I took a month-long break from writing these every week, but after the events of this weekend I’ve realised I just can’t stay away from the global entertainment phenomenon that is Scottish football. As well as being extremely busy, part of the motivation behind this hiatus of mine was the nonsense that followed Brendan Rodgers’ departure from Celtic to Leicester City, despite him saying that he didn’t see it as a stepping stone, and that it was his dream job. Whilst according to the average /soccer user, this cemented the Scottish Premiership’s status as a diddy league unworthy of following, it DID provide an opportunity to examine Celtic’s support’s journey through the 5 stages of grief. First there was denial, then anger, before depression, bargaining, and finally acceptance that Moussa Dembélé was right all along. Elsewhere, it’s brown trousers time for fans of Hamilton, Dundee, and St Mirren; and the race for a top 6 place - and a chance at European football - is going to go down to the wire. A timeline of all of the patter in the SPFL, and results from the last month in the Scottish Premiership ‘reported’ below, taking a more detailed look at this weekend’s fixtures, and results from the Scottish Cup, the Challenge Cup final, and the national team’s Euro 2020 qualifying games (as much as it pains me to do so). I’m not going to go into copious detail with every result, because there’s a good 30-something games to discuss, but there will be at least highlights of every game, just a click away.
Since awful home performances from Aberdeen are no longer remarkable, this game should exclusively be remembered for George Oakley’s Marco van Basten-esque wondergoal, and little else. Highlights.
Without meaning for this to turn into a Scottish Football Fan Trouble Roundup, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that a bottle of Buckfast, or Bucks Fizz if you’re the Mail, was thrown at Scott Sinclair whilst it was 0-0, in the first of two incidents of bampot behaviour at Easter Road within the next week. Not sure it quite had the desired effect, mind, as shortly after two belters from James Forrest and Scott Brown did the business for Celtic. Full highlights with commentary.
Brilliant late drama as wee Aaron Doran headed in a goal in stoppage time to book Caley Thistle’s place in the semi-final, in a game which they dominated. After beautiful goal from Joe Chalmers put ICT ahead, United were equal through a contentious penalty converted by Nicky Clarke. Inverness had the ball in the net again before the winner, but Nathan Austin had been ruled offside. Overall, ICT worthy winners. Full highlights.
A hilarious performance from Hearts on account of how predictable it was; totally dominant with no end product beyond Christophe Berra’s 12th-minute opener, which was cancelled out by Christie Elliot on the counter attack an hour later. Uche Ikpeazu almost scored one of the competition’s greatest ever goals before half-time, and if he had, that most likely would have been it for Partick. However, they managed to force the replay, along with Aberdeen and Rangers, although neither game could be broadcast, because UEFA want you to watch the Champions League. Full highlights with commentary.
Rangers fans retaliated to the Morelos banner they saw at Pittodrie by coming up with a Spanish banner of their own, reading “de asientos vacios a ovejas que abusan sexualmente Aberdeen FC”, or in English: “of empty seats for sheep who sexually abuse Aberdeen FC”. With the spotlight on fan behaviour as much as ever before, weeks of incidents were capped off by a moronic Hibs fan running onto the pitch trying to start on James Tavernier, before shiteing it as soon as Tavernier stood up against him. Rangers totally dominated, and Hibs could have been down to 10 men within as many minutes if Darren McGregor had been sent off for his elbow on Morelos. Morelos couldn’t take his chances, and Rangers couldn’t take their chance to close the gap on Celtic, with Florian Kamberi equalising with 75 minutes played. Darren McGregor was eventually sent-off after all, for a second yellow in stoppage time. Highlights.
Two teams who haven’t really got going in 2019, but fair play to Livingston for responding in such a way to going down after Joe Shaughnessy’s early opener. Highlights.
Aberdeen’s Scott McKenna may have been linked with Celtic in the summer, but before this game he announced he’d signed a deal with Trump International instead. A bold choice when you consider how popular Trump is in Aberdeen (not very) and also the world (not very). This fixture is normally a bit of a goal-fest, with the last match between the two sides being a 3-4 Celtic win, but I put a bet on both teams to score, so it’s the first goalless draw since 1994. Highlights.
The two previous Lanarkshire derbies have been fiercely competitive, with Hamilton victorious when visiting Fir Park, and Motherwell taking the 3 points from the Hope CBD. This game, however, was all but over in 10 minutes, with a David Turnbull brace putting daylight between the two teams, before Jake Hastie finished Accies off 25 minutes later. Highlights.
Shortly after Hearts meandered to a 1-1 draw with Thistle in the original fixture, their reserve team pumped Thistle’s 9-1, as if to rub salt into the wound. Hearts went behind to a tap-in from Scott McDonald, but goals from Uche Ikpeazu and Sean Clare were the difference in the end. Highlights.
Sad news for Scottish football, after it was revealed that the Hope CBD Stadium, so-called after a cannabis oil company purchased the naming rights to New Douglas Park, would be renamed after just 6 months to the even more eccentric “Fountain of Youth Stadium”. This all comes after they were randomly disrespected by Lord Sugar on Twitter. Tough times to be an Accies fan for sure. All of this was not enough to prevent Accies from getting one over Hearts, though, with Aaron McGowan’s goal the difference between the two sides. This result also validates the first words in four months from 22 year old stroke victim Darren Thompson - “Hearts are shite.” Highlights.
Before this match Rangers fans took to the offices of BBC Scotland in protest (I’m assuming?) against the unfair treatment they get on Sportscene. Kilmarnock went ahead through Conor McAleny, who replaced an injured Eamonn Brophy, but Alfredo Morelos was able to equalise. Neither side will be entirely content with a draw, I feel. Highlights.
