General Chat 2019/20

CSF

jimmii wrote: »

Or homophobic possibly? Hard to see what else would be so bad they'd kicked you out.

Based on some tweets, It’s the n word apparently.

I reckon if all of our worst texts/messages were exposed we would look like less than our best selves.

However, I would hope must of our worst selves don’t involve racial slurs. This isn’t normal lad chat.

CSF

jimmii wrote: »

Or homophobic possibly? Hard to see what else would be so bad they'd kicked you out.

Based on some tweets, It’s the n word apparently.

I reckon if all of our worst texts/messages were exposed we would look like less than our best selves.

However, I would hope must of our worst selves don’t involve racial slurs. This isn’t normal lad chat.

Missing Links

km79 wrote: »

Still waiting for payment from Galway United too .....

They were a bit slow last year as well...but came good in the end.

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

Based on some tweets, It’s the n word apparently.

I reckon if all of our worst texts/messages were exposed we would look like less than our best selves.

However, I would hope must of our worst selves don’t involve racial slurs. This isn’t normal lad chat.

Yeah definitely looking like it was racist. I'm sure someone of my messages could look bad but there's nothing anything like that in there thats for sure.

If he really felt it was a fuss over nothing he would post screenshot himself you would think.

ThunbergsAreGo

jimmii wrote: »

Yeah definitely looking like it was racist. I'm sure someone of my messages could look bad but there's nothing anything like that in there thats for sure.

If he really felt it was a fuss over nothing he would post screenshot himself you would think.

Think it was posted below in the Twitter thread, called Sterling an imbecile little, well you know.

I don't think it's right what he said, I'm not sure it's right he got kicked out for it. But it's their game.

alchemist33

Is there something in the fpl rules about behaving yourself in private Facebook groups? Even if what he said was abhorrent, this feels like over-reach

Green&Red

He used the Bulgarian N word, which apparently is ok there


https://twitter.com/toogoodfpl/status/1293236145720111104?s=21

Green&Red

alchemist33 wrote: »

Is there something in the fpl rules about behaving yourself in private Facebook groups? Even if what he said was abhorrent, this feels like over-reach

It was EPL who kicked him out

Once it was brought to their attention they had to do something about it. You can’t have everyone taking a knee and then ignore this

jimmii

Green&Red wrote: »

It was EPL who kicked him out

Once it was brought to their attention they had to do something about it. You can’t have everyone taking a knee and then ignore this

This seems to have gone much higher up the chain than you would expect for something fpl related. Good to see they took it so seriously.

jimmii

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Think it was posted below in the Twitter thread, called Sterling an imbecile little, well you know.

I don't think it's right what he said, I'm not sure it's right he got kicked out for it. But it's their game.

Hadn't seen it so specific guess thats why they took their time to try and understand its meaning and general usage. If that's true I don't see how he can claim its out of context even in the "apology" it felt like it was something he would have had no problem doing again if this hadn't happened.

Shanotheslayer

CSF wrote: »

Based on some tweets, It’s the n word apparently.

I reckon if all of our worst texts/messages were exposed we would look like less than our best selves.

However, I would hope must of our worst selves don’t involve racial slurs. This isn’t normal lad chat.

I'd probably end up in jail for some of the crap on my phone over the years. Never mind the stuff I don't even know that exists on my phone.

But going hard N in a racial slur is something that wouldn't be found in it. Bar the conversation surrounding the Irish bloke who said it recently

jimmii

Just reading through his posts jeez he really is handling this about as poorly as it could be handled wow.

CSF

jimmii wrote: »

Just reading through his posts jeez he really is handling this about as poorly as it could be handled wow.

Yup, just apologise. Show genuine remorse, and there is always a way back in.

Shanotheslayer

So from the screenshots I've gathered the following

Sterling should have shot he's a ****ing imbecile and a little N.

Few other bits I didn't understand

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

Yup, just apologise. Show genuine remorse, and there is always a way back in.

