christ

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.

It’s a bit of a concern that our head’s completely go when we go behind at home. Very lucky we managed to rescue it because it was looking very Boxing Day for a while. Howe has a big decision to make when it comes to Burn and Tino. For my money he can’t justify sticking with BDB any longer. It’s twice in a week he’s been completely pantsed by a player with a bit of pace about him. He’s going to be targeted for the rest of the season.

I’d gladly ban 90 per cent of posters on here for their shite football takes.

Tonali’s got some decent patter about him. Bruno absolutely hates to lose

I’d be bothered if FFP wasn’t such a live concern, or other clubs were chucking cash around while we couldn’t. As it stands though the entire window has been a non-event. Might as well give Jim White the Wednesday off.

Yes to Ramsey and Onana. They’d both improve us in the short term but they’re young with very high ceilings. Billing I’m not mad about, but his style of play is very us. Hard working, great presser, can contribute at either end of the pitch. Assume we’d only do a deal if it’s very favourable to us.

He was a monsterous dickhead in Germany too.

He’s a cunt. Delighted to see the back of him.

Every transfer window on here has had no small collection of doyles moaning about how much of a disaster it was. We’re not far off the one year anniversary of us ruining our CL qualification hopes by not signing Sander Berge. The thing that makes me certain Tonali and Barnes will be absolutely transformational signings when we get them on the pitch is because HottigersBogBrush thinks the summer window was terrible.

Not sure how anything that’s happened is particularly unprofessional like. The Trippier stuff (which is the only deal I had reservations with despite the fact I understood the logic) was leaked from the Bayern side. The rest of it? Well, speculation and rumour is kind of a core part of football transfers. I didn’t think that would be a surprise to people on here but I live to be astonished. Miggy and Wilson fall into that category of saleable but replaceable. We don’t have many of those. If we need to move them to make some deals then we better get cracking.