Football

Bulgaria to be slapped with the full weight of a £5000 fine. Racism defeated forever.

The fuck is going on? I'm not watching it. Mbm suggesting full on back to the 80s bullshit.

Monkey chants, nazi salutes. Bunch of fucking neanderthals.
Can't believe the last punishment was a partial empty stadium. Pathetic.

Seems that those who were denied entry were the decent ones.

Looked like the most vocal culprits were well aware of UEFA's three step protocol, and were only too happy to use two of the three strikes.

I heard the Bulgaria manager this morning saying that it should be punished "if it can be proven. If not, it's just speculation."

What more proof do you need than footage of people doing Nazi salutes, and the audio?

Fucking idiots. Imagine making England fans look like the grown up, decent ones. International football is a real race to the bottom.

Not all international football - Northern Ireland smashing up a team (for 45 mins at least) who had just schooled England for a first away friendly win in 13(!) years is a thing of pure innocent sporting joy.

But Bulgaria must be kicked out of the competition and severely sanctions put in place for their fans, manager and FA if UEFA is to come away with any credibility whatsoever. So that won’t happen then.

UEFA haven't done anything yet but the Bulgraian Prime Minister has told the chief of the Bulgarian FA he should quit.

I wish the Chief of the English FA would tell our Prime Minister that he should quit.

Mihailov should have been sacked for the wig alone. It’s no more convincing now than it was in Reading 25 years ago.

A Bulgarian friend posted essentially an apology/ statement of embarrassment on their FB and has had comments from those in the stadium that the Bulgarians were set up. That the comments leading in to the match only served to antagonise racists and that it wasn’t anywhere like is being portrayed. That they are being broadly portrayed as racists feeding negative stereotypes of Eastern European’s.

I’ve not found any footage with sound that supports mass wide spread chanting as eluded to, has anyone else?

Is this narrative at all plausible?

Some quality Squires memories in the Guardian today:

I think, David Squires is the Ormondroyd of the late 00s - nows.

Only betterer.

Some of these Derby fans in Greenwich are going to die if they don't work out how one-way systems work

is that a threat, a promise or just a statement of fact ?

Good result for Everton today. Spurs are showing consistency so far.

Strong in yarm
And twicke in head
Derbyshire etc and so on

A shocker of a VAR decision in the Burnley game today. A clear goal disallowed.

Seems to be another game here where Zaha is showing why no one wanted to pay for him. Mediocre.

How great is VAR?

VAR needs to be reviewed, etc.

meh, we were a yard off the pace and the pass right from the start of that game, hate playing man utd, didn't think we'd get the equaliser, the team looks unbalanced without the regular front three

#stilltop

Not a bad result, 2 points dropped by Liverpool and should keep Ole at the wheel until around Xmas.

Sterling’s assist yesterday was unreal. He’s a very complete player now.