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• Si (24) Si I think you have gone to a lot of work to produce that post so I honestly don’t won’t to make light of it but the fans watching with their eyes will make their own opinions and the professional analysts will continue to make their own well paid opinions while the professional footballers will all know if they have had a good game or a poor one and put their hands up when they have made a mistake and take the praise when they have done while you and me will just have a civil,debate about the merits or otherwise of a players performance....
  Dave Abrahams in Arsenal vs Everton Player Ratings: Jordan Pickford error costs the Blues
• I expect Everton and others should raise the Chelsea and Man City issues with the relevant authorities and ask for an explanation for their double standards in handing out punishments, based upon our treatment for alleged rule breaking....
  Mal van Schaick in Token fine deemed sufficient punishment for Chelsea's persistent rule-breaking
• The BBC report also suggests...'And Chelsea still have to face a hearing over 74 Football Association charges, which is likely to be another hefty fine.'So... more to come, or not...
  Ian Jones in Token fine deemed sufficient punishment for Chelsea's persistent rule-breaking
• Barry keeps going on about “His friends being assaulted”. Let's get one thing straight here: not one Everton fan involved in the fracas knew the Arsenal fans were friends of Barry. They didn't ask them “Are you friends of Thierno Barry” before landing a left hook on them. To the Everton fans, these people were simply Arsenal fans celebrating Arsenal goals; whether you like it or not, they should not have been in the Everton section. Unfortunately it's the nature of the beast that there would be consequences of their celebrations.It happened to me a few years ago, funnily enough at Highbury. I went with a girl I knew and her son, and we had complimentary tickets but unfortunately they were for the North Bank end, the home end at Highbury. The three tickets were right behind the goal, about halfway up, but they weren't together. They were two together and the third about 20 seats along but on the same row. I sat with the girl's son and she sat alon...
  Rob Halligan in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• Si, It is not the same thing at all. While corporate hospitality exists, you will always get the free-loaders. Hospitality is abused by people like your kopite mates in just about every stadium at every match.The away section is what it says on many tickets and above the turnstiles as you enter. They are meant to be affordable seats for those who travel to see their team -- Paul Murray nails this @143. In our case, these tickets are always in very high demand. We could easily sell double our allocation for most games. For one of our own players to give them to Arsenal fans is an act of utter betrayal as far as I'm concerned. How f***ing dare he?Without trying to trivialise the violence witnessed by some and caught on camera by others, it is worth noting that nobody died. Nobody was seriously hurt. I've seen worse violence at the January sales. Barry's f***-wittery ensured two sets of fans were locked in together for what was a highly charged e...
  Darren Hind in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• I read that only Wolves and West Ham United have conceded more goals from back-post crosses than Everton's six this season....
  Steve Brown in It happens to the best of us