Steve

We have more in common than you think, if you resort to blocking you’ve lost. Enjoy your echo chamber.. LGB ally, the T onwards is nonsense. #ReadingFC

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@TheTilehurstEnd @Reading106 Great article.I was a season ticket holder for roughly 10 years but life changed around 2010 and it became more sporadic attendance. Having moved away now go to 5-10 games a season (H&A) son is a STH but is weighing his options as well. Legacy policy for old point cost me as well

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@JoshSB91 Bullivant

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@Babywwir No. HTH.

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@captain_shart @goodbreffis $240 - wtf….!!!

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@DreyfusJames Can I bring a sports almanac with me…

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@cynicalbobby Well he started off talking about Muslims instead of Sikhs and whipped up an already fervent crowd… and it just went downhill rapidly from there.

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@SVPhillimore @GothicNumpty @thames_pilgrim I self identify as Trans-fat…

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@triffic_stuff_ Rage can be an appropriate word in this circumstance. Clarifying how that rage could be directed would have been a more responsible and respectful way forward.

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@AustinCroweLuv @SVPhillimore @NadiaWhittomeMP @labourlewis @stellacreasy @johnmcdonnellMP LOUD fits in there perfectly…

[Steve @_OneBeer]

This needs to be read, and understood. Bias and previous experience can become blurred when attending any situation, especially in the first few moments.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Well done, you mouth-breathing cretins. And well done to all the pricks on social media who have done nothing but race-bait over this tragedy. Shameful across the board.

As a psychologist, I’ll bet you £100 this is what happened with poor Henry Nowak. Cops suffer from empathy burn out. 90% of the time they deal with nothing but scum. It doesn’t make it right, but that cynicism will have come into play, here.

They get a 999 call saying, “A Sikh has been attacked.” They arrive at the scene, there’s a Sikh saying he’s been attacked and someone (Henry) acting strangely. The weapon has been hidden. They will have immediately thought ‘drink or drugs’, and they see no obvious wounds. The murderer laid on exactly the scene the police would have expected to see, had the complaint been genuine.

These are pure human confirmation and anchoring biases at play: the cops saw what they expected to see from the info they had going into the situation. They were tricked. Humans make mistakes.

Where the cops royally fucked up was not following normal procedures when someone says they have been stabbed, and checking them all over including skin. They should lose their jobs over that negligence alone and for allowing their biases to override their training.

I guarantee you “I can’t breathe” inadvertently made things worse as that’s what every single scumbag says when they get arrested, since George Floyd.

This absolute tragedy is a sad combination of confirmation and anchoring biases, excessive cynicism, and a criminal failure to follow correct procedures, not to mention a lying, murdering piece of shit and his piece of shit family doing everything they could to confuse the police and muddy the waters. It has nothing to do with diversity.

Henry Nowak should not have died at all, but he would have died whatever the police did. However, in these circumstances he should have died with someone holding his hand, trying to save him, and telling him it would be ok, not in handcuffs being read his rights. The police officers who made this dreadful error should lose their jobs and will have to live with that for the rest of their days.

Final point: well done to the Hants Police detectives who shredded the murderer’s story and secured a conviction.

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@Fox_Claire talks so much sense its refreshing!

[Academy of Ideas @acadofideas]

“Now we are basically told to put a lid on it, that it’s divisive! Basically saying that the tensions and divisions are being created by the reactions. No, the tensions and the divisions are created by the incident!”

AOI Director @Fox_Claire on @GBNEWS 👇

[Steve @_OneBeer]

Henry Novak’s family don’t want the shit that’s happening in Southampton now. Farage and Robinson’s language today has been incredibly inflammatory and helps no one. Yes there needs to be repercussions for policing-and an end to nonsense training. This isn’t the way. Show Respect

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@richiec87 @CScott____ Went on a night out in Bromley once. Didn’t score 😂

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@CScott____ 😂😂

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@richiec87 @CScott____ I can do all of that, however word of caution, if I do go forward the chance of me getting back in the same half is 50/50….😂

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@CScott____ And I can play left back 😂

[Steve @_OneBeer]

@theresa_may And how many jobs have been lost due to Net Zero policies - I bet that balance isn’t Net Zero…