All in all a very bad week for the Scottish men’s national football team. First we get absolutely done by the Northern Irish FA on twitter, and then we go on to get absolutely humiliated by Kazakhstan in our first qualifier. God help us. Alex McLeish did remark that we started brightly, which is funny considering that we were 2-0 down within 10 minutes. There’s also this weird interview with Graeme Jones where he explains why the squad decided not to try to adjust to the different time-zones. Not sure the priorities are quite right in the Scotland camp. The only highlight of the game as far as I’m concerned is when Sky lost pictures from Astana, but if you really want to see us get absolutely outclassed, then you can do so here.
After a player of the round performance from Ross Stewart gave us the most Scottish photoshoot ever - without featuring a kilt or bagpipes - and helped Ross County into the Challenge Cup final, the country of Scotland could put their international misery behind them for a day to watch a Welsh team almost win the final of a Scottish cup competition. The Nomads went ahead thanks to Michael Bakare 20 minutes in; it took until the 75th minute for County to turn it around. A quickfire double from Josh Mullin gave the Staggies the lead, before Jamie Lindsay secured what may not be Ross County’s last silverware of the season - they look likely to return to the Premiership as Champions. Highlights.
Where were you when Scotland went 70 minutes without scoring in San Marino? Would you like to experience it all over again? From Kenny McLean’s 4th minute opener, Johnny Russell’s almost-disappointing second goal, and that one moment where they got round the keeper and we actually thought they might score - relive it all here! Finally, we continue with some action that actually happened this week.
In the context of the whole season this doesn’t look like a bad result at all, but St Mirren will feel this is an awful point or three to drop. The Buddies had the chance to go a goal ahead, but Simeon Jackson opted to try a weird panenka along the ground from his spot-kick, which Zander Clark had no trouble with. I mean it’s not as if it could all come down to one goal or one point for St Mirren at the end of the season, anyway. Shortly after, Chris Kane put St Johnstone ahead by pouncing on a defensive error. Had Jackson’s penalty gone in, and the score remained the same, St Mirren would have been off the bottom before their must-win match against Dundee. They’ll be without Ethan Erhahon for that match after he was given a straight red for a poor tackle late in the match. Architects of their own downfall in this match, St Mirren. Highlights.
Livingston won’t have any worries of relegation, which is a miracle in itself considering how poor value they looked at the very beginning of the season. Meanwhile Hibs will have known that they could easily fall out of the top 6 with any missteps at this crucial point in the season. Craig Halkett missed this match through an injury sustained prior to the game, and it was announced today he’d be leaving Livingston for Hearts at the end of the season - with this I reckon he’ll make the Scotland squad for the next series of international games. In the end, goals from Paul Hanlon and Mark McNulty killed the game off in the space of 5 minutes, and Ryan Hardie’s late penalty was only a consolation for Livingston. Highlights.
St Mirren may have been their own worst enemy in the middle of the week, but what a performance and result this is for them - and one which could well be fatal for Dundee. Dundee went ahead after just 22 seconds through Ethan Robson, which could easily have destroyed any hopes St Mirren had of taking something out of the game, but Danny Mullen scored his third goal of the season - his third against Dundee - to reignite the Buddies’ hopes just 11 minutes later. The winning goal came courtesy of speccy tube Brad Lyons, affording him the opportunity to premiere his speccy tube celebration in Saturday’s best exhibition of patter. St Mirren leapfrog Dundee, and are looking much more likely to increase that gap at the moment than Dundee are to close it. Highlights.
This result confirms St Johnstone’s bottom 6 placement, and keeps Motherwell’s alive by a sliver. Chris Cadden returning to the Motherwell bench will be a cause for optimism, and Motherwell looked improved when he came on, with Elliot Frear’s opener occurring 6 minutes after his substitution into the game, and David Turnbull doubling the lead 10 minutes later. Liam Craig had an early penalty saved for St Johnstone, and Richard Tait added a third to complete Saints’ capitulation in stoppage time. Highlights.
Aberdeen remained without Shay Logan through injury, although he did pull on a kit for his stag do. They went ahead thanks to Connor McLennan in the first half, but came out after the interval with apparently very little idea of how to play football. Sean Clare and Uche Ikpeazu got on the scoresheet to complete the Hearts comeback. How it feels to be an Aberdeen fan right now can be summarised by Derek McInnes’ decision in the 86th minute to bring on centre-back Michael Devlin for our only dangerous attacker, Connor McLennan, in a Steven Caulker-esque move. I despair. Highlights.
One of the most notable differences between Brian Rice’s Accies and his predecessor Martin Canning’s side is that Rice has set up much less defensively. As such, his side have been on the end of some right pumpings. Highly-rated left-back prospect Greg Taylor scored his first ever goal for Kilmarnock, before a second half rout saw four other players on the scoresheet - Conor McAleny, Youssouf Mulumbu, Chris Burke, and Mikael Ndjoli. This result means that Kilmarnock overtake Aberdeen into third, and will look to hold on to this European place. The job Steve Clarke has done is pretty incredible. Hamilton will be looking cautiously at St Mirren and Dundee beneath them. Highlights.
You already know how this one went down. One man whose name shot up in the estimations of 95% of /soccer yesterday is a certain Scott Brown. The events of this match almost entirely revolved around him. After Odsonne Édouard opened the scoring, the first notable incident involving Brown was the Celtic captain baiting Alfredo Morelos into elbowing him in the face, and laughing at him as he walked off back down the tunnel. Ryan Kent levelled magically for Rangers, and Celtic too went down to 10 men after Dedryck Boyata went off-injured after their third sub. When James Tavernier nonchalantly enabled James Forrest’s 86th-minute winner, Brown’s gameplaying saw him get punched in the face by Ryan Kent, which seems to have made both players more of a hero to each side. Andy Halliday was then sent-off after trying to brawl in the tunnel, just before Brown gave a brilliant post-match interview where he claims not to remember what happened with Kent, and that the post-match scuffle with Halliday was just the Rangers man coming over to congratulate him. All things considered, a good day for shithousing. Highlights. So after all that, the table looks as follows:
Championship Round Relegation Round That was a lot so thanks for giving it a read. See yous next Monday for more of the same! Check out /ScottishFootball for good patter and discussion of the SPFL Last week’s matches were rounded up here ● data from soccerway.com ● thanks mods for 2soccer2botbut it’s still broken
Sunday, 2nd September 2012 13:30 BST (10:30pm Sydney, 5:30am West Coast, 8:30am East Coast, 8:30pm Singapore, 1)
Location:
Anfield, Liverpool
Referee:
Howard Webb. Matches: 1, Red 0, Yellow 3.
