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Just realised as I started the thread I can change the title so we're not stuck on Englands 2019/20 tour anymore! Tour to SA descend into farce. Postponed games, then cancelled due. Players all coming home due to failed tests which now turn out to be false positives. Not sure we'll get any...

How will it work then? If huge chunks of students have been missing weeks and there's no time to catch up on that work then surely if you grade in the same way as other years there's going to be a problem. Or are we just accepting that the main aim of exam results is to push people through to...

that's true. but if you take it to its logical conclusion and every team closes their academy because its better to pick up out of contract players where are those players coming from? If we're going to rely on private academies then we need to be sure of their long term viability. Or are they...

But out of those isn't Marosi the only one that didn't come through the academy system? Just because they didn't come through ours doesn't invalidate it, if all clubs close their academies that out of contract pool of talent disappears.

I'm not sure how you could take booing of the players taking the knee as anything other than a racist gesture when the players explicitly stated they were taking a knee purely against discrimination and not in agreement with any political messaging or ideology.

He does't really as the players made a statement before the game explicitly stating it wasn't in support of a political movement.

Lockdown was really just doing what they experts had been saying all summer. If you want to open up schools something else has to close to offset it. So we kept schools open but closed bars, restaurants etc. One for the teachers on here. With the huge numbers of students and staff off, and...

How have you come to that conclusion? Millwall released a statement before the last game explicity stating they weren't taking the knee in support of BLM, something I don't think any other club had to do. If you think the booing was for reasons other than racism you might want to take a look at...

Looking at it objectively what do you think is more likely? Scenario A Fans of a club with a history of issues with racism, whose board were concerned enough about the potential response to their players taking a knee they issued a statement in advance stating it wasn't political and wasn't in...

Nothing, same as there was no need to highlight all the grounds at the weekend where players were able to take the knee without being booed. Its just a few seconds of staying silent or clapping, hardly deserve a medal for it.

But they haven't done it all season, Millwall have and now they're stopping after their fans booed while missing a press release making it its an anti-racism stance.

Something similar to ice hockey? https://www.eliteleague.co.uk/article/680-stephen-dixon-suspended-for-two-games They have a list of categories and anything in one of those categories is automatically reviewed. Teams can also request a review for any other incident.

Educational? That sounds a good scam business model.

I think I must be missing something. How is Millwall and QPR not taking the knee in their game this week a positive thing? The press release makes out they're doing it as an anti-racism gesture. Seems to me more a case of knowing the booing will be repeated and not being prepared to deal with it.

That statement reads as a very long way of saying we don't want to spend the money anymore. Is the theory that places like the Strachan academy we've recruited from in the past pick up the slack? How do places like that work, do you have to pay to go there?

Question for the non-Tories on the thread, interested to know where people get their news from these days? Politically I'd probably be classed as 'anyone but the Conservatives' having voted Green, Lib Dem and Labour at various points in the past. Finding that these days its a struggle to get...

So far today government ministers have claimed Johnson never said there was an oven ready deal and blamed the inability of the government to do the 'easiest deal in history' on the Labour Party, who haven't been in power for 10 years, and remainers, who were constantly told anything they flagged...

I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like for a family to have to go through something like this. RIP.

Or he's a Sheff Wed fan who had just scored a 90th minute winner against Sheff Utd. Which one is more likely? I mean they even explained it on the commentary. There's enough genuine problems around without idiots like that making rubbish up to be offended about.