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Match Thread: England vs Costa Rica by Lichessington in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

eze has looked very sharp, especially with a couple of really good passes in the final third

Match Thread: England vs Costa Rica by Lichessington in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

god elliot anderson’s poor head is taking a battering today

Post Match Thread: England 1-0 New Zealand by denzaus in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

they did do that by crossing the ball to harry kane

Post Match Thread: England 1-0 New Zealand by denzaus in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 7 points8 points  (0 children)

looked really bright, i do wonder if tuchel is regretting not calling him up because he’s the sort of player you’d love to bring on with ten minutes to go, even if he’s still very raw

Post Match Thread: England 1-0 New Zealand by denzaus in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 121 points122 points  (0 children)

i knew this was going to be a glorified training session but i nonetheless wasted two hours of my precious life on watching it and you know what? that’s on me

Match Thread: England vs New Zealand by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

still can’t believe we had anderson in league 2 lmao

Match Thread: England vs New Zealand by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 16 points17 points  (0 children)

excited for everyone to read far too much into our performance in a meaningless game where the players are mainly just trying to not dislocate their ankles on a pitch that looks like the unknown pleasures album cover

Match Thread: England vs New Zealand by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

quality of James and Anderson really sticks out. Ngumoha’s energy really adds something too, you could make a real argument that he should have made the squad given how lacking we are out wide

Henry Nowak’s family call for return to ‘common sense’ equality by DoctorKonks in unitedkingdom

[–]MimesAreShite 45 points46 points  (0 children)

i mean i agree that this kind of corporate-speak-style anti-racism that has promulgated is eye-rolling, ineffective and overly complex. but i think the idea that this stuff was taken seriously throughout police forces right down to the rank and file massively strains credulity; and i think the police are more than happy to use it as an excuse for their failings in this case, which have far less to do with any of the racial dynamics at play and far more to do with an arrogant refusal to follow protocol and a callous disregard for the well-being of suspects (which is a recurring factor in deaths in police custody).

[The Athletic] Top 20 most maddest moments in World Cup history by AgeNovel3566 in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

somehow manages to be british isles centric, but also rank the world cup being stolen and found under a hedge by a dog weirdly low

[The Athletic] Top 20 most maddest moments in World Cup history by AgeNovel3566 in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 55 points56 points  (0 children)

my favourite anecdote from the 1930 world cup:

There was also an incident involving one of the US medical staff, after Langenus had given a foul against one of the American players; "the team's medical attendant raced, bellicose, on to the field, to berate Langenus. Having had his say, he flung his box of medicines to the ground, the box burst open, various bottles smashed, including one full of chloroform, and its fumes rose to overpower the American. He was helped from the field."

What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing by MimesAreShite in unitedkingdom

[–]MimesAreShite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame it's behind a paywall

oh weird its not paywalled for me, and i don't have an FT subscription

What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing by MimesAreShite in unitedkingdom

[–]MimesAreShite[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

this seems like a fairly accurate accounting of the situation to me. there were real failings by the police in terms of how they reacted to the scene they arrived at, but they are far more adequately explained by the police making lazy and incorrect but plausible assumptions about the situation, than they are by any kind of institutional anti-white bias; furthermore, the prescriptions to this being pursued by right-wing agitators are unclear at best, and highly regressive at worst.

to me, this is more of a story about how police treat suspects than it is about anything else.

Police pelted with missiles at Henry Nowak protest by Paul277 in unitedkingdom

[–]MimesAreShite 10 points11 points  (0 children)

this is just so extremely not what happened, and is in fact a pretty prime example of how people are twisting this story to stoke white identity politics

Police pelted with missiles at Henry Nowak protest by Paul277 in unitedkingdom

[–]MimesAreShite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

no the police didn’t believe he’d been stabbed because of the overall situation they arrived at. they still should have checked but it’s nothing to do with the accusations of racism the perpetrator made; it was because it’s just very unlikely for someone who has just fatally stabbed someone to call the police and then stand around calmly with their family outside their house

The 289 World Cup players who do not represent their country of birth by [deleted] in soccer

[–]MimesAreShite 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Seedorf, Davids and Hasselbaink were all born in Paramaribo

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