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From the context, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have assumed it was being used as a pejorative term, even if it wasn’t intended to insult. Fair enough if that wasn’t the case, but you haven’t explained what you did mean by it.

This is a fair point and I’ll hold my hand up to rushing to judgement on some comments.

Good post and very thought provoking. I agree that the PotM/MotM debate is pretty low priority, and education is certainly more important than one very specific use of language. However a few points I would make on that: - We could take the argument that it’s just a word and shouldn’t be a big...

Appreciate you asking, and you’re asking the right questions. Gender is a huge topic and not easily simplified on a football forum. If Wikipedia isn’t your thing then see what else you can find, there’s loads out there and I think it’s quite interesting to read up on. Sex and gender aren’t the...

if they’re that ignorant then that’s even worse. Regardless of the intention, it is offensive and these attitudes need to be challenged.

There are many genders and gender identities, and some people don’t have one at all.

The intention of many posts in this thread is offence targeted at non binary people and that needs calling out. That kind of attitude shouldn’t be tolerated here, in the stands or anywhere in society.

Couldn’t have put it any better, Geordie. That isn’t an opinion, that’s factually incorrect.

I initially thought the sentiment was a lazy dig at women’s football, but I’ve since changed my mind and now think comments are split between transphobic/anti-non binary and “I don’t like it, because reasons”. It may have come across that I was suggesting it helped women feel included, but I...

I think you’re right, it appears to be anti-non binary, which is equally troubling.

I didn’t know everyone accepts women’s football, that’s fantastic news.

I’ve never been to a WSL match, but from my experience women’s football is very inclusive and welcoming to all.

Player of the Match is used in both men’s and women’s football. It’s not intended to offend anyone, but is a bit more inclusive. Women playing football isn’t a bad thing and doesn’t happen for the purpose of annoying men. Whisper it quietly, but a major women’s tournament was hosted at the Lane...

What about De Gea’s full two handed push on Bryan before the ball is within range? I’d say that’s more of a foul, and happened before any contact from Billy. So good refereeing to allow the goal to stand rather than award a penalty.

What isn't? 4-4-1 for 80 minutes?

We tweaked it. Switching from a back three to a back four is a fundamental overhaul and a huge risk if we haven’t done the work on the training ground.

I think we need to see if we can get ten minutes into a game without giving ourselves a mountain to climb before we bin off the system that took us from bottom of the third tier to within touching distance of Europe. And first name on the team sheet: Basham.

Except one of those was drawn. So our current losing streak is... a referee-and-VAR-assisted one.

“there isn’t a club in the Premier League that would not be better with Chris Wilder in charge of it. Not one.” As I’ll tell anyone who’ll listen, he’s the best manager in the league.

I vaguely recall an incident at the last women’s World Cup where Spain were awarded a penalty after one of their players ran into the upswing of a clearance. Utter nonsense. Contact from the action of cleanly kicking the ball unchallenged is not the same as a two-footed lunge as some seem to...

I wouldn’t worry too much, looks like we’ve got plenty of time to rest through October and November.

I thought he was opting to force the offside rather than concede a corner if the flag didn’t go up.

He makes a fair point, book-ending your opening game haplessly giving away penalties is certainly unusual and I don’t recall us or Wolves doing that.

I think we may have found a new trap for the opposition to fall into. When I first read the comment about our starting XI being weaker I thought ‘eh? It’s the same!’ before it was qualified with us missing Henderson. Henderson is an excellent young goalkeeper and certainly ahead of Ramsdale, but...

The obvious downside is if we have players whose international careers aren’t taking off due to a highly-specialised role, they may be more inclined to leave to play in a more conventional system to improve their long term international and club prospects. I don’t see it myself, if we have two...

Ooh, another probability thread that I somehow missed at the time! Looks like this wasn’t resolved... If you want to go down that route, you’ll have to calculate the probability of being drawn first or third or fifth... or sixty-third and add them all together. To calculate the probability of...

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Just a thought on never changing the colours for the home shirt. Our home colours are red, white and black. The badge colours already match the shirt!

Oh yes, I got him in on page one. His statuesque standing and pointing would be better suited to Covent Garden.

Nick Henry and Paul Thirlwell, but I don’t think they had any redeeming qualities.