exactly how effective it is. This kind of treatment holds real promise against Covid and several types of monoclonal antibodies have already been authorised for use. They provide artificial immunity to patients by making antibodies for them in a bioreactor. Vaccines, on the other hand, trigger the body to make their own antibodies to fight off disease from the virus. Despite the existence of vaccines, there is still a need for good and effective treatments – particularly for those who have weaker immune systems.
  32. 1 point
    Careful, that's borderline levels of Bill you're showing there with your comment. You know about as much as the rest of us know. There are many things that will dictate whether he is here or not, ie who the manager is, who else they sign, how he performs in pre-season etc. So it's a little early for the lecture Cambridge.
  33. 1 point
    Good, so football had a perfectly balanced and productive relationship with the gambling industry long before they started putting their logos on replica shirts, which means we can safely go back to pre-2002 can't we.
  34. 1 point
    "British wind" 🤣 🤣 🤣 https://www.indy100.com/news/paul-scully-uk-wind-power-sky-news-b1815735 A Conservative minister has sparked confusion after proudly asserting that the UK’s new offshore wind power projects will use “British wind” to power homes with renewable energy
  35. 1 point
    He'll probably get the pre-season at Spurs in a similar way McCullum did here to see if he is going to make the leap or not.
  36. 1 point
    Say hello to your little friends!! He was Cuban too !!!
  37. 1 point
    Oh dear! This just confirms my point you dimwit. Citing a greater number of right-wing biased opinions doesn't negate the fact that they are right wing biased opinions. And yet again we find you citing a number of links you clearly haven't read.
  38. 1 point
    Just for a bit of fun I put a picture of the River End and the South stand through one of those apps that reflects the pictures (it’s the lack of a midweek match, driving me to madness). In fairness I think it would make the ground look pretty good if they made something similar in place of the city stand. I’d say we would be 3 seasons and 4th confirmed in the top flight away from making it happen, but we know that infrastructure is on the list of priority’s when it feasible.
  39. 1 point
    Bravissimo Papa Lupo 🐕....💫👏🏽 Parma
  40. 1 point
    It seems to me that VAR needs an equivalent of Cricket's "Umpire's Call", whereby a marginal decision is left with the referee's original decision, and where offside is decided using a "corridor of uncertainty" - so that a lot of the ridiculous decisions would not have been made. As repeated endlessly, VAR was meant to help referee games, not ruin them. Maybe the people implementing VAR hate football - they certainly give that impression.
  41. 1 point
    Spot on FZ! VAR could be used to benefit the game but has so often been used to its detriment because of a weird understanding of VAR's nature that seems to infect its application in English football. This is an excellent example of how VAR could be used to encourage players to stay on their feet and avoid diving by ensuring that a player who has been genuinely fouled will have 2 opportunities to score (from continuing open play, and from a subsequent penalty if open play is not rewarded). At the moment players are "encouraged" to gamble on getting a penalty by diving or going down at the slightest touch; VAR could be used to render this gamble detrimental to the interests of the player/team concerned. I suspect what happened last night was an example of what I described as, " a weird understanding of VAR's nature that seems to infect its application in English football". The evidence suggests that the FA have been obsessively introducing more and more discreet criteria in the application of VAR in the belief that this will increase its accuracy and reduce its controversy. This is a totally wrong-headed understanding of how rules work. I would be very suprised if it were not the case last night that the VAR officials blindly applied a "rule/criteria" that said if a player continues his play despite being tripped he shall be deemed as not being fouled (or something like that). A similar thing has happened to the handball rule this season where a defender is punished by the ridiculous criteria that any contact with an arm is punished irrespective of its accidental nature or the fact that it offered no advantage to the defending team whatsoever. The fact is that the application of any rule can only be determined within the context of practice, and that application will always be determined by the goods of that practice that the rule has been introduced to achieve. I think that's why fans get so angry at the counter-intuitive nature of so many VAR decisions that are made which seem to destroy the very thing the rules are supposed to support (footballing excellence). In short, there is no way out of the fact that the application of a rule will always require interpretation. VAR is nothing more and nothing less than an opportunity to watch an instant replay in slow motion. All it does is offer officials an opportunity to review the original decision made; it is a second opportunity to interpret the rule concerned, not an opportunity to absolve the officials of responsibility of making a decision.
  42. 1 point
    Looking at that list it's not the "new left" it's gay and trans rights activists you have a problem with. (A couple admittedly are neo-nazis so why they are anywhere near civilisation is anyone's guess. Andy Ngo,ffs.)
  43. 1 point
    There's a huge storm in a teacup surrounding this whole debate. Below quote at bottom taken from a BBC article. I'm all for free speech but I also believe that some people's views, are quite frankly utter **** that's not worthy of the Oxygen. People who abuse the right to free speech to peddle lies with the explicit intent to sow division - Farage, Trump and co amongst them, should have been no-platformed a long time ago. The problem with free speech is that it is incompatible with the age of misinformation. Those people are the real threat to free speech, because by abusing it to within an inch of it's life, they normalise hatred and bigotry based on thin air. I'm not of the opinion that anyone who is not "woke" should not have the right to free speech, or indeed a platform but anyone who purposefully peddles demonstrable lies and misinformation or actively pursues vendettas against specific races/groups should not have a platform to spread that message. They can say what they like, but they can shout into the wind on a street corner - they shouldn't be allowed to use our places of learning to spread lies. Godwin's law here but look at what a young Adolf Hitler did by giving speeches in German beer halls, and look where that ended up. Yes, there is freedom of speech but you cannot allow freedom of speech to supercede basic decency and the human rights of minority groups. You give the lunatics a platform, and they will find some followers... it's a slippery slope from there. Hitler wasn't inciting violence, at least not for the first several years... but he was creating an atmosphere, he was setting a tone, he was sowing the seeds for what came next. One of my biggest regrets of my youth, is David Icke did a talk at my Sixth Form college and I didn't attend. He shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near an educational establishment though as he's utterly bat****.
  44. 1 point
    The Foden incident was awful. How anyone can look at that and decide it wasn't a penalty is beyond me. The only real question was whether it was a red card or not. As others have said before, it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the people looking at the pictures.
  45. 1 point
    The kitman might find them a bit greasy, but if they cover up the Dafabet logo I'm all for it! 🙂
  46. 1 point
    I wouldn’t know I blocked the racist bigoted liar ages ago! Ever since his anti European rant about war graves and his lies to the Canadian pilot bench, found that distasteful seeing as I have visit the graves of the war dead all over Europe and they look after our dead very well always very appreciative of the UK & all nations victims.
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    Absolutely gutted to hear this news. Gordon was a football fan and a football man through and through. An absolute gentleman with a great sense of humour and one who did so, so much for our football club. When he was in charge of our youth policy he brought so many good youngsters to the club - many of them from the West country where he had great contacts. He would think nothing of driving the mini-bus hundreds of miles to pick young players up and drop them off after games. As Chief Executive he did so much, firstly to repair the disastrous financial mess that Robert Chase left behind and then to repair the disastrous rift between the club and its supporters that Robert Chase left behind. R.I.P Gordon.
  49. 1 point
    Jesus, he'll be having a pop at Marigold and the Puppet Man next!
  50. 1 point
    Might spoil your enjoyment of this board. Is this really the best "comedy" we have? A Guy shouting a random word for no reason whatsoever, that isn't even remotely funny? No wonder we're considered parochial yokels by the rest of the country if this is what we have to offer and is being genuinely reminisced about 15 years later.
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