Television:
Fox Sports 1 (Australia), Highlights BBC UK, Sky Sports UK
Team News
Liverpool
Liverpool currently sit 17th on the table with 1 point from two games.
Liverpool midfielder Lucas is out for up to three months with a thigh injury, and could be replaced by either Jonjo Shelvey or Jordan Henderson.
Defender Daniel Agger has completed a one-game ban, and is likely to return in place of Sebastian Coates.
17-year old Raheem Sterling made his Premier League debut last time out and impressed, so could keep his place on the left ahead of Downing, while Enrique should return in place of Kelly.
Lucas' injury means that there could be a league debut for Nuri Sahin against an Arsenal side who were also keen to bring him to their club this summer.
Arsenal
Arsenal are currently 13th on the table after two draws from their first two games.
Arsenal will assess goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who missed the draw at Stoke with a rib injury.
Laurent Koscielny returns after a calf problem, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is pushing for a start.
Midfielder Jack Wilshere and defender Bacary Sagna continue their rehabilitation.
Theo Walcott's future has been in doubt in recent weeks and though it seems he will stay at the club this summer, he is yet to pen a new contract and could miss out for now, with Oxlade-Chamberlain potentially replacing Gervinho.
Elsewhere Jenkinson could come under competition for a start at right-back from Koscielny, while Gibbs should keep his place at left-back.
Trivia
Arsenal have drawn 5 of their last 6 matches in the Premier League.
Only Arsenal (19%) have a worse shooting accuracy than Liverpool in the Premier League this season (24%).
There have been seven 90th minute or later goals scored in the last seven Premier League games between Liverpool and Arsenal, and five in the last four.
Liverpool v Arsenal at Anfield has seen the joint-most own goals of any fixture in Premier League history with four.
Liverpool have won just one of the last 10 league meetings between the two sides, although six of those ended in draws (W1, D6, L3).
The Reds are one short of 250 league goals against the Gunners.
New Liverpool signing Joe Allen (pictured, right) has an 85 per cent passing accuracy in the attacking half of the pitch, alongside a 100% passing accuracy in the defensive half.
Liverpool has the youngest average player age in the Premier League while Arsenal is the second youngest.
They are also expected to field the two youngest starting 11's in the Premier League this weekend, with the Arsenal starting 11 being slightly younger than the Liverpool starting 11.
Swansea striker Wilfried Bony will be assessed by manager Garry Monk after playing for the Ivory Coast against Cameroon on Wednesday.
Marvin Emnes could be involved for the first time this season following his hamstring injury, but Leon Britton is out for a further month.
Form vs. Chelsea: 5W 8D 11L
Head To Head
Chelsea have won all three Premier League home matches against Swansea and are unbeaten in the last six league meetings home and away (W4, D2). Swansea have scored just three goals in those six matches.
The Blues won both meetings with Swansea in the league last season 1-0.
The Swans did win 2-0 at Stamford Bridge in the League Cup in January 2013, however, with Michu and Danny Graham on the scoresheet.
Swansea's only league victory at Chelsea came in the very first meeting between the sides back in 1925.
The Swans' last league win over Chelsea was a 3-0 Division One success at their old Vetch Field home in April 1981.
This is only the second time in Premier League history that the top two sides in the table have met as early as this in the season. Then-leaders Chelsea beat second-placed Tottenham 2-0 in August 2005.
Conclusion... So, after such a long rant you might be asking; "How can I possibly say that I am a feminist, to some extent?" To which I would say (which I was going to explain, before you so rudely interrupted with your disingenuous question): Well, I do agree with the basic core principle of feminism and I do think it points out issues that we would otherwise have little knowledge off. I believe that as a lense (while it can only reveal part of the truth) it can still provide a unique insight on some issues that another perspective might miss. I would like feminism to survive in some form and I do think social sciences can be a benefit for finding the truth and developing measures to benefit society. The problem is that the underlying ideology is causing far more problems than it is solving and I do think it is dangerous. It is held up by bad readings of science, that are parroted in the media. Left to its own devices, it is exactly the kind of ideology that both encourages true believers and an us vs them mentality. It bares all the hallmarks of an ideology that will encourage purity spirals (who is the most virtuous by their oppression) and will trend toward death and destruction. I want to make it clear. I am not fearful, I don't think we have "to act before they get the chance to pull it off" or anything. I just think that unvetted, this is the sort of conclusion it would spiral toward. Thankfully, I think that it is losing steam as an ideology and is in it's death throws. At this point, there is enough resistance against it that in order to get to that point they would still need to get into a position of political power and the system would have to allow for authoritarian control. I want to like Feminism but (as long as it subscribes to Patriarchy and Intersectionality), I can spare no quarter. Allow me to demonstrate why I think it is this kind of ideology. So if we look at how propaganda has been used (effectively) before. Let's start by taking a real world example of propaganda that led to genocide:
There were two primary types of portrayal of the Jews that were oddly at contrast, but aimed at achieving the same objective. Jews were either portrayed as seedy, degenerate, ugly, masses associated with vermin, or they were portrayed as greedy, fat, and unpleasant elements who sided with the enemy. By picking only relatively unpleasant looking Jewish attributes, and by choosing to portray Jews in only an unpleasant manner, the Nazis applied Selection Bias to elicit several other cascading biases. By taking advantage of the Negativity Bias inherent human nature, wherein we pay more attention to negative images, the Nazis succeeded in associating Jews with those unpleasant mental images. This created a Clustering Illusion, where people were conditioned to see unpleasantness in the Jewish population when there was none present. This, in turn, created an environment of Self-Serving Bias of behavioural confirmation, where all responsibility for the success of Nazi Germany was claimed by the Germans, and the blame for all failures were laid on the Jewish population.
