Smiley Culture

I love stuff like this. Well done.

The NRL is a goldmine for bellends but the Super League is a second chance for the bigger of the Antipodean knobs.

I don’t think Southgate’s comments are that bad. TAA’s form did drop (as did Liverpool’s as a collective) and he has taken steps in the right direction and is/has regained form. He has also picked players on form in the past and he’s done so here again.

TAA has played 89 (EIGHTY NINE) games since the start of 19/20 and 46 since football resumed in June. I know he’s a young lad but it’s San Marino, Albania and Poland. We can get by without him, we know what he’s about and how he plays and while he’s in good form, we’ve got options in that position elsewhere.

Apples and oranges stuff, this.

It was a random attack, which is all the more frightening given he was a police officer. Silly dick has rented a car in his own name and using his own mobile number and been caught on CCTV of a bus, apparently, talking to her and her then getting in the car. Exposed himself twice the same day, too, over in Kent.

That, sadly, doesn’t surprise me.

The really disappointing and upsetting thing is, this woman did all the right things. Stuck to well lit main roads and wore bright colours, perhaps unintentionally, but nevertheless this seemingly isn’t enough of a deterrent and there’s been some really open exchanges on social media of women’s experiences with men intimidating them or much worse.

Body parts found in the hunt for this woman. Terribly sad.

They must have found a body or he’s admitted killing her.

It’s a proper basket case at that level and the National League. I’ll be surprised if someone doesn’t go bust in that National League. Much further down, the Essex Senior League is going to run a competition during April and May for clubs, so I may have football to watch live, should crowds be allowed.

Remember when we were going to change the forum up and you would have had an allocation of coins to “spend”?

National League North and South have voted null and void on their season. Can see everything else below it going the same way.

Anthony Martial, again (I think?). United will condemn it but they’ll continue to use social media and they’ll lob Martial out there on Thursday night.

And the unlucky winner today is...Yan Dhanda.

Yet more racism this weekend, it seems. I’ve seen the statements, we’ll see the condemnation and we’ll brush it under the carpet and forget it for a few days, expecting the victims to get back out there in a few days to play again and put themselves at risk of more abuse. Tiresome now.

No idea. The BBC article doesn’t suggest who it come from.

The young lad sent-off for Southampton, the latest target, I see.

Rashford the latest target. The Merry-go-round continues.

In light of the sheer amount of racial abuse that has been highlighted this week (yes, I get that it’s a snowball effect once one has been highlighted in the press), I don’t think there should be any Premier League games this weekend. A statement condemning it and taking a knee has been done. Countless times. It’s changed nothing. A proper protest in this manner about what’s gone on this week reverberates around the planet far quicker and far better than a media graduates three paragraph statement or taking the knee. It’s not a quick fix but I think a line needs to be drawn and this behaviour and the institutions housing these people attacked head on.

We’ll all be appalled that this is happening so much again, we’ll condemn these idiots but we’ll carry on. Nothing will change and then, again, in a month or so’s time when it happens again, we’ll go back to being appalled, we’ll condemn it and then we’ll carry on. Whilst we allow the cycle to continue, change isn’t happening. All these empty gestures haven’t changed and will continue to change nothing.

This generation of footballers will be in wheelchairs by 50 at this rate.

I liked it. It wasn’t as good as Des, I thought. That was excellent.

FIFA would be cutting their nose off to spite their face by banning the best players from any future World Cup and we’ve seen how dodgy FIFA are in the past, so they’d cave and count their money. Not that their stance isn’t correct, by distancing themselves from this idea.