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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread 13:04 - Jul 10 with 36385 viewsBazzaInTheLoft

I think I’ve been quite lucky so far no?

Well managed England play will defeat the Italians by the odd goal.

Here’s me putting the gauntlet down:



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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 22:25 - Jul 13 with 2096 viewsdaveB

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 20:01 - Jul 13 by SheffieldHoop

What, so you can't see any hypocrisy in Neville's position on that?

In that case, I haven't got much hope of you understanding any further examples. So I'll leave it.

Some further context. The England team were subjected to abusive tweets 2,114 times across three matches. 102 of them contained racism. About 30 Million in the UK watched the matches. So for every person, 0.00007047 abusive tweets per person. If we assume that all of those tweets originated from the UK, which they almost certainly did not.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/27/revealed-shocking-scale-twitter

Can't believe this story is dominating the news. It's just weird.

A 16-year-old boy was murdered on the pavement in broad daylight in Thornton Heath this weekend. Seems like no one gives a shit.
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I'm guessing you are saying as he works for Sky who pump a lot of money into the game and are seen as the bad guy he shouldn't have had a say on the super league? I can't agree on that to be honest. He wasn't the only pundit or presenter on Sky who were very much against the super league, whatever his job is he should be allowed an opinion on these kind of topics same as all of us, his job shouldn't and doesn't define his opinion.

On the other point, For me one racially abusive message to these players is too many and should be highlighted and people responsible shamed. No one has suggested the majority of England fans did this, of course it is a minority but that minority can't be allowed to grow
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 22:31 - Jul 13 with 2086 viewsnix

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 22:22 - Jul 13 by BrianMcCarthy

"I honestly don't think there's anything else to say to you."

I've come to the same conclusion. One for the ignore list, sadly.


I'm afraid I agree Brian.
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 00:34 - Jul 14 with 1969 viewsloftboy

Interesting article on the fans getting in without tickets,
Similar things went on back in the &9’s but it was usually a fiver that did the trick!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jul/13/england-fan-who-stormed-euros-f

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 09:49 - Jul 14 with 1829 viewsSonofpugwash

Qatar dilemma.

I’m sure the answer from the FA & The England team will be… “Whilst we condemn slave labour..We don’t interfere with politics”

Something along those lines?

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 09:59 - Jul 14 with 1771 viewsSheffieldHoop

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 22:25 - Jul 13 by daveB

I'm guessing you are saying as he works for Sky who pump a lot of money into the game and are seen as the bad guy he shouldn't have had a say on the super league? I can't agree on that to be honest. He wasn't the only pundit or presenter on Sky who were very much against the super league, whatever his job is he should be allowed an opinion on these kind of topics same as all of us, his job shouldn't and doesn't define his opinion.

On the other point, For me one racially abusive message to these players is too many and should be highlighted and people responsible shamed. No one has suggested the majority of England fans did this, of course it is a minority but that minority can't be allowed to grow


If Peter Lim had announced the European super league, Neville would be backing it.
If Sky sports already had the rights to show it, Neville would be backing it
So this idea he's standing up for EFL clubs, and non-league clubs, is complete BS
Look at how they've handled Salford. Says one thing on Monday night football, the next morning he's sacking Graham Alexander with the club 5th in their league. Can't take anything he says seriously.

Yeah 1 racially abusive message is too many, but then again we live in a country where school kids get stabbed on their way into school, and no one bats an eyelid. These stories barely last 2 hours on the BBC news most read. But you'll see stories about the countryside being "too white" on there for days. Weird, weird media. Gaslighting people.

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 10:31 - Jul 14 with 1763 viewswillis1980

this morning I watched the link to the BBC news report on what happened at wembley on sunday.



Watching that Im surprised there werent any deaths to be honest, you would think that a country that has run major tournaments and experienced tragedies involving spectators before events like this would be organised a little better.

Maybe covid, football, "the great british summer" and the occasion provided the perfect storm for some England fans to behave like utter plonkers.

While I just cant see the sense in punching ticketless intruders when helping push them back out mightve sufficed, I can possibly empathise that some of those invoilved may have felt their saftey was put in jeopardy by those barging in.

Slightly concerning that wembley etc tried to cover up or minimise what actually happened.

I felt the papers etc here on the whole had a quite measured approach to this tournament, the toxic jingoism and nationalism that was present once upon a time was left to a handful of idiots on twitter etc. Some politicans didnt seem to read the room and made some ill advised comments.