I will be combining this with the 10 stages of genocide, and how I think it is relevant. I know this isn't perfect, and it doesn't necessarily follow this structure exactly. Not to mention, just because I think this rhetoric is similar to rhetoric that has led to mass death before it doesn't mean I think this is actually what is happening now. I just think it's a similar tribal mind set to previous hateful ideologies. So individual (feminist) idealist just think they are working toward a better society, but it is an ideology ripe for abuse and it will attract opportunists looking to consolidate power. This is not me saying that feminists are bad people. In fact, I think they're quite empathetic and most follow this ideology out of desire to help the world, not hate on men. What they don't realise is the ideology is inherently against men. Also, empathy is not all good as Feminism claims. Where I have already demonstrated that we have our biases, our empathy is also selective and sometimes when we empathise we can miss the bigger picture (and stop reasoning objectively), and fail to show compassion to other's suffering that doesn't fit within our empathetic framework. This is no one's fault, this is like all emotions. For instance, people may react more favourably to a friend saying something than someone they dislike or don't know. It's because there are people who we are more willing to afford empathy to based on our own mind sets. I'm not saying empathy is inherently dangerous, but it isn't inherently good either and can be used to justify evil actions. So this is not hating on feminists, but it is attempting to point out why the underlying ideology of patriarchy/intersectionality is a dangerous mind set (and empathy doesn't guard against that). So let's start with the framing of the other, we have some weird dichotomous theories going on at the moment: 1) White males are the dangers we don't see at home (and are the majority of extremists):
I have issue with the ADL report, it is very loose as to what it defines as right wing (the key word in this statement is link). This is hyperbolic and impossible to determine, often we can point to things we see as right wing (even though we're all less familiar with other people's opinions than we think). Let's take a few individuals that make up part of that fifty: Scott Paul Beierle - shot up a yoga studio - no clear right wing motive, Jeremy Shaw - plot to take over a home - no clear right wing motive, Richard Starry - shot and killed four relatives at a local nursing centre then killed himself- no clear right wing motive. Also the breakdown of mass shootings (percentage wise) is similar to the ethnic breakdown of people (percentage wise) by population. Here's a picture of all the mass shooters in 2019. So here's the rub with this type of ideology. I would go into more detail, but even if the above were true white people by demographic of population are not more likely to commit a mass shooting, there is just more of them. This is referenced in the report itself: "Ideological motives appear to have played a primary or secondary role in 19 of the 50 extremist murders (38%) in 2018". So when they say "right-wing", how would this logic relate to some shooters that could be argued to be "left-wing extremists". Is it a direct link, like Willem Van Spronsen who had a manifesto detailing his left-wing views, or does it happen to be along the same vein as the Dayton Ohio shooter, who people say is a left wing extremist just because he happens to have leftist views on his Twitter feed, which is less clear. I don't trust either side to give a fair breakdown. Even if it were true, just because a group is over represented in violence doesn't mean that the majority of that group commits violence. This is an ecological fallacy. But the point is, it ends in white men being feared, this is the clustering effect mentioned above. This is driven by articles like this: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. 2) White males (men) are incompetent/weak/emotionally inferioLazy etc:
So (I say so a lot), I have already put emphasis on the changing social dynamics between perceptions of men and women and have demonstrated the differences between them. I don't think I need to go into too much detail. This is where the dichotomy comes in, but they achieve the same results. Men have to be stopped because they are dangerous have formed a Patriarchy to oppress women, which has lead to war but they're also extremely incompetent and women would do everything better. It seems contradictory, but it isn't that. They actually compliment each other, as even though men have oppressed women (and continue to do so), they have still managed to fuck it up so much that we need to stop them before they destroy everything. The end result is the same. Here's some articles (and they are just sexist, even if the author doesn't realise it): Men are lazy, the men at the top are mediocre due to their "socialised" traits being seen as better due to "socialisation" (it's not that traits like industriousness and disagreeableness are highly linked to success in both men and women, no./s), how women would stop war if they ruled the world, how the term mansplaining isn't sexist as men are more competitive and aggressive (men are like this to each other as well, as demonstrated above) in their ideals through "socialisation" and are privileged along the oppressed/oppressor dynamic, women are smarter than men, women are the superior gender. It goes on and on and on. This is modern day propaganda, it fits the definition perfectly. The only differences I can see is that this works from social determinism (where previous ideologies spread from biological determinism) and it's target is Cis White Heterosexual Men. Easy to miss if you're not following it, but pervasive enough that people will repeat these talking points without realising. This is how the most effective propaganda works. Fear and tribalism, constant exposure and suppression of other ideas. This time it's being done through labelling anyone who disagrees as sexist. Now I have explained the basis for my thoughts, I will now explain how we have taken steps toward that point (at least the first six stages): 1) Classification - The implementation of Patriarchy the "Us vs Them". White men have built these power structures and are excluding women. The patriarchy supports men more and is responsible for violence and death (especially against women and minorities). This must be stopped. 2) Symbolisation - Mansplaining, manspreading, criminality, men are inherently misandrist and violent (or socialised to be). The symbolism is the masculine traits. They're codified as part of the problem because some individuals take those traits too far. 3) Discrimination - This adds to the propaganda and adds to the rhetoric and if anyone were to disagree with these discriminatory practices, it is only because they are against women and insecure about losing their privileges (which the vast majority of men don't even recognise, and the ones at the top probably don't care. They're already in power), rather than people being concerned about the possible social, economic and moral implications of doing so. I mentioned affirmative action, there's also diversity quotas in offices and the recent push for white people to resign from the Democrat party (where, to be fair, this rhetoric is rampant with Democrat leaders) [1][2]. 