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  1. Due to personal circumstances I've been watching BBC news much more frequently recently than I would do by choice. In the last day few days dear old auntie has not only reported on the most important and topical stories like Trump is a bad man and the government is confusing everyone about Covid, they also devote a considerable amount of air time to educate and indeed, re-educate us on things we may not be fully aware of but should. On Thursday I learned that, if Indians or rather Brits of Indian heritage, eat too much food they get fat, most concerning. However, we were also informed that if they eat less they will lose weight, phew! Fascinating stuff. Friday and Saturday, I've been historically realigned, The Battle of Britain, victory was achieved not by Winston, Dowdling, R J Mitchell or the heroic RAF as I had naively assumed, but by Hazel a 13 YO girl. Apparently her father was an engineer working on Spitfire armament during the 1930's and Hazel was quite good at sums and may have helped him work something out one night. Apparently this unspecified arithmetic intervention ultimately won the battle against the Luftwaffe and saved us all from the horrors of Nazism. Jolly good show Hazel, spiffing. Thanks Auntie B, I'll be binning (recycling of course) my my old Commandos and digging out my sisters Buntys in a belated effort to gain a more accurate perspective of wartime events.
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  2. There is zero need for the club to assert anything other than us being a club that is open to all. In my opinion, of course.
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  3. Cleared the centre forward as well if need be. Newcastle must have rued their failure to sign him and his brother both Geordie boys.
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  4. RIP big Jack . This is the kind of centre half our team needs no fannying about always cleared his lines .
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  5. Old soldiers love quoting George Patton. I would say to Mr Bassey, paraphrasing the General, 'the object is not to die for the jersey, but to make the other poor bastard die for his'.
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  6. I am at an age were I just dont understand all this crap so being old does have some advantages
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  7. A newspaper of record. (In The Bay of Plenty). Talking of plenitude, I thought that WI would have built a more significant lead, although 114, in the circumstances of a so-far low scoring match, with a slowish pitch, is not to be scoffed at. England's attack demonstrated, perhaps, that there is at Test level, more to pace bowling than pace. Anyway, here is Atherton in today's Times: England v West Indies: Ben Stokes forced to take lead as fast show falls flat Ageas Bowl (third day of five): England, with all second-innings wickets in hand, are 99 runs behind West Indies Mike Atherton, Chief Cricket Correspondent Saturday July 11 2020, 12.01am, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/england-v-west-indies-ben-stokes-forced-to-take-lead-as-fast-show-falls-flat-fsh6hdhd6 The most eye-catching English performance yesterday came from a non-player. Interviewed before the start of play, Stuart Broad spoke honestly, emotionally and directly — which is to be applauded — and said he was “gutted”, “frustrated” and “angry” not to be picked here. Of course, a consequence was that the spotlight fell on the players who were preferred to him, namely Mark Wood and Jofra Archer. Which one of those two would have given way for Broad is unclear. It would have been an extremely tricky choice between a bowler, Archer, who has the world at his feet and Wood, fresh from a nine-wicket haul in Johannesburg. So Ben Stokes chose both instead — to Broad’s chagrin and to the surprise of each — and by the close the combination had produced unflattering figures of one for 135 in 44 overs, nullified by a featherbed pitch and some diligent West Indies batting. It is a universal truth that you become a better player when sitting on the sidelines, but Broad’s reputation is hard won and not exaggerated. Who knows how effective he would have been in their place, but he could hardly have been less effective and surely would have found a little more movement in the air and off the pitch by challenging the stumps with greater frequency. His disappointment, plainly stated, is justified and good to see, given that it indicates that a bit of fire in the belly remains. Both Archer and Wood were used in short bursts by Stokes throughout the day. Wood was the quicker of the pair until tiring late in the day, when he had the ignominy of being smacked over mid-off by Alzarri Joseph, West Indies’ No 9. Archer slipped himself into top gear occasionally, but found little movement to compensate. The only wicket to fall to either was last man, Shannon Gabriel, hardly a wicket to savour. Eventually, Stokes took it upon himself to do what others couldn’t. Hampered by a bloodied toe, presumably because of the lack of match time, he nipped in with three wickets in the final session of the day, including his opposite number, Jason Holder, to help limit West Indies’ lead to 114. West Indies will feel it could and should have been a more significant one, with so many top-order players getting themselves set, but none going beyond Kraigg Brathwaite’s 65. The movement West Indies’ bowlers extracted, when England’s openers came out for the final ten overs of the day, was noticeable. Dom Sibley was beaten three times in one over by Kemar