Jason Roberts has left Reading?

[SPARTA]

This will be interesting over the next week or so. Jonathon Low at the Reading Post claimed tonight that Roberts is still very much a Reading player and will be next season, this apparently from his agent a couple of weeks ago. Jordan Norris on the other hand is trustworthy, and stands by what he's been told, that a week ago Roberts cleared out his locker and was told he wont play professional football again as a result of the severity of his hip injury. To Jonathon's credit, he's on to this and wants to find out one way or the other. I'm still sticking by Jordan, as he does have a credible source and is also good friends with Ady Williams. But we'll see..

[Rawlie19]

This will be interesting over the next week or so. Jonathon Low at the Reading Post claimed tonight that Roberts is still very much a Reading player and will be next season, this apparently from his agent a couple of weeks ago. Jordan Norris on the other hand is trustworthy, and stands by what he's been told, that a week ago Roberts cleared out his locker and was told he wont play professional football again as a result of the severity of his hip injury. To Jonathon's credit, he's on to this and wants to find out one way or the other. I'm still sticking by Jordan, as he does have a credible source and is also good friends with Ady Williams. But we'll see..

So if he tells us Ady Williams has retired we can believe him, but until we hear from Jason Roberts, the club or his agent, we still don't know.

[Ian Royal]

That wasn’t really necessary, was it?

Like it or not, it IS different. If you are white living in a white society where you’ve suffered zero discrimination or violence on account of your colour and have no history of fear and misery which can be conjured by terms traditionally saturated in violence, I find it hard to believe as a recipient of a racist slur by a minority you are going to feel the same way than if the roles were reversed, being the minority attacked by one from the majority, in a society where this aggression towards you has an ugly past.

In LA, I can’t say I was as offended at being called a ‘cracker’ as my then girlfriend was to being called a ‘n---er’. I simply had less point of reference, had little family history of sufferance due to such racism, have never been overlooked for work, been fearful of my life or bullied growing up according to the colour of my skin – it just doesn’t register as much when I’m called out for my race. Neither is right, but the sufferance was variable.

Much like ‘brown haired idiot’ wouldn’t really register in this country, but ‘ginger’ does. Insulting someone as a ‘daft blonde’ probably doesn’t scar anyone in Scandinavia. Women feel more threatened by sexism then men, on account men are still the dominant sex and have little history of being made to feel like a second class citizen. “You white c/nt” is going to trouble you more in Zimbabwe than in Wheathampstead.

If my 5.5 mate grew up in Japan I doubt he’d have been that troubled by comments regarding his height in an argument. He probably would have been more concerned with being called ‘gweilo’ for his ‘ghost skin’ or ‘gaijin’ for his ‘big fat eyes’, since that would have placed him in an uneasy minority.

You may be equally as threatened by the individual(s) getting aggressive with you, but of course there will be a difference in the distress a trait attribution can cause according to the sufferance or marginalisation experienced in respect to that trait –there isn’t anything condescending about that.

Well you have explained how you feel about being racially abused, but you cannot speak for everyone.
You simply have no idea how I might feel, do not believe for a second that everyone feels the same way you do.

And you are still a condesending (possibly white) twat

I love how when someone politely and articulately expresses their view about why they think someone is wrong they are condecending.

[TBM]

On Soccer AM yesterday he seemed to talk as if he was still a RFC player

[Clyde1998]

On Soccer AM yesterday he seemed to talk as if he was still a RFC player

Roberts on TV!?

[TBM]

In the Lab again! The next @AfcarTheGame I will be on the pitch..after a successful season with RFC...I am not finished with this game yet..

[JayRoyal]

Saw an interview yesterday where he pretty much said he was going to "get us back in the Premier League next season"

[TommyF]

Saw an interview yesterday where he pretty much said he was going to "get us back in the Premier League next season"

If he can get himself fit, then I'm pleased about this

[SPARTA]

Saw an interview yesterday where he pretty much said he was going to "get us back in the Premier League next season"

If he can get himself fit, then I'm pleased about this

Agreed. He absolutely bossed defenders at this level. Far more effective than Pogrebnyak who I hope is offloaded soon.

[sandman]

Saw an interview yesterday where he pretty much said he was going to "get us back in the Premier League next season"

If he can get himself fit, then I'm pleased about this

Agreed. He absolutely bossed defenders at this level. Far more effective than Pogrebnyak who I hope is offloaded soon.

What happened to "career over, told he needs a hip replacement"?

[SPARTA]

What happened to "career over, told he needs a hip replacement"?

That didn't come from me, as you well know. If he's able to make a return then that is fantastic news for us! But I stand by JN as a usually trustworthy source.

[sandman]

I know it didn't come from you but you seemed so sure it was true that it was bit strange to see your previous comment.

[St. Brynjar]

JR has left? Thank f**k for that! Perhaps we can get some decent strikers in!

Racist.

[RockheadRumple]

JR has left? Thank f**k for that! Perhaps we can get some decent strikers in!

I'm guessing that you didn't go to many games last season then.

[creative_username_1]

Do we really have many non-whites posting on here? I'm half chink, half irish with an American(ized) accent. Most people can't really see the chink side (apart from my eyes a little)

[Royal With Cheese]

I'm half fat and half bald.

I demand my demographic is appeased immediately.

[Extended-Phenotype]

I'm a quarter Italian and aaaall good.

[Ian Royal]

I'm short, bald, speccy, colour blind and a little bit German.

[Extended-Phenotype]

I'm short, bald, speccy, colour blind and a little bit German.

*wanks cock*

[Ouroboros]

I'm short, bald, speccy, colour blind and a little bit German.

But at least you've got a great personali....oh.