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Looks great, better defending from deep. Brilliant in the air. 

We've had plenty of standout performers this season, but I think I have to put Keane at the top of the list. Absolutely un-droppable at this point. His defending has improved tremendously since Carlo has come in, but the thing that's impressing me most is his on the ball work. He's shown all season he can pick out a long pass and he's comfortable taking the ball into midfield. 
Couldn't be happier to have him as our #1 at the back

I realize that not every player in the squad is up to par, but recently I think that Davies has been doing well at shielding the ball when he gets marked. In the sense that he seems to recognize defensive pressure a bit better to at least evade tackles and then be productive afterwords. He definitely still hits some wayward passes but I think he's raised his game a bit, even if it's not at the requisite (starting 11) standard. There's genuine pressure to start in this team and he's recognized that there are things he needs to add to his game to be included.

I definitely did not see this result coming when the team was announced. That's an understatement tbh .
However, it became clear quite quickly that it wasn't going to be the mauling I feared. And I don't just mean that because we scored early in the game either. We just looked bright and like we knew the plan we wanted to execute. James and Iwobi gave us enough attacking threat to make Wolves worried about us and defensively we were on another level. That defensive display gave us the platform for the victory and in a game of few chances it was vital we used that defensive platform by taking the chances when they fell our way - that's exactly what we did.
I don't think there was a player out there that had a bad game, they all earned that victory for us tonight.

Always thought it was the right team line-up.

very satisfying result, great to bounce back after west ham defeat. We looked solid defensively in that second half and nicked with a moment of quality in Gomes's cross. Pretty much plan executed. the team will come away with massive confidence from that. 

His cameo and Gomes’ were good. Nice to be able to bring on players like that when our team is decimated.

Richy wins fouls that take so much pressure off us. 

Shouldn’t have been a corner and should have been a foul on Gomes. Semedo was all over him there

Expecting there to be anywhere from 4 to 37 minutes of stoppage time

I love how Iwobi runs at players. 

Iwobi has been great to watch.

Sure, I get all that, not worth the back and forth.
I'll also admit that I was reacting to this reasoning the most, in regards to the most recent incident. In my mind it's significantly different to just being thankful and raise one's hands as a gesture of praise. I take no issue with the second reasoning at all. 
But in a more broad way, I guess I'm saying that I think matters of equality are a blind spot for this forum, football, and sports in general. It's always frustrating to see people rush to defend their players so much that they abandon causality or systemic issues. I've been skeptical of him since that match in 2019, but I'll let it go considering nothing comprehensive has been done.
Simply asking someone: "do you support this far-right group?" is not an investigation in my opinion.

I am about three quarters of the way through Ancelotti's book (I am guessing most have read it all ready - if not, its a really good read) after getting it as a Xmas present.  
Anyway, it pretty much lays out how much of a people person he is and how he demands 'professionalism' from his players. He is also quite clear that there is no room in his squad for players who don't want to be there. He in no way would try and force a square peg in to a round hole. I have no doubt that Moise Kean has little interest in playing for Everton FC, again. So I think a parting of the ways is pretty much inevitable.
I am amazed at how much game time he as had at PSG and how many goals he as scored. I couldn't understand the move at the time and I thought he would simply disappear in to obscurity and his value plummet - I don't mind putting my hands up and say I was so wide of the mark.
Although its frustrating seeing him do so well away from Everton, and likely we will most likely not see him again play for us, its great that his comparative market value is rising rather than falling. Give the plummet in the transfer market due to COVID just getting your money back on a player would feel like a profit!!. 

If King is up for coming and being a squad player at a club with top 4-6 aspirations, as opposed to being a starter at mid table - relegation fighting club, it wouldn't surprise me to see this one happening. We need a few more options at this end of the pitch, and he might be an affordable squad option this January, especially if Bernard moves on. If we see a move involving Jonjo the other way to cover cost - then moving on a player, that to me now seems surplus to Ancelotti's plans in exchange to one that may be of little more use to the squad almost seems like a no brainer. (the merits of keeping Jonjo is another argument - as the fact is he is getting no game time under Ancelloti).
Not all our signings are going to be first 11 signings, so think he's a decent enough 'stocking filler' given the level of our current squad. 

It’s not even mistranslation, it’s Marca making things up. 

