Theregulars

A lot of bibble here but that was a fair result. Difficult game, attritional; Danes are a well drilled unit and well worth their tournament. I hate that it’s the Italians.

Yorkie is the Gareth of the forum. Arise sir yorkie

Soft pen, bad pen, England probably deserve the lead and the Danes’ free kick for the goal was soft as Philly cream cheese on a summer’s day (last year summer tho)

Thought it was a poor decision for their free kick, it’s obvious they were trying to win territory for the strike and Christiansen took a really lame flop, ref bought it. Pickford has let the emotion get to him, otherwise nobody has been too bad but nobody too good.

Out of interest, how do you feel about Saint Maximin taking the knee? Do you also think he’s an entitled millionaire, or is he ok because he scores goals for your team?

No, I consider that you are racist because of your brazenly incorrect and over generalised negative stereotyping of black people and Asian people. I’m interested in hearing your answer to my questions to you, please.

Or maybe don’t stay silent when someone is being racist?

On what basis do you say that? Have you lived in, or even spent more than a 7-14 day holiday in, any European country that isn’t the U.K.?

Stepping aside from the offensiveness of this statement, if we accept your premise that the majority of gun and knife crime is committed by black people, out of interest why do you think that might be? I’ll offer you two options: 1. More individuals from African and Caribbean backgrounds are more likely to be born into endemic poverty and not have access to good education and therefore a wider range of professional opportunity, meaning it’s more likely that they resort to crime (in some instances to make ends meet); or 2. Those people have an innate tendency towards criminal behaviour. Genuinely, @CalmintheChaos, I’d be interested in your answer.

Sorry - my above post was in response to this. Also creasing at “China or Asia”.

I’m white and lived in Asia for 3 years (Singapore and Hong Kong). Not once did I encounter any form of racist abuse directed towards me. Moreover, my elder brother has lived in Hong Kong for 25 years and also hasn’t once encountered any form of racist abuse directed at him. Of the many, many white people I know and spent time with during my time there, not one has “been jumped” on grounds of being white. You are entitled to disagree that racism is as serious a problem as some make out (although I think you’re in denial, which is an opinion I’m entitled to). What you’re not entitled to do is assert that an entire continent (to which I’m going to guess you’ve not been) has a problem with racism with (again, I assume) no form of research, experience or data to back it up. Do you genuinely believe that, on overview, black people have the same opportunities (educational, professional, financial, social) as white people in the U.K.?

Ah man my friend from America was here that week - he’s taken me to all sorts of Philly sports matches and that was his first Newcastle game. He had me buy him the custard / banana away strip with 23 Ameobi after it. Screamer from Raylor! We started in the home end and when I told the Palace steward he’d come here from America to watch the game, he let us shift into the away end. Offered him a tenner and he refused to accept it. Sometimes people aren’t awful.

That works for me

Que?

BBC commentator called him Manuel Schär.

Next Wednesday (26th) good for me and Morty!

Keen

He looks like a melted waxwork of the “let’s get ready to rumble” guy

With the obvious caveat of sour grapes, an idea to improve the game and stop Guardiola’s strategy of boring the opposition into defeat: you can’t have more than 40/50 passes without a shot on goal. They have won the title - for entertainment’s sake, why bother with the keep-ball? Desperately boring. Still, a great day for Abu Dhabi.

If you ever wanted an illustration of what happens when you have an actual coaching structure vs life under a complete chancer, there it was. Totally outclassed by a team playing largely in second gear who knew all they had to do was narrow the passing options of our centre halves. It was that easy.

Extraordinarily poor, twice.

Sides are well matched, but one has a real manager and therefore plays with intention and strategy.

All Mimmsy were my borogroves

Peréz cost 100k - sometimes there’s just good scouting. Whether good scouting is worth a fig with our coaching set up is a different issue.

It worries me that he considers Almirón a reserve