Roach, Gabriel looked a permanent threat to the left-handed Rory Burns, and both openers did well to survive the examination. England will have to match West Indies’ first-innings total today to give themselves a chance of winning. For much of the day, with England’s cannons misfiring, Broad was forced to watch his old mucker, James Anderson, carry the principal load. In England’s first innings, the ten wickets were shared between Holder and Gabriel, West Indies’ slowest and quickest bowlers, suggesting it is not the pace you bowl at on this surface which is important, but the direction and skill. In that regard, no one in England can challenge the evergreen Anderson, who beat the bat with greater frequency than anyone. On a better day for batting — brighter, fresher, breezier — West Indies’ batsmen applied themselves as their bowlers had on the first two days. They reaped the benefit of only losing one wicket in the 19 overs that were possible on the second evening, when heavy cloud cover and floodlights made batting far trickier, and in that regard could be thankful for the foundations that the top three supplied. The 336 minutes that Brathwaite, John Campbell and Shai Hope batted between them were just as vital as the runs they scored. Both Brathwaite and Hope fell before lunch, but not before the former had given indication that a return to form might not be far away. Neither has found Test cricket easy since that dramatic win at Headingley three years ago, Hope’s failure to kick on after his remarkable pair of hundreds then — he has not added to them since — being one of the sport’s more puzzling mysteries, given how stylish and elegant a player he looked. Here, in the opening hour, he never quite looked in control, with leading edges evading fielders on two occasions and a leg-before decision survived only because Archer overstepped on the front line. Given the way Wood and Archer were blunted, Dom Bess had an important role to play: prepared to bowl an attacking line outside off stump in search of the outside edge, he duly found it, when Hope looked to drive through the off side, Stokes accepting a sharp chance at slip. When Brathwaite brought up his half-century in the morning, it was his first in 21 Test innings. With his crab-like movement across the crease, you can see why he goes through rough patches, and it was a shuffle across his stumps to Stokes that brought his downfall, although it was another marginal leg-before call that could easily have gone the other way. Without DRS, West Indies would have been ill-served. Shamarh Brooks, enjoying a resurgence in the second half of his career, played stylishly and with greater freedom than most either side of lunch, while Jermaine Blackwood played as Jermaine Blackwood does, which is to say skittishly — gifting Bess a second wicket to mid-off. The most damaging partnership either side of tea, worth 81, came between Roston Chase and Shane Dowrich, the long and short of Barbados, with Dowrich, in particular, pleased to put aside his memories of a desperate tour three years ago, when he managed 24 runs across three Tests. Anderson won a reviewed leg-before against Chase with the second new ball and the sight of Holder spurred Stokes, hitherto little used, into action, limping though he occasionally was. Short balls accounted for Holder, hooking to fine leg, and Dowrich, strangled down the leg side, and when Joseph was cleaned up, Stokes had achieved the notable double of 150 wickets and 4,000 runs in quicker time than anyone in history bar Garfield Sobers. Statistics, though, run a distant second to winning matches for this most team-orientated of players, and despite top-scoring and taking the most wickets so far in his first game as captain, his team have a lot to do to give him a winning start. West Indies first innings (overnight: 57-1) K Brathwaite lbw b Stokes 65 J Campbell lbw b Anderson 28 S Hope c Stokes b Bess 16 S Brooks c Buttler b Anderson 39 R Chase lbw b Anderson 47 J Blackwood c Anderson b Bess 12 S Dowrich c Buttler b Stokes 61 J Holder c Archer b Stokes 5 A Joseph b Stokes 18 K Roach not out 1 S Gabriel b Wood 4 Extras (lb 21, nb 1) 22 Total:318 Fall of wickets: 1-43 (Campbell), 2-102 (Hope), 3-140 (Brathwaite), 4-173 (Brooks), 5-186 (Blackwood), 6-267 (Chase), 7-281 (Holder), 8-306 (Joseph), 9-313 (Dowrich), 10-318 (Gabriel) Bowling: Anderson 25-11-62-3; Archer 22-3-61-0 (1nb); Wood 22-2-74-1; Stokes 14-5-49-4; Bess 19-5-51-2 England second innings R Burns not out 10 D Sibley not out 5 Extras 0 Total (10 overs) 15 To bat: J Denly, Z Crawley, B Stokes, O Pope, J Buttler, D Bess, J Archer, M Wood, J Anderson Bowling: Roach 5-3-6-0; Gabriel 3-1-5-0; Holder 2-1-4-0 Umpires: Richard Kettleborough (Eng), Richard Illingworth (Eng). TV umpire: Michael Gough (Eng). Match referee: Chris Broad (Eng)
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  8. The whole trans rights argument is really complicated, in my opinion. It's not something that I've given a huge deal of thought to, but I am in favour of them having some rights to an extent, but there is a line, and Gonzo's point highlights it. People should be able to live their lives as they want but people should not be able to pick and choose which toilet they use, Charloch's point also highlights the danger of adopting a specific organisation as a way to make a point, on racism on this occasion. English football and the media are going overboard in support of BLM, and there's an element of bullying in it. It was good to see some F1 drivers not willing to take the knee but show their support for anti-racism in another manner that wasn't in support for a questionable organisation like BLM.
