Football Focus

[Ladygooner]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30212184

[Mick Mac]

Well, they are playing against a pub team after all LG.

[Parkdrive]

Alexis fooking Sanchez

[Jah Lush]

Hmm... Let's try again. Where would you be without Alexis Sanchez?

[Parkdrive]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Hmm... Let's try again. Where would you be without

> Alexis Sanchez?

Same place City would be without Aguero. So are you saying he's not a special talent?

[Jah Lush]

But they're much higher up the table than you. Anyway, I'll let it lie. Aquero is so good he reminds me of my boyhood hero Jimmy Greaves. That's how highly I rate him.

[Parkdrive]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> But they're much higher up the table than you.

> Anyway, I'll let it lie. Aquero is so good he

> reminds me of my boyhood hero Jimmy Greaves.

> That's how highly I rate him.

Not sure than the position in the table is a reflection of his talent, I think Sanchez is a steal at the price we paid for him. Great talent, and our best signing since Henry and Bergkamp.

[Jah Lush]

How about this for a goal?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30284831

[Alan Medic]

Keep up Jah.I posted that a couple of weeks ago and voted for her.

[Mick Mac]

Yeah - keep up Jah. Stop ignoring Declan's posts.

[Alan Medic]

And I practically begged everyone to vote for her. Bloody boys club this..........

[El Pibe]

wexcford youths is my Dulwich Hamlet replacement.

Saw the ladies play too...champions you know!! Or cup winners....i forget which...

[El Pibe]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30289692

Basically a perfect microcosm of all that is wrong with the modern world

a) twitter 'storm' as news (or 'miss miss, barry called you a slag')

in fact b) twitter

c) the democratisation of stupidity

d) people sharing the stupidest stuff without thinking

but most of all

e) people getting so fecking offended by everything the whole time, usually hypothetically on other people's behalf.

Pikeys the lot of them!!!!

[Parkdrive]

Or alternatively Balotelli is an idiot (now there's a shock)who posts inappropriate stuff on social media.

[Alan Medic]

He reposted something which might offend black people and jews. Given he's black and was brought up by a jewish family he's probably an idiot but really who cares.

[El Pibe]

He didn't really understand that a minorly crass attempt at anti-racism had clearly been edited in order to make it racist.

That makes him a bit of an idiot, albeit in this case a vaguely well meaning idiot.

None of which is really the point.

To reiterate AM's point, given his background any attempt at a racism smear should be laughable, but never underestimate people's ability to be offended on the off chance that someone somewhere may theoretically be!!

[Mick Mac]

I have never agreed with the defence of - I can say that 'cos I'm half black/jewish/irish / my mums a muslim etc

all the more reason for not joining in with racist rubbish

I'm not making this point on the balotelli issue (on which I agree with El Pibe) - just a general thought cos it annoys me when people defend themselves in this way - its not a justification.

[Alan Medic]

Today at work this colleague was horrified that the most popular boys name in 2014 was Muhammad or so she read. She didn't want to discuss it with me without my having said anything meaningful anyway. Anyway I had to leave early to go to the dentist but found this article and sent it to her:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/muhammad-isnt-uks-most-popular-4726470

I didn't get any reply. By the way my appointment was with the beautiful Dr.Islam.

The question is, is it safe for me to go to work tomorrow?

* When I say she didn't want to discuss it, it appeared to me that it was because she didn't want anyone to disagree with her that this was happening in her beloved country.

[????]

Big fat sam's claret and blue army, surely some mistake

[LouiseC]

Well done Stevie G, shining light in a slightly improved but still very average LFC performance tonight.

[El Pibe]

good article AM, not entirely sure why its in here.

But yes, all its revealing of is a tremendous lack of imagination among muslims when naming their kids ;)

Jes?s has massively fallen out of favour in Spain, though Mar?a still dominates...spaniards do tend to obsess about their mothers so no surprise the holy mother still wins!!

[Mick Mac]

Ouch

http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/academy-news/item/8192-report-rangers-16-celtic

[Alan Medic]

I?m searching for a tenuous link to the Balotelli twitter storm to justify posting it here EP. I?m sure I had one yesterday but I?ve forgotten what it was.

[El Pibe]

david moyes, legend!!

 

[red devil]

El Chosen Juan...