The report by India's World is One News seems a bit of stretch to me mind, I get that England has had a long-standing problem with bad behaviour etc. but to argue that people that have just seen their team lose are angry because their countrys colonial past leads them to believe that England are entitled to win appears a little daft. I might be wrong or viewing matters through my own lens too much but whenever England or QPR have lost, Britains past has never factored in my disappointment. Then again Im not the type of herbert thatll throw trees into a crowd of fellow supports.
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:10 - Jul 14 with 1704 viewsdanehoop

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 22:31 - Jul 13 by nix

I'm afraid I agree Brian.


And me.

Never knowingly understood

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:47 - Jul 14 with 1616 viewsSheffieldHoop

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:10 - Jul 14 by danehoop

And me.


Blocked by the LFW socialist campaign group for speaking truths about who I am and where I come from. How typical.

Those in the media and with large public profiles who go hunting down these statistically insignificantly tiny number of posts and deliberately amplify them millions of times out of proportion should bear some responsibility for the effect it has on people.

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:47 - Jul 14 with 1638 viewsdaveB

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 09:59 - Jul 14 by SheffieldHoop

If Peter Lim had announced the European super league, Neville would be backing it.
If Sky sports already had the rights to show it, Neville would be backing it
So this idea he's standing up for EFL clubs, and non-league clubs, is complete BS
Look at how they've handled Salford. Says one thing on Monday night football, the next morning he's sacking Graham Alexander with the club 5th in their league. Can't take anything he says seriously.

Yeah 1 racially abusive message is too many, but then again we live in a country where school kids get stabbed on their way into school, and no one bats an eyelid. These stories barely last 2 hours on the BBC news most read. But you'll see stories about the countryside being "too white" on there for days. Weird, weird media. Gaslighting people.


Well we'll never know as Peter Lim didn't announce it and Sky didn't have the rights. Whether you agree with Neville or not I just don't see how it is embarrassing that he expressed an opinion on it.

not sure you can say no one bats an eyelid at people being stabbed. Those lists of stories on BBC are based on what people are reading, not really fault of the media if more people wanted to read or watch different things.
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:56 - Jul 14 with 1569 viewsSheffieldHoop

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:47 - Jul 14 by daveB

Well we'll never know as Peter Lim didn't announce it and Sky didn't have the rights. Whether you agree with Neville or not I just don't see how it is embarrassing that he expressed an opinion on it.

not sure you can say no one bats an eyelid at people being stabbed. Those lists of stories on BBC are based on what people are reading, not really fault of the media if more people wanted to read or watch different things.


So your argument is that racism stories sell, while 16-year-olds getting stabbed to death don't. So, therefore, the media is correct to cover the former extensively and make the latter a non-story?


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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 09:49 - Jul 14 by Sonofpugwash

Qatar dilemma.

I’m sure the answer from the FA & The England team will be… “Whilst we condemn slave labour..We don’t interfere with politics”

Something along those lines?


Qatar is nowhere ready or experienced in handling anything like what went down on Sunday. Throw into the mix the nefarious characters that will attend from other nations, and it’s a recipe for disaster in my view.

People (and FIFA) don’t appreciate that this isn’t the Qatar World Cup, it’s the Doha World Cup. This event is taking place in one relatively small city; so keeping fans apart is made doubly difficult.

Of more concern: their police/security services are not used to dealing with anything remotely akin to what the world witnessed from London. I just don’t know if their police will be up to it and as for security guards used all over Qatar, they’re all from Africa: so imagine the abuse they’re in for.

I had heard plans afoot to deploy a large number of guards/security from Pakistan (about 100,000) but that’s all well and good, but how are they trained/prepared. I was at one game (African version of the European Supercup) that was well attended by well behaved fans. Put in the worst of England and say, Russia and you’re relying on inexperienced people to handle and retain order among ‘professional yobs’.

There’s frankly nothing bar sand outside of Doha and there’s not much for folks to do. Thus, their fanzones where it’s planned for fans to be able to drink were, as late as early-2019, going to be open to mixed as I was informed.

Looking at Qatari media, they’ve been inundated by people (Arab and non-Arab) in the region utterly shocked at the scenes and accounts coming out of London. This might be the catalyst for some urgent rethinking. There are also 10,000 US military personnel based there - maybe let them loose on the types of thugs who disgraced England on Sunday.

Frankly, while I had no plans to stay for the Doha World Cup, I would avoid the place (and add Dubai to that) like the plague between November and December 2022!!

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 12:49 - Jul 14 with 1509 viewsdanehoop

I worked at Wembley stewarding in the 80's. It was a problem, more with people jumping the turnstiles and sprinting. Many of the stewards came from rugby clubs associated with Wasps and one of the reasons I think was the amount of tackling you had to do with the almost gazelle like jumping ability of those trying that method of entry. They would basically walk around the stadium trying their chances at each block.

