Football

https://mobile.twitter.com/crazysandra101/status/946173205584252929?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Eios%7Ctwgr%5Eother

Salah single handedly turns it around for Liverpool. Seventeen PL goals now since joining. Looking forward to him winning player of the season, been a while since we had any accolades. Two points behind the scum now unbeaten in 11 PL games. All set up nicely for our January capitulation.

Bottom of the league for New Year. Championship here we come...

De Bruyne will win player of the year.

This makes me sad, but mainly angry.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/28/liverpool-rhian-brewster-racial-abuse-england-uefa

Fingers crossed that he and other affected players finally see some action from the useless fuckers at the assorted footballing bodies.

Read that it very sad and it explains why the celebrations at the wc win for the youth team were what they were i remember watching thinking something had gone on but wasn't sure what.

Went to Risborough Rangers yesterday, (Spartan league, about 8th tier I think). Crowd of 130, 2 red cards, Rangers lost 3-2 to a late winner. Rangers' captain coaches my son sometimes & gave him the fist bump as the teams ran out ;) quality entertainment.

New year. New manager.

Probably new division.

well impressed by liverpools performance yesterday, even with the early lapse and conceding in minute three

from that moment on we pressed and harried and chased, we looked dominant for the whole first half and most of the second, creating chance after chance and letting leicester have very time on the ball
we showed determination to come back and get those two goals against a tough leicester

well in reds

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/liverpool-transfer-news-philippe-coutinho-barcelona-confirmed-nike-website-a8135441.html%3Famp

Ahhh the old let's derail Liverpool campaign. Coutinho is going nowhere.

Ahhh the old let's derail Liverpool campaign. Coutinho is going nowhere.

Quoted

In January. I should have been more specific

I should probably glance at the table, just to keep up to date.

Yeah I think so.

Shame Puncheon doesn’t agree.

‘Going nowhere’ you say?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42527428

The ignore function is rather effective. I wish more people would use it.

Actually, coming back to this... no.

The ignore function is there and can be used. But this forum is a safe space for cyclists away from bullshit elsewhere in their professional or private lives.

If someone is gay, black, Chinese, trans, from a working class background... whatever the fuck is the thing that is used against them on a daily basis elsewhere... and that person is a cyclist and wishes to participate on here... then they really shouldn't have to deal with racism, sexism, homophobic comments on here.

As for the perpetual argument that it's different for the football thread... no. Fuck that.

This is a cycling forum and all cyclists are welcome. Ultimately this gets reduced to should we be tolerant of the intolerant... and the answer is no. There is no safe space at all, no sanctuary for all, if there exists a single person who is going to be racist or sexist on here. If someone has to deal with that in their daily lives, then on here they shouldn't have to at all.

If we go back to @Pistanator's comments:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14018575/

Bollocks! Some of my best mates are coloured

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14018590/

The coloured ones are OK with it actually, it’s the yellow ones which get a bit funny when I ‘yellow up’

That's not funny, it's not clever. It's plain and simple racism. Pistanator IS racist, and yet again in this thread he's being racist.

There is no basis that this can be excused or forgiven when he's been banned and warned so many times.

So it's a ban again.

Happy New Year!

Fair enough, no one bar Pisti disputed he was a racist. I always held out hope that he might one day realise he was wrong and change his ways.

I think he maybe doesn't know what racist means. He seems to hold the, not uncommon, view that it means "not liking other races" as opposed to "treating race as a a(n unjustified) differentiator."

This is what - his third? fourth? ban for racism. Hoping for him to change his ways was daft. He'll come back, be quiet for a while, then do the same again.

I can't defend comments like that, total bullshit...

Happy new year all. May all of you have Pulis mange your team in 2018.

And good riddance pistonator