TheBrownBottle

It was mildly amusing when the famous Steve Martin had to tweet saying that apparently there was an English referee with the same name who was having a bad game, because Billy from Benton had called him a useless cunt on Twitter

Struggling to picture any Geordie wanting Leeds to stay up tbh. Or Forest for that matter. Would happily see that lot go again. Everton would obviously be hilarious, with West Ham just behind that. Leicester also would be funny, and anyone who ever visited Filbert Street would shed no tears. I’m utterly indifferent to Palace, Southampton and Bournemouth, so I wouldn’t be arsed about them staying up. But if I still travelled to away games, I would happily not make those trips next year. Can’t we just relegate all of them?

I’m only saying that if it is given a red card follows. I actually think the referee not giving it in the first place saves us from the VAR call, in agreement with what you’ve said. I also think if the referee calls a pen and gives a red card VAR doesn’t overturn it

Willock and Bruno returning to full fitness helps, and Isak looked good again - I really do feel someone is going to get a right hammering off us in the next few games. At some point, the woodwork isn’t hit and the sitters aren’t missed. We create plenty of chances.

It’s a nailed-on red if given. It’s an almost certain goal

There were rumours that Qatar Airways were a potential sponsor. Everyone is obsessed with us getting sponsored by Saudia for some reason - but with the ‘fair market deal’ stuff floating around this wouldn’t seem necessary to me.

I get the international footage, and because the game was on at daft o’clock on a workday for me I only got to see the last 20 mins and had to watch the waffle afterwards to see the earlier goals etc. Shearer thought it was a pen.

I hope he’s surviving those Only Fools repeats and high cholesterol breakfasts. Thoughts and prayers with you

I didn’t say you’re a Nazi. I said that Braverman’s actions and rhetoric is leading to the deaths of vulnerable people - and that’s not an opinion. Braverman isn’t a bitch. She’s a nasty, venal, hateful cunt. And she absolutely is hard right. And she isn’t alone. Plenty don’t give a shit about what is causing vulnerable people to climb into dangerous boats and attempt to cross the Channel. They are the ones who’ve caused this, not those who call this stuff out.

That’s right - being an immigrant is a bad thing. That’s what the papers told me. So I’m an ex-pat, which is why I don’t need to learn Spanish, and means I can sit in the Red Lion eating a full English every morning not worrying about the locals. I’ve no idea about local news anyway, because the telly in here only shows Only Fools on a loop

I thought that was a term used exclusively by Brexit-voting retirees on the Costas

Tbf the final banner wasn’t representative of what was originally proposed for it.

It’s for absolutely the wrong reasons that this has occurred, and the politicisation of the BBC and disgraceful suspension of Lineker notwithstanding, but MOTD has long been a waste of money on various levels. Brian Clough summed it up perfectly 40 years ago (from around 3:10) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd8wKQo2M6U

Yep. Most of those looking to go to the UK likely have family there already. I’m not sure the right wing loons are aware of how Britain is viewed by much of the world.

Were you a refugee from Ireland? Because your list conflates the two edit: I’m also an immigrant - from the UK to Australia. And there is a fuckton of difference between a white native-English speaking man moving to another Anglophone country and being a refugee fleeing persecution.

They aren’t beholden to advertisers, but sports broadcasting (or at least sports broadcasts which aren’t classed as major events and therefore have regulations requiring them to be shown on free to air TV - what used to be called ‘terrestrial’) doesn’t fall into the ‘public service broadcasting’ category. If the BBC was pulling in fewer than a million viewers for MOTD it would likely face the ax.

If that’s an attempt at pointing out ‘hypocrisy’, you’ve failed to do so. The point TRon made is consistent - there’s no hypocrisy in a lack of tolerance for intolerance, particularly when that intolerance is leading to the deaths of vulnerable people.

Tell that to Top of the Pops, born around the same time and was also a social institution. Ratings do matter for the BBC - it is one of the ways it keeps it’s licence and funding.

You can’t know if they are going to successfully apply until they apply. Which is why forcing people into small boats as a result of trying everything possible to stop people from arriving to claim asylum is fucking ludicrous and panders only to the nasty racist elements of society - some of whom then feign concern for the lives of people in those boats, despite their desperate gamble being the result of the actions they supported in the first place.

That’s an odd assumption tbf - most people don’t have Sky, and a solid chunk of MOTD’s audience aren’t at home watching TV c.8pm on a Saturday. That’s why ‘The Premiership’ on ITV failed - they thought showing highlights in prime time shortly after the games finished was a winner. It wasn’t, and the time slot was cancelled.

Yep. Offering to meet anyone who questioned it. Would also tell anyone that questioned it that he didn’t recognise their face from away games. Daz, you see, knaaaas everyone. Just like Steve Wraith knaas the Krays, Daz knaaaas everyone who goes to NUFC away games. It amused me as a lad I know asked him not to do it on FB and got exactly the response above re threats and ‘don’t know you from away games’. My mate certainly doesn’t go to every game, but probably attends six or seven away games a season. Not enough for Mr Curry to do a positive ID, so therefore he isn’t a real fan.

And broadcast it in B&W. JRM is effectively a sentient Pathe newsreel in any case.

I wonder if the Beeb has considered bringing David Icke back to MOTD yet. He’d be more in line with their paymasters.

He’s came out in support too. Good on him.

Poe’s Law applying even when the satire isn’t funny