4) Dehumanisation - This is there. Sexism is portrayed as this great evil that only men are guilty for. And you can't be racist toward white people as a black person either. The evil is reserved for the oppressor group, and it is their actions that have created the horrors in the (western and wider) world that we see today. This creates a Self-Serving bias where all the bad actions of men are considered a part of patriarchy and so must be addressed but all bad actions by women are as a result of patriarchy and the way to addressing them is by focusing on the bad actions of men. Violent women just have internalised misogyny. All responsibility for the success of Women is claimed by the Feminism, and the blame for all failures are due to the male dominated Patriarchy. Sound familiar? At this stage as well, you have dehumanisation of anyone who even moderately fits these (perceived or otherwise) unfavourable characteristics. The wrong targets can and will be attacked, for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or people who they've previously heralded, they recently went on an attack against Obama in the debates. Or "fascist sympathisers" who somehow support fascist and bigoted principles even though they are Vietnamese and Gay. The dehumanisation always spreads, and always escalates. 5) Organisation - Can't prove this one. I doubt I'd be able to even if it was true. I would bet money there are some opportunists out there waiting to make this a reality though, but these would be so few and far between. 6) Polarisation - Demonstrated already, hate spreads and it becomes more and more acceptable to hate white men. This is as far as we've got, I doubt it will go further. Whilst I believe feminism has power, it would actually need to get official government power before it would even get past this point and just because an ideology trends toward extreme action, it doesn't mean it will get therr. I guess I'm trying to say, I'm not scared of feminism but accusations of it being a ideology prone toward mass death do hold some weight. This is my summary: Feminism does have some basis in truth but this is irrelevant - this ignores why extreme rhetoric is dangerous in the first place. (The truth of it is irrelevant, but the framing of the truth isn't). The reason why generalisations are extreme is not because they are inherently untrue (they usually are) but because they ignore other (true) variables (in other words, individual differences) in defence of this higher truth. All in the name of creating a utopian society (dismantling Patriarchy will ensure equality for women/minorities). This encourages a pathological fixation on it, where people who feel like their life is out of control will use this to try and resolve their issues (and gravitate toward more extreme measures in taking control). It all becomes about defeating the patriarchy, and any measure is good because of how ubiquitous it is in society. But what happens when their ideas of dismantling oppression don't work (which they won't if they're wrong in their assumptions about Patriarchy). What happens when we don't get more women in STEM? Where is the end point? If it's due to oppression, then what methods would eventually be justified in stopping it? Would it be because men are refusing to relinquish power? Will Feminism at this point stop, or would it double down and push harder? I believe that this is the exact kind of rhetoric that trends more towards extremism overtime as people get more desperate and confident that their actions are correct. There is no easy fix to the issues facing men, women or any minority today. Modern day Feminism is in a poor state to resolve them. Its manipulative rhetoric that radicalises people (who are likely struggling with mental health issues, because it is the perfect ideology to play on our negative emotions -using negativity bias, and half-truths). It turns their own pain against them. It doesn't matter if this is being done on purpose or not, in my opinion the end result will be the same (if left to progress to its logical conclusion). Feminism is what I would call a new age religion (Communism/Nazism being other examples), which doesn't rely on theism but has it's own moral structures in place. This has convinced me that the religious mode of thought is innate within humanity. You can get rid of the religion, but you can't get rid of the thought process that led us to these conclusions in the first place. It's devil is the Patriarchy, it's original sin is toxic masculinity, the holy scriptures are works by Bell Hooks, Judith Butler, Germaine Greer etc, it's heretics are anyone with the "white male" perspective. (I'm not religious but) I actually prefer theistic religion. Religion had many problems, but at least it had rules of how decent humans should treat each other (well toward women and minorities it does, but does not extend this courtesy to proponents outside its belief structure). There is no escape from the outrage mob, a person can apologise but they will still be dragged through the coals. And this is its most egregious flaw, it has all the framework of religion but does not have the path to redemption to temper it. Where does that end? That's it, if you've made it this far... Well done! Let me know what you think. Am I right/wrong? What am I missing? Feel free to insult me, but I feel the need to give a fair warning... It might hurt my feelings. Please leave thoughts and comments below. All are welcome here.
Hey all, u/shoecat again with this winter’s transfer megathread. Same deal as the summer thread, still copying the same format (thanks to lgfualol and company).
New Contracts
First Team
Player
Position
Length
Info
None so far
Professional Contracts Signed (Youth)
Player
Position
Info
Players In - Permanent
Player
Position
Age
Nation
From
Fee
Contract
Info
Adrien Silva
CM
28
Portugal
Sporting
£22m
?
? (this was a bizarre transfer, so it's hard to find a good source on it)
I’m going to do my best to stick to good sources, but call me out if I post something from a shifty place and I’ll take it down or find it from a better source
December 28th and prior
Player
Rumour
Source
Riyad Mahrez
We will just have to wait and see if Puel was able to “seduce” Mahrez or not, but Arsenal seem to be, as ever, readying an improved bid on the winger.
The out of favor Stoke right back has been linked with us as possible back up for Danny Simpson. What does this mean for Almeida? I guess we will wait and see.
Watford are "confident" in being able to beat Newcastle in the race for the Algerian striker. Turkish side Besitkas also are interested in the striker.
