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Just back from a few days in sunny Blackpool, watched the game with a blue I met from London. Superb night,get it right up you you fucking scummy yids. Who cares if one wasn't over the line, the other four were. Best laugh was Bale thinking they were back in it -cockend...

Not betting related but I felt the need to say I fucking hate Leeds too, ever since 1970, and got my arse kicked from one end of the street to the other for supporting Chelsea in the final - having said that it made me all the more determined to stick with Chelsea. It's amazing the lasting impression a thick lip can have on a 7 year old.

Too many teams stand back and admire Messi - a good Harrisesque 'reducer' would let him know he's in a game with Chelsea irrespective of whether the quotes and hype is true or not

Cheers, will do, I'll wait to see what the ba'bag comes back with first - WATP

I didn't realise you could do this, should call it the dicksplash list so technophobes like me can ignore wankers too

You haven't started supporting this club yet. I don't often post here but your puerile drivel leaves me no option to point out you're talking out a hole in your arse.

Get Clark and/or Butch back for a start as assistants then find a manager that can work with them. Benitez- ffs is this a serious contention, I really can't stomach the sight of the fat waiter in anything with a Chelse badge on it.

I thought first of all - cheeky get," pre Roman, prehistoric" but to be fair it seems pretty spot on - never realised that until I looked at it. We really don't keep managers and haven't done for decades

What pisses me off most - when we're three nil up do I think this could be 6 or 7 no., I think we'll be lucky to win this. That's maybe me, but I was right. Don't give much mind to the decisions or changes - the bottom line is you don't lose a 3 goal advantage at home - no matter who, no matter how

A mere smattering up here, never stop a game

Never too late to stop mate - you will start recovering within hours. I just can't stop having one fag a day despite knowing that it will probably fuck me up one day, sincerely hope your luck continues

One fag a day trebles your risk of smoking related disease - doesn't matter how fit you are the longer you smoke, the more you smoke it will get you, it will kill you, it will drown you and you will have your limbs cut off - bit by bit -- and I still can't stop

Very sad loss of a young life. RIP BITC

I get the tribalism bit and I've always that was what it was about - human nature. I've seen at at football from the fan's side and the policing side and it was always accepted for pretty much that. What's brought it more in to my mind is the impact the new, ill thought out, legislation is having in Scotland. Now city rivalries and regional differences are being lablelled as offensive/racist/sectarian and now pretty much no-one is that sure what is acceptable or what you're likely to get locked up for. There's no real recognition of what is said but more on the effect or possible effect of it so this gives the police and other authorities way too much discretion and very little is objective. If this happened in England then you could be locked up for singing In your Liverpool homes, I bought a flute for 50p and definitely any anti Spud/yid songs would end with you getting locked up, banned and the club sanctioned. The only people who wanted this law was the Scottish Government and the police (any power is good power). All other political parties, the churches, fans groups and pretty much everyone else was against it but its here now. This paranoia and over reaction is spreading - I had to take down a Union Flag I had on my desk in support of Help for Heroes. My argument that surely showing your national flag couldn't be considered racist but there you are - theres not another country in the World would do this.

This is my first topic I've started and I realise it's potentially contentious but I wanted to air it and discuss it in a fair and adult way. There was a touch on racism on other posts and I've always thought that football by its very nature is and really can't be anything else but racist, at least to some extent. What I mean is even, and in some ways especially, very small local teams start the whole sport on a racist footing. Your pub team plays the next village area and you immediately make reference to the difference between the teams based on the differences between them due to the area the teams come from. Almost every team is named after the area it comes from and therefore engenders a form of racism. This goes on to other bigger teams and ultimately national teams. Take Geordie, Scouse, Cockney, Northern, Jock, English etc etc. It doesn't have to be country based or skin tone based either - it's still racist. Being honest, what is the first thing that comes into your head when we play Liverpool, Spuds etc etc. What when your national team plays another team - " right boys - lets get into these dirty (insert region/county/country/ethnicity) bastards". Does that make us 90 minute bigots and therefore bigots outright. Can you divorce what your football feelings are from how you would consider things in other aspects of your life and if you can does that make a difference and mitigate what you say,sing shout on a Saturday afternoon. Can you genuinely say that a racist thought does not enter your head when you think about fixtures etc. Clearly, racism is wrong. What I wanted to hear was what you guys/girls though about how this imapcts on football now and what effect it will have on football in the future. There is new legislation in Scotland outlawing certain behaviour. It's directed at Rangers and Celtic fans but it is impacting on every match because of the regional differences inherent in football and it's structure. I honestly don't want to suggest AT ALL that racism is acceptable but I wondered what your thoughts were on how racism at different levels affects football. I hope some of this makes sense and you can see what I'm driving at.

I agree etirely. I could see the point in the BPOA and didn't have an issue with it at all - just didn'tlike the reaction when for sport I suggested the other. There were very important and necessary changes made after Stephen's murder - the vast majority of instituions were racist then and of course that had to change. The police, at that time, were very 'ist' and every minority/vulnerable group were on occasion mistreated - women, aliens (as the reference was then), Gypsies and any other non WASP group. It's thankfully changed but I'm ever watchful of and angered by the times when it's gone too far the other way. As I said it's not going to change until everyone treats everyone else equally and fairly.

I agree. I hate having to explain I'm not a racist because I'm not and that always sounds so defensive however I get seriously narked when there is one law for others. I used to be a cop and there is a black police officers association which is fair enough until, purely for arguments sake, I suggested a white police officers association with exact constitution and I was threatened with disciplinary action for merely suggesting it. It's never going to go away until everyone is treated the same by everyone so Abbot should go - if she can't express herself properly then she should use other mediums - she's a politician and can access any sort of medium that will allow her more than 140 characters. You have to consider the intent, the same as with Hansen - he was ill considered and should be pulled up and ensure it doesn't happen again but she had plenty of time to consider what she was saying and how she was saying it.

He canny do keepy up now though

Don't think he would have been given the mamager's job but what is a certain fact, no ifs buts or maybes, it was a massive mistake letting him go, same with Wilkins

A swally of the highest order mate...

There are a couple of micro breweries near me and some of the supermarkets are stocking a better range - good time to get into it, just hope I don't grow a beard, smoke a pipe and wear a cardigan.

My old ma always said I would drink anything, even through a shitty cloot (cloth). My daughter got me a range of real ales which I thoroughly enjoyed - must have had 20 over the New Year and not a doubler. I also had a couple of wee goldies which was my first since August at the Rangers Chelsea game. Talk about fire water to the Indians, I ended up alone, in Edinburgh and in short term police custody - I had to play my ex job card to get out of jail - stayed well away from them for a while. During the Old Firm game I had a drunken notion that my beers were sublimally talking to me as I had started with a Bishop's Finger and end with Bitter and Twisted which seemed to be just so Parkhead.

Just as well you don't go out much - Fekn hell Blue Lable

Should be told if he wants to play for Chelsea then he accepts a lower basic with a good win bonus - that goes for all of them. If they deliver they get the big money, if they don't they have to struggle on for what for most of us would be a couple of years wages per week - my heart bleeds for them

Typical Scouse attitude, they remind me of Celtic - ashamed of nothing, offended by everything