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Likewise. Fair enough, he’s a bit of a square peg because of how threadbare the midfield has been but he’s been horrendous tonight.

Strange take, considering we’ve got Miguel Almiron.

Delighted to report she had a mint time. Massive smiles at the end when we got the winner. I get the feeling we’ll definitely be back. My first time going to see a lasses match. The entire atmosphere around the game is really refreshing. Just relentless positivity and everyone having a nice time.

She’s not usually that bothered by loud noises, I just think she didn’t expect everyone around her to lose their minds

Taking the daughter tomorrow. Her only previous matchday experience she burst into tears when we scored because of the noise. Hoping that the lasses game is a bit more sedate.

xG has had me teetering on the edge, but if we’re going to start treating the hiring and firing administrative staff like actual footballers I’m going to go full #AMF. “He’s best in the league at Excel formulas” Fuck off. Take me back to crumbling terraces, football specials and racism.

The odd thing is he’s always been at pains to point out his job is not player identification, it’s to sit in the centre of everything and ensure there’s a coherent structure and strategy across the club. He obviously has some influence in that space, but the fact he didn’t arrive here only for us to immediately start hoovering up £4m wunderkids from under Brighton’s nose is probably a good indication that he’s a pretty peripheral figure when it comes to transfers. Nickson leaving will be a bigger deal in that area.

We’d struggle to get £20m for most of the playing squad

They’ve been like this all season. They should’ve got battered by Spurs before Xmas and managed to cadge a win.

You shouldn’t be this shitfaced at 8pm.

A great shot stopper but his style of goalkeeping is the worst possible fit for the way we want to play.

You would argue it’s anti-Semitic, many would argue it isn’t. The difference here is that there’s no argument about whether or not she’s transphobic - she admits as much in her tweets. It’s whether she should be banned for being transphobic.

That’s false equivalence though, isn’t it? In this case we have someone wearing their transphobia on their sleeve. There’s no need to read between the lines here because she literally says what she means. It’s there in the tweets. A reasonable comparison would be someone saying they’re anti-Semitic and proud of it. And in that case then I’d have no problem with them being banned either.

People get banned from football grounds for being deplorable human beings all the time. The club will rightly feel they have a duty of care to fans. As you acknowledge she shouldn’t be around trans people based on her apparently deeply held beliefs that they’re all dodgepots. But we have trans fans. Why should they be left in a position where they could run into this person, who doesn’t seem backward in coming forward about their feelings towards trans people?

My brother in Christ this is not the same. She’s not just saying “I believe trans people can’t change gender”, she’s saying “I believe trans people are preying on children and are all sexual predators.”

I don’t think I accused either the Israelis or Palestinians of diddling kids?

Two things: 1) These aren’t jokes or concerns. She’s basically peddling far right conspiracies. 2) She unmasked herself by posting this shite publicly in her own name.

Mad how free speech absolutists love to hide behind defamation law when it involves them being painted in a bad light. She doesn’t just have ‘opinions’ on gender identity, she’s literally saying trans people are the worst kind of sexual deviant. Not in an off hand way either. She’s directly accusing transgender people of being paedophiles and that sexually assaulting people one of the main motivators of their transitioning. She’ll not have been banned because of her views, she’ll have been banned because she poses a potential risk to the club and fans.

It very much feels like you’re trampling over my freedom of speech. Funny that.

Who is demanding perfection? I think it’s reasonable to suggest people maybe shouldn’t post inflammatory, bigoted nonsense all over social media. If they want to that’s fine, but you can’t moan about consequences.

If I repeatedly and vocally accuse you of wanting to fuck kids then you’re fine with that, aye? Because I’m just exercising my freedom of speech? The club have a duty of care to fans in the stadium, including our sizeable LGBTQ fanbase. She’s demonstrated through her posting she’s an absolute lunatic. What happens if a trans supporter goes into the toilet when she’s in there? What happens if - as is often the case with this lot - someone that she thinks is trans goes into the toilet when she’s in there? What happens if she encounters a trans supporter in the concourse or one has to sit next to her? The club might be being overly sensitive given the reputation of our owners, but she’s given them more than enough evidence to boot her out.

She said trans people were nonces iirc

Club banned a complete psychopath for sharing some pretty reprehensible stuff on Twitter about trans people. This has naturally been taken up as a free speech issue by the usual suspects, ignoring the fact her posts mark her as an absolute danger and the club have likely been left with little choice.

The BDB/Tino conundrum is literally the only thing I really question him on. Everything else that’s happened this season there are massive amounts of mitigation. Absolutely no way his position should be up for debate. Utterly deranged conversation to be having.

We haven’t coped at all well with going from a keeper who plays on the edge of his 18 yard box to one who is terrified of leaving his six yard box. That’s not a criticism of Dubravka btw. We’re just struggling to adapt.