I feel like I might as well not post this, but an unnamed source claims that an unnamed club have made a concrete offer for the Nigerian, but he is believed to be happy and not expected to move.
Turkish side Buraspor are reportedly interested in the Nigerian striker, and I'm sure he would be interested in finding some minutes before the World Cup.
The non league youngster is turning heads with the likes of Leicester and Villa watching. He is a midfielder who breaks up play and launches attacks from deep.
The Malian forward/wingeattacking midfielder has all but been confirmed. French media report around 2 million euroson a 4 and a half year deal for the 22 year old.
Sorry I've haven't been as on top of this as I was in the summer. Thank you to everyone posting things in the comments, you are the real MVPs! I'll try to be more active with this for the rest of the window.
January 12th
Player
Rumour
Source
Jamie Vardy
United are reportedly looking to give Lukaku competition. Seems doubtful though.
Doubtful. City have yet to place a bid but there are reports of a potential 60 million bid coming. Leicester have reportedly told City that it would take something "mind blowing" to sign everyone's favourite Algerian.
I thought it might be interesting to keep tabs on Leicester's odds on signing people, so below I'm including a table to show the Sky Bet transfer specials that we are a part of. Last Update: 30/1/18
Players In
Player
Position
Age
Current Team
Leicester's Odds
Change
Favorites
Change
Andre Schuerrle
Striker
27
Borussia Dortmund
25/1
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Borussia Dortmund - 4/7
Up from 4/11
Steven N’Zonzi
Defencive Midfield
29
Sevilla
33/1
Up from 25/1
Sevilla - 1/7
Down from 1/3
Wilfried Zaha
Right Wing
25
Crystal Palace
33/1
Up from 28/1
Crystal Palace - 1/40
Down from 1/25
Players Out
Player
Position
Age
Odds to Stay
Change
Favorites to Sign (excluding Leicester)
Change
Jamie Vardy
Striker
30
1/33
Down from 1/10
Everton - 10/1
Up from 7/1
Riyad Mahrez
Right Wing
26
5/6
Up from 1/5
Manchester City - 10/11
Down from 9/2
Islam Slimani
Striker
29
4/7
Down from 8/11
Monaco - 7/2
Up from 5/2
Let me know any updates I can make and the like. Thanks!
Manchester City go into today's game boasting the 2nd best form in the league with 14 points out of a possible 18, only the Saints have performed better over the past 6 games. Arsenal on the other hand are close behind with 13 out of a possible 18, but it's on the road were recently Arsenal haven't looked like their usual impressive selves, only being able to amass 7 points from their last 6 league games. Meanwhile at home City have only lost once this season with a shock defeat to Stoke 3 games deep into the league. So this is a game with a team with a recently shaky away record visiting the fortress that is the Etihad with City proving virtually unstoppable. But this is the Premier League, form very rarely matters. : WWWDWD : WDWWLW Previous league meetings: 1-12-06-31-12-20-0 Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 6 league games against Arsenal, although they did lose in the Community Shield to Arsenal at Wembley back in August 3-0. Pellegrini defended that loss by stating that he believed the lack of several first team members due to injury and lack of fitness had a negative effect on the Citizens. In September, Arsenal managed to hold the defending champions to a 2-2 draw at the Emirates which Wenger believes proves the Gunners can match Manchester City on the same pitch, but playing at the Etihad stadium is not an easy task as we'll see below.
Last corresponding meeting
The last time Arsenal visited the Etihad they were the subject to a 6-3 humiliating loss at the hands of Manchester City. Wenger believes this result will have no effect on today's game;
It [6-3] was not at all [a reflection of the game], if you look at the chances on both sides. They scored some of the goals in the last 20 minutes, when we were down to 10 men and had to go forward. We missed chances over there. Every game is different though. If you play 10 times against the same team, 10 times it will be different. So let’s just focus on the performance of the day. - Wenger
- Arsenal are likely to be boosting in attack this game with the return of Walcott and Ozil after coming off the bench in the second half against Stoke City in their 3-0 win last game. It is also being reported that Gibbs is likely to make his return against City. Chambers has recovered from his illness and could also feature. According to this tweet, Wenger has named new signing Krystian Bielik in the squad. Arsenal will definitely be without; Welbeck (thigh), Debuchy (shoulder), Arteta (ankle), Gnabry (knee), and Diaby (diabism). And luckily for Manchester City fans they will be pleased to know that they will be protected from any obscenity from Wilshere this game with the Englishman also reported to be out with an ankle injury. - Manchester City will have Aguero and Kompany back fit and possibly playing today with them both making the substitutes bench against Everton in their 1-1 draw at Goodison. Dzeko has also been declared fit by Pellegrini. Former Gunner Nasri is out with a calf injury suffered in training this week and is expected to be out for 3-4 weeks. Yaya Toure will also miss the game today due to international duty with the Ivory Coast.
"You have many games when you know you will be judged on your potential," he said. "Manchester City is one of them. Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool are other games that people have a close eye on to judge your potential. "The history will not play a big part in this game. It's the performance of the day that will play the biggest part and the only important part. "I believe we have consistency. Last year, we did not win the championship only for that reason. We did not perform in the top games away from home. "I believe we have the potential now to be much more stable and to show that we can do it." "For many years [our record in the biggest games] was our strength and, in the last two years, it is true that it has been a weakness. I think we are mature enough now to rectify it."
Pellegrini on Sanchez:
"I think Alexis is a very good player," the City manager said of his Chilean compatriot, who scored twice against Stoke City last weekend to take his tally of Barclays Premier League goals to 12. "He is having a very good season in England. It is not easy for a player in his first season here to score so many goals. "Alexis is repeating what he did in the last two seasons at Barcelona and scoring a lot of goals. "I am very happy for him because he is a young player and very enthusiastic player and improving."
