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Any time Lampard says the squad is thin, someone should tell him that Bakayoko played more than a dozen times for us in the Championship

There have been some wildly antisemitic posts on here over the past few weeks, far more blatant than the low-level casual Islamophobia you tend to get on here (and in British society in general)

What term would you prefer we use to describe people who are prejudiced against Muslims?

Have you ever asked a “normal practising Islam” (sic) whether they agree with these kinds of attacks? Or is it almost time to wheel out the Guardian poll from 2016 again?

Obviously he was. The ‘game’ as it were is deciding whether his religion is the single most important aspect of the story The Mail could have chosen to highlight the heroism of the congregation, the horror of an attack on Yom Kippur, the calls to protect the Jewish population….many other papers...

Clearly, although I wouldn’t say that was the focus of the Mail’s headline

It was - I’m still surprised it took Starmer until today to make any comment on it, and I’ve been surprised by how little coverage it’s received in general. Not that I expect them to do anything about it, but the fact the Mail’s front page on Friday decided to focus squarely on the knifeman’s...

No-one in government has yet said it’s a terror attack, and I think that’s concerning and worth discussing. If you think there’s not even a comparison to be made when a church gets firebombed a couple of days after a synagogue gets attacked then that’s fine, that’s your prerogative. But I think...

Ah OK only two people inside, totally different then! If this country is going to be a place where the worst thing you can say about places of worship getting firebombed is that it’s “not nice”, and that the men in balaclavas running around doing it aren’t terrorists (whereas other peaceful...

I’m afraid I do find it difficult to see the differences between the three attacks. The number of people killed by the perpetrators are the only meaningful difference, and clearly it’s only pure luck that prevented that from being the case in Peacehaven. Unless of course, you’re suggesting the...

Islam and Ben Sheaf, the two existential problems threatening Western civilisation, both must be crushed.

I’m struggling to see how the two events aren’t comparable. They’re both terror attacks on places of worship based on religious hatred, there’s no place for either in our society. Again, this is different from saying one attack is somehow worse than the other.

I’m sorry - a church with people inside was firebombed by men in balaclavas, not even 48 hours after a knifeman attacked a synagogue and murdered a guy on Yom Kippur, but they’re not comparable? I’m not even here to arrange them in some kind of power rankings of evilness, I’m just saying this...

Not really comparable to what?

You’re right, but he’s never going to be in the running for say, the Spurs or Arsenal jobs, no matter what he does here. Can’t imagine Liverpool ever taking him either. Supposedly he’s persona non grata at West Ham etc etc

Seems like we had another terror attack on a place of worship over the weekend, although there has been little to no introspection from the media or politicians in response https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2dglp43xmo

It’s an unusual situation as his reputation as a player actually prevents him from ever taking a lot of big jobs - even a Chelsea ST holder I know says they wouldn’t consider having him back for a third time, at least not for many years.

Tbh sometimes I think his complaints are a little overblown, as the amount of quality we have in the squad seems relatively par for the course for a non-parachute payment Championship side. He’s obviously used to working with much bigger squads too. But seeing the intensity that we’re playing...

Isn’t it Chris Jones who handles the fitness training? Him and Dr Claire deserve huge credit, the fitness levels of the squad as a whole are the best I can remember.

You call it a batch?