Liam Rosenior in the Grauniad: NFL kneeling protest

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Perhaps a mod could merge the two threads on this subject?

 

[Easy 10]

I love LR.

On a side note, how does Trump manage to be wrong about absolutely everything? It's quite a feat.

He's probably been taking notes from Bensgrandad

 

[looney]

The way that you mimic word for word the kind of crap that idiots like PJW come out with, it wouldn't surprise me if you were actually some kind of copy & paste bot. But then again, that could be said about literally anyone from the alt-right.

Mimic.

 

[Coalburner]

Martin Buchan (Man Utd) was pretty well educated too

 

[Blackadder]

Socrates, the late Brazilian player, was a doctor.

Doubt he was that thick.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Calde, Bruno, Orlandi?

 

[The Large One]

Fact free tripe, instead of shilling for the Grauniad why not look at the figures for police brutality?

Not saying the US doesn't have problems but this isn't one of them.

But its worse than that, taking a knee is equivelent of burning your own neighbourhood down in a riot. american Patriotism, that looks OTT from here has always been a method to bind people together REGARDLESS of race etc, by unpicking this they risk escalating racial conflict.

Wrong way to protest over the wrong issues by the wrong people to do it. crap journalism.

One - it's an opinion piece, not a news story. So it's YOU are wrong for making out that this is.

'Taking A Knee' isn't anything to do with American patriotism. Trump has tried to make it that, and you've fallen for it. Again.

Wrong way to post over the wrong issues by the wrong person to do it. Crap post.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

He's probably been taking notes from Bensgrandad

Maybe Trump is BG? The pub landlord/Albion scout of days gone by was just a cover story....

 

[AmexRuislip]

Very lucky to have players like LR at our club.

I'm guessing, that getting LR in at the Albion, CH has surrounded himself with people whom he can trust and have a bit of nous about them.

 

[jakarta]

Can't argue with that - take note messrs Rooney and stokes.

Rooney is obviously thick as sh*t but if you listen to Stokes he clearly isn't which makes his latest debacle even worse.

Oh and I played squash against Steve Coppell one evening back in the late 1970's when I was a cocky rugby playing teenage yoof and thought I was God's Gift.

He was waiting for his partner to turn up (was rehabbing a knee injury) and I had been doing a bit of solo practise while waiting for my opponent.

We had a couple of games & he thrashed me without breaking sweat, seem to remember running into the walls a lot.

 

[neilbard]

Which legendary team of the '70's had a Bachelor of Science and an economics and politics graduate in their side?

 

[Gwylan]

Liverpool

Steve Heighway had the economics degree.

Brian Hall also had a degree.

What's happened to graduate footballers? Off the top of my head, I can think of Heighway, Hall. Coppell, Galvin, Neale and Gowling - all played in the 70s and had degrees (Alan Gowling had a masters as well) . You hardly hear of graduate footballers these days: is that because it's now so common, it's not worth mentioning or because there are so few? I genuinely don't know

 

[LlcoolJ]

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[AZ Gull]

Brian Hall also had a degree.

What's happened to graduate footballers? Off the top of my head, I can think of Heighway, Hall. Coppell, Galvin, Neale and Gowling - all played in the 70s and had degrees (Alan Gowling had a masters as well) . You hardly hear of graduate footballers these days: is that because it's now so common, it's not worth mentioning or because there are so few? I genuinely don't know

They are still about:-

6 football players with Master’s Degrees

The Premier League's Brainiest XI - the top-flight footballers with amazing academic abilities

From an Albion perspective, Steve Palmer had a degree from Cambridge University and Peter Suddaby gained a BSC (Hons) in Mathematics at the University of Swansea. Paul Fuschillo also had an economics degree.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Which legendary team of the '70's had a Bachelor of Science and an economics and politics graduate in their side?

Oxford or Cambridge?

However... I stand by what I said, few and far apart.

 

[The Spanish]

Didn't Steve Coppell have a degree? And I think Graham LeSaux read the Guardian.

He did read the guardian but apparently was quite a clever bloke.

 

[W.C.]

I'm guessing, that getting LR in at the Albion, CH has surrounded himself with people whom he can trust and have a bit of nous about them.

Maybe, but we do seem to have been blessed in the last decade or so with some pretty special players. Calde and Bruno, I'm looking at you.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Fact free tripe, instead of shilling for the Grauniad why not look at the figures for police brutality?
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Not saying the US doesn't have problems but this isn't one of them.

But its worse than that, taking a knee is equivelent of burning your own neighbourhood down in a riot. american Patriotism, that looks OTT from here has always been a method to bind people together REGARDLESS of race etc, by unpicking this they risk escalating racial conflict.

Wrong way to protest over the wrong issues by the wrong people to do it. crap journalism.

Almost on principle I have ne'er put anyone on ignore on here. You're the closest anyone has ever got.

But much of what you write is so predictable it's laughable and quite entertaining, which probably isn't the intended reaction. Keep up the good work.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

He did read the guardian but apparently was quite a clever bloke.

I can remember reading something by Le Saux where he said all his team-mates thought he was gay because he read the Guardian and collected antiques.

 

[Mayonaise]

If he doesn't make a career in football after he retires (he has a great chance) then his journalism skills are pretty good IMO.

You are so right. His seems articulate and can piece an argument together with a structure that makes it an easy read. Love the guy.