Match Stats from Opta
The last seven Barclays Premier League games between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium have seen 28 goals scored.
Alexis Sanchez has been involved in more goals (19 – 12 goals and seven assists) than any other player in the Premier League this season.
There have been six red cards in the last nine Premier League matches between these two sides.
Arsenal’s away form this season is patchy with four wins, four defeats and three draws in their 11 Premier League road trips.
In contrast, City’s home form under Manuel Pellegrini has been impressive with 25 wins from 29 Premier League games under his stewardship at the Etihad Stadium (W25 D2 L2).
Arsenal are the only team to score three goals at the Etihad in a Premier League game during Manuel Pellegrini’s reign – but this was in a 3-6 defeat.
Only Chelsea (11) have won more Premier League games away at Manchester City than Arsenal (10).
Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League matches (W9 D3 L0).
Only West Ham (14) have scored more headed goals than the Gunners this season (8).
Manchester City have conceded at least two goals in each of their last two Premier League home games. They haven’t shipped two or more goals in three consecutive home Premier League games since October 2002.
Daniel Sturidge moves to Bolton on loan from Chelsea
0945
1 hour and 45 minutes to go. Which means Harry is probably only arriving to his office now
0950
Deadline day is never over until its over (unless you are Arsenal) and rumors are LFC are still working the phones and preparing a bid for Ashley Young
1020
Giovanni dos Santos has moved on loan to Racing Santander
BBC
1025
Somehow Sean Wright-Phillips will remain at City
Guardian
1030
Newcastle have had a 10M pound bid for N'Zogbia turned down
Sky News
1030
Eidur Gudjohnsen has moved on loan to Fulham
Sky Sports
1040
Everton have turned down an offer from Spurs for captain Phil Neville
Guardian
1045
Depending on what order the transfers are processed in - the British transfer record may have been broken twice today
1055
Andy Carroll is a Liverpool player. He has signed a 5 and a half year contract
BBC
1055
Fernando Torres is a Chelsea player
SSN
1055
David Luiz is a Chelsea player
SSN
1100
TRANSFER WINDOW CLOSED
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Note: Player registrations will likely still be announced after the window, so it isn't over yet
Match Thread: Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Leeds United [Championship]
BRIGHTON 4-0 LEEDS UNITED Competition: Sky Bet Championship Kick Off Times: 19:45 GMT, 20:45 CET, 14:45 EST Venue: American Express Community Stadium, Brighton Referee: Peter Bankes TV: Live on Sky Sports 1. Streams can be found on soccerstreams subreddit. Line-ups: BRIGHTON: Stockdale; Bruno, Goldson , Dunk (goal 37), Rosenior ; Knockaert, Stephens, Kayal ( off 75), Murphy; Hemed(goals 17, 27) ( off 75), Baldock ( off 73) Brighton subs: Mäenpää, Greer, Calderon, Wilson ( on 75), Zamora, Sidwell ( on 75), Skalak ( on 73) LEEDS: Silvestri; Wootton ( off 45), Bamba, Cooper (og 21), Taylor; Bridcutt, Diagouraga ( off 83) , Coyle , Cook, Mowatt; Doukara ( off 73) Leeds subs: Antenucci, Murphy ( on 83), Carayol ( on 45), Erwin ( on 73), Adeyemi, Berardi, Peacock-Farrell MATCH FACTS [BBC] Brighton are unbeaten in four at home to Leeds, winning two (D2). The Seagulls scored four goals against Bristol City last time out, which was the first time they have scored more than three goals in a league game since February 2015 (against Birmingham City). Leeds, on the other hand, have scored just four goals in their past seven Championship fixtures. Lewis Cook scored his first league goal for Leeds in midweek, on what was his 66th appearance for the club. Leeds haven't lost three consecutive away games against Brighton since March 1984. PREVIEW Brighton continue to chase promotion and a win against Leeds will take them one point off 3rd place Middlesbrough, who will have two games in hand at the end of play, and one point off 2nd place Hull who will have one game in hand. Simply, if they want to fulfil their early season hopes of automatic promotion a win is necessary as Burnley, Hull, and Middlesbrough are looking strong. Leeds, meanwhile, really don't have much to play for realistically - a familiar position. 9 points above the relegation zone, 17 points off the play-off positions, a win would see them move one place up the table and avoiding relegation by a comfortable margin again becomes the aim for a Leeds side who can beat anyone on their day. The problem is, they don't have a lot of those good days. My prediction: No win for Leeds since the 23rd of January against Bristol City, a promising display against Boro last week but we are very inconsistent. 2-0 to Brighton. MATCH EVENTS 0' Brighton get us going. Murphy swings in an early cross but Taylor heads away. 3' Both teams finding their feet and trading possession in the early stages. 4' Mowatt makes a run down the left and feeds it into Doukara who is inside the box, he takes an heavy touch and is nudged over as he goes shoulder-to-shoulder with Dunk, the ref waves away the weak appeal for a penalty. 5' Brighton work a short corner routine and eventually send it into the box where it's cleared for another corner. Dunk tries to get to the ball and Bamba clears it. 6' Leeds win a free kick 30 yards from box as Coyle is brought down. Rosenior, surprisingly, is booked early on. 7' Mowatt hits the wall with the free kick and it goes out for a corner. Disappointing effort, but the first shot on goal today. 12' Rosenior raises a high boot on the touchline and appears to catch the top of Coyle's head, as the Leeds man goes down clutching his head. The ref thinks nothing of it. 16' PENALTY TO BRIGHTON Wootton brings down Rosenior as he makes his way into the box. Stupid decision, clear penalty. 17' GOAL Brighton take the lead - Hemed clips in the penalty confidently. 1-0. 19' Bamba now brings down Knockaert on the edge of the Leeds box. Free kick to Brighton. 