Different times now mate. Look at those nobheads all on remand for murdering that Polish kid. I have a trainee in my office, lovely girl, but her bloke seems to be in with the North Face crowd. She was telling me that most of them, including ones not involved that day, are tooled up nowadays. Mind you looking at them you can see why they need a weapon, they're little rats. It wouldn't surprise me if some of them were now jumping on the City bandwagon.
i don't know what it i mate, it'd need someone far more intelligent than me and extensive studies but there seems to be a lack of empathy amongst others these days, knives are carried more than many people might realise
Agree Pelkas and Malcolm will both go, he did bring a kid on, Simons, and I'd say Doc is more valuable to keep then Woods?
Doc gets more minutes under Rosey than Woods and he has talked doc up in recent weeks. Be interesting what they decide with him.
i feel like keeping doc if he agrees then it's a no brainer but obviously he won't get too much playtime
Docs very highly rated by many and has lots of people showing interest. The balls in his court. I personally think he'll decide he wants to go and play football week in week out and nobody can blame him at all
I actually think a few more will go than you might imagine. The squad was said to be too big.... add Harry Vaughan who wasn't mentioned at the time and the supposed 6 newbies and that means at least 7 will be shown the door.
You are right, v different times. I can't understand why the knife problem isn't sorted, literally overnight. Announce zero tolerance, stop n search, heavy fine or custodial. There's literally no valid reason for anyone to be carrying. It's like the powers that be don't want to solve it and are ok with people regularly getting killed or seriously injured.
I must apologise Beckham used to practice free kicks for hours after training, but it was George Best who used to play with his wrong left foot, and in fact once played a full game and never used his right foot once. Genius.
Yep. So they don't have the will to sort it and instead they just let them carry on. It's madness. Solutions and money is there if they had the will. Tag them, community service, put needed resources in place, etc etc. It's only lived that are being lost and parts of society living in fear. After enough tough examples are made the problem starts to disappear.
Trouble is, stop and search gets a whole lot of people upset, but if you want knife crime topping, that's what you have to do.
They're wise to it these days, they 'stash' the weapons for such eventualities of stop and search and have been doing for years, it's a worrying trend that's filtered up from the south, they had a hellova time of it with stabbings everywhere.
Sadly a societal problem with knives... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-65441538 Seen some twitter videos of handbags from the younger ones outside the ground yesterday -no use of knives...
Different times is correct. But I've named two stabbings I know about at City, both 50 years ago and no-one has come up with anymore, thankfully. I honestly don't think knife crime is a problem at City, or football for that matter, unless someone can gives us some actual facts and figures to prove me wrong? As for the 'murder of the Polish kid' in town. Tragic as it is and a young blokes life has been lost cheaply. I cannot imagine the agony his family are going through and I would not wish that on anyone. Same as the 13 local lads charged with murder, obviously all 13 didn't stick the knife in but all are charged on a new law which incriminates people just for being there. I also cannot imagine the agony the familes and the lads themselves are going through now because convicted or not their lives will never be the same. I don't think for one second those lads went out that night with the sole intention of murdering someone. Knife crime is appalling and no-one should condone it, I'm certainly not and I have first hand experience of it. This responce started with a claim from a Swansea fan that he saw two City fans with knives on Saturday, that is one more than I have seen in over 50 years at City and no-one else has posted saying they have witnessed any, which is why I posted and doubted the post. Anyone that feels they have to carry a knife at football or anywhere else is a coward and if caught with one deserve all that is coming to them. But please, let's not talk as though this is the the norm because I don't think is is.
Right to keep it in proportion, handbags only, not lobbing beer bottles onto families from the West Stand Upper like the rugby hooligans did.