I remember one game involving Liverpool fans being a lot like that. It was also nice to engage with banter after ejecting some of the ticketing challenged customers, playfully explaining that they were going to "stab my eyes." Such naughty humorous scally scamps, how we laughed at their playfulness.

So this wasn't anything new, just appeared to be poorly managed.

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 11:56 - Jul 14 by SheffieldHoop

So your argument is that racism stories sell, while 16-year-olds getting stabbed to death don't. So, therefore, the media is correct to cover the former extensively and make the latter a non-story?



Not really what I said was it.
They report on hundreds of different stories it's upto the public what they choose to read which is how they display the top 10 most read stories. You can't force people to be interested in stories no more than they can force you to watch a tv show, if people are not interested they won't watch it.

if they were not reporting on anything else you might have a point but fact you know about a 16 year old getting stabbed suggests it's been reported by at least one news agency.

The main stories in the news will always be influenced by what the general public are most interested in and what they are talking about hence the several years of Brexit being the only story in town. 3 England players getting racial abuse the night they lost a final watched by 31 million people was never going to be a story that disappeared quickly and nor should it.
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 13:15 - Jul 14 by daveB

Not really what I said was it.
They report on hundreds of different stories it's upto the public what they choose to read which is how they display the top 10 most read stories. You can't force people to be interested in stories no more than they can force you to watch a tv show, if people are not interested they won't watch it.

if they were not reporting on anything else you might have a point but fact you know about a 16 year old getting stabbed suggests it's been reported by at least one news agency.

The main stories in the news will always be influenced by what the general public are most interested in and what they are talking about hence the several years of Brexit being the only story in town. 3 England players getting racial abuse the night they lost a final watched by 31 million people was never going to be a story that disappeared quickly and nor should it.


Nah but that's how I've interpreted it, which seems to be the all-important thing on here.

Is the coverage proportionate or not?

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 12:40 - Jul 14 by PlanetHonneywood

Qatar is nowhere ready or experienced in handling anything like what went down on Sunday. Throw into the mix the nefarious characters that will attend from other nations, and it’s a recipe for disaster in my view.

People (and FIFA) don’t appreciate that this isn’t the Qatar World Cup, it’s the Doha World Cup. This event is taking place in one relatively small city; so keeping fans apart is made doubly difficult.

Of more concern: their police/security services are not used to dealing with anything remotely akin to what the world witnessed from London. I just don’t know if their police will be up to it and as for security guards used all over Qatar, they’re all from Africa: so imagine the abuse they’re in for.

I had heard plans afoot to deploy a large number of guards/security from Pakistan (about 100,000) but that’s all well and good, but how are they trained/prepared. I was at one game (African version of the European Supercup) that was well attended by well behaved fans. Put in the worst of England and say, Russia and you’re relying on inexperienced people to handle and retain order among ‘professional yobs’.

There’s frankly nothing bar sand outside of Doha and there’s not much for folks to do. Thus, their fanzones where it’s planned for fans to be able to drink were, as late as early-2019, going to be open to mixed as I was informed.

Looking at Qatari media, they’ve been inundated by people (Arab and non-Arab) in the region utterly shocked at the scenes and accounts coming out of London. This might be the catalyst for some urgent rethinking. There are also 10,000 US military personnel based there - maybe let them loose on the types of thugs who disgraced England on Sunday.

Frankly, while I had no plans to stay for the Doha World Cup, I would avoid the place (and add Dubai to that) like the plague between November and December 2022!!


I'm umming and ahhring about going for a month during the WC as my brother is out there and i'll have free accommodation. Been there before and had mixed feeling on Doha as a City and less mixed feelings on the cost of a pint.

I've convinced myself due to it's location, cost of hotels, and bad coverage that it's going to be relatively fan free compared to say a Germany or even Russian WC.

Is that the feeling out there or are they preparing for the end of the world?
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 13:24 - Jul 14 by SheffieldHoop

Nah but that's how I've interpreted it, which seems to be the all-important thing on here.

Is the coverage proportionate or not?


You can see where the press are coming from.

They would have witnessed the abuse Beckham suffered in 1998, the abuse Souhgate faced in 1996 and they're determined - rightfully - to avoid the same happening to the 3 players who missed penalties on Sunday. It's noble.

However, apart from calling Rashford's penalty what it was, shit, there wasn't widespread abuse of the players but they still feel the need to 'show them love' which is why they are concentrating on the racist abuse received which is, again, noble.

