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My impression all along has been that what really upset him was the failure to keep members of group on board. Building up such a tight squad where everyone looks out for everyone else brings with a real sense of group solidarity, and I think what really hurt was that we weren't able or willing to k...

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Unless we bring anyone else in, it will be Brownhill in Hendrick's previous role on the right and Cork and Westwood back in the middle. That should work well enough with Dwight and Charlie Taylor providing the bulk of the crosses from the left.

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That penalty decision is one of the worst I've seen. Villa player gets stamped on so United get a penalty. I hate to say it, but no surprise it was John Moss, the master of really, really bad decisions.

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Nobody knows the reason for this do they? The questions are: Do black players not get jobs as managers because they are not good enough? If they are not good enough, why aren't they good enough? If they are not getting jobs because they don't see it as a viable career move, why do they see it in tha...

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It seems that the rule prohibiting loaned players from participating only extended up until July 1st when their loan spell were officially concluded,

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Does this apply to all the young players who have been out on loan? Are they now available for selection? Some of them have played quite a bit of lower division football and should be able to fill the gaps on the bench.

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There is a very real issue with children as potential spreaders of the virus. Many parents are in high risk groups and many children live in the same households as elderly grandparents. Speaking personally, I am in the very high risk group and have been shielding. My children are 8 and 16 and I woul...

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The problem with children being in school is that although we know that they don't tend to suffer serious illness from Covid 19, we don't know the extent to which they can carry the disease and infect others who are far more vulnerable. Until that has been established, we are quite right to be cauti...

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Looked like there was a bit of a hold and then a dive.

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I don't believe that either slavery or Israeli ethnic cleansing can be classed as genocide. Both are cruel abuse of human beings by those in positions of power, but genocide is a specific term that indicates the slaughter of a class or race of people. The clue is in words ending in 'cide'.

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As mentioned above, the term investor indicates a person who puts up money in the hope of an increased return, but apart from the Glaziers does this ever happen? Venkys certainly haven't made a huge sum out of being investors in Blackburn Rovers. So the question that occurs is why would anyone wish ...

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If Wood and Rodriguez are both fit could possibly try Jay on the right with Wood and Vydra up front. It's not ideal but might be better than having Brady or Gudmundsson on the right, playing their first game back after a long layoff.

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One question that had occurred to me with our unexpected injury situation is whether or not it would be possible to go back on our earlier decision and offer Aaron Lennon a contract for a year. I don't think Hendrick is that interested, but Lennon might be and we could certainly do with him right no...

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Would we really want to be like Wolves, City, Sheffield United, Chelsea, Bournemouth or Newcastle (potentially), beholden to an individual or country of very dubious standing? Personally, I would find it very hard to take if Burnley were taken over by Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or some exiled Ru...

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I saw an interview with Rouwen a few months back. Some of the players in the Bundesliga can respond in English on BT Sport and I noticed that despite the couple of years he spent with us, Rouwen still spoke only in German. I am sure that would have made it more difficult for him to become fully inte...

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I'm pretty sure I actually heard David Bowie at Glastonbury in 1971, Ground Control to Major Tom. I say heard because I think it was really early in the morning and I was still tucked up in my sleeping bag. Back then it was free to get in and you could just wander around back stage in the pyramid, t...

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Caernarfon, what a great post. You really have my admiration. Getting things factually right or wrong is a very small matter, but having the capacity to make admissions like that is evidence of an elevated mind.

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To Caernarfon Claret, a lot of what you say there is wrong. The idea that Arabs were nomadic until World War 1 is just ridiculous. The Palestinians had settled farming communities in what is now Israel, they weren't nomads although there was a minority of Bedouins were and in some cases still are no...

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I would take back cowardly, but not dishonest. The reason for that is that many people use this tactic of trying to deflect legitimate criticism of Israel by referring repeatedly to anti-semitism. The aim is to thereby avoid proper debate of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. It is dishonest...

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Kate, I have never called anyone names and I never would. I have no desire at all to claim any intellectual superiority. I do feel a need, however, to show some support for the Palestinian people. I have been to the West Bank and in Bethlehem I had the chance to speak to Palestinian people. Their tr...

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You might at least answer the questions I've asked and not ones you make up yourself. The questions I posed were very clear and get right to the heart of this issue and you've repeatedly avoided them. There's very specific questions I asked at 3.10pm and they are not hard to answer.

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Rowls, you don't need a magic wind, you just need a mind capable of the logical use of sequential reasoning to make a determination. And also a mind free of bias, so that you don't have to resort to obfuscation when you know your position is a weak one. So far you have given us the view that it is a...

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Let me help you further then: When criticism of the policies of Israel or the conduct of its security services makes no reference to Jews as a race or religion it is not anti-semitic. When it includes language of that type it is anti-semitic. Hence my question how could saying Israel as a state has ...

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You're just avoiding the question again, Rowls. I haven't seen any answer you've given so perhaps you could indicate which post it was in terms of date and time. Time and again, you try to slip out of it with this recent set of remarks. Criticising Pakistan is not Islamophobic and criticising Israel...

