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I'm guessing you've already seen Ken Burns' Vietnam series, but if anyone else hasn't seen it, it's incredible.

I can't remember the rules, but I think if you go into admin after a certain date, and it's academic in terms of whether it affects promotion or relegation, then the points deduction rolls over to next year.

I've got a lot of unpopular Coventry opinions, but none more so than Dennis Wise. He was riding a once-in-a-career hot streak which would have inevitably fallen off a cliff, and those who would put him into their all-time Coventry XIs based off a dozen games are crazy. This is a weapons-grade...

I didn't mean to be patronising, so I'm sorry it came across that way. I haven't called anyone a coward or a racist, and I don't think anyone who gets asked if they're unwittingly part of the problem should assume that's how they're being viewed. No-one's being accused of anything they should be...

I think it's a shame if people are that fragile about it. Not that I'm some kind of model example, but when people have told me I'm part of the problem, I didn't assume they were saying I was directly responsible for racism, or was a card-carrying racist. Yeah, maybe it's a bit of a shock to the...

I'm not going to argue with most of that. But I do think it's interesting that you take offense to being told you're part of the problem. Personally I don't have any issue with being told that, and find that it's been quite useful in terms of opening my eyes and mind to it properly. Anyway! On...

I think it's disingenuous to say that you're only interested in constructive real-world change, when the overwhelming majority of the questions you ask are geared towards undermining the Black Lives Matter movement in some way. I think you've got some valid concerns about some of the more...

Not sure Flanagan can fill that sweeper role imo

True, but you want to be looking at the overall trend rather than comparing individual players to each other. Man City have a distorting effect on any transfer graph because of how crazy their finances are, so they have the luxury of being able to rotate as you mention - that's their entire...

It would be funny if someone in this thread said he was rubbish. Because actually he's really good and we want to sign him.

So does Villa releasing O'Hare say they have doubts he can do the business in the Championship anytime soon? Would be a nice narrative if he proves them wrong with us, I suppose.

I honestly don't get how hearing more people like Dizzee Rascal say they can't be bothered to talk about it right now is crucial to advancing the national dialogue. But I can see why it might be reassuring to someone who would be much happier talking about other stuff instead. As for Robbie...

These kinds of peaceful, non-confrontational gestures are precisely the kinds of things that the football community has been doing for days now (taking a knee, BLM on the shirts etc), yet people still complain it's being 'shoved down our throats' and start leaping to the defense of those who...

I enjoy the weather reports on GMTV (Good Marxist Television). Turns out it's going to be sunny again tomorrow, comrade!

Discussions are fine, but you can easily block progress by chasing after every tangent and strawman argument. There's never a shortage of them, it's often a lot easier to spend your energy on bad faith arguments and whatabout-ism. Plenty of people fall for it, some people even enjoy it. Others...

Of course you're allowed, but it seems like a weird hill to die on. You've got an obsession with every last troll and perceived slight in the media that most people are capable of ignoring (well, apart from me, apparently). You go to great pains to say you want to find a solution, yet here you...

Half of all journalists seems......a bit hysterical to me. But am I even allowed to discuss the media with you? For someone who claims to be desperate to find a solution to racial inequality, you do seem to spend a lot of time deflecting, defending and diverting. Why is that?

I've heard of some dodgy HR policies in my time, but "We're cool if you feel like you want to hire a plane to stir up racial tensions in the local community" is a new one for me. Maybe I should start asking about it at interviews.

I'm not trying to turn it into an accusation, it's just an uncomfortable fact - nothing to be ashamed of. I say that knowing I'm part of the problem too, and I can do more. If I sat around and patted myself on the back for all the non-racist stuff I've done in my life so far, and argued at every...

You do the first thing you did with that video - listen. Get uncomfortable. Educate yourself. I'm sure 99% of the people who've done the things that Robbie Earle describes are folks who'd say they have no problem with black people at all. They probably weren't intending to offend anyone, they...