BUT, the problem is that in doing so they haven't mentioned how little abuse there was (of course 1 idiot abusing someone for the colour of their skin is 1 too many) and it's not known where the perpetrators are located. By given it such a prominent position in newspapers and in news coverage they are creating a false impression that the players were subjected to a horrendous amount of abuse and the nation is racist to the core. That's my problem with the coverage.


It's about time News Agencies were forced to use accurate statistics.
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Nah but that's how I've interpreted it, which seems to be the all-important thing on here.

Is the coverage proportionate or not?


I think when this kind of thing comes up it's important to shine a light on it and make people aware that this kind of behavior is not only unacceptable but there are consequences to sending tweets or private messages to someone with the intent to abuse them. It wouldn't be accepted if they did this on the street so shouldn't be accepted when they do it on their phones as well.

I think since George Flloyd last year a light has been shone on this issue and it's been heavily covered across the media and in society, that has certainly peed a lot of people off who are sick of hearing about it but annoying a few people shouldn't be a reason to not highlight these things when they happen on such a big event.
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 10:31 - Jul 14 by willis1980

this morning I watched the link to the BBC news report on what happened at wembley on sunday.



Watching that Im surprised there werent any deaths to be honest, you would think that a country that has run major tournaments and experienced tragedies involving spectators before events like this would be organised a little better.

Maybe covid, football, "the great british summer" and the occasion provided the perfect storm for some England fans to behave like utter plonkers.

While I just cant see the sense in punching ticketless intruders when helping push them back out mightve sufficed, I can possibly empathise that some of those invoilved may have felt their saftey was put in jeopardy by those barging in.

Slightly concerning that wembley etc tried to cover up or minimise what actually happened.

I felt the papers etc here on the whole had a quite measured approach to this tournament, the toxic jingoism and nationalism that was present once upon a time was left to a handful of idiots on twitter etc. Some politicans didnt seem to read the room and made some ill advised comments.

The report by India's World is One News seems a bit of stretch to me mind, I get that England has had a long-standing problem with bad behaviour etc. but to argue that people that have just seen their team lose are angry because their countrys colonial past leads them to believe that England are entitled to win appears a little daft. I might be wrong or viewing matters through my own lens too much but whenever England or QPR have lost, Britains past has never factored in my disappointment. Then again Im not the type of herbert thatll throw trees into a crowd of fellow supports.


Superb post willis1980 and a shocking news video to show some of the behavior last Sunday.
I cringe to think what would have happened if a stampede got started and sometimes it only takes one word ,noise or panic there would have been deaths for sure IMO.Only the new design saved this outcome i think imagine the older Stadiums how brutal this would have been.
There is no excuse for the security /lack of at all.It already happened at Old Trafford this season before the Liverpool V Utd game.They should have immediately implemented new policy's and security arrangements for all Stadiums not to mention for the biggest game in England in half a century .Shame on those ticketless thugs they destroyed a lot of peoples enjoyment of a magnificent occasion
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sorry if posted already elsewhere
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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 14:29 - Jul 14 by daveB

I think when this kind of thing comes up it's important to shine a light on it and make people aware that this kind of behavior is not only unacceptable but there are consequences to sending tweets or private messages to someone with the intent to abuse them. It wouldn't be accepted if they did this on the street so shouldn't be accepted when they do it on their phones as well.

I think since George Flloyd last year a light has been shone on this issue and it's been heavily covered across the media and in society, that has certainly peed a lot of people off who are sick of hearing about it but annoying a few people shouldn't be a reason to not highlight these things when they happen on such a big event.


So basically, no it's not proportionate but you think it's still a good thing anyway.

Something about not being able to ignore the consequences of ignoring reality

Anyway whatever, hope your kids never feel the need to arm themselves just to attend school.

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So basically, no it's not proportionate but you think it's still a good thing anyway.

Something about not being able to ignore the consequences of ignoring reality

Anyway whatever, hope your kids never feel the need to arm themselves just to attend school.


if thats how you want to read that then fair enough.

I'm really not seeing the link between my kids needing to arm themselves and what is the main story on the news. I'm a bit baffled by this all now to be honest as it's got a bit weird. I knew I'd regret saying anything
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if thats how you want to read that then fair enough.

I'm really not seeing the link between my kids needing to arm themselves and what is the main story on the news. I'm a bit baffled by this all now to be honest as it's got a bit weird. I knew I'd regret saying anything


Sorry, but if you're happy to stay silent on working-class kids routinely stabbing each other to death in the street
But feel the need to make a huge story about 4 racists in the UK sending abusive tweets to footballers, on the internet
I do have to question that point of view, because it's wrong.