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  9. I wonder if people would be so dismissive of Charloch's points if they took a young daughter to Ibrox and saw a man dressed as a woman following her into the toilet. Just saying...
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  10. Neither. The Charter promotes an agenda that is destructive of the dignity and rights of women. Rangers have many female supporters. Promoting trans rights means vitiating women’s rights. It’s a zero sum game. If the club wants to position itself in alliance with such a subversive agenda it ought to expect rigourous questioning of the policy. What does the Charter mean for female-only spaces in Ibrox Stadium, for instance? Rangers are throwing female supporters under the bus by endorsing trans rights. Of course, they are not alone in this. As far as BLM goes, many Rangers supporters gave their lives to fight the kind of fascism BLM espouses. We are rightly proud of the role our armed forces play in the life of our country, and we celebrate this at Ibrox. You can’t affirm respect for our forces and take the knee for BLM at the same time. It is right to support the Kick it Out campaign. Racism has no part in football. Neither does the kind of Marxist fascism BLM espouse and enforce. Being anti-women and pro-fascism wouldn’t be a good look. Many women are waking up to the implications of the trans agenda. For instance, my wife wouldn’t patronise a business that promotes a pro-trans agenda. She isn’t a bigot. She is a woman who understands. It isn’t an abstract theoretical question. Chasing woke points has real-world consequences.
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  11. I'm all for a good polemic and our club, like it or not, has to try and accommodate everyone but it will take a lot of convincing for me to believe we are responsible for local decision making that hasn't already been made far above our remit. I won't close the thread but be sensible in what you expect and ask.
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  12. I can't wait to go to the football in the 2050s. We'll have minute's silences for dead pets, safe spaces for people with mental health problems, Lady Gaga's nephew, Sharon, will conduct goal celebrations with his/her rainbow theramin and people who stand up to cheer a goal will probably be tazered.
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  13. According to those who saw him, yes. Taller, more physical, rather aggressive. There is some footae from HK 7 or the like on Youtube, we played them there and on another occasion last season.
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  14. In the words of the prophet, fuck that shit.
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  15. Excellent result for Sheffield United today beating Chelsea three nil .
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  16. A bit of a middle order collapse from England has maybe put victory out of reach. ENG 267-6, lead by 153. They need another 100, surely, to have any chance?
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  17. Great defender as were many in his days. Can't understand why reports show he played for England & Leeds where it should be other way round as he played 773 games for Leeds and a hellafull lot less for England.
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  18. The 500,000 cancelled in 2019 looks small compared to the 860,000 cancelled in 2017/18 and 798,000 in 2016/17, according to figures obtained by The Times.
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  19. Widely sourced. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/82-000-ditch-tv-licence-as-streaming-grows-m0v2hw5hg https://www.itv.com/news/2020-05-11/thousands-cancel-tv-licences/
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  20. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/82-000-ditch-tv-licence-as-streaming-grows-m0v2hw5hg There you go.
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  21. Going by the highlights , this boys a unit and a half
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  22. Could have been 70 odd for three so not in any way disastrous - yet. Switched on TMS this morning. Lady commentating. Switched off after a couple of overs. Switched on later. Different lady commentating. Switched off after a couple of overs. Switched on again. Tuffnell summarising. Switched off immediately. See me - equal opportunities discriminator. At least I gave the girls a chance which I denied to Tuffnell.
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  23. I was thinking it had been a better batting performance.
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  24. I'm sorry but that is just patent nonsense. BLM often espouses the words of Black Panther leaders like Fred Hampton and Malcolm X who attacked capitalism and went to great lengths to include whites in their fight. Racism is a tool used to divide people. But I do sympathise with your doubts about 'trans' people and the effect on female supporters. Identity politics has little to do with real equality and is a middle class fad which detracts from the real struggles of working people. As for 'marxist fascism' this is an oxymoron. You know nothing about marxism if you can utter that phrase in the same sentence.
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  25. Compo, fear not, nobody understands it, not a soul, not those that are shouting loudest about gender identity rights nor those who oppose the concept. It's completely impossible to comprehend and thus futile for society to attempt to accommodate.
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  26. I'm too busy trying to defund the Police and destroy the nuclear family. Sorry.
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  27. Obtain an illegal link such as i....pay the futters eff all.
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  28. Ahh ok sorry,won’t happen again.
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  29. Surely we need more than a two-bob striker? (A joke for the pre-decimation generation.)
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