General Football 23/24

[topscorer]

Suarez scores an extra time equaliser. Incredible game, Villarreal were 4-2 up. With all the quality in the Villarreal squad, it's unthinkable to think there's a good chance of them getting relegated.

I went to that game. Behind the goal where Messi and Suarez scored.

What a game!

[Leyton388]

So Gordon Strachan looks like he's done his last TV job the dickhead.

[Fosterbloke]

So Gordon Strachan looks like he's done his last TV job the dickhead.

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[Sus]

He’s equated the abuse Adam Johnson will get to the racial abuse suffered by minority players

[ChesterDave]

I thought it was a clumsy comparison but I don't think he believes them to be the same. I thought he was probing how we deal with different types of abuse. Where is the line etc.

[Kenneth]

Rooney is still scum

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[Irishnev]

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[Kenneth]

[Red_Polo]

Never seen anything like it, **** me

[labourRed]

Hmm. Not a good look


https://twitter.com/afcDW/status/1114285106187919360

It looks bad but so was much of the pre game coverage. They were panning all over the ****ing place, from the centre of the pitch to the gantry etc. I can get the intention to make the armchair fan feel like they were there by covering the stadium as much as possible but the producers clearly lost the run of themselves, it was actually pretty amusing, to laugh at.

[Fosterbloke]

[Yozza]

What a load of horse **** - 'he did not know what a Nazi salute was'

Wayne Hennessey did not know what Nazi salute was - FA panel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47946382

The regulatory commission has published its written reasons for the decision.

It said Hennessey showed a "lamentable degree of ignorance" about Adolf Hitler, fascism and the Nazi regime.

Hennessey was pictured with his right arm in the air and left hand above his mouth in a photo posted on Instagram by German team-mate Max Meyer after Palace's FA Cup win over Grimsby on 5 January.

Hennessey denied the charge and said any resemblance to the Nazi gesture was "absolutely coincidental".

[shanks69]

Bull****,of course he knew

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[Scratch]

I dunno, pure ignorance or the fact that some footballers are notoriously thick might play a part. I mean, unless you watch war films or have an interest in the past, you're highly unlikely to see a Nazi salute in this day and age; even in jest it would be deemed offensive.

I think the key point was he was able to show the committee photos of him performing the same action when calling out to teammates on the pitch. The fact that he claimed to be ignorant of the Nazi salute however is the eye-catching headline, even if that wasn't the major factor in his acquittal.

Point of interest and I know there's an age gap, but my eldest (14) doesn't know what a Nazi salute is, cos he's never seen one done. However, his brother (11) does, cos they've just done WW2 in class.

[EwarWoo]

He may not know what a nazi salute is, I can believe that, but to co-incidentally add in the 'tache stretches credulity more than a wee bit.