HAPPY SATURDAY TO YOU ALL!
Come on, admit it, you’ve been watching e-sports. Right? It’s ok. It kind of looks like real football if your sight isn’t quite 20/20. No? You’re partaking in e-sports! Well I never. So modern.
I’ve been diving into computer games. I have a DLC pack for Zelda, I’m playing some crazy game called Animal Crossing, and I have the SNES emulator on the Switch. Things went from never touching a game in 20 years to I LOVE IT WHY DID NO ONE SHOW ME THESE WIZARDRY SYSTEMS OF JOY. I’m basically a gamer, right? Amateur. If I were a football fan, I’d have a Real Madrid shirt on at The Emirates and I’d buy a half and half scarf, but at least I’m doing something with my life right now.
Share your game reccos in the blog comments.
Talking of doing elite things to kill the time, Hector Bellerin has a NEW haircut.
Look at that shave. He looks so damn cool. Like he’s about to tell you something really prophetic about recycling. I’d listen, no doubt. I might even make up something just so I could have a positive role in the conversation.
‘Hector, I’m actually taking a course in Environmental Design. You know one of the biggest challenges in recycling is mixed material products that ‘claim’ to be recyclable are actually not because the sorting plants can’t easily separate the materials. So yeah, I think I’m doing my part. Anyone care for a flapjack I just picked up from Colombia Road Flower Market?’
That sort of haircut makes you want to, you know, go and cut your own hair.
Don’t tell me you haven’t thought about it.
How hard can it it be?
Well, seems Ainsley had the same thought.
Having his own Britney Spears 2007 meltdown.
‘MIKEL I WILL NOT BE ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR FUCKING MAKESHIFT FULL-BACKS I SAW WHAT YOU DID TO MY MAN DELPH!’
Quite the scene. He’s taking lockdown worse than that lady who dropped her kecks on a 20 person Zoom meeting last week.
Sagna has been talking about his hurt feelings in the media after Cesc failed to include him in his list of players that were top quality.
“I was surprised to read this,”
“From him I was surprised because he was supposed to be one of the leaders of the team, he was one of the great prospects and as a leader and a true player, you don’t speak like that about your club.
“So I was surprised because he is a nice guy, he’s still a nice guy, this doesn’t change anything. But I was kind of surprised.
“Arsenal made him so saying that some players were not at his level was a bit harsh because I’m not sure out of all the seasons he was playing at the club, he was always an exemplary player.
“At that time the press was talking about him not running enough or tracking back. So other players could have said ‘you should be running more or doing more’.
“If you look at Liverpool today, all of them are running. This is a team. And maybe, because we didn’t have the right spirit at that time we didn’t make this little extra push, or make that little extra run to track players, maybe this is the reason we didn’t win.”
Ooohhhhh, Zinger Tower meal for FAB4.
I strongly believe that if we’d had a Klopp or a Pep at the club during those years, we’d have maxed out the talent of those players to a greater degree. Wenger still had players creating art, while managers like Klopp were taking artists, making them work hard, and giving them tactical structure that was of the age.
We’ll never know… but one thing I can say for sure is I thoroughly enjoyed many of those teams. Particularly the 2008 group.
This coming Monday, I can confirm that I’ll be recording with Nigel Phillips of the AST. We’re going to explore the economic impact of covid-19 on the game. It’s a beast of a subject, but his rigour when it comes to Arsenal and business is Thierry setting himself up against United with that lob over Barthez.
On that note, I’m off to catch a butterfly on my new computer game. See you in the comments if I find a spare moment. x
The computer modelling article I mentioned a few weeks back predicted Kaletra(Aids drug) to be pretty much useless due to not binding with any of major targets involved in replication of virus. It’s been so ineffective its now used as part of control groups in studies.
That same study also predicted Remsdesivir and Chloroquine Phosphate to be very effective, and so far (albeit anecdotally) they have.
UK’s ‘gold standard’ so far -don’t laugh- is Tamiflu.
Un
There has been talk about why Germany’s death toll seem so much lower and that was one of the suggestions.