20' Brighton work a short free kick routine, it almost goes wrong but Kayal gets a strike away at goal from the edge and Silvestri gets to his side to tip it around the post. It goes out for a corner kick but the corner is delivered as an inswinger and it goes out before coming back in. 21' GOAL Brighton double their lead. Bamba gives the ball away 30 yards out and Baldock feeds Stephens, who bobbles it into the net via a deflection off Cooper. Leeds are in trouble, it's 2-0. 24' Both goals pretty much out of nowhere, nothing was happening in the game before that spell. Possession reads 50-50, but Leeds aren't doing much with their half. 25' CHANCE! Murphy is played through and has a left-footed effort at goal, Silvestri saves and holds it at the second attempt. 26' Leeds do something! A cross is played in towards Mowatt who started the move, and who can't reach it, it's cleared to the edge and Diagouraga slices a shot wide. 27' GOAL It's three. Hemed wins the ball on the edge of the box and powers through before sliding it through the legs of Silvestri. 28' This is embarrassing. 30' Almost four as Hemed and Knockaert combine on the right, the latter floats it in but Baldock can't quite reach the ball. 32' Mowatt puts in a late, frustrated challenge on Hemed, there is a bit of handbags from 9-10 players before it calms down. Mowatt is booked for his troubles. Baldock is also booked for his reaction to the foul. 36' Brighton, with a comfortable cushion, are just keeping the ball and trying to draw Leeds out and tire them out. 37' GOAL Corner for Brighton, ball comes in, free header in the box for Lewis Dunk. Too easy. 4-0. 39' Kayal gets in a tangle with Taylor and the referee appeared to get his book out and then put it back in his pocket. 44' Brighton have complete control of this game. Leeds do not look interested. 45' Three additional minutes. 45+2' Brighton are knocking the ball around their defence to olé's from the home fans. Leeds don't bother chasing it. HALF TIME: BRIGHTON 4-0 LEEDS UNITED An embarrassing first half for Leeds, and an extraordinary one for Brighton. Every single goal was unnecessary and due to defensive errors. Leeds are lackadaisical and are not even putting up a fight, they wouldn't win against a Conference side playing like this. It's a shame, and hopefully Evans gets into them at half time. Meanwhile, for Chris Hughton, it's "more of the same, lads". I'll give Brighton some credit, they have knocked it around nicely in their passing style, but they've been allowed to do so. They have exploited Leeds' defensive errors ruthlessly. 4-0, this game is over. Half time stats: http://i.imgur.com/L9MbH9q.png Half time sub: Carayol Wootton 45' The game restarts. 46' It could have been five straightaway. Murphy sends the ball in just behind Hemed and Baldock and it flicks off Baldock's heel before going out for a goal kick. 48' Cook shows some rare Leeds intent by shimmying past a couple of players and winning a free kick 30 yards out. 51' Mowatt has a free kick to the right of the area and it gets a deflection before going out for a corner, Brighton can get it away for a counter attack but it's promptly ended by Cooper who commits a foul. The ref decides not to book him, after already booking Rosenior for an arguably softer challenge. 54' Leeds do foray forward, have some decent play and get a corner but it comes to nothing. 57' Leeds getting frustrated by Brighton keeping the ball well and Coyle goes into the book for a foul near the left touchline about 35 yards out. 59' Now Goldson is booked for a foul on Cook as he drives towards the defence. Encouraging play from the Leeds man, an improved display by the side in the second half though we were okay in the first 15 of the first half too, and we know what happened there. 60' Mowatt blazes the free kick for the aforementioned challenge high and wide. 62' Mowatt gets into the box and nutmegs a defender but another defender nudges it to the edge of the box, Mowatt retrieves and feeds Coyle who sends it in but it's headed out for a corner kick. It comes to nothing, but in the next phase of play Cook has a shot from outside the box. IT'S ON TARGET!! Stockdale with his first touch of the ball after over an hour. 65' Brilliant by Carayol who beats a couple and drives into the heart of the box, he lays it off to Doukara who should at least hit the target but curls it wide. 67' Cooper puts in a brutal tackle on Hemed and, after escaping a booking earlier, is now booked. 68' Credit to the travelling Leeds fans who are singing loudly despite the scoreline, as they always do. Great support on a Monday night. 70' Coyle has a shot on the edge of the box, it's blocked, he catches the second ball with a fierce volley, nice height & power but lacked the accuracy. 71' Apparently David Stockdale's dad is in the Leeds end, he'll be hoping his son does him about four favours. 73' Baldock is replaced by Jiri Skalak. For Leeds, Doukara is replaced by Lee Erwin. 75' Not much going on, but more subs. Wilson and Sidwell replace Hemed and Kayal 81' Game seems to be fizzling out, if there's another goal it looks like it will be Brighton. Not enough creativity or effort from Leeds, though it is improved on the shocking first half. 83' Murphy becomes Leeds' final sub, entering the field in place of Diagouraga. 85' CHANCE! Skalak is played through, some Leeds disbelief that the offside flag wasn't raised. Maybe he had too much time but he stutters and sends the shot wide. 89' Knockaert has an effort but Bamba manages to get a block in. The home side are very comfortable. 90' Three minutes of added time. Leeds just want to go home. 90+2' A frustrated kick out on Knockaert by Charlie Taylor on the right touchline, as there is some showboating from the winger. He's booked eventually after a minor scrap, cynical challenge. 90+3' That's time up as the free kick comes to nothing. FULL TIME: BRIGHTON 4-0 LEEDS UNITED Brighton looked comfortable for the full 90 and move one point behind Hull and Boro - they're still in the promotion conversation. Leeds were the architects of their own downfall and must improve if they want to beat Preston next time out. An improved second half display but lacked the creativity to get past Stockdale. MAN OF THE MATCH: TOMAR HEMED Two goals, and a Panenka penalty to boot from a confident striker.
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