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Missing the point completely. In the whole it's not argued that top-level chairmen deliberately pass up black managers in favour of white ones on a case by case basis (although there could be some of that). It's the systemic lack of BAME coaches and managers in the system. Getting accepted...

Yeah, we'll have to see. For me those performances against Newcastle away, Spurs at home and then Everton at home didn't come from nowhere. I know some teenagers come into professional football and fly straight away (Rooney, Owen, Mbappe) but this isn't the norm. I think we then mismanaged him...

Agreed. It's particularly hard to see how, with no fans in attendance, mid-table teams will be that motivated. Although sometimes in those situations you might see the pressure off and they play better.

I watched some of it whilst eating dinner, agree with most of the comments. I am guessing from the sky dive with Jermaine Jenas filmed before lockdown, that the show was always in the offing. I wonder how much the format was adjusted due to lockdown?

I would possibly add Connolly to that list. I think we massively over-used him after the Spurs game, and it told. Hopefuly he'll be re-introduced back on top form.

Thought this at 1860 Munich yesterday was probably just as effective as the cardboard cutouts and not quite as gimicky. Unsure whether it's more environmentally sound than the cardboard cutouts, although yesterday Amazon delivered 2 small children's story books that my kids had been bought by...

Presumably a full refund for all games shown on TV anyway - which is probably close to half of our home games?

I'm not assuming a racial bias, I'm just stating that the statistic you gave doesn't have any relevance to the issue at hand. I don't advocate the death penalty and I don't advocate armed police where possible. However, one could imagine that, regarding violent crimes, it may be perceived as...

That to me is a completely irrelevant statistic, it basically says to me that about 0.03-0.04% of Americans who are arrested for a VIOLENT crime are killed. What about for NON-violent crimes, which constitute by the far the most arrests in any society?

Britain as a country seems unable to understand that you can have rich cultural, historical and political traditions - but that you can also move on from them and remember them in other ways rather than insisting on continuing/revisiting them in a completely anachronistic manner. So it's a...

If indeed it is the dodgy merch they are going after, I have to say I have obviously missed this stuff for the most part. Maybe it's my matchday routine of usually needing a piss quite badly post-train and rushing straight into the north stand, but apart from the odd 50/50 scarf seller when we...

If it's anything like the German games, who the hell knows? Apart from Bayern winning & Dortmund looking decent, all the teams look a bit all over the place, inconsistent and unfit. Really hard to predict games. That said, I am an eternal pessimist, and am so frustrated that we are even any...

As said above, no proof, just a random opinion/observation from afar. But we all saw the rolled down window on deadline day and the "he's a terrific player" quotes. It was just in an era where managers tended to keep quiet on transfers and let people behind the scenes do the work. Pretty sure...

I think there probably is a bit of that to be honest. I listened to him on the Peter Crouch podcast last week and thought he was great. But you can't deny that he has happened to leave a very high ratio of his clubs just before they face severe financial difficulties. Maybe he is just very good...

Indeed, and if History shows us anything, it's that Harry is very good at spending other people's money.

I hope you're right in the case that there is a second wave (which obviously I desperately hope there is not). To be fair I think the last few days have actually given me a new-found optimism about the British public and mainstream print media and their ability to actually scrutinise and...

I went there on Saturday about midday. No probs at all. One person in front, one behind, everyone respected social distancing. The park was pretty busy as well, so my guess is that the cafe isn't getting huge footfall.

That map is incredible. I believe this is the earliest "map" of Brighton, but isn't really a map so much as an illustration of the French attacking in 1514:

I think politically it will cause minimal long-term damage to the Conservative Party. Once this dies down, they'll spin like **** the argument that they did a great job dealing with the outbreak, and will probably get away with it. By the time we have another election, the focus will be on how...

I hope you're right. Sadly, even with this shit-storm I can't see us getting an election before time.