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Nketiah has scored the same amount of goals ox did last season
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Man City are struggling to beat Wolverhampton.
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Bravo loves penalties
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? Bravo, smh....
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I'm not impressed. Dont believe the hype.
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Bravo Navas
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northside7 wrote: »Man City are struggling to beat Wolverhampton.
Look at the lineup. ? pathetic.
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I always liked inter
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You don't make the list playing Europa league football.... He didn't even play... Courtois only there because we won the league -
Never seen a manager that complained about the quality of a ball. That everyone else used a did fine
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Man, I hate playing teams that just fired their manager. @bigev240 , I think u guys have a good chance to win today.
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blue_london wrote: »Nketiah has scored the same amount of goals ox did last season
Another ex Chelsea player too... LOL @ him pushing sub Joe Willock away twice when he tried to join in the celebrations -
Kante shudda got in the World 11 over Iniesta
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What Ian Wright said about Kaepernick was great
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blue_london wrote: »What Ian Wright said about Kaepernick was great
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HundredEyes wrote: »blue_london wrote: »What Ian Wright said about Kaepernick was great
What did he say? (To lazy to google it fam lol)
The way he is. I would love to meet him one day just to shake his hand," Wright said on The Debate while discussing Sky Sports' My Icon series.
What he has done is he has put his career on the line for something that is bigger than him, bigger than the game, bigger than everything.
"I think with Kaepernick, what we have to understand, is even though he is doing it for reasons including police brutality, standing up for something, it is still being turned around into something like he is disrespecting the anthem or the flag.
"They are trying to take it away from what he is actually doing it for.
"That is what happens. When you come out as a black person to try and make a statement it always flips on its head.
"That is why it is so hard for people to come out and say something because it turns out like they are trying to play the race card or they've got a chip on their shoulder.
Once we get past it, we'll be able to talk about it like we are doing now.
"I don't think I would have been brave enough to take the stance Kaepernick had taken when I was playing.
"When guys like him and girls like Eni Aluko take that stand, it does galvanise you and it does make you feel I want to say or do something. I feel you I have to get behind these people.
"He is doing something where in years to come they will see him take that knee with that big afro and the way he is, taking the knee for the right reasons not to disrespect the flag - it was the same as the guys who were putting the fist up in the Olympics [Tommie Smith and John Carlos at Mexico City 1968]."
Fellow studio guest Darren Bent praised Kaepernick for bringing the issue of racial injustice to the fore and says it is unfair the quarterback has not been signed to a team this season.
"It's good that Kaepernick and Eni Aluko [whose complaint of racial discrimination against former England boss was recently upheld] have come out and said these kind of things because if these people don't speak, things don't get better.
"If it gets hushed up and swept under the carpet people think it is acceptable to just carry on doing it. But they have come forward Kaepernick has obviously taken a big stand and he's suffering for it now because he is not playing.
"Good on them [for speaking out]. I think I would be the same. If I'm in the dressing room and I see it going on I think I would have to say something because ultimately if they are a black person I am a black person and if it is the same comments it is affecting me as well.
"So many people have backed him and said what he is doing is right but yet he can't get a club which is wrong." -
blue_london wrote: »What Ian Wright said about Kaepernick was great
Not sure why he is talking about it..... Are folks in the UK really watching and following the NFL?
When I was out there I only paid attention to the SUPERBOWLS.
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blue_london wrote: »What Ian Wright said about Kaepernick was great
Not sure why he is talking about it..... Are folks in the UK really watching and following the NFL?
When I was out there I only paid attention to the SUPERBOWLS.
#GOPATRIOTS
I wouldn't say there an major audience for it.. there massive attempts to sell it to us just don't think many people care enough for it... The NFL show is the best sport show on TV though.
As for this situation people care because he's making a statement think almost everyone heard about it someway or an other and I would like to believe the majority in the UK back him. The Ali affect -
Man, I hate playing teams that just fired their manager. @bigev240 , I think u guys have a good chance to win today.
Unsworth will have the guys up for the game. And being an Everton guy, you never know. But I won't hold my breath. -
Ian Wright is a legend, did anyone see him playing 5 aside and missing an open goal??? Putting it down to drinking Vodka and Tonic before the game haha
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Ian Wright been from my area as a kid was massive everyone claimed to know him lol
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I’d say NFL is getting big here. Wembley and Twickenham are always packed when them teams come here and on Sunday they show 3 live games back to back on Sky Sports.
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I’d say NFL is getting big here. Wembley and Twickenham are always packed when them teams come here and on Sunday they show 3 live games back to back on Sky Sports.
I do think NFL is a lot bigger here than people realise. It hasn't got the same outwardly tribal following that football has here, but like you said the NFL matches here always get sold out. Sky have always shown the matches and I don't see that stopping anytime soon. There's quite a lot of people at my work into it, plus you do get people hosting Superbowl parties.
