Rayvin
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Yeah so from what I can tell on this, a woman made an anti-trans tweet and was interviewed by Northumbria Police. Someone somewhere flagged this to the club who suspended her season ticket in line with their policy as ewerk mentions. And now apparently people are raging at NUFC for taking a pro-trans stance (they haven't) and for attacking freedom of speech (they didn't).
That's my read on it. Pissed off the right people for the wrong reasons.
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38 minutes ago, ewerk said:
The club has said it’s policy to suspend the membership of anyone under police investigation so it seems that is why this has happened rather than due to the nature of the alleged crime.
Watch this key detail get lost in the maelstrom of outrage.
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I continue to appreciate this thread @LongTimeAdmirer. Cheers 👍
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Agreed, we're missing Gordon's influence on the wing. Do we have anyone else who can play up top though?
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This is absolutely cringe inducing at this point.
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8 minutes ago, Ginolaandtonic said:
And also if someone could answer why the Jordanian and Egyptian borders are shut to fleeing Palestinians and why Hamas wouldn’t let them leave even if they could.
Because those countries can't sustain that influx of people, and moreover it isn't their responsibility to do so.
As for Hamas, they are a terrorist organisation that relies on continued strife to function. If there is no continued strife, they don't have a lot going for them.
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Just to be really clear G&T, as an ardent left winger, I do not consider myself to be "abandoning my Jewish friends". I think advocating for an end to Israeli oppression of Palestine is the only way any of the people on either side of this can ever become safe and live without the spectre of death hanging over them. I may be 'wrong' in my interpretation of that but it is 100% motivated by the desire for to protect the lives and humanity of both sides. It's not an either/or, it's "both".
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What is the penalty if we breach FFP btw?
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PIF should buy a stake in various firms that sponsor other premier league clubs and force them all to go through the same shit they're asking us to do.
This all feels fanciful from the PL to be honest because so far we've been entirely clean about this as far as I can tell, and in the end if we really wanted to start screwing them, we would find a way.
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Even I'm struggling to have sympathy with him. At some point in that continuous cycle of decline and poor judgment he should have stood up and done something to stop it. It's all well and good saying he's see everything correctly now, and I hope he is, but he took a long fucking time to do it. His journey in life may be much better from here, but he destroyed himself despite the efforts of a great many people around him. At least he seems to acknowledge that on some level.
Hope he's a better father than he was a professional.
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I see this thread has gone in a very traditional TT direction.
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I thought we played well, did what we could, but between injuries to key players and Dortmund just being a very good team, we couldn't find a way through. The commentators kept going on about how we needed to win this game etc but I was just sat there proud of the team and enjoying it. First time back in 20 years, who gives a shit really if we qualify or not. Still fancy us to beat Milan anyway so should get 3rd at least.
Tino MOTM on our side, looks a really good player.
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Never a booking on Hall. Honestly think we've been decent overall though except for the goal which was a bit of a mess. I can see us scoring tbh.
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If we were full strength I'd fancy us to be making a serious run at being 'best of the rest' this season tbh.
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On 02/11/2023 at 06:13, LongTimeAdmirer said:
Got my first gaming laptop arriving tomorrow
Gonna pick up Baldurs gate 3, cyberpunk, starfield and not come out of my room for the whole summer.
Gonna be marvelous
Specs?
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Well that's been a pretty fantastic weekend of results for us!
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Superb player. I feel like he would walk straight into most back lines in the top ten tbh. Are there any better ball playing CBs in the league? Not for my money.
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1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said:
Under Keegan/Robson/Rafa, I wouldn't have been confident of beating Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal with half of our first team injured. As good as they were as managers, and as many good results we had under them.
Putting 8 past SHU, thrashing PSG, scoring 5 against Spurs in 20mins. These used to be once a season highlights. These games are happening every other week atm!
Add in the turnaround in players like Joelinton, Murphy, Longstaff, Lascelles etc. and Howe, imo, is the best manager we've had in the premier league.
Totally agree, and I ended up thinking this yesterday myself. He's the best manager we've had in the PL era and that is no disrespect to the monumental achievements of Robson and Keegan, but simply speaks volumes as to how incredibly good Howe is. I hope he's here for the next decade or more frankly.
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They didn't even lose 3 points man, they lost 1. Is this really that big a deal? They may not like it but the logic behind the decisions is clear as day. They have to find a clear reason to chalk it off, they couldn't, it's done.
I would assume at some point in history Arsenal sat down and approved that particular rule/failed to raise an objection when all this was coming out, so they have absolutely no leg to stand on. The Liverpool one was totally different because that was a bit of a fuck up based on human error in process, but this is VAR doing what it's meant to do by the book.
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Aye, absolutely love Gordon. Really intelligent player with a lot of skill, energy and passion.
Post game interview when he was talking about how he used to obsess about goals and assists and now just focuses on being trustworthy for the manager. Love it. Great attitude.
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Well that was pretty special
Am going to be digging into the Arsenal forum on this one...
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Fractures forming in global Jewish communities over this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/04/us-jews-rift-gaza-israel-crisis
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54 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:
If Starmer wasn’t such a wet lettuce he’d put PR in the manifesto but we all know that ain’t going to happen.
I do think the Brexit stuff is bluster. He’ll start the ball rolling for closer alignment once in power. He’s just desperate not to be the next kinnock
That's fair enough but he'll get my vote when he grows a pair. I'm just too angry to do everyone on the other side of our leanings the kindness to moving on.
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4 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:
how does choosing not to vote speed up the journey to proportional representation?Well I sway between spoiling my ballot and voting for a party that I feel is well enough aligned. Either way it gets counted.
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I kind of get that the Tories do whatever it takes to retain power as a default but what is even the point of this beyond that anymore? They have no vision, no plans, they're just stumbling around reacting to things until they eventually get removed. Even trying to look at them through a Tory friendly lens, I don't understand why they wouldn't just want to get this over with and start a rebuild of whatever it is they think their party stands for.
Why go through the death throes, just end it ffs.