It’s when you see him look up and he doesn’t have any runners that it’s so frustrating. I’m sure it is frustrating for him too. 
At the start of the season he had Richarlison, Digne, Coleman and Doucoure all making runs for him. We need this again. But maybe with our new found ability to not concede three goals every game. 

Is there an official sign-up for your TedTalk that I can find, or

The Blue Lives Matter flag very quickly replaced the Confederate Flag at NASCAR races once the latter was banned this past summer.
The Blue Lives Matter flag is also a callously merchandized response to a cry for help. It would not exist if people didn't first say to law enforcement, "please stop shooting us, amongst (many) other things..." To object to what Colin Kaepernick was kneeling for is to condone the conditions that inspired the gesture in the first place.
Often times, most times - when people want politics kept out of sports it really just means they're personally uncomfortable confronting the topics being discussed. What the kneeling did and what it can continue to do is be disruptive to people's realities. Force them to step outside of what's familiar and hopefully consider other perspectives.

But even this is a myopic view. It paints the depravity of Pre Civil War America with a regional brush - a national brush, even. It's a much larger problem, but to your specific point, it wasn't that they never thought they lost the war, it was that they weren't ever made to suffer the consequences typically befitting the loser of a war. Southern whites picked up the pieces, largely left to their own devices. Union folks had cousins on either side. All that changed was the lifting of a travel ban once the Confederacy fell. Now the wealthy could begin their agricultural commerce again and see their extended family down south in the winter.
Southerners began by telling a very particular perspective of the war, as Imperialists often do; a version that portrays them as benevolent and chivalrous. Over the last century and a half that broad lie and complete lack of oversight has influenced media and collective reasoning to the point that people aren't outraged or informed that enslaved peoples are referred to as farmers and workers in some textbooks today. The human cost of that war is completely suppressed in the minds of the public; compared to what it really is. It was the South's lie but there's never been enough interest from folks who aren't black and brown to rectify its influence.
The fact that Jim Crow laws were ratified by the federal government as a response to Reconstruction tells you everything you need to know. The United States has collectively mischaracterized the Civil War since it ended. This whole country is responsible for this energy and what feeds it.
Also, for what it's worth, it's definitely too late to distance yourself from any support for Trump lol. This moment is shared by anyone who's gotten him to this point. You can't pretend to not be an enabler once things get worse than you imagined. There were many warnings about something like this happening. At this point you have to own it and move forward.
Republicans bet on racism, they leaned into it. This is what happens when your platform runs on disenfranchisement.

They'd rather watch things burn than cede even an ounce of privilege.

This is racism. Multi-tiered and multi-faceted racism.
Physically violent, institutional and completely systemic. From the lack of consequences given to those inciting this behavior, to the aiding and abetting of the insurgents by law enforcement, to the disbelief that this is something that can happen in this day and age.
What happened at the capital yesterday is the most American thing I've ever witnessed in my life.
The policing plan was to allow them to do what they wanted because many of those police agree with those they helped. They are the same people.
Those involved, they didn't even really have a plan besides mayhem and they were certain they'd be able to do damage and walk away unscathed. That's what I'll remember most about those scenes; White folks walking around a government building looting things in plain view of cameras, unmasked and unbothered. Doing things that I'd get shot for even contemplating.
Most of the people arrested yesterday were from the city's curfew, after the event itself.
The heart of American democracy is racism. Mass extraction and exploitation is how it was founded and it's never really changed much.
 

Looked very frustrated for most of the game (with the teams and his own performance) but then stepped up and showed his quality with that ball for Doucoure. And that's what he's out there to do and will keep showing it the more fitness he gets back.

Class is permanent.

The Blue Lives Matter flag very quickly replaced the Confederate Flag at NASCAR races once the latter was banned this past summer.
The Blue Lives Matter flag is also a callously merchandized response to a cry for help. It would not exist if people didn't first say to law enforcement, "please stop shooting us, amongst (many) other things..." To object to what Colin Kaepernick was kneeling for is to condone the conditions that inspired the gesture in the first place.
Often times, most times - when people want politics kept out of sports it really just means they're personally uncomfortable confronting the topics being discussed. What the kneeling did and what it can continue to do is be disruptive to people's realities. Force them to step outside of what's familiar and hopefully consider other perspectives.