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Midlands Eagle Flag 11 Nov 20 10.15am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

I heard the BBC interview a female England footballer who’s gay and I’ve never heard of before.

I read an article last month about a female footballer from West Ham's women's team who is also gay and it seems that most of West Ham's women's team are too

 

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 11 Nov 20 10.40am Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

I read an article last month about a female footballer from West Ham's women's team who is also gay and it seems that most of West Ham's women's team are too

It can get to that by their design if you let these lunatics do as they please.

 


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jeeagles Flag 11 Nov 20 11.08am

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

I heard the BBC interview a female England footballer who’s gay and I’ve never heard of before. I think she might be the captain? Looking at the action videos she dyes her hair at any possibility. She was asked about the USA elections (after CNN announced they think Biden has won) and she said ‘’We need to PUT more black and gay people at the top of politics.’’ Yes she’s just a footballer and not a political expert, but it’s more equality of outcome rather than opportunity again. ‘Put more in’?

Edited by Rudi Hedman (11 Nov 2020 10.11am)

Like Dianne Abbot or Ben Bradshaw.

 

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 11 Nov 20 11.20am Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by jeeagles

Like Dianne Abbot or Ben Bradshaw.

Yes she gave that opinion after being asked about Kamala Harris, who will probably end up being president without a vote for her. Barack Obama has already been president and won 2 elections so no need for a silly footballer to make a stupid wish in public that certain minorities get ‘put into’ positions of power.

Rishi Sunak might become PM without winning an election, which would be fine by me, but Boris isn’t 78/79 and before Covid he looked as though he’d complete 4-5 years and probably another term, despite what the anti-Tories think.

 


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Pete53 Flag Hassocks 11 Nov 20 11.48am Send a Private Message to Pete53 Add Pete53 as a friend

Might I suggest that should Greg Davies leave his role in Taskmaster, Greg Clarke could be considered as a replacement.

 

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BlueJay Flag UK 11 Nov 20 12.18pm

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Our lefty BBC made the mistake of inviting John Barnes to be interviewed and he said that it was quite ridiculous that the bloke lost his job over using an old fashioned word as it should have been the intent that mattered and quite obviously there was no ill intent.

The BBC newsreader tried his hardest to get Barnes to say that it was quite right that he should lose his job but the more he said it the more that John Barnes dug in.

The newsreader also asked Barnes if he felt that having a more up to date Chairman might help black footballers achieve equality whereupon Barnes replied that black players had plenty of equality and you only had to look at the England team to see that whereupon the newsreader gave up

Yes, clearly teeing up Barnes to trot out how aghast he was about the whole thing. In my experience he has a more balanced perspective than most though, quite is an achievement itself in these polarised times. Clarke did sound out of touch, but being so disingenuously up in arms about it is an affront to genuine instances of discrimination.


 

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Crystal_Clear Flag Belfast 11 Nov 20 1.14pm Send a Private Message to Crystal_Clear Add Crystal_Clear as a friend

You only have to look at last nights news. Top story was Covid, then the story about Greg Clarke. Lost his job for using the word coloured, said girls dont like going in goal and that asians are more likely to end up in job like IT instead of a pro footballer. Cue utter outrage, multiple people lined up in interviews to say how outraged they are. Next article on the news (and not deemed more important), catholic church vilified again for trying to play down and cover up child sex abuse by their priests. Did the leading Cathloic in Britain at the heart of the scandal lose his job......no, Vatican tells him to stay on........are people lined up to comment on the outrage........no.

This country has completely lost its perspective, and it's being perpetuated by every media company and their agendas.

 

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Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 11 Nov 20 1.29pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by Crystal_Clear

You only have to look at last nights news. Top story was Covid, then the story about Greg Clarke. Lost his job for using the word coloured, said girls dont like going in goal and that asians are more likely to end up in job like IT instead of a pro footballer. Cue utter outrage, multiple people lined up in interviews to say how outraged they are. Next article on the news (and not deemed more important), catholic church vilified again for trying to play down and cover up child sex abuse by their priests. Did the leading Cathloic in Britain at the heart of the scandal lose his job......no, Vatican tells him to stay on........are people lined up to comment on the outrage........no.

This country has completely lost its perspective, and it's being perpetuated by every media company and their agendas.

I dread to think about what our country will be like in 10 or 20 years by which time I could well be 'Pushing up the daisies' well away from all this hogwash.

Outside of HOL, privately, I have made my views perfectly well clear about the issues surrounding Greg Clarke.

 

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mezzer Flag Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 11 Nov 20 2.07pm Send a Private Message to mezzer Add mezzer as a friend

Originally posted by Willo

I dread to think about what our country will be like in 10 or 20 years by which time I could well be 'Pushing up the daisies' well away from all this hogwash.

Outside of HOL, privately, I have made my views perfectly well clear about the issues surrounding Greg Clarke.

Need to be careful using phrases like that Willo. In all likelihood, and for reasons yet unknown to people of our generation, "pushing up the daisies" will probably be seen as abhorrent and vile to some section or other of society and its' use will lead to a mandatory ten year stretch for anyone having uttered it in the previous 327 years.

 


Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

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Willo Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 11 Nov 20 2.13pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by mezzer


Need to be careful using phrases like that Willo. In all likelihood, and for reasons yet unknown to people of our generation, "pushing up the daisies" will probably be seen as abhorrent and vile to some section or other of society and its' use will lead to a mandatory ten year stretch for anyone having uttered it in the previous 327 years.

Privately I use a plethora of phrases which many virtue signallers might deem worthy of a public execution.

 

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Midlands Eagle Flag 11 Nov 20 2.57pm Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by BlueJay

Clarke did sound out of touch, but being so disingenuously up in arms about it is an affront to genuine instances of discrimination.


Another of his so called clangers was saying that South Asians preferred a job in IT rather than football.

Surely it's fairly obvious by the lack of South Asian players that football isn't high on their agendas.

Anyone that knows anything about global sport will know that South Asians are cricket mad in terms of sports played or followed

 

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Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 11 Nov 20 3.03pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

Another of his so called clangers was saying that South Asians preferred a job in IT rather than football.

Surely it's fairly obvious by the lack of South Asian players that football isn't high on their agendas.

Anyone that knows anything about global sport will know that South Asians are cricket mad in terms of sports played or followed

SE Asians aim and their parents encourage to aim higher than IT. Maybe this was the/an issue?

 


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