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Aye, properly mental for turning up 24 hours early.

My results back up TCD's theories somewhat. I'm out. this hasn't worked out well for us like.

Cannot fault the boys who went down tonight, they must be absolutely mental.

I also searched 'powerful' but the only result was from TCD which sort of made a mug of me tbh so I left it out.

#teambeast

The sun literally ran an article with a picture of a drug dealer that looked like Sterling. He was booed at random grounds around the country presumably for having the temerity to leave Liverpool. Why would Burnley fans boo him? That's not happened to a single other player who has left a club for money. There was literally an embedded ticker on a website that counted the cash he'd made. What had he actually done? Went to a club for more money. No one is saying he isn't physically imposing but his main attributes by far are technical, not physical. Don't need to pretend he's small as that's obviously ludicrous but there is definitely different language used in describing white players to black that goes beyond simple physical attributes imo I may have missed something here like, was that because he was black? (Sterling) I remember him getting a load of stick at the Euros for missing a few sitters and he was basically the traditional scapegoat but I've ignored most of what's happened after that, I'd just assumed that combined with his transfer was what people were giving him abuse for. Regarding Toure, he is a fairly unique player tbf. His obvious raw power combined with his ability on the ball stands out - I think him starting out as a DM emphasises that a little bit too. Without the power he's probably a really good player but not a great one (and I recognise he's a lazy cunt). You could say the same about someone like Vidal (also recognised as a beast).

English players tend to be 'industrious', which is basically the same as the Africans only you've removed the 'powerful physical specimen' bit and we're basically just calling ourselves shite.

Is the Raheem Sterling criticism because he's black like? I assumed it was because he was shit at the Euros. I just cannot see the deal like, just about every time someone complains about something it's rooted in truth in some way but it's almost always followed by completely over the top Nth degree 'PC gone mad' cynicism about how horrendous everything is and how everyone needs to immediately just change. Like aye, it's fairly natural that someone would view an African player as more 'powerful' than a white player, especially if they have no evidence of the contrary, because African's tend to excel in athletics. (Obviously this depends on physical appearance, I don't think anyone believes Christian Atsu is a unit) That Yaya example is perfect actually, as there's honestly not a single person I've ever spoken too who wouldn't give him his do's for his technical ability. I don't think those people also need to pretend he's 4ft tall and 30 pounds in fear of stereotyping an obviously massive and extremely physically opposing black man.

PS I'm not denying there's some form of of stereotyping of black players, in the same way there's stereotyping of South Americans. It's hardly based on nowt, you can be reasonably sure that, were you to pick a random Brazilian player and a random English player, the Brazilian would be the more technically gifted of the 2. Look across 90% of athletics tracks, the white bloke isn't winning.

It goes without saying that the Gerrard and Yaya comparison is one of the most absurd comparisons you could have made like, for many reasons. Not least of much that Yaya's technical ability is recognised by pretty much every single person who's ever so much as looked at a football.

Would you please name all of these white genetic freak athletes that aren't being called powerful but should?

Was he proper necking on with that bairn at 1:40?

And we're worrying ourselves over a 24 inch cock ditty.

Oh aye. I'm not arguing that he isn't last in line, just that viewing him strictly as '4th choice' is canny harsh. I mean technically that's true, but I cannot agree when it's being used as uniquivacal truth that he's a bad central defender.

Lascelles has been one of our best players the last couple of games but probably wouldn't have been given a chance for a large portion of the season was it not for an injury. He's probably 1st choice now. The same can be said for Mbemba at LB, had Dummett not been injured, or we signed a LB, he'd be rotting on the bench for probably most of the season. As it is he looks like he's possibly goung to be our first choice LB until atleast January if he keeps it up. You cannot look at him as '4th choice CB' as there's only a limited amount of experimentation we can get away with.l, he could very well take his chance if given it. He was also only 21 the last time we saw him in this league.

I can see why they would ban it, it's a catchy chant though

I think it's harsh criticising him for the Shaquiri goal like, it was a smart finish. I agree it was savable but it's hardly one that even a top keeper saves close to 100% of the time. At the end of the day we quite obviously need a new keeper.

Pardew 'did well' to get us off to a great start where we defended well and/or telepathically guided the ball off our bar an ungodly number of times but as soon as we got turned over by Chelsea or Man City the rest of the season was definitely in-spite of him. It was massively frustrating at the time too.

"We have perfected the corner"

Joselu is far more mobile like, which is what Rafa wants.

Everton's fixture list at the start of the season has been absolutely brutal

forgot about that

Really don't get the Paul Dummet hate train like

The smart money is on a 7-0 Brighton win.

I bet Murphy's going to he fucking piss poor lads, wuote this post in a few years time to prove I know proper loads about football.