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I think the constant changing of managers was always going to catch up with them eventually. They have some money but not enough to keep themselves doing well with that way of operating.

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No that's rubbish, Rowls, just more of your obfuscation. Come on out and explain exactly why criticism of Israel is a form of racism. You won't because you can't and you'll come out with stuff like, 'I haven't needed to engage people on this thread.' No, you haven't engaged because you know your pos...

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I think Tony said that Sean was 'at the end of his tether', and it also seems a possibility that like many of us at the present time his tether may have got a bit shorter so that he said things that he wouldn't have otherwise.

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Rowls always hides on this one, saying that he accepts criticism of Israel is anti-semitism but never daring to openly debate the issue. He knows his case is very weak so he prefers obfuscation. It's cowardly, dishonest but unfortunately very typical of those who want to avoid the issue.

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If all that was said was that the police tactic was learned from Israeli security forces then there is no way that is anti-semitic. It may be criticism of Israeli security forces, but that is not racism. If this is all that was said then it is a terrible error. Israel and its supporters have been tr...

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I thought it was quite amusing and a good way of dealing with him by showing him as an object of ridicule rather than anyone of any significance today.

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Frank, we can stay up certainly. But history shows us that to date it has not been possible for any smaller club to stay up without an external source of funds. Season on season it is possible as we keep on doing what has never been done before, but can it really go on long term? The business model ...

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I think we just have to accept that we have unavoidable difficulties to overcome as long we remain a Premier League club. I was talking about this to my son the other day, and his view is that Burnley simply cannot survive in the Premier League because we don't have the resources to get in the playe...

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One effect of the virus and the lockdown has been an increase among many of frustration and perhaps a more gloomy outlook at times. The world doesn't seem quite such a wonderful place any more, and inevitably this more negative view of life comes out in what we say from time to time. I think that co...

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Rowls, no one would call it a myth. It undoubtedly happens, but the point is that social workers and similar professionals see only those with problems and not the vast majority. The debate is about the vast majority who do the right thing and need assistance in doing it successfully.

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The cleaners work for the institution I work for so I don't have the power to change their working conditions. It is up to the senior managers who are above me. Sorry, perhaps I should have made that clearer.

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In response to Pushpinpussy's post: My work involves creating intellectual material that is marketed online and sells very well. This work requires office space mainly for those who transfer what I write into a form that can be marketed online. We therefore have to have office cleaners who work damn...

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There is a problem as many people can't work and many of those who do are on limited hours contracts which means that their income is so low that they can barely survive. As for the idea that benefits are too good, that is just not true. It is more the case that for many people wages are too low. pa...

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I find it hard to agree with you, Colburn, as you seem to be suggesting that poverty, hunger and real life deprivation are a minor problem in Britain and that in most cases where it does exist it is the fault of those people themselves. But it is simply not true. Universal credit left people with no...

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Whether or not the poorest people have ever had it so good is irrelevant, Colburn. If it is the case that we are as a nation better off than ever before then that just makes it more disgraceful that a considerable section of our population are forced to rely on food banks and that children are still...

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The problem for the lower league teams in England and Scotland will be that if games are played behind closed doors there will no income generated, and so nothing to pay the players with. A return at that level would only be possible if there was external financing from benefactors.

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I suspect what will happen may be that they won't ask for an extension as such but will make an interim arrangment by which tariffs and checks don't apply, or only to a very limited extent. That way they can save face but at the same time avoid even greater economic damage. We seem to have seen some...

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With regard to the effectiveness of vaccines against flu and Covid 19, there is a clear difference. Influenza comes in different forms each year and so the effectiveness or otherwise of a vaccine depends on a correct prediction of which form will appear in the winter. Where that prediction is correc...

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I seem to recall seeing Burnley winning 1-0 at Highfield Road sometime in 1971 or 1972. Not many other Burnley supporters there that day.

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One of my earliest childhood memories is of my Dad listening to the scores on a Saturday and the name Barrow always amused me. Like a wheelbarrow I used to think. The Scottish names like Stenhousemuir and Cowdenbeath also had a resonance. A bit like the shipping forecast, the names stuck in the youn...

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Ah, spikes and waves, I need to keep up don't I? Thanks for explaining it, Underseige, I see what you mean now.

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To Underseige, perhaps I'm wrong on this, but I had understood that a second wave might come not just from a viral mutation, but also if lockdown is ended too quickely before the first wave has fully passed. This increase in social interaction might then lead to the same virus spreading quickly once...

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I expect it will die down soon enough, although I do think the statues of slave traders should have been taken down long ago. Statues are not just historical monuments, they are celebrating great lives and we can now see that these lives weren't great, or at least not in any way that we can be proud...

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I'm not keen on Fleetwood, they are pretty much a manufactured team, a rich person's plaything. Never been keen on any of those sort, there's too many about.

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Sadiq Khan hates this country? Colburn, that was a really silly thing to say.

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I don't think Brighton supporters are any different to those of any other Premier League club.

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