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If the rumours are true he should have come over to the fans as this may have been his last match for us.
Did the rest of the team come over to the fans?
Not all of them.
Technically the farming and subsequent slaughter of all animals is barbaric – Halal or not.The slaughter of foxes for pleasure has nothing to do with farming but is certainly barbaric.
As an Indian AND someone who has had an insight into the Morris world, it’s definitely not racist, but unless you know about Border Morris you could understand if uninformed people of any background get the wrong end of the stick (no pun intended).What is wrong though is a traditional folk festivals banning it even though they know it’s not racist and normally sensible organisations like Respect saying the ban shows sensitivity when they too should know that there is no racist connotation.
What next, a black mime artist that isn’t allowed to white up?
It’s one thing to perform this at a folk festival Galatic where Border Morris is understood and another in the centre of a multicultural city such as Birmingham.
As in many of these incidents there is usually a back story. They must have been aware it could cause controversy but still went ahead which strikes me as being deliberately provocative. Social media is littered with such things having the sole intention of ruffling the feathers of xenophobic little Englanders and creating unnecessary bad feeling.The worlds gone mad, if Morris dancing is racist then I’m a f**kin Hippo!No one is saying Morris Dancing is racist.
Can’t paint your faces black in this day and age and was a stupid thing to do.Exactly, and I suspect they knew exactly what they were doing by blacking up.
It can be argued there is racist connotations associated with this practice so not as harmless as some would like to believe.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/751928/Blacked-up-Morris-dancers-Birmingham-racism-threat?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrainIt’s all one way traffic; no respect or thought about our traditions. Well come on; there Morris Men, not the KKK !
So, because it’s a “tradition” that makes it OK and it should therefore be left to continue regardless in the same way fox hunting is for example…..
The wider issue for me is using technology to help the officials. How exactly it would work God knows, but it’s wrong that everyone watching on TV can see a decision is wrong, but it cannot be corrected.
Game is too fast flowing. The goal technology works as its on a watch and is live but penalty decisions wouldn’t be. The ref would have to give it and then watch it back why everyone complains; but then how do you restart play if it wasnt a dive and was just a bad call?[/quote]
Very difficult how to use technology without unduly slowing the game. Need to find a way though sooner rather than later.
Whatever system eventually gets used, the principle should be that it is used to support the officials. A borderline decision shouldnt be changed, only one that is clearly wrong (that could be another worm can though :ohmy: )[/quote]
I’ve yet to see any convincing argument about how it could be used without either slowing the game or at worst ruining it.
Any system that allows a team X amount of appeals per game will just be exploited e.g. marginal offside decision in the last minute which the liner doesn’t give & an opponent is clean through on goal. Team X appeals to prevent the chance, play stopped, replay proves the player was onside – how is play re-started. Or if they allow the chance, at what point is play stopped? When they miss? when they score? if it goes out for a corner 3 minutes later?Any system that allows someone in the stand to review the game & pull the referee or assistants up if they make a mistake – all that does is completely undermine the refereeing team & when players realise they’re making mistakes or the ref is being told what to do by someone else, their match control disappears & dissent & stuff ruins the game
At the end of the day, referees make mistakes – the one on Saturday made a stinker in a) thinking it was a foul & b) thinking it was inside the area & an argument could be made that it cost Latics at least a point. However the ref made less mistakes than most, if not all, the players & missed chances, mis-placed passes, poor marking had more of an effect on the result than the ref did & it’s the same in every game.
Back to the original topic – yes the game on Boxing Day is a must win for Latics[/quote]
Agree with all of that and that our defeat was down poor defending rather than a dodgy penalty.
Isn’t FIFA trialling video replays and has recently been used in a match?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/historic-moment-referee-viktor-kassai-9455294The only top notch passes to Yanic that I remember came from Gomez which probably suggests the rest were routine.
We all know Wildschut does’t always choose the best option but he and others put enough balls into the box yesterday for a so called “poacher” to get on the end of and produce a decent effort on goal. Is that not his so called strength?There were quite a few balls fizzed across the box but was it Grigg not being there or poor crosses or should we have had more men in the box? Grigg was everywhere yesterday.I think we should stop looking for excuses for Grigg.
Lets keep me as it is then as its working so well eh ?That depends on which of the systems that isn’t working so well you want to persist with.
Must play on Saturday. Desperately unlucky with that superb header to almost equalise against Newcastle.
Mmmm, try telling yootha that.[/quote]
This constant clamour for Grigg to play despite him being slow, unable to hang on to a ball played up to him, looking unfit and generally out-of-form puts into perspective the ability of the other “strikers” in our squad.