One of the deaths yesterday was 99 years old – I mean for fuck sake at 99 cold weather kills you, hot weather kills you. At that age you really are on borrowed time so Corona might have finished you off but a cold would’ve done the same.
“What is interesting is that the AIDS drugs that seemed to be effective a few weeks ago haven’t been mentioned much since. It would certainly add strength to the argument that’s this is something of a lab-made virus.”
Why? That’s speculation with no science behind it just someone looking for conspiracy theories.
“but in the West the media is artificially raising the death toll
Why?”
Because it sells newspaper, gets clicks and makes people watch the news.
As supplies run down companies will turn to China for replacement products and they will increase their market share while Europe and America sit at home.
As China has 1.4 billion people it doesn’t have a problem with 20,000 deaths.
“Why? That’s speculation with no science behind it just someone looking for conspiracy theories.“
Speculation is pretty much all we have at the moment.
China is not coming out of this situation well. In a year or two when things have cleared, there is no way China gets a pass.
I imagine too there will be some political change there. It’s not the people’s fault they’re led by cunts. It’s not like they elected them as the Brits did Boris Johnson.
Moray
Just because speculation is all we have doesn’t mean we should add to it with far fetched stories.
I do however agree with you about China not getting a pass on this – they could find themselves squared up against the US, UK, the EU, Russia, Japan, S Korea and India etc.
I have no idea where it will lead but there’s going to be a lot of angry people and politicians looking for someone to blame.
Spain and Italy are bankrupt .
They will use this situation to ask for and get handfuls of money from the EU .
They will cheat and lie to get it, corruption is their specialty.
The Mafia just love it.
The irony is , Arsenal will probably be bought by a Chinese consortium when Silent Stan decides to sell.( which I predict will be sooner rather than later) Hopefully the majority of Arsenal fans will refuse to attend fixtures if this pans out. Hopefully the FA and British authorities/government outlaw ALL Chinese ‘investment’ into British institutions until a thorough investigation has been carried out in this Corina Catastrophe. We may suffer in the short term but we dont want nothing to do with this Evil Regime until they clean up their Act. A form of world wide sanctions need to… Read more »
There is another danger with this lockdown. There will be a rise in domestic abuse. When people get bored, they’ll need to release their excessive energy. The whole world will not be the same after this coronavirus outbreak.
Un
That is a valid point and there is / was a piece on the Sky news website on exactly that subject.
dave
Not sure the EU will have the money to just do massive hand outs – they’ve still got to work out how to balance the books without UK contributions. It would take a major re writing of EU rules and I’m not sure the German’s are up for that.
Nelson
Unfortunately whilst this type of thing brings out the best in some people it also brings out the worst in others.
Human nature.
Nelson,
This is already the case. In UK and in France Pharmacy are encouraged to help and shop any suspected case of domestic abuse to the police.
For some the lockdown means being locked up 24/7 with a physical and/or psychological abuser. Hopefully that should encourage them to take decisive action before and after the lockdown.
Hi Marc
The EU have already promised this to Italy.
So they won’t let go as they are screwed financially.
The only solution is to print money and you know where that goes.
That’s why people have to work so that taxes are paid in.
Just think
32, 000 people have died so far, 0.00004 of the worlds population, every second every day a child is born in the world. 86,000 per day.
And we panic over this!
Un
“I’m not saying that it’s not killing people or even some otherwise healthy people but they are adding unrelated deaths to make it seem worse. And mate people are falling for it. I fell for it.”
So the morgues are just having a bad time this year with an influx of ‘normal’ deaths?
Spanish, its not corona irectly that’s the issue, it’s the crippling of the worlds health services. I agree, the quickest way to deal with this is to let it spread but how would you feel if a family member died from something entirely preventable like complications in minor surgery as there wasn’t the resource to save them. Let it spread quickly and you can say goodbye to a local doctor provision, cancer treatment, A&E, eyecare… it all goes in hold as our doctors and nurses become focussed on giving end of life care to corona sufferers in their 1000s and… Read more »
Unai, Like Pedro alluded on March 28, 2020 20:43:01, You are wasting your time trying to explain thing to Spanish Dave, he think that COVID-19 is just a massive hoax. Not realising that the biggest threat is not the disease itself, but the impact of the disease on the healthcare system. If the healthcare system is overwhelmed, then a lot more people will die. Not necessarily from the disease itself, but of its negative impact on medical access. Sick people occupy ICU beds and clog wards means that people who in normal time would be treated and survive will not.… Read more »
90% of those tested do not have it, that’s the problem.
