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Funnily enough when Utd fans froth over how much of a thug he is for that (which I also think was accidental btw), they forget to mention that Ibrahimovic just elbowed him in the head for no reason earlier in that game. Whilst I agree with most of your post, I think the Ibrahimovic incident is where it basically all stems from, ever since Utd and Ibrahimovic fans, and to an extent other Top 6 fans, have tripped over themselves to declare that Mings is a talentless thug despite clearly never watching him play, and the sheer volume of those comments has steered public opinion, you hear he's a clearing in the woods enough times without seeing him play you end up just believing it.

The follow up tweets that state why are insane How are the employees gonna sabotage it, by improving the site instead of gutting it?

There's supposedly an accusation that Checo crashed in Monaco on purpose to secure P3 in qualifying.

Olsen is diving like Dad's do when they concede their toddler's shot.

Clever, albeit risky, defending from Mings, just enough to put Rashford off balance

Well he's only had one straight red his entire career, so two?

Of course you would, you realised no-one else would touch you with a ten foot barge pole. Prick.

I was 1 the last time we won at home against these. 27 years of spirited losses, bullshit refereeing and flukey goals, it feels so **** good to beat these cheating **** bastards! Emery is a God!

Haha, Hendrie barely talking on comms now, you can tell he's played in these games a few times!

After the "You won't win anything with kids" game the FA struck a deal with Utd to never let them lose at VP again

Shit, hope that's not the knee he did at Bournemouth

Watkins has been magnificent today, reckon he'll fit Emery's system beautifully

You've got to pass that there Bailey!

Shouldn't have said anything

I feel horrible, we could be battering these 10-0 and I'd be convinced they could come back 10-11. At least it's good to feel something about Villa again though

I get the feeling that Norwich fans are a little entitled and expect to walk the Championship whenever they get relegated, anything less is terrible.

It's a great example of why players dive, no way he gets a penalty if he doesn't go down even though he was blatantly kicked by Robinson.

I'm not normally one for the whole you can't criticise someone who's better than you argument, and I get this is TalkSport's schtick, but who the **** are Jermaine Pennant and Jamie O'Hara to be debating whether Pique is one of the greatest defenders ever!? Personally I would probably say he isn't, but to be so dismissive of it is ridiculous, you make the argument by saying he's not as good as Maldini or Nesta or Barini or Beckenbauer or Moore or McGrath and so on, not by just going "yeah well he played with good players", then how come both of you looked so shit?

Oh I know, but that's the elephant in the room with Musk justification for sacking so much staff, that's why I was laughing at it. He'd rather people believe he sunk $44bn into a company that was losing $1.2bn per year instead of realising that his purchase increased Twitter's losses by $1bn per year. Either way, it doesn't make him look like a great businessman! There is an argument that Twitter was just about to reach profitability before the pandemic as it had two profit making years in a row, the only ones in their history, but it's hard to say how much the pandemic truly effected them and whether they would bounce back from it, but as with all tech companies, it was massively overinflated in price when Musk made the offer to buy it, so even then it wasn't really worth it.

I think one of my favourite things about twitter at the minute is the amount of blue checks sacrificing their accounts to hammer home the point to Musk that the verification process is there for Twitter's benefit, not the user's. I also saw a fairly serious thread about it from an actor whose name I can't remember now (Robert something, he's got a Jewish/Eastern European sounding last name and was in Eastenders and the Warcraft movie), talking about how before he used social media he got contacted by parents whose 11-15 year old kids had been talking to "him" online and that one of them even went missing, so he signed up to every platform he could to make an official account he could control and point to as the real him, preventing people using his name as a way to groom kids. The "value" of the blue check is simply to prove someone is who they say they are, so Twitter can both claim to have the real X on their site whilst also defending themselves from potential legal action that they are allowing people to defame X by posing as them on Twitter. Why would someone pay for the privilege of helping Twitter?

If I knew someone that everytime I saw them down the pub they were moaning about things being too woke I would absolutely say they were outraged by it. Outrage isn't a new word, it's been a word used to descrive the hyperbole used by the likes of the Mail my entire life that I've heard plenty of people use in real life.

I think you're outraged by it because it's a common theme among a lot of your posts, you talk about how much you hate "wokeism" all the time.

The irony of this being that you are so outraged by "extreme wokeness" and clearly don't understand what "wokeness" is that you don't realise that people who would actually claim to be woke would find this example of someone pretending to be disabled when they aren't to be itself extremely offensive and ableist , so much so it looks more like an attempt at anti-woke "comedy" that you've fell for rather than an actual real example. Edit: Wait this is the Twitter thread, lol at Musk saying he had to cut jobs because Twitter is losing $1bn+ a year, why spend $44bn on it then

The point being that when the choice is between a shield and a round badge most people end up in two camps and don't judge the badges on their merit as designs, either you grew up with the round badge and associate it with our crowning achievement, whilst seeing the current badge as being tainted by the Lerner era, or you grew up with the shield badge and associate it with "modern" Villa, whilst seeing the round badge as too nostalgic and being stuck in the past. This is highlighted by the vote thread, the fans that are able to vote, i.e. season ticket holders who are more likely to have more disposable income and be a bit older (the average attending fan to football games a few years ago was in their early 40s), favour the round badge, which they grew up with, but fans that can't vote, likely younger or more recent fans, favour the shield badge, likely because they don't have the emotional attachment to the round badge which we only had for 20 years of our history. The other things you mention of course shouldn't be ignored, they've been near constants throughout our almost 150 year history, the shape of the badge has changed multiple times however and shouldn't be seen as important as the vital elements of the club. And of course opposition fans can view a badge design objectively, the reason I think Blues' badge is shit isn't because it's Blues, but because it's a weird, shitty clipart of a globe on top of a football, their lettered badge they had a few years ago, whilst a bit messy, was a million times better than their current one. I hate both Man Utd and Man City, but I think both of their badges are really good for different reasons. Whilst I would have loved Leeds to use the proposed badge from a couple years ago, I still thought the badge was shit - hence wanting them to adopt it.