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Assuming Israel has kept their side of the deal.

This. Aribo, Downes, Smallbone and Lesley are all way short of being Premier League quality. Lesley may come good in time but between that lot there is no combination that’s going to be good enough. A decent central midfielder would be first on my list for the summer.

Probably more of an an equivalence between Israel and Russia. Both like to steal other people's land and have little regard for the lives of innocents.

Give the man a prize, he has finally got it.

They can have something in common and still all be different.

No they are all very different.

I disagree, both have the blood of a lot of innocent people on their hands.

What do you expect, it’s a football forum. You can’t have a balanced view you have to pick a team. If you point out bad things Israel do by default you are in ‘Team Terrorists’.

Since we’ve had VAR it’s become obvious how many of the official’s decisions have been pure guesswork. It’s near on impossible for a Lino to get many of these tight offside decisions right. You’ve got some bloke jogging down the line desperately trying to keep up with athletes, then he has to watch when a player kicks the ball and try to work out if some others on a different part of the pitch we’re in line at the time or not - it’s ridiculous. It’s the same for the ball crossing the goal line, it’s nearly always just guesswork. I would get VAR involved more, there are still many times in the Prem where the clowns on the pitch just guess, and we all know that guesses tend to favour the big clubs, especially when they are at home.

It’s what happened all the time pre-VAR.

I agree. The problem was that the team that got promoted barely had a Premier League quality player in it. Ideally you want to keep the bones of the side and add a few top players but we needed to basically buy a whole new side to stand a chance of staying up and we just couldn’t afford that. Adam Armstrong was our best player, that says it all.

Definitely get a new manager in the summer, we need a clean break from this miserable crap.

That was just garbage.

If a person's guilt relies on what someone said then it is nowhere near 'no doubt'. The level of doubt in the Southport case is massively different to the Letby case. That's the only type of situation I would ever favour it. You are right though it won't happen.

Isn't the threshold for conviction 'beyond reasonable doubt'? There could easily be a higher level for death penalty cases.