Interesting quote didn’t know that, thanks.

I think it overestimates the powers of the justice system. You can’t prevent someone posting something online and it going viral, surely?

How would it stop people thinking something?

I don’t think it’s that simple.

I think 3.2% of sexual assault cases lead to a conviction.

The way the law works, you only need to prove reasonable doubt which is incredible easy when consent is a concept.

They estimated 85,000 women a year are raped or sexually assaulted. 2022 there were 2,223 charges of rape.

There does seem to be a priority to protect innocent men against potentially malicious allegations, over prosecuting rapists and reducing the number of women being raped.

If you remove or erode the social unacceptability of rape and sexual assault, that’s also incredible detrimental.

To me, it does seem more likely a women isn’t lying than is & knowing that it’s hard to prove, I do still think there needs to be some action.

I’d like to see a campaign or something by the league. Creating a bit of a dialogue about sexual assault.

It’s why I think a stronger female presence in the game is so important. We need more women’s voices in the game

Updating the public is irrelevant. The accused, the victim and just judicial system don’t care if the general public feel uninformed on progress and nor should they

Spurs here just checking in. Because you know, kanes a club legend.

I was saying this to all Bayern fans at the time. I think people didn’t get how good he is, but spurs fans did. Regardless of age and contract he was by far and a way the best way any club the world could spend £100m that summer - apart from Bellingham.

I think now the dust has settled post saga. It’s just a good deal for everyone.

• We got a HG legend who was our stop scorer 10 years in a row and record goal scorer & we look are doing well without him.

• He left at 30, for a decent fee to go and play for one of the biggest clubs in the world.

• Bayern got one of the best players in the world, for a fee they can afford.

While it kind of worked out Sisosko for £30m on transfer deadline day was such a weird signing.

Thing is that wasn’t consensus at the time.

Kane has 15 goals, 5 assists in 10 games and is 30.

Less was 33 and just won la liga and was Barca top scorer

Silva has been Chelsea’s best player for 2 years.

Perisic was free and got 8 assists last season and is unbelievable fit he just got unlucky with the ACL.

Van Der Sar, Larsson, Zlatan, Teddy all worked out pretty well for united.

Cambiasso kept Leicester up, Parker got spurs player of the season.

I mean there are literally loads of good signings 30+.

Weghorst made sense, he knew the manager and they needed an option.

Milner is never a bad signing

Grealish was an overpay but he’s been great for them and top clubs have to have HG players

Richy made a lot of sense, he’s just been shit.

He can play on the left or up top and we needed depth & Kane was likely leaving the summer after and the thinking was we’ve already signed Brazil’s number 9 the season before so don’t need a replacement.

Issue is he’s forgotten how to play football.

In 2005 spurs sold Kanoute for £5m and then last day of the window signed Rasiak on the last day of the window for £3m from derby

Think he played about 6 games, didn’t score. Kanoute had a poor first season and then was top scorer in La Liga with 21 goals & was a top striker in at Sevilla.

We actually came 5th that season and then signed Berbatov the summer after, so didn’t work out too badly but I remember being so confused

Maybe we should get rid of referees entirely. Just have a virtual ref, whose whistle is blown via a noise in the ground?

I think the argument is, you need to just let the referee, referee the game.

Yeah you didn’t get a man sent off from an off the ball incident, not the end of the world. These things happen in football.

Get to fuck

I think anyone with any level of football knowledge would rather their team have Neymar than Ronaldo though.

If we want to see improvements in refereeing standards, we need to improve the culture and working environment.

Firstly the principles of a no blame culture are a decent place to start. We need to acknowledge the possibility of error and support those who commit them to learn and grow from them.

Issue we’ve got his most football fans are thick as shit. They are the exact reason refereeing is so awful.

It’s very rare a team lose a game and the ref isn’t flagged as a key issue. Yet, it’s very rare at the end of the season the league table doesn’t feel meritocratic.

I’d love to see a shift in acknowledging a few things:

1. Human error is a part of the game and that includes referees. The standard they are held to is insane. Yes clear and obvious errors are a problem, but there is so much grey area that just doesn’t matter too much.

2. There isn’t corruption in the referees in England. There isn’t a conspiracy theory against your team. There is no wider plot. Just errors.

3. A culture of respect and appreciation for refs that’s extends to the managers and the players. The game can’t happen without them. Yes they sometimes have poor games, like a player does. It’s not deliberate.

4. Acknowledgment the game is rarely decided by the ref. You see it with things like a yellow card. Yes, maybe the yellow is harsh. It’s still the players fault if he then gets sent off. You rarely lose a game because your side didn’t get the one corner or whatever.

Basically, football fans, most of you on here fucking love to piss and moan about the referees. You love it. It means you don’t have to blame your shit team, or acknowledge the opposition was better than you.

If you want better, if you want improvement, maybe, just maybe move away from a culture than if a ref makes an error people threaten to kill him and accuse him of match fixing.

As, like in every other walk of life, abusing someone for an error doesn’t reduce errors.