People panic when they get the flu and rush to hospital rather than staying at home.
I don’t think it’s a hoax but it’s not in context because our beloved media want to benefit from their over reactive reporting..
I am not a disciple of Facebook or twitter, where unfortunetly most snowflakes get the ‘truth’.
I don’t slag people off for their views, I prefer proper debate without being offensive to try to win an argument.
I dont how effective chloroquine is for covid19 treatment what i know is that quinine was effective malaria treatment for centuaries until big Pharma fooled the world(WHO) not to use it for the sake of profiteering.
Quarantine isn’t treatment, it’s prevention. You might need to wiki harder.
The western media is not artificially raising the death toll. The death tolls the media reports are being fed to them by official statistics from countries around the world and actually make sense For example in countries that don’t test those apart from the sickest, the death toll appears highest. In countries where they test loads, the death toll is lower which makes sense. In any case, the general findings and understanding of the virus and it’s severity are broadly the same throughout the world, thus why basically the entire planet is now following the same set of protocols. My… Read more »
Just a note – as of yesterday there was spare capacity in intensive care beds in the UK, even London and they are bringing more on stream. The fear isn’t what Corona is doing now it’s what it could build to. If you listen to the scientists in the daily press conferences they do talk a lot of candid sense. The truth of this is it’s not those saying it’s nothing just as it’s not those screaming it’s the end of the world. It’s somewhere in between and the Government are stuck in almost a no win situation – say… Read more »
Oh lord, he thinks quarintine is the same as quinine
Moray
“I imagine too there will be some political change there. It’s not the people’s fault they’re led by cunts. It’s not like they elected them as the Brits did Boris Johnson.”
Come on, nobody voted for Johnson, all voting went out the window in what was a Brexit vote Election.
Spain and Italy have some of the oldest populations in the world. You’d expect those two to have high death rates and even more so considering the lack of truly widespread testing. This talk of the media making up numbers makes no sense at all. The British government tells the media how many people have been confirmed, it’s not like jimmy working for the daily express just picks a number and writes it as fact. Most numbers are just being attributed to the John Hopkins research, which has what vested interest in making up numbers? And their numbers are saying… Read more »
China
I think you’ve misunderstood what he meant. In the UK if someone dies and has tested positive for Corona / COVID 19 then the death is attributed to the disease – it’s been said that they aren’t or weren’t doing that in Germany.
For example if someone has terminal lung cancer with a week to live and contracts Corona what killed them?
China
“””””My parents told me on their dog walk today some random English guy walked past them and said ‘fucking chinese causing this shit””””
As you do.
Bonkers.
Marc is there widespread evidence of this? If so please share it
Not saying it isn’t happening but There’s a tone of hearsay throughout the corona virus topic but I haven’t seen any evidence of that being the case so far
Bojo and the like are a reflections of people like Jamie
Im telling you this for free!
China
Evidence of which part – how the UK are doing it or the stories about Germany?
Sweden are the only country that have ignored doom-mongering organisations like the WHO and imperial College, both of whom have previous for talking out of their rear end (see Bird Flu/Swine Flu), and will be interesting to see how they fare.
It’s a respiratory virus that targets the same group of people that are vulnerable to other pathogens that cause respiratory issues. Seems like they are working from that base and are making decisions in line with it.
Re political change in China after this id say it’s not likely at all provided the government here keeps the economy up and running to a vaguely reasonable standard People here think after the national government took over and oversaw the nationwide lockdowns, it was handled pretty well at the national level. If there will be long term major economic consequences here then they will be new challenges to be faced, but if that doesn’t happen then the national government will have come out of this reasonably well with the locals. The real question is what’s going to happen in… Read more »
Dave, I might be part of the snowflake crowd, but at least I understand that the point of testing is that 1) if you test it, you can measure it. Nations that test more get it under control quicker 2) that the point of testing is to find out who has it. If you had 100% of people getting tests testing positive, you’d either have the worst pandemic in history, or you’d not be testing properly. 90% not testing positive is actually not a problem at all. ‘Let them die, more people will be born’ is a great soundbite until… Read more »
Marc all the points you raised about the UK and Germany’s approach to measuring it.
And Italy too etc
Basically what is the evidence of widespread reporting of non virus related deaths being blamed on the virus just because someone tested positive?
Sid –
Misread your post. So much shit written here it’s hard to keep up.
China, The truth will emerge when the total number of deads will be counted. There will be a spike. However how countries will allocate that spike will be interesting to see. Germany will have small spikes in death due to cancers, age related ailments, natural cause when Italy and Spain will have a one massive officially entirely die to COVID-19. In 2003, France had a huge heatwave. That heatwave has caused a massive spike in number of dead. However initially those death were natural cause (mostly old people dying at home). Epidemiologists reported that in fact more than 14,000 of… Read more »
It’s not really doom mongering to notice that health care systems will be crippled by this if left to an uncontrolled spread Doctors and nurses on the front lines of every badly hit country on the planet are saying the exact same things because they’re having very similar experiences. It’s not just a respiratory illness that fucks those who are already vulnerable – it’s an extremely contagious and hard to track respiratory illness that fucks those who are already vulnerable and a small percentage of those who are not. The difference is critical. If millions are left to contract it,… Read more »
China
It’s the way it’s being reported over here and instead of the media asking that type of question they are too busy trying to scaremonger by asking if the head of the NHS “can guarantee that the health service will cope”.
A prime example is a piece on the Sky News website yesterday where the headline was “XXX number of deaths aging 33 to 99 and 13 of them had no under lying condition”. When you read into it the 13 were aged 63 to 99, it’s irresponsible because it’s taking something serious and sensationalising it for clicks.
The evidence will be excess mortality stats. If there is no upsurge or spike in excess mortality in these few months (relative to previous years) when this is all over then it will be blindingly obvious that those that have died with the virus will have been deemed to have died because of it rather than with it.
People need to be clear on the distinction between being told really bad news and doom mongering Doom mongering is telling exaggerated stories of the end of the world. Telling people we’re likely facing an unprecedented pandemic since the Spanish flu, that we will see our health systems around the world brought to their knees without enormous investment and support and unprecedented curbs on people’s freedoms will be needed to reign this in as quickly as possible is not doom mongering. This is widely accepted as a simple observation of what’s plainly staring us in the face and with case… Read more »
China
I’m certainly criticising what the UK Government is doing in what it’s announcing it’s the way the media are portraying it.
If an old boy who is 99 gets it and dies at what point is it “well something was going to get him sooner or later”. The fact is even if he was other wise healthy he had a pre existing condition of extreme old age.
China
Have you watched the question sessions during the daily UK Government press conference?
“I’m certainly criticising ” should read “I’m certainly not criticising”
I really need to learn to type!
It’s not scaremongering to ask the head of an institution if they can cope with the challenge in front of them It’s the most important question today. It’s only being considered scare mongering because people are frightened of the answer they may/will/have receive(d) It’s the exact same question Boris will have been asking the NHS heads behind closed doors, surely? How bad is this going to be? Can we cope? What will the impact be? If we don’t convert exhibition centers into hospitals what’s going to happen? These are not scaremongering questions. They the absolute most important questions to be… Read more »
It’s not sensationalizing anything to report those statistics It would be sensationalizing to say ‘YOUNG PEOPLE ALSO HIGHLY LIKELY TO DIE’ as the headline. That headline you just pasted was a simple fact being shared and they were even kind enough to highlight how many didn’t have pre existing conditions which gives a very clear perspective that the vast majority who died DID have issues already ergo the numbers are actually not so scary They literally softened the simple facts that they shared with context so that there’s less need to panic. How else are they allowed to report cases… Read more »
China
It’s the way the question is worded – asking for a guarantee? Come on that’s just a leading question that has no right answer unless you give a political answer.
You answer yes and you get pulled up because of an admin error somewhere.
You say no and the public panic.
You seem to struggle with the concept of intelligent responsible journalism and looking for a headline.
You didn’t answer my question – are you watching the daily press conference and question sessions in the UK?
I for one primarily want to be given information that is accurate to the best of everyone’s knowledge and gives me a clear picture of where we’re at How many infected, how many dead, how many recovered, how is the NHs coping? What are the predictions for tomorrow and next week? What are the biggest challenges we are facing? Do we already have solutions lined up? If not why not and what are the next steps? What’s it like to have the virus and go through the health system? What do the doctors on the front line think? What is… Read more »
No mate I just don’t think this is as scary a question as you think Everyone in the right mind would expect the answer to that question to be ‘we can’t promise anything 100% but we believe we will get there in the end with extensive support and responsible behavior from the public’ And I don’t see a sky news headline saying NHS CANT BE SURE OF SURVIVING CATASTROPHE. I just checked sky news again and the headlines are all very reasonable. Nothing there to make me panic at all. If people are reading the daily mail or whatever that’s… Read more »
China
I’ll ask again have you been watching the UK Government daily press conferences and question sessions?
Marc
Yes n no
Got bored
Honest question
Do you think Boris has it or he just got fucked off doing that every day..
Before you answer
Remember he is a Tory.
RSPC
Exactly he if was a lefty lazy scum bad I’d be worried but as a Tory he has a work ethic. That’s why rich people are rich they work hard for a living.
Marc
He is ducking it…
He ha# the concentration span of an ant… he’s got bored , the man is always lookin* to inject levity …
This ain’t the time…
Oh Marc…
Announcing your politics is a No no in my eyes, saying that I was a member of 5he Labour Party till recently…
Donyell malen.
Why we let go.
Massive error.
RSPC
Are you saying my believing that we should round up all the lefty scum and pass them into slavery isn’t acceptable?
Think of the positives – it would revitalise our manufacturing industries, would reduce climate change and help control the crazy rate of human population growth.
It’s win win for decent right wing people and who gives a fuck what vile scumbag lefties think anyway?
Boris isn’t rich because he works hard, he’s rich because he comes from a rich privileged family. He’s been fired from just about every job he ever had.
Incidentally a friend of mine had a cousin who’s husband died from Coronavirus a couple of days back – he was 47 years old, fit with no health conditions. We don’t need sensational headlines but we do need to understand the real risk and not just the narrative that only the old or unwell are taken.
Marc, a lot of rich people work hard.
Boris has done a fairly decent job of the response so far. He basically enacted Corbyn policies. Unreal that a hard-right gov is now socialist… but it shows great leadership to pivot like that.
Pedro
All of the most successful and wealthiest people I’ve met / dealt with work hard – I wasn’t being sarcastic.
This concept that people who are wealthy because they run their own business etc and it’s easy are fuckwits who need to stop blaming others for their shitty little lives, get off of they fat lazy arses and stop expecting someone else to pick up the tab.
Marc
I understand your humour… however expect flak fella…
Boris is faking it…
Corbin would have been a good leader of people…
Unfortunately it’s a capitalist world where the dollar rules….
Until the Chinese an Russia devalue it… if truth be told is what this is all about,,..
Kill the dollar as the currency on which money is judged.
RSPC
Who’s kidding – I’m serious.
Marc
Smh
Stand back an watch the fireworks….
There was good chat on talkshite regarding the league,
Love or loathe Simon Jordan talks sense,
Season is done.
No point in fucking up next years league…it’s all as you were.
Interesting study from Georgetown:
https://1gyhoq479ufd3yna29x7ubjn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/ES-Born_to_win-schooled_to_lose.pdf
“To succeed in America, it’s better to be born rich than smart. People with talent often don’t succeed. What we found in this study is that people with talent that come from disadvantaged households don’t do as well as people with very little talent from advantaged households.”
Andy
A good mate of mine works at number 10
Says Boris is a very good fellow. Just wants to be loved.
As Pedro says, he is controlling this well as to be expected,
This is more than a virus, something sinister is at play .
Sorry to hear about the loss..
It makes sense to abandon the season.
Liverpool will probably win the next season anyway. We can’t screw up next season feeling sorry for them it’s just one off bad luck.
The sooner we make this decision the better .
But the FA want them to win it so it will end up a mess.
Marc..
I ont ask for your views on the facist royal family…
Gawd love the treacle …
RSPC
On a serious note what we need to learn from all of this is that the Football Gods have decreed that they do not want the Scouse vermin to win the league – they have sent down pestilence and disease upon the world as a warning.
If we ignore this warning imagine what they’ll do next.
RSPC
Have you heard the Price Charles / Prince Andrew corona joke?
Dave
That can5 run the risk of affecting next season because of sky money..
Jordan was saying 5hat sky ar3 going to suspend payment an seek refund from prem…
Now this is where true characters come out to play because of money..
No one giv3s a sho5 who wins or dies… it’s all about money and who will pay for it.
Yeah..
Marc..
Heard it…
Have you heard the one about the royal family supporting hitler in 1938…
Doing nazi salutes.
Oh wait it’s true.
Just like than they have fled out of the town where they stole the land.
Complete pack of cunts,
Marc, sure, lots of people work hard that are rich. There are also lots of people that benefit from ample amounts of privilege. Stellios landed a loan from his shipping magnate dad to start an airline, the rich kids get access to the best education and easy money after, trust fund kids like Trump get to fail over and over with other people’s money. Also, I very much doubt you get the true story on how those folk land on their wealth. Most people eager to hide the true story. Even Bill Gates had a mum that paid for him… Read more »
I think that’s a last min penalty decider Pedro…
Game over Marc
Pedro
Well the first thing they have to do is get up off of their arses – then they have to do it every single day and they do it at a rate that most of us would not want to do.
Do some people have “good connections” or a “head start” yes but that doesn’t mean success is a given which is the socialist view = born rich and it’s easy.
Working hard doesn’t guarantee success but I’ve never met someone successful in business who doesn’t work hard.
Un
They also don’t expect someone else to pay for them.
Un
There’s a stat from 20 or so years ago – I don’t know what the current numbers are but they won’t be that different – 95% of income tax collected is paid by 5% of earners.
The rich do not pay their fair share of income tax – they pay a staggering amount more. I don’t think slagging them off for doing it is polite!
Un, Elon Musk spends a time on Twitter shit posting about scuba divers, he sends rockets to space and back. Donald Trump spent 10 years calling Rosie Odonnell ugly now he’s president.
Posting on Le Grove is ambition. It means you’ve got your shit so in order, you can afford to indulge in leisure time on the internet. It’s lockdown golf.
Donald Trump works 11 to 6 (with exec time breaks to watch cable news) and he’s managed 249 golf trips during his Presidency.
Hitler was also incredibly lazy, would regularly start the day at 2, was terrible at running a Government and his staff couldn’t stand him.
UK tax scene quotes here, from The Guardian. HM Revenue & Customs this week published an analysis of the income tax paid in the UK by salary band, region and gender. In total we paid £174bn income tax in 2016-17, the latest year for which figures are available. But of that, £52.5bn – nearly a third of all tax raised – was paid by the 381,000 taxpayers who earn more than £150,000 a year. The tax paid by those 381,000 individuals (overwhelmingly male) was more than all the income tax paid by the first 20 million taxpayers. In London, the… Read more »
Think most of the annoyance is with the large corporations paying fuck all tax but borrowing heavily from the infrastructure they didn’t pay for… and folk like Branson who is a tax exile and wants a bailout. As Bernie says, socialism is fine for the rich when they want bailouts for bad businesses.
Pedro, why do you allow this political shit on Le Grove? Even with no football on politics should still be a no no. Marc if you want to rant over leftys, go to Breitbart or Fox to do it.
Bojangles, I gave up.
Unless I shut down the comments, this is what has happened every day for 3 weeks.
Then maybe I’ll go to 7am for three weeks
“The world watching and hating you for telling it straight.”
Un, still drinking that kool-aid , I see.
Over 16k lies told by Trump in 3 years.
Super posts, Pete. Another alarming statistic:
Over 40% of uk adults don’t pay any income tax.
https://www.icaew.com/technical/tax/personal-tax/income-tax/income-tax-articles/uk-increasingly-reliant-on-super-rich-for-tax-income
“The world watching and hating you for telling it straight.”
That was quite the line.
Jamie, I didn’t know that.
However, think you are definitely a terrible person if you are a top earner and you begrudge paying tax that supports those less well off (Breitbart Marc, we’re looking at you). I think where Corbyn and his pals go wrong is they forget that those who don’t earn enough don’t want handouts, they aspire to climb the ladder.
Karim Benzema (on Giroud comparison) :
“I’ll be quick, we don’t confuse Formula 1 with Karting. And I’m nice. Now next.”
Cutter, you don’t have to be a prick, it’s a choice
Pedro and Marc are both right.
Pedro’s assumption is that all rich people don’t work hard.
Marc’s assumption is that rich people work hard for their wealth.
I think in-between you have actual human beings, not archetypes.
Please don’t judge the current political scene based on left/right politics. We are currently in a Pandemic and the Conservative Government are adopting wartime politics and policies. The current Conservative Party under Boris is however in normal circumstances economically a right of centre party, but with an agenda to upgrade the country’s health service and transport infrastructure. Boris Johnson has not as far as I am aware “inherited his wealth”. His parents are still alive. He made a living before becoming Prime Minister from being a journalist and writer. There are plenty of Labour Supporters who are much richer and… Read more »
Would say if Benzema is f1 Giroud is NASCAR, and i prefer the latter.
Working smart is the new working hard
Im telling you this for free!
When Benzema looks back as his career he will see lots of hardware and highlight reels of Christano Ronaldo.
When Giroud looks back as his career he will see less hardware and highlight reels of his scorpion kick and the flick pass for Wilshire’s goal.
Giroud will be counted as a world cup winner is all that matters
Back to football then. Based on the latest government briefing ‘normal life’ (whatever that is) will not resume for at least 3-6 months. That has to mean that this season is well and truly dead, there is no way that you can tell people to isolate and maintain social distancing and at the same time allow two football teams and officials to run around on a football pitch for 90 minutes let alone run training or any other sporting activity. There is a simple solution though. This season has to be voided, no doubt about that. No champions, no promotion… Read more »
If we don’t get back to work soon there won’t be a normal.
These medical idiots can fatally spook the financial markets who will destroy your pensions.
The league season should be stopped now so clubs can prepare for a fresh start.
It’s tough for Liverpool but it’s a one off, we can’t plan around them.
They should win the new season.
Problem is their supporters will probably riot as that is the norm in Liverpool.
Perhaps a direct donation from Amazon
to the funding of a cure for Corona virus
might paint Mr Bezos in a different light.
Interesting article in today’s Daily Telegraph The Public Investment Fund [Sovereign Wealth Fund] of Saudi Arabia is about to take control of Newcastle United. The £340 Million deal will include also two minority partners with 10% equity each who are Amanda Staveley’s PCP Capital Fund and significantly the Reuben Brothers who are one Britain’s wealthiest families with property portfolio assets estimated at £18 billion. The Saudi Sovereign Fund is the largest in World and with the backing of Reuben Brothers will “outgun” the ownership of any other club in World Football if the deal is successfully concluded. Such a deal… Read more »
Stroller
Football clubs are like toilet paper to Saudi Arabia. In times of doubt, just horde.
I am actually stunned by this given that we just broke under US$20 a barrel for oil.
Dark Hei
The Saudi Sovereign Fund is designed to invest in non oil businesses.
So I don’t think that it will be impacted by the drop in oil prices. As I said it is the largest sovereign fund globally. Spending £200-300 million is a drop in the ocean for them.
Messrs Staveley and Jamie Reuben [currently a director in QPR] have the football expertise.
Fthe self made Rueben bros are looking to buy Newcastle… they own the tower round the corner to me milbank tower.