245 Responses to Start the Week Thread 19th April 2021

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  1. Fedup2 says:
    April 20, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    Looking grim for the supa league – citeh and chelski pulling out – may well be left with Spurs playing Tottenham each week …

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    • StewGreen says:
      April 20, 2021 at 9:05 pm

      Football is not interesting to me, but a couple of points
      #1 narrative “Yeh it’s all cos they are owned by big corps”
      .. Doh Barcelona is owned by a 140,000 fans who vote for the governors

      #2 narrative “Yeh cos this new league will be evil”
      Doh like Ueafa and FIFA are the good guys ?

      #3 This will break football
      FFS the FA already did this against the Football League when they took the big clubs away
      .. Isn’t it sauce for the Gander ?

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      • StewGreen says:
        April 20, 2021 at 9:58 pm

        It’s true that German clubs don’t have foreign owners
        but American own a few French clubs
        OGC Nice is owned by British petrochemicals tycoon Jim Ratcliffe
        Also Russian, Chinese, UAE, Qatar own clubs
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_football_club_owners

        oh here’s The Critic article
        The most hilarious losers, of course, are the fat cats from UEFA and FIFA. You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at them talking about ethics and morality. To be fair, they have also issued endless threats, loud but empty. They have told the top clubs they won’t be able to compete in their domestic leagues and cups. What, no more rainy Tuesdays in Stoke? No more Thursday night football? And FIFA have threatened players with not being able to play in the World Cup any more. I wonder how many sponsors and TV companies will pay FIFA huge sums for a World Cup without the Galacticos, the top stars of the Premier League or the best African, South American and European players players? Like the Premier League itself, the World Cup will become second-rate without its stars. The FA and FIFA should leave it to the lawyers to sort out, if they can.

        This breakaway was inevitable. It was always going to happen. The top clubs need big money to pay for their big new grounds and their famous stars. And thousands of miles from Leicester and Wigan there are millions of people who will pay whichever TV company has the rights. Somewhere a lot of rich sports lawyers and agents are going to make a lot of money making this happen.
        https://thecritic.co.uk/super-hypocrites/

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  2. Fedup2 says:
    April 20, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    Stew – it might do ordinary people a favour by shining a light on the structure of Footy – and the huge gap between the Prem and the lower proper English clubs ….. by the end the Germans and French will be suitably amused

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  3. StewGreen says:
    April 20, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    I so often see the R4 Arts show has left it’s blurb blank
    then after broadcast it seems they’ve had a box-ticking main guest.

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  4. G.W.F. says:
    April 20, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    Celebrations at the BBC. Guilty on all three counts regarding the Floyd George trial. Healing process starts…yadder yadder

    https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1kvKpoabmOQxE

    https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1kvKpoabmOQxE

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    • StewGreen says:
      April 20, 2021 at 10:26 pm

      That’s a link to the CBS livefeed ..that was just showing some kind of victory parade

      They’ll be an appeal ..and negotiation about sentence years etc.
      An unproven verdict might have led to lot of death mainly black on black.

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    • tomo says:
      April 21, 2021 at 12:16 am

      Healing?

      has anybody told Maxine Waters or AOC?

      The herd of ACAB hobby horse jockeys is likely to swell and stampede if they’re not careful

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    • Dobyns says:
      April 21, 2021 at 12:20 am

      No one seems to remember that he pointed a gun at the stomach of a pregnant black woman while he and his pals launched a home invasion on her home, stole her stuff, and and ruffed her up.

      Fine, upstanding guys you are/were!!

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  5. Fedup2 says:
    April 20, 2021 at 10:20 pm

    Sorry – new thread up – somehow think it will be busy ..

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  6. JohnC says:
    April 22, 2021 at 9:29 am

    ‘Pervasive racism’ blamed for failure to commemorate black and Asian troops.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56840131
    More pointless and divisive self-loathing by the BBC. Another gem backed up by references to a Guardian article and tweets by David Lammy.

    The report concluded that the failure to properly commemorate the individuals was “influenced by a scarcity of information, errors inherited from other organisations and the opinions of colonial administrators”.
    Fair enough. But followed by:
    “Underpinning all these decisions, however, were the entrenched prejudices, preconceptions and pervasive racism of contemporary imperial attitudes,” it added.
    Mr Lammy said the report was a “watershed moment”.
    “No apology can ever make up for the indignity suffered by The Unremembered,” he tweeted.
    It’s beyond ridculous. I will not take any of this seriously until people like Lammy are recognised as the racists they are.

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