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What you have written is not offensive (certainly not to me and I doubt to anyone else). I just think it is wrong, as do most people who have looked at it carefully. That's why the PL has the rules that it has. I will never, ever, forget what John Barnes went through (with so much dignity) as a...

The whole 'teams like' thing is just an in-joke on NSC, you can hardly expect John Barnes to know, or care, about that? Language aside are you really so delicate that it upsets you when he points out we are doing well considering the resources at our disposal? From a quick glance it looks as...

Fair enough, that makes sense.

If that is true, you do have to wonder why it was John Barnes, out of all the pundits that critized the decision, that gets contacted now? And also, what would drive someone to go on twitter to attack a point of view, perfectly justifiable at the time, a year later once it looks like the risk...

As he himself has pointed out, he has NOT made any accusations related to race and CH sacking. So, who really has the agenda here? Frankly, given the persistent way that CH had been treated before he came to us, and given John Barnes' lifetime of experience (which lead me to be prepared to...

I did read the whole post. It was a poor analogy, undermined further by the unfortunate phrase I highlighted. Unworthy of the author I thought, who always seems to be a thoughtful and knowledgeable, if occasionally hasty (and prolific) poster.

I suspect, on review, you'll be unhappy with that.

Absolutely all of this. If you hadn't, personally, sat through all the second half of last season, it would be entirely reasonable to judge the sacking as many did. Even for many of us that did sit through those awful games, it still seemed very harsh. And possibly very unwise. I can see both...

It is not. This is not the thread for this discussion (the Bear Pit is thataway ^) but, luckily, most people (under 50 at least) are now way beyond the simplistic notion that 'positive discrimination is itself racism'.

I sat through the second half of last season. So I know that something had to change. But I'm not going to re-write my own thoughts. I wanted CH to be given longer and a chance to oversee the change. Not because we 'owed him that' (although of course we did, but I know that unfortunately...