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My work colleague lives in the flat above them, he said that when a big match is on TV he sees them out on their terrace at half time doing keepie uppies!

I work in Internal Audit within financial services so am very familiar with the FCA approach to oversight and governance, so these proposals certainly look interesting. For me it's mind boggling that Football Clubs are pretty much subject to no real financial regulation despite how much money is pumping in and out of even small clubs so all good ideas. I think my ideal job within IA will be with this new body and I get to travel to all the football clubs to audit them!

Your mate didn't sum it up at all, ridiculous comment

Southgate is on the FIFA gravy train as well, he was instructed to do it ??

I'll refer you to my previous answer. What are your thoughts on the aliens in Area 51?

I can 100% say that FIFA conspiring to rig the results of the World Cup to engineer a World Cup final is total BS! e.g. if they wanted the Messi v Ronaldo final then were Morocco not in on it, did they refuse to co-operate to allow Portugal safe passage through? Is the conspiracy to just keep England away from the final at all costs so they brought in a referee who would make us lose? Was Kane involved and was directed by FIFA to miss the second penalty? Absolute rubbish

I just don't buy any conspiracy theories, yeh the ref was poor but suggesting that he was trying to influence the result through his decisions is ridiculous. If he wanted France to win, surely he would awarded them a penalty or sent one of our players off? He awarded us 2 penalties, which is a strange way to influence the game in France's favour unless Kane was also involved in the FIFA conspiracy and deliberately ballooned the penalty over the bar to make sure nobody suspected the referee of being involved in the FIFA conspiracy as well?

What's this "our threads bigger than your thread"? ??

I was Googling how goal line tech works and found this article from a German guy dated June 2022 who mentions the Lampard goal and how Germany might suffer a similar fate in the future! He wasn't wrong!https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/how-does-the-goal-line-technology-work.html

Sorry to be a pedant but what you suffered in Oz is xenophobia not racism isn't it? Not very nice obviously

My comment wasn't aimed at you personally, I don't know you, although I'm not sure why anyone would be content with not being PC, if you know a term or joke or comment which you used to use back in the day is now deemed offensive, then to me it seems pretty strange to knowingly not care about that and continue to use it, just because you don't deem it offensive. I think the difference now is we have a much more diverse population than we did even 20/30 years ago let alone 50/60 years ago, so it's only natural that attitudes to certain things like race and religion will (and should) change. When I was in senior school 1990-95, in my whole school year there were 4 black kids and 0 Asian kids out of say 200 kids total. My understanding is that minority groups make up closer to 50% of kids now. Im sure those 4 kids in my year will have taken just as much offence to the causal racist comments, that will no doubt have been uttered from time to time, to kids from minority groups today, the difference now is to some extent strength in numbers, and those casual racist instances are getting called out more and more, and as the minority's increase, the awareness of what is or isn't racist is much more prevalent for all groups. It may seem like the millennials are too PC, although that's not really a bad thing is it, but actually they are more aware of what is or isn't acceptable in 2022. I don't agree in cancel culture as I accept times have changed, but it's poor to knowingly not change your attitudes. I would be sacked from my job if I referred to colleagues using terms from my youth, or made jokes that were deemed ok in my youth, and rightly so. I'm not weak for having this attitude, far from it.

Im 44 next month and fantasy football was on when I was in my mid teens. I don't really see it as that long ago, but obviously in terms of what is tolerated or understood now, it's worlds apart from today in terms of what is acceptable, but unlike others I don't see this as a bad thing. In my own experience, the people who have a problem with this change in attitudes towards what is acceptable to say are the ones who are still dishing out the abuse and they want to continue to do so, and instead of taking responsibility they blame those who stand up to their outdated attitudes

I worked for one of the Big 4 consultancies and a recent example was given where the recruits from Asia were told they all looked the same, their names were too difficult to pronounce and they should just be given a number from which they can be referred too. This was just 2 years ago! It will have been meant as a joke etc etc but casual racism is still rife and probably still seen as just a bit of banter with no victims (like the Jason Lee thing),

I agree that the apology now seems to be because Baddiel is making a programme about racism, however as mentioned above, wearing dreadlocks isn't just a hair cut and shouldn't be trivialised like that. I also don't think this is newly perceived racism or cancel culture or wokism etc this sketch was no different to what the Black and White Minstrel Show did which went off air in the late 70's.

With all due respect, Jason Lee tied up his dreadlocks when playing football, he didn't deliberately shape them into a pineapple shaped form. I assume by your rationale it's fair game to chant about Pineapples to Semenyo as well? Either way, there is a symbolism to wearing dreadlocks, and for a comedian to black face and make fun of this is wrong, as David Baddiel admits. I recommend watching the video

https://youtu.be/he6Nq2lWLJ0 Really interesting discussion between Jason Lee and David Baddiel on the infamous (and quite frankly racist) sketches from Fantasy Football League back in the 90's. Anyone around at the time will no doubt remember the abuse Jason Lee got on the programme because of his dreadlocks, the subsequent chants about his hair, which from memory impacted his form and he dropped down the leagues. When you look back on the sketches now with Baddiel having a black face etc its quite surprising it was ever allowed on TV at all, even in the 90's, but there was definitely a culture at that time of everything being ok as long as you said it was banter. I used to watch the show a lot as a teenager and didn't really think about it at the time, but looking back most of the jokes seemed to be ripping anyone in football who was deemed ugly or weird by Skinner and Baddiel. David Baddiel is doing a new doc on anti semitism so I guess he needed to address the uncomfortable truth regarding Jason Lee as part of this, shame it took him all this time to actually apologies!

Yeh we want to beat them obvs but they can't catch us if we beat USA tonight l, we draw against USA and the last games will be very interesting!

As long as we beat USA and are safely through it won't matter what Wales do, although I can't see them beating us they looked very poor today

Fair play to Antoine, he's played in a World Cup, on the pitch with Ronaldo, can't knock it!

Interestingly at the time of the '66 World Cup it was still illegal in the UK to commit "homosexual acts" in private, yet here we are now sat on our pedestal only 56 years later! I don't agree with the World Cup being awarded in the way it has been, the corruption and money paid, changing it to winter, the migrants workers etc but it's worth remembering that we aren't exactly perfect and havnt been in the recent history, people and attitudes can and will change

Football is awash with money and dodgyness, I'd give up watching the sport all together if I were you

Good doc, and focussed more on the fan side of things rather than the games which was a different angle to the many many other docs on Italia 90. This was the first proper tournament I remember. I had the Mexico 86 sticker album but can't remember the games, but Italia 90 I remember trying to recreate the David Platt volley in my garden in the dark after watching the game!

My Dad is City through and through (he was born in Pill) but used to watch Rovers if City had no game, in fact he met my mum at Eastville (my mums family are from Kingswood and are Rovers) as the City away match had been called off, the hand of fate!