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What's the name of that back 4 liability, the really poor defender, the guy we got from the championship... You know the one, the one who was on the bench while Engels started games with Mings? His name escapes me... Konso? Kensa? Utter championship crap

If we played this game last season, even with fit Grealis, it would have been seen as a good performace against a team from the very top. The very fact that many of us are moaning after this game shows that Dean Smith has to be praised because he has set the bar so high.

Who gives a shit about Leeds. Let them win the league for all I care, I hope Villa finish as high as possible, regardless of other teams.

What they will do is make a bad decision, confirm it is the right decision, and change the rules 2 days later.

They were in the last game against us (the 20 yard offside game)

The reason I sort of liked Philip is that he would have probably laughed at most of the responses in this thread.

Funny thing is (not knowing him at all) I think he would have probably called the whole thing a circus and, if he got his way, not bothered with anything public at all.

With Gnabry back, I can see Bayern scoring 5 goals. But with Naymar, Mbappe, Draxler and co, how many will they concede?

He has been our worst starting defender this season. He wasn't bad, he was very good, but it just shows the quality of the back 4.

Maybe. Or maybe he was lucky. You never know how much each factor attributes to those things.

I don't watch Dortmund that much anymore. Are Sancho and Bellingham similar players? Also, how do they compare to players like Sterling or Hazard?

Ask the British why they use two seperate taps rather than a mixer

Unless he is very poor and we lose 5 games because of a sub standard attacking force. *I don't think this would happen

It's a dangerous precedent. Let's say (and this will happen eventually) a player claims that they have been racially abused and the team walk off. It then turns out there has not been such abuse, or it's impossible to prove there was. Can a team simply walk off the pitch because they felt they have been done wrong and not face any consequence? Maybe a team should be able to walk off (if they feel like doing so, good on them) but they forfeit the game as a result of it? Good luck UEFA with figuring that out.

Based on your profile you live in California. Don't even dare talk to me about weather

Well, I think German lands are much more independent than counties or British regions. Also, Germany only came together as 'Germany' in 1870s so while it was 150 years ago, it isn't that long ago. To put it in perspective, Grandparents of the German friends Grandparents would have been alive in that time, and it sort of runs in the thought process/culture within families. Bavaria is much more like Basque country or Catalonia than Scouse land in that sense.

I couldn't agree with you more. But I give them much less credit in being an ideological party than you seem to. Boris is not the new general Pinochet; I see him as a slightly old fashioned, Oxford elitist populist who simply wants to win the next election. Hence, his treatment of the pandemic seems to run broadly along similar lines to that of his European colleagues. Lockdowns, controls, bans on ridiculous things, now vaccine passports. For better or worse, he has taken a big dump on individual rights and liberties and no one seems to care much. He has no comprehension of terms like "libertarianism" or "freedom", regardless of what his party PR might be pushing or what some his opponents seem to attribute to him.

Maybe, just maybe, the Tories are not the right wing devils many accuse them to be but a boring, middle of the road, populist centrist European party that will drive the economy to eventually collapse. Once you take that into account, it all makes more sense.

Granted, I only had the game on in the background and didn't pay that much attention. But has Davies been that good to change the perception of majority on here who (myself included) considered him to be a very poor footballer? Especially considering he played 20mins against Fulham?

No argument - hence I said, we shall see what the long term effect of these actions will be.

Too true

I hope he gets his meds. I guess what I wanted to get across is that people who are very narrow in their hard-line reasoning can often be proven wrong in the most unfortunate ways.

You are right, I may have overgeneralised, it was a lazy short term thought. But the ultra orthodox hard-line remainers also argued that Tories do not want a deal and are pushing for a no deal Brexit. Thus, if we leave -> there will be no deal -> people will die due to shortage of medicines. But that is a discussion for the other thread

While we don't really know what the long term effect of Brexit will be, one of the arguments of the ultra orthodox remainers was that should we leave, UK will have a shortage of medications that will result in many deaths. This was before the pandemic and like I said, the long term is to be seen, but right now it looks like they are being proven very wrong in the most unfortunate way.