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 16:54 - Jul 14 by SheffieldHoop

Sorry, but if you're happy to stay silent on working-class kids routinely stabbing each other to death in the street
But feel the need to make a huge story about 4 racists in the UK sending abusive tweets to footballers, on the internet
I do have to question that point of view, because it's wrong.


Mate, you make a lot of interesting points, but not for the first time, WTF are you going on about there? Where has Dave said he doesn't care about teenagers getting stabbed or feeling the need to arm themselves when they leave the house? I know you're the official spokesmen for all black people in the UK, but a lot of black Britons - namely various England internationals and former-England internationals - have spoken out against the racist tweets, so maybe not every Black person in Britain thinks we should be ignoring the subject. But you'll probably just dismiss them as being out-of-touch. Isn't it possible to care about both?

I agree that black people in the UK would benefit more from an end to knife crime than an end to racist tweets to footballers, but seeing as we can't find a way to police racist tweets, I don't hold out much hope for a simple solution to endemic knife crime. It goes without saying that it's absolutely heart-breaking seeing the senseless slaughter on an almost daily basis. The toll the current situation must take on people's mental health is unimaginable. But seeing as you absolutely panned me for a suggestion that Social media platforms could maybe ban specific words, I don't hold out much hope for us coming up with a practical solution to a far more complex issue.

How much time would you like to see the media devoting to each murder? What do you think increased coverage would achieve? What would you like to see happen? Genuine questions.

EDIT: I agree that the coverage has been disproportionate and reputationally unhelpful given the relatively small number of racist messages, and the fact that not all of them will have come from England fans.
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Mate, you make a lot of interesting points, but not for the first time, WTF are you going on about there? Where has Dave said he doesn't care about teenagers getting stabbed or feeling the need to arm themselves when they leave the house? I know you're the official spokesmen for all black people in the UK, but a lot of black Britons - namely various England internationals and former-England internationals - have spoken out against the racist tweets, so maybe not every Black person in Britain thinks we should be ignoring the subject. But you'll probably just dismiss them as being out-of-touch. Isn't it possible to care about both?

I agree that black people in the UK would benefit more from an end to knife crime than an end to racist tweets to footballers, but seeing as we can't find a way to police racist tweets, I don't hold out much hope for a simple solution to endemic knife crime. It goes without saying that it's absolutely heart-breaking seeing the senseless slaughter on an almost daily basis. The toll the current situation must take on people's mental health is unimaginable. But seeing as you absolutely panned me for a suggestion that Social media platforms could maybe ban specific words, I don't hold out much hope for us coming up with a practical solution to a far more complex issue.

How much time would you like to see the media devoting to each murder? What do you think increased coverage would achieve? What would you like to see happen? Genuine questions.

EDIT: I agree that the coverage has been disproportionate and reputationally unhelpful given the relatively small number of racist messages, and the fact that not all of them will have come from England fans.
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It's what I'm accusing the media of, focusing our minds on 4 people sending racist tweets, rather than the massive amounts of real violence happening constantly.
Dave is defending the media for doing it
I'm not saying Dave is doing it
But if he wants to defend the media, I'll address my point to him.

What I want to see is the media being fair and proportionate. I've evidenced why I don't think they are being fair or proportionate. But because it's me, making a point contrary to the LFW community standards, nobody is able to accept that I might have a point.

EDIT - Just seen your edit. Bravo. At least you can see it. Shame about the others who cannot get their heads around this.
[Post edited 14 Jul 2021 17:47]

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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 17:49 - Jul 14 with 989 viewsKonk

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Italy 🇮🇹 Match Thread on 17:43 - Jul 14 by SheffieldHoop

It's what I'm accusing the media of, focusing our minds on 4 people sending racist tweets, rather than the massive amounts of real violence happening constantly.
Dave is defending the media for doing it
I'm not saying Dave is doing it
But if he wants to defend the media, I'll address my point to him.

What I want to see is the media being fair and proportionate. I've evidenced why I don't think they are being fair or proportionate. But because it's me, making a point contrary to the LFW community standards, nobody is able to accept that I might have a point.

EDIT - Just seen your edit. Bravo. At least you can see it. Shame about the others who cannot get their heads around this.
[Post edited 14 Jul 2021 17:47]


Okay, so how much attention would you like the media to dedicate to each murder, and what would expect the increased media attention to achieve? Assuming it became the top story on the News every night, and the public couldn't avoid coverage of the situation, then what would you expect to happen?

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