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Its was a cracking goal, 99/100 it goes wide

They’re organised and defending him very well.

When we play with structure we look magnificent, it’s just the brain farts at the back letting us down.

Assuming Michael Cheika threatened to get the Tigers players to batter Cooper to scare him into playing this team.

The choice for Pakistan seems to be turners or absolute highways. They’re just not going to outscore England and I do think you can make the accusation that some members of this England team are flat track bullies. You just wouldn’t criticise Aussies for producing hard, fast, bowler friendly wickets, wouldn’t criticise the ECB for producing green tops, so why are they criticising Pakistan (perhaps some unconscious racism?)

Stokes in Asia average is only 14 since 2019 as well. One thing that annoys me is the criticism towards Pakistan producing rank turners. Personally I don’t see anything wrong with it. You develop pitches to your strengths and it is one of the beauties of test cricket and why it should be incredibly difficult to win away from home.

The downside of vibes based cricket. Saud has shown the rewards of clever cricket much like Smith yesterday.

Saud Shakeel with an amazing knock. The next hour decides the series imo. If Pakistan get a 50-100 lead, England are cooked.

Especially as we only had a 45 minute run out last week.

Depends. If he’s getting 15+ G/A in the prem, at 19. I think you’re looking at a lot more as he’d be a long term investment for a bigger club.

Are Barcelona ‘good’ good again? Or are Bayern crap?

Kristensen has been quietly going about his business. The fact nobody is talking about him much is a good sign. Dropping him would be stupid.

A good thread from a great Ukrainian poster about how the war may be winding down. another thing of interest to me is that Russia has gotten North Korea to fight for them but Belarus still hasn’t. Everyone says Belarus is a Russian client state but I do think Lukashenko has played it very cleverly throughout this war. While it’s clear they are a strong Russian ally, he has somehow maintained a sense of independence from them and is clearly rebuking Putin in spite of some very strong pressure. Maybe he’s terrified of being overthrown or maybe there’s something a bit deeper going on.

It’s going to be a slug fest and we’re going to have to be patient and to take the chances when they come. They seem very strong defensively but we have players to cause them problems and to produce a moment of magic. Smash and grab again maybe?

Different sport but he’s basically the balls on the line sort of coach that Cooper should learn from.

Horseshoe theory, both hate NATO for example.

Next season I could genuinely see Piastri outpacing Norris too. A bit more experience under his belt, and seems to have more about him.

Easy Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy But when I looked in his eyes, well, I fell for Okoli O-O-O-O-Okoli O-O-O-O-Okoli Well, I'm not dumb, cos I’m a Leicester fan And the way he heads the ball and then he beats his man Oh, my Okoli O-O-O-O-Okoli O-O-O-O-Okoli

Remember the case was not “was the police officer right or wrong to shoot him”, it was whether it was murder or not. The first one is massively nuanced and the officer shouldn’t escape the professional consequences of his actions. However the second one appears a lot more clear cut.

This is Emery though, his European record is crazy. He knows what it takes over two legs and you’ve got players like McGinn and Duran that can score from nowhere

Horrible feeling Villa are going to win the champions league

Yeah nicely summed up. Ultimately two truths can exist at the same time. Black people are disproportionately stopped/criminalised/profiled by the police due to institutionalised racism and unconscious biases that are left unaddressed. Kaba was engaging in deeply dangerous and immoral behaviour and as Patrick O’Shea once said “play with feathers, you get your arse tickled”.

I don’t think people are blinded by the points and league position. The criticisms are still scathing in spite of two wins. Parts have been very poor and parts have been half decent and we’re still on 9 points from 8 games. But we’re scoring goals, we aren’t the absolute defensive mess that some are saying we are (compare to 2022/23), although we need tweaks which other more technically minded posters have pointed out. The only objective truth are the points and league position. 2022/23 was “we’re too good, our league position is false” Now it’s “we’re crap, our league position is false”.

Chuffed that I’m in the centre ground on this one 🤣 Just because it is all of those things, which it is, doesn’t mean that it’s applicable in this case outcomes. I would imagine that they knew this man was not to be messed around with. But we’ll never 100% know for sure whether unconscious bias played on the police officers mind, but that doesn’t mean he should be convicted for murder. So it’s really a different argument.

We’ll never know for lots of reasons. I would like to think no but you can never tell. From the evidence in the public domain, it subjectively is not murder even if he shouldn't have been killed.