Yeah instead he's just digging and digging and refusing to apologise because he doesn't think he should! He was in line for a lot of fpl related work and he has absolutely blown it now no one is going to touch him.

jimmii

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

So from the screenshots I've gathered the following

Sterling should have shot he's a ****ing imbecile and a little N.

Few other bits I didn't understand

Was it in English? He seemed to suggest it was all in Bulgarian or is that screenshots with literal translations? Even the spelling of the word looks like it is going to sound almost identical to the word we know. Do non-racist people really use this sort of language?

dsmythy

jimmii wrote: »

Yeah instead he's just digging and digging and refusing to apologise because he doesn't think he should! He was in line for a lot of fpl related work and he has absolutely blown it now no one is going to touch him.

Apologising would do nothing. It's the pile on now.

CSF

dsmythy wrote: »

Apologising would do nothing. It's the pile on now.

Don’t agree.

Dearg81

jimmii wrote: »

Yeah instead he's just digging and digging and refusing to apologise because he doesn't think he should! He was in line for a lot of fpl related work and he has absolutely blown it now no one is going to touch him.

He's not doing much for the reputation of Bulgarian football fans.

Shedite27

Dearg81 wrote: »

He's not doing much for the reputation of Bulgarian football fans.

Really ruining their squaky clean image

jimmii

Bloody hell it's on the BBC website! I know they've been a lot more fantasy stuff this season but seems mad they're reporting it!

https://bbc.in/3amIIH9

jimmii

dsmythy wrote: »

Apologising would do nothing. It's the pile on now.

Better late than never its not going to help now he's gone about this the way he has but at the same time its behaviour that should be apologised for.

jimmii

Shedite27 wrote: »

Really ruining their squaky clean image

Seen a post along these lines earlier this is exactly what the English team had to put up with in Sofia and he wrote it off as ultras and its wrong what they do but still seemed to think it was OK for him to be using similar language!

CSF

jimmii wrote: »

Bloody hell it's on the BBC website! I know they've been a lot more fantasy stuff this season but seems mad they're reporting it!

https://bbc.in/3amIIH9

I’m not surprised. With 7 million players it’s a big interest story. The environment we’re in with the increased focus on racism in football only adds to the likelihood of media outlets picking it up.

jimmii

CSF wrote: »

I’m not surprised. With 7 million players it’s a big interest story. The environment we’re in with the increased focus on racism in football only adds to the likelihood of media outlets picking it up.

Yeah definitely a factor in the current climate. Shows the footballing authorities are taking action on this sort of thing with any luck highlighting it might make one two people think before they send certain messages now.

Shanotheslayer

jimmii wrote: »

Was it in English? He seemed to suggest it was all in Bulgarian or is that screenshots with literal translations? Even the spelling of the word looks like it is going to sound almost identical to the word we know. Do non-racist people really use this sort of language?

No, Bulgarian, someone on twitter gave a rough translation.

jimmii

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

No, Bulgarian, someone on twitter gave a rough translation.

Yeah I managed to find where someone had a screenshot of the comment with the Google translate version next to it. Hard to say how its taken out of context.

jimmii

Does anyone recall how long before the start of the season we started getting drip fed prices last year?

Father Hernandez

manual_man wrote: »

https://twitter.com/OfficialFPL/status/1143923144895422465?s=20

jimmii wrote: »

Does anyone recall how long before the start of the season we started getting drip fed prices last year?

26th June according to this thread, Robertson was leaked first looks like.

Game went live on the 27th.

9th August was the first game back. Roughly 6 weeks or so?

Scorpion Sting

Father Hernandez wrote: »

26th June according to this thread, Robertson was leaked first looks like.

Game went live on the 27th.

9th August was the first game back. Roughly 6 weeks or so?

Fixtures look like they’re going to be released around the 20th so that should be when FPL goes live again you’d imagine.