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Pep's the bees knees but if he was called Kevin Keegan he'd be crucified for that game. Man City battered Spurs yet Tottenham scored three and had a couple of half chances as well. Waiting for the first 'tactically naive' comment from the usual bullshitters though it might be some time. Great game to watch but still preferred the Ajax game on Tuesday. (As an aside, BT had Peter Drury commentating on that one whereas their main man on the mic is Darren 'Fletch' Fletcher alongside his mate Steve 'Macca' McManaman. If BT think Fletcher is a better commentator than Drury than maybe they need to advise Pep and Klopp to drop Sterling and Salah and buy and play Jacob Murphy and Joselu instead).

What's really impossible to tolerate is that a modern left-wing party in a developed country is still having anti-semitism problems in the 21st century. The only logical explanation is that there is actual institutional anti-semitism in Labour and they have failed to stamp it out. That lands at the doorstep of leadership. Take the Democrats, for example. One of their representatives made a comment that wasn't even anti-semitic, but touched upon some tropes that are associated with anti-semitism (it was a comment about pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.) Immediately, party leadership stomped on her and forced an apology before it could get out of hand. The Republicans are trying to fan the flames but really aren't getting anywhere (largely because the vast majority of actual anti-semites in America vote Republican, while Jewish voters overwhelmingly vote Democrat.) Of course, Judaism and especially Israel hold a different place in US politics than they do in UK or European politics. Israel is the sacred cow that can never be directly criticized, here. All the same, Labour have done a wretched job of managing the situation and that is squarely down to Corbyn. He still thinks he is a 70's revolucionista, fighting for Tibet and Palestine and all the other oppressed people of the world while his own country is getting fucked over before his eyes, with his party complicit in such. What a joke.

You lost all pedantic privilege after that novella, sorry

Took this the other day it’s where I was brought up.....quite pleased with it

Glad that was in spoilers. Added a nice element of surprise to someone else hating the mackems. I knew it was coming but I didn't know what form it was going to take. Does this mean we have a patented "Special Relationship" with Coventry now?

Maybe they'll learn after the third relegation.

Not that it’s anything anyone with a football pulse didn’t know but talk about literally giving the game away. Barely surviving is a good season and the cunt running the whole shebang told local journalists he’s happy with that. Probably would’ve sad the same had his wages not been recently doubled too.

I said it before and will say it again: Charnley is the biggest charlatan of all of them. For someone who should know from own experience what the club was like before Ashley his blind obedience to the fat cunt is treasonous.

To be quite honest, I'm struggling to find much supporting evidence either. This is all remembered from a paper I wrote on the topic in high school, before internet research really existed. I got it out of some books and monographs written about the conflict, but I may be misremembering the level of Palestinian support for the UN plan. It's plausible that I had it wrong - this is an area I've studied a lot, but it's not the area of my professional expertise. This book, which is partially available online, does include some evidence supporting a Palestinian acceptance of partition. Some wanted to maintain good relations with Jews for economic reasons and others, as I said earlier, wanted partition in order to facilitate union with Jordan. King Abdallah of Jordan had always been pro-partition, probably because he had ambitions of regional dominance.

If VAR means you have nothing to complain about during a game, you're not watching the players enough. Yedlin's first touch is enough to give me an aneurysm

And that is a perfectly reasonable and non-antisemitic view to have. Some people can't just leave it at that though.

I think zionism as a desire for a homeland is no different to the same desire of quite a few displaced peoples. Netanyahu's version which shits on Palestinians is quite objectionable though imo.

When you keep saying you learn new things with practically every post, maybe, just maybe, it's possible you knew nothing in the first place?

Well, hang on. The Palestinians did consent to the UN partition plan of 1948. It was the other Arab states that refused "on their behalf", which was really one of the great tragedies of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

You're not at work now radgepacket

While I support your stance on VAR I cannot let “if the SHOW was on the other foot” pass without ridicule, yes it is a typo but it is very CT esque.

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy/up-next Fuck you Ant!

A pair of tits that ruin watching a game. BT is shocking for Premier League coverage mind. Though the channel itself is great value so I can't bring myself to cancel in protest

It is ironic to see all the "we have no say" fuckers voting though.

Not to mention that most of the squad will be on their bikes, anyway, so it will be a case of getting defensive solidity out of worst players.

Is it? Didn't VAR get two huge, tie/competition changing decisions right during the game?

Your da was either a vicar or a pretty obvious serial killer.

I wouldn’t worry about it. Fairly dull affair in the end.

Well they’re Spurs.

What a stupid way to run a club. Put a useless bumhole in charge as MD, hobble the club’s commercial income and starve the best manager we’ve had in many years of the modest amount of cash needed to keep him happy. Then don’t communicate with him at all, to the point he’ll walk when his contract is up, inevitably exposing the club to relegation next season and a huge financial loss. Then they’ll throw money at winning promotion again. The whole thing is ridiculous. We’re being run like a fucking corner shop.

Not looking so daft now, is he?

“Who? Adam Holter? Never heard of her”.