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Where is the evidence that BLM is a "Marxist" organisation? I see this touted about online all the time, and have yet to see any actual substance to support this. Sent from my ANE-LX1 using Tapatalk

It might be deceptive camera angles but the Reading fans (v Forest) seem to be all mixing as they like! Sent from my ANE-LX1 using Tapatalk

To be fair, at Withdean I tended to leave the pub at 2.45 and be back in there by 5. Sent from my ANE-LX1 using Tapatalk

Given how few people will be in each stand, I wonder if putting some seats out would have been completely out of the question. Ah well, it's the football that counts. Sent from my ANE-LX1 using Tapatalk

I would still go to the pub and watch an Albion game without being able to drink. Watching them indoors alone is awful.

That's not strictly true though. Loyalty points are given for home cup games to a much higher level than away games. They are also used for non-STH to determine who gets tickets for home league and cup games (not that we're likely to sell out a home cup game at full capacity any time soon!). I...

The solution to me, as I've mentioned on the other thread, would be to reward the "uber" fans once in the first game, THEN revert to a ballot treating all STH's equally. Might be tricky for some very big clubs, but I think if you creamed off the top 2000 in our system you'd very easily be...

There's no perfect system to measure who deserves tickets but the loyalty points is the one we have. If it was done on loyalty points I'm not sure whether I'd be in the top 2000 anyway, I am always comfortably in the top window for away games, but that's a minimum of 3000 tickets these days and...

Window 3, so no ticket. I get that they can't use loyalty points all season and run a closed shop, but I feel that it would have been reasonable to do it for the first game on the basis that: - As the first (competitive) game in 9 months, this is massive to a lot of people and might have been...

I thought that but he appeared live on BT Sport doing a conference game (from the ground) straight after our game, so would have been a very busy day.

No one died but I'd say going to a party at the absolute peak of lockdown and then having to mysteriously leave the scene of an accident on the way home from it was quite bad in light of what the country was going through. Sent from my ANE-LX1 using Tapatalk

He shouldn't have played for Ireland for 5 years then and made several statements reaffirming his commitment to the country. We're talking about loyalty, not national identity. Sent from my ANE-LX1 using Tapatalk

I'm in the anti-VAR camp, but actually the ref checking before awarding a penalty is one of the least annoying uses of it in my opinion. It doesn't ruin the emotion of celebrating goals etc. It's more like how it's used in rugby, whereby the ref stops and has a look, so you all wait. It's still...

McGleish for sure. But I'd say Grealish over Zaha. For me, I can see why Palace fans whole-heartedly love Zaha. I can see how I would if I was one. Yes he likes a dive but not as regularly as Grealish, and I think the stuff between us and him is 99% because of the rivalry and nothing else...

I have never played football at a level where zonal marking has been suggested or considered, so can't speak with much authority on it. However it strikes me that the man in the pub always thinks zonal marking is rubbish and costs goals, yet the majority of top coaches in the professional game...

I don't think many other premier league clubs have a CB that good on the bench, possibly none.

I'm struggling to hear "loyalty" and Jack Grealish in the same sentence as an Irish fan. He was quite happy to stick the knife into the country of parents/grandparents after representing them for years (and a very Irish upbringing) when he got a sniff of the extra money and success that might...

I would imagine this has been an issue forever, but as a "smaller club" we've never really picked up on it. We're rarely on TV away from home against a "big" club, and at home most of us are at the game so have no idea what the Sky/BT commentators are saying. I said this right at the start of...

I'm loathe to be disagreeing with the great Stephen Fry, but for me the "People are offended by __________, how ridiculous" is the biggest straw man argument used by the populist/right-wing/whatever side of the debate. NO-ONE IS CLAIMING TO BE "OFFENDED". The BLM statue debate in the summer...

Surely if you've listened to the Pogues to any great length you'd know that most of them grew up in London! A huge amount of their songs reference London and second-generation culture. They've never made any attempt to hide or disguise what they were. Why does it not sit well with you?