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Regardless of where you stand on Mourinho, the 'stability' argument is a very weak one. The man almost personifies volatility and instability!

Of course he did. I t does not take 'sources' and investigative journalism to figure that one out!

Yeah, but does that report belong to the game?!

Wtf, Jose? Attacking a reporter for doing his job! Sigh....Is he really that insecure and unconfident at the moment?!

This reminds me so much of the good ol' days of the Lukaku thread. I could tell whether or not he's scored by the activity in the thread

The class divide today is probably more severe than it has been for at least a century, It's been getting devastatingly worse for the past 40 years in particular where the working goal has been to maximize short-term profit at the expense of....well everything, really!

Sorry to pick out just one sentence from an entire (pretty well written) post, but this part really raised my eyebrow. What do you call the TTP, TTIP and TISA, then?! I think you think that when people say stuff like that they are imagining cartoon villains plotting to take over the world and then laughing an evil laugh while stroking their pet cat. Of course it's not that clear. There's no black and white good and evil. Heck, I'd even argue that the vast majority of criminals, including those running countries, in their heads rationalize all the awful things they do and believe that their actions are actually moral or at the very least that 'anyone else in their place would do the same'. In reality it's really very simple. There are obviously exceptions and statistical anomalies, but generally, the rich and powerful will use their wealth and power to get more rich and powerful. And they'll do so either by occupying the most critical positions in any power system or by controlling the people who do occupy those positions. And there is a whole system designed just for that through lobbying, campaign donations...etc. or through 'connections'. Which only leaves the small matter of keeping the entire rest of the population conforming with the status quo as much as possible. And that is done from an entire system that starts in schools to university and to the most powerful tools: the media. But you are right, it is a system and the current participants in the system, be it on the ruling side or the 'ruled' side, both think that what they do is only normal. But that does not mean that the powerful do not actively plan to deliberately lie and deceive people for their own gain. There are too many examples to name, but just to give the most obvious ones from recent history: Iraq and the WMD, the billions spent on 'research' and adds to deny global warming, the so called 'too big to fail' bullshit after the 08 crisis, the Charlie Hebdo march, the tribal provocations regarding the 'migrant crisis'......etc. EDIT: As for the original point which was about systematic racism in the US. A quick look at the 4 centuries of blacks in the US and you can't but realize that at least some of the policies that leads to the systematic racism in the US are pretty much deliberate. Spike mentions a good couple of them above, but even the so called 'drug war' was intentionally meant to criminalize black lifestyles (in the US, it had different arguably more devastating aims in Latin America). The aim is to have black Americans doing free prison labor for large corporations and from the corporation's perspective it's even better than slavery because even their food is paid for by the state i.e. the average people's tax money.

Sigh...If only emotions were that rational.

This is the one. This is the one, isn't it? Lose this one, and whoever the club has got lined up will have to come in ASAP or we could forget about top. It's looking unlikely already.

Calm down. We're all frustrated but there's no need for that kind of homophobic language.

Dunno if any of you have noticed, but this REALLY is not our season!

But he didn't play any game time between his last performance which was bad and this performance which was good

Confidence. Or lack of. Which is completely understandable. Could really use a bit of luck, or a moment of individual brilliance to get a goal and bring confidence up.

Yes, tell the media to break the news to all the peasants...

Okay, NOW he deserves a a run in the team.

Genuinely, some of our fans are so spoiled beyond comprehension. Matic and Fabregas on this season's form wouldn't get into a championship side, yet some still want to act like it's beneath them to support a team that has Mikel and Ramires in it, despite the fact that both have performed A LOT better in their limited time this season than Matic and Fabregas! This is no time for arrogance. We're in a real crisis here. During the 90 minutes, get behind whoever has a blue shirt on!

To be fair, I was active during the Cap and Pub golden days eras unlike yourself, so the majority of my posts were incoherent useless crap!

If you genuinely believe that then I apologize for and take back everything I've said on the last couple of pages!

I say we hire Spike to take him out from the inside He'll never see it coming!

So, you're saying that it's just Jason standing between this place and us ensuing chaos on this place?! Oh, this will be goooooood!

Congrats, you've proven the most obvious hyperbole inaccurate. The equivalent of providing scientific evidence showing that it is impossible when your friend says he's so hungry he could eat a horse But you've also, by pointing to the stat out of context which in turn prompted me to acquire the full stat, helped prove the actual point right: That Costa is shit at aerial duels. Cheers!

The only sad bastard in the world who has nothing better than to spend ages writing 31 thousand posts on TC! (yes, I fully realize that as far as sad bastards go, I'm that much behind him! )

We could open a TC law firm if pedantic arguing in the winning quality!

No, I've quite enjoyed, tbh You know, it's good to get out the child inside once in a while and what not...

Fine, I'll get into a childish fight with you, it's been a long time since I got into one though You said that you only knew how many he's won this season and not how many he's attempted, then you said that Squawka only displays how many he's won which is a blatant lie to childishly try to manipulate the stat (which you introduced into the debate) to your point of view, because the picture I posted is from fucking SQUAWKA! I'm sorry, but I just found it hilarious that after YOU introduced a crap stat completely out of context, you then proceeded to say that it is completely irrelevant (and don't care about it) then you blatantly lied about it and its context and now you feel like you've won that 'debate' and that and that any unbiased (and unfortunate) person reading this will be convinced by your solid logic?! :lol: