Football

You're welcome Mike.

Think I got a bit too high after the Chelsea and Arsenal victories. This current run of games is about progressing (Europa League), trophy lifting (League Cup) and not losing ground (League), if we can win the league games around the cup games all well and good, it keeps us in the hunt for fourth spot. But I don't think any of those games is a given, we should be thinking that not losing is good enough, as we've got one of the easier (relatively) run in's to the end of the season, only playing Man U and Man City of those clubs chasing the league or a Champions League spot. So any points dropped in this concertinaing period, I would hope we could pick up in the dash to the end of the season..

we've stll got all of the current top 4 to play

a curse or a blessing

That typesetting :-/

Remember, Chelsea is style.

I'm more surprised that they thought any of the knuckle-draggers in question would understand "masquerading".

Right - I'm off skiing now. I'm not going to log in so when I'm back I expect:
a) the acronym thing to have gone away
b) Villa to have beaten Leicester in the cup
c) Klopp to be announced as the new Villa manager

Hmmm. That didn't go so well.

Given TiSh's much-vaunted win % we should be a nailed on win against Newcastle. Back to reality and no wins in the next couple of games and we're gone. Very, very depressing.

Man U
Arsenal
Chelsea
Liverpool
Tottenham
Everton
Aston Villa

...and then there were 6.

cliveo

It was not just Smith and Hughes. It is now repeated as fact by many commentators.>

Shameful stuff...only topped by the clubs silence over the dead Juve fans until we met them recently in the CL and offered horribly belated 'footie detritus'.

andyp in reply to @dicki

Still won you fuck all though.

25 years and counting.>

Does that include the champions League?

cliveo

Are we going to hear condemnation for the West Ham supporters' anti semitism yesterday? Or is anti semitism, like homophoibia acceptable?>

Problem is, not all isms are born equal. The constant anti-semitism didn't get the coverage that the race thing seems to get. You can't hide your colour/phenotype so I guess it will readily get discussion. With no one coming out any time soon, it's too easy to turn a blind eye to issues of homophobia. God help the next one that does...
#justinfashanu

Likewise unless players/fans walk about with a badge stating their jew heritage it's relatively easy to glide on by....That fact that Spurs chant "Y*d Army" muddies the waters, I guess?

It used to be a forum in-joke but I'm fatigued from hearing the R word being thrown about so much these days.

dan

Honestly, 6 months of Scouse handwringing and calls for Rodgers to get the boot, followed by a string of decent form and suddenly you're all back on the bangwaggon, dishing it out like kids in the playground. Some things never change.>

Are you talking on these pages or in the wider media? To my mind the majority were in the "hope he can turn it around but open to him getting the boot otherwise" as opposed to pitch forks and torches.

Also what's up with the fontage on that poster?

No, it meant the League, as you well know.

Christ, that Champions League win was 10 years ago, yet Liverpool fans still cling to it like a buoyancy aid to keep their "we're a big club honest, la" fantasies alive.

One FA cup win in nine years and all of a sudden you're Seabiscuit

I'm not claiming any divine right for success though. Unlike you melts.

The myth continues. Please quote one of us claiming a divine right for silverware. Shouldn't be too difficult to find amongst the 4622 pages!

Every season from august until November.

no divine right, just an excess of hope

Problem is, not all isms are born equal. The constant anti-semitism
didn't get the coverage that the race thing seems to get. You can't
hide your colour/phenotype so I guess it will readily get discussion.
With no one coming out any time soon, it's too easy to turn a blind
eye to issues of homophobia. God help the next one that does...
#justinfashanu

Likewise unless players/fans walk about with a badge stating their jew
heritage it's relatively easy to glide on by....That fact that Spurs
chant "Y*d Army" muddies the waters, I guess?

It used to be a forum in-joke but I'm fatigued from hearing the R word
being thrown about so much these days.

Thank you MG.

I was sickened and disgusted by the events in Paris last week. Although crap like that was prevalent thirty years ago, football has gone a long way to changing attitudes within society. Racism and many other isms are prevalent in football but also in society as a whole and football has, to a great extent, been more forthright in its determination to rid society of racism at least. The days of Paul Canonville are long gone. Today football has brought an international perspective into many people's lives.

Sadly, racism is raising its head in society again and so, it is not too surprising that it is reemerging in football. Hopefully the outcry that Paris provoked will make people think twice before repeating that nonsense.

There has been a considerable amount of hypocrisy over the past week as well. Some have maintained that it is just a Chelsea issue. It is not, it is an issue within society as a whole. Some have used it to press their own narrow minded view of the world. Some have used it to push other forms of intolerance. "Rent boy racists" was an oft repeated phrase combining a holier than thou attitude towards racism with homophobia.

At Chelsea, we could take on the insults and start calling ourselves "The Rentboys" or even "The racists". This would be entirely counterproductive. It would engender both hatred of gay people and acceptance of racism. This is why Tottenham's acceptance and use of the "Y-word" is unacceptable and must be stopped, whatever David Cameron might think.

FA are to take no action against Barnes. Official saw both incidents and decided not to card him.

Makes one wonder how Atkinson can be rated Britain's best referee by UEFA.

andyp in reply to @MultiGrooves

No, it meant the League, as you well know.

Christ, that Champions League win was 10 years ago, yet Liverpool fans still cling to it like a buoyancy aid to keep their "we're a big club honest, la" fantasies alive.

More bollocks coming from your keyboard...WHEN DID I OR ANYONE HERE SUGGEST OR BEG TO BE KNOWN AS A "BIG CLUB"?

More projection from your gulliver, low on facts.
Given that our pride now comes from how young our squad is and how we're bringing on our youngsters it think it pretty fucking obvious that we are not in the running to buy the biggest brightest stars in world football. Maybe it's you that needs a mental update.

I could suggest the same lack of gravitas for your feeder club with Citeh/United/Chelsea/Madrid regularly feasting on your pearls. How many years in the CL for what outcome?

And stop being a plum; a large part of football is about shared memories and history. We can't all have a bright future to look forward to....[ru, I'm looking at you]

how we're bringing on our youngsters

ahem, you mean how we're bringing on your youngsters?

just madness, the FA yet again no back bone utter bollox it was a terrible challenge. Removing my blue tinted glasses, its ridiculous situation where a dangerous potential breaking leg breaking goes unpunished. they changed the rule that retrospective action can be used with the Mcmanaman vs Hydara challenge and they haven't used it.