Danny

Hazard benefitted for playing for a smaller club with no real consistent history in terms of players like him playing at the club, so expectations are lower. Real Madrid are littered with greatness and if you're not performing then thats it

Just have some fun Spike, have some fun

Nathan Young-Coombes linked with our B team @Rab, any idea on him?

Tell that to Luka

Have they sorted out the defending yet? Had it deleted off my PS4 for a couple of months now

A lowarchy if you will

So he'll turn into one their best players ever then

Not that I think it’ll end up in a war, but there is now the sort of tension that politicians can use to better their careers at the expense of the people, and there is now a divide where in the past politicians globally have been able to push a conflict into the people but stoking up hatred

If he was after white people it’d just be British with hot weather

Our B Team has signed the world famous Ben Winterbottom from your youth/reserves, anyone seen him?

The problem with football is that unlike Rugby, Cricket etc it is the most inclusive sport in the country. You can barely have a pot to piss in or you can have a 4 bed in Sussex and a holiday home in Cornwall, it's just open to everybody. And that's why these incidents happen so often because football holds a magnifying glass over society. It's an issue within the game and the institutions involved need to do all they can to eradicate it, but the simple fact is that if you are seeing sexism, racism, homophobia in football, then it's highlighting a wider issue within society and really it should be an alarm bell for government to dismantle. Unfortunately the current government are made up by people who literally deny the existence of systemic racism, and the previous opposition quite literally, alongside our current government, defined the words systemic racism, when he was the head of a political institution that allowed and encouraged anti-semitism. Football can only do so much and I think we are going round in circles expecting tangible change within society when within the last 4 or 5 years society has become worse for it, especially after Brexit, the persistent racism used within it's campaigning and by large chunks of it's supporters.

The biggest irony behind all of this is the action Roman has taken is the action that has brought them success, their biggest successes, what has made them the “big” club they are now. Fans who are upset with the board, no sympathy, need to stop whining over it.

BT really hammering home the 16 points from 18, which is good for Arsenal cos they’ve been shit for periods this season. But that run of games was against Brighton, Newcastle, Palace and West Brom. Not 4 of the hardest teams Arsenal will play this season, and Chelsea are a big name but that was also the build up to Lampard’s sacking. Saints are a tough team and it shows quality if you beat them comfortably, but we’ll see what Arsenal are made of now as they play United, Wolves, Villa, Leeds, City, Leicester, Spurs, West Ham and Liverpool over the next 2 or so months.

Had an Onion Bhaji burger the other day, coconut raita, mango chutney in a brioche bun. Lovelyyyyyyyy

I know people sack managers far too quickly these days, and my own club have benefitted from sticking with a manager in a rut. But I’m not sure what it is people see in Lampard that means he’ll be a long term manager at Chelsea? He pulled up no trees at Derby, got the job through his name much like he did at Chelsea. Made very consistent defensive errors last season that still aren’t fixed, errors that a certain Chelsea fan on here *cough cough* @The Liquidator *cough cough* would have had a copy and paste fit over if it was Sarri. Took Chelsea to a 4th place finish, OK, he met the minimum standard of a Chelsea manager in a season where Spurs and Arsenal both sacked their managers, with the squad he had at his disposal Chelsea should have finished above Leicester, Wolves etc as they did. Chelsea brought in £200m+ worth of players, the minimum expectation from this haul is a title challenge as it should be when you make such a large amount of high profile signings and they are currently 11 points off the league leaders and maybe 12 if City win their game in hand. Chelsea have just lost to Leicester, City, Arsenal (performance-wise, very, very badly) and drew with Villa. Their win against West Ham was not a performance that warranted the score line, they lost to Wolves and Everton prior to that too. If Spurs and Everton win their games in hand Chelsea will also be 7 points off 5th and 9 points off of 4th. But the underlying fact is that Lampard’s team has progressively got worse when it should have got better. There is nothing to look at under Lampard’s reign that suggests things could be very good. No Bundesliga wins, no German Cup wins, no Champions League finalists, no consistently improved seasons and performances, literally nothing. Chelsea did go 17 games unbeaten as was stated, 6 draws and they picked wins up against Sevilla (good), Rennes (OK), Spurs (1-1 in normal time, went to pens), Newcastle, Sheffield Utd, Burnley, Krasnodar, Palace and the mighty Barnsley. Hardly a record to look back on and think “yeah, we were definitely title contenders”...alongside West Ham. Chelsea should never have hired him in the first place, massive mistake that has set them back. I don’t know a lot about Tuchel individually other than both Dortmund and PSG wanted rid of him, not sure he’s the best replacement but ze Germans will know better.

