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Football:
Remind me again how good a manager Brendan Rodgers is? Because I'm not seeing it. Now, I'll admit to a bias against him because of how horrid he's been to Andy Carroll (see also, footballers I am not reasonable on the subject of), and I think his much vaunted man-management skills are third-rate psychobabble that worked fine on the young footballers at Swansea but have been shown to be useless with grown ups.
But right now, it looks like they're going to finish lower in the league than they did last season, and they're out of the League Cup (whatever it's called this year) and I give them no chance in the FA Cup.
The main reason for those last two predictions is that he has a grand total of 3 recognised strikers, one of whom is a 19 year old winger, and one of the other two is Luis "walking disciplinary offence" Suarez.
And he knew that before he sent Carroll off to West Ham. And it's not that I think Carroll is particularly brilliant, but he is at least a striker.
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The Bogglement:
The Society of Black Lawyers have made (possibly are going to make) a police complaint about anti-Semitic chanting by Spurs fans (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20244204). So far, so sensible. Offensive is offensive, even if it's not aimed at you.
The problem comes when you get the context of a lot of Spurs fans being Jewish and them being at least a large section making the chants of "Yid army". Because they do this (and have done it for many years) as a sort of reclamation.
Cue accusations by the Society of Black Lawyers that it's a terrible excuse and context doesn't matter.
Which has lead to much debate on the nature of racial/ethnic/religious identity, language and its uses and abuses, whether you can reclaim words, who gets to say who can say what and footballing rivalries laid on top of that. The word messy doesn't come close.
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Formula 1 Opinions Sought:
I have been doing some thinking about blown diffusers, and how they interacted with driving styles, in particular, how smooth a driver is.
I'm also aware that having just me judging how smooth a driver is is not a good idea, and so I've set up a survey on Surveymonkey and I'd be grateful for any responses - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LX6WZQD
Remind me again how good a manager Brendan Rodgers is? Because I'm not seeing it. Now, I'll admit to a bias against him because of how horrid he's been to Andy Carroll (see also, footballers I am not reasonable on the subject of), and I think his much vaunted man-management skills are third-rate psychobabble that worked fine on the young footballers at Swansea but have been shown to be useless with grown ups.
But right now, it looks like they're going to finish lower in the league than they did last season, and they're out of the League Cup (whatever it's called this year) and I give them no chance in the FA Cup.
The main reason for those last two predictions is that he has a grand total of 3 recognised strikers, one of whom is a 19 year old winger, and one of the other two is Luis "walking disciplinary offence" Suarez.
And he knew that before he sent Carroll off to West Ham. And it's not that I think Carroll is particularly brilliant, but he is at least a striker.
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The Bogglement:
The Society of Black Lawyers have made (possibly are going to make) a police complaint about anti-Semitic chanting by Spurs fans (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20244204). So far, so sensible. Offensive is offensive, even if it's not aimed at you.
The problem comes when you get the context of a lot of Spurs fans being Jewish and them being at least a large section making the chants of "Yid army". Because they do this (and have done it for many years) as a sort of reclamation.
Cue accusations by the Society of Black Lawyers that it's a terrible excuse and context doesn't matter.
Which has lead to much debate on the nature of racial/ethnic/religious identity, language and its uses and abuses, whether you can reclaim words, who gets to say who can say what and footballing rivalries laid on top of that. The word messy doesn't come close.
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Formula 1 Opinions Sought:
I have been doing some thinking about blown diffusers, and how they interacted with driving styles, in particular, how smooth a driver is.
I'm also aware that having just me judging how smooth a driver is is not a good idea, and so I've set up a survey on Surveymonkey and I'd be grateful for any responses - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LX6WZQD