Went off McGregor a while ago, the bus incident, the Islamophobia towards Khabib, besting up an old man. Even though the Khabib fight wasn’t his first loss, it was the beginning of the end really. Not just losing to the P4P goat, but losing to a man he disrespected so badly, not only to lose but for Khabib’s cage jump to dwarf any action he has ever done to sell a fight, that jump was iconic. Dana White was a bell for monetising McGregor’s islamophobia, but if Conor was struggling for fights before this one then he only has himself to blame. He tried to bring out kind Conor for this, redefine his image, it’s all a load of shit and simply done for the $$$. Interesting to see where he goes next, has a lot of work to do to get near a rematch with Khabib.

@DeadLinesman you get a very different calibre of player when you're one of the biggest foreign clubs in Brazil than when you're one of the biggest foreign clubs in Norway

The weather must come into play, but Real Madrid are the biggest club in the world by a large margin. United are the global brand but there's a reason why Ronaldo couldn't wait to move to Madrid, 30 something league titles at that point and a European pedigree unmatched by any club in the world. Away from honours and the weather, I do think how the game was viewed in England vs Spain would have some sort of effect. It's only recently the mentality of the English football fan has leant towards technique rather than muscle, highlighted by Freddie Kanoute's observation of his time in England vs Spain, in England they applaud a hard tackle or chasing down the ball pointlessly and in Spain they applauded the intelligence of conserving his energy. Mourinho's comment too about how surprised he was when people celebrated winning a corner in England, that blood and guts mentality. The very best have always played in Spain and they've been appreciated completely there too, and that appreciation goes down to the technically gifted, intelligent players that aren't the world beaters. Then aside from that historically a lot of the best players came from South America, Brazil and Argentina....and Real Madrid and Barce are two biggest clubs on that continent.

Big chance for Foden to step up then

Unbeaten against teams that dont play superspreaders

People used to leave their boots outside their door on the farm I worked on, tip upside down every time. There was a shelter coming down from my door, walked out to the bathroom to brush my teeth and a red furry snake the size of your hand was just resting on my head. Still think a piece of me (shit) is still on that floor Smacked it off and it managed to climb from the floor to the ceiling in about a few seconds. Didn’t enter a room without looking up afterwards Someone else on the farm had a snake drop on their head, though apparently the climbers are less venomous. Lived in North Queensland for 6 months, never heard of people sleeping with shoes on....unless it was the meth lol

Don’t still be upset cos I called Palace boring xoxo

I mean yeah I’m not arguing with you re: Trump and that mad shit, but mad shit won’t stop happening, it’ll just stop happening around well off white people and America will be back to normal. My reference to boring politics was that of one that continually ignores change, Trump was just a natural reaction that a country founded on and fuelled by white supremacy would have when a black man was made president.

It is mental how people treat Biden, how far Trump took things that Biden is seen as a saviour, I understand people overlooking the bad things Obama done because he was black, living black people in America met relatives who were slaves, and then saw a black president, that’s immense and enough to make you forgot for a moment that he had ordered more drone strikes than Bush...but Biden. Biden is going to bring back the mundane feeling of hopelessness that politics generally brings imo, which is better than Trump, but still really really shit, as it is in the UK. But also the level of celebrity that surrounds American politics is hilarious and feeds perfectly into how brainwashed a lot of Americans are with nationalism, will Lady Gaga for example align herself with the inevitable fucked up shit Biden and Harris will get up to in office? Probably not.

Was mainly referring to theft and exploitation but the long and short of it is that many countries around the globe you considering 3rd world are so because of colonialism (not just British either).