It is very difficult to motivate yourself to write something semi-regularly when nothing is moving. It’s like fishing in a puddle. My powers of pulling something out of my arse every damn day are waning. Still, the show goes on… less whining, more content.
Alex Lacazette, a player most Arsenal fans seem to think will be off this summer has told his agency to tell a rogue Twitter account to STFU about Atleti links. Score Agency took offence to a French Atleti fan account of 22k followers.
This is the offending tweet:
Alexandre Lacazette is said to have called Antoine Griezmann to request information on Atlético de Madrid. Indeed, the FC Barcelona player remains intimate with the colchoneros locker room and is always in contact with his close friend, Koke.
Kind of amusing that only yesterday I was railing against all these incel guys that manage fake ITK Twitter accounts, the very next day Lacazette is actually paying attention to a small one. The response was a bit odd.
‘Twitter is magic. It’s not nice to lie to the fans of Atletico’ + some lying face emoji’s.
Well, that’s that. I can’t really work out why an important player like Alex Lacazette would lower himself to responding to a bottom of the barrel Twitter account. Maybe it’s a statement to Arsenal encouraging them not to think about trying to push him out in a swap deal this summer. Or maybe it’s to protect the players called out in the tweet. Who knows, very odd regardless. He’s clearly been searching his own name during the lockdown.
The Thomas Partey rumours won’t stop. This time, one of his mates has leaked that he’d really like to move to Arsenal. Again, another odd leak. Is it the player agitating for offers? Is it newspapers trying to drive clicks to websites that are under massive pressure at the moment? Not that clicks are worth anything right now, ad-media is on its backside. Maybe it’s just journo’s trying to keep their personal numbers up? Whatever it is, I find it very weird that a player as good as Thomas Partey is so keen to keep himself in the headlines.
Still, it’d be nice if this was one of those rumours that amounted to something. He really is a great player.
The Premier League doesn’t seem to have moved things much further along on PROJECT RESTART. Though there is talk that Youtube is being invited to air over half of the games free to air on the Google platform. Not sure how this is supposed to work. Are the clubs selling the rights? Is it just to keep interest in the clubs up? Is it an experiment to see how many foreign fans tune into the average games? Surely clubs would just go to Bezos who already forked out for games this year?
It’s looking like they edging closer to a restart in Germany. No fucking about. They are testing regularly and there’s a chance we might see behind closed doors games before May is out. That’d be huge. If the Germans are doing it, it’s permission for everyone to move towards a restart.
Italy and Spain are a lot further behind, but they haven’t thrown the towel in yet. I suspect the 4 most important leagues will finish their seasons. It’s important for fans to have closure, and it’ll also be a very interesting dry run for the authorities. Running game at the height (fingers crossed) of a pandemic, over a short space of time, will lead the way for what next season looks like.
Logistics, neutral venues, isolation hotels, squad infections, players playing in masks… hopefully, there won’t be a nasty PR disaster in that mixer.
Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments. x
‘Why is the purchase of PPE equipment by the federal government outsourced to a company with close ties to Jared Kushner?“ Maybe because Kushner gets things done. After all he was in charge of bringing peace to the Middle East, fixing the opioid crisis, overhauling the immigration system, building the wall, fixing the government with new business ideas, and reforming veteran care. After fixing and accomplishing all those things with tremendous success why wouldn’t he be entrusted with running the shadow covid19 task force? Surely not to monetize the access ( clutches his pearls). If Chelsea Clinton and her husband… Read more »
Tried google translate on Sid’s last post, no luck there!
“We deserve to go bankrupt!”
And you’re an Arsenal fan yeah ? You stupid cunt.
Tom
Why on earth make you think I watch Fox News – I’ve never mentioned it and never seen it.
The only comment I’ve ever made on Hilary Clinton was to the fact that I only recently found out that she had actually been on the board of Walmart which surprised me as I’m constantly informed on here that the Kroenke’s are the root of all evil in the world.
Does someone want to point out to CG that with 10 games left (and we’re unbeaten in the PL this calendar year!) there’s still 30 points up for grabs.
If someone quoted a midseason league position to attack Wenger CG would have a fit.
Marc
Wasn’t it you who said Hilary was more corrupt than Trump based on the Clinton foundation , and Bill Clinton had more blood on his hands than Bush?
Both statements highly dubious if I may say so.
Reading reports today the economic damage already done is horrendous. Sport, Retail, Cars, Airline businesses are going to shed hundreds of thousand jobs which will not return. The unemployment rate will be high for many years, while careers done for. This total lockdown will be seen as the biggest government mistake ever as we have forsaken lives and livelihoods for so many people. Over 400 people die of cancer every day and they have been shoved aside for some 85 year old with pneumonia. Panic seems to come easy for politicians ,and this is the worst I have ever seen.… Read more »
Hilarious how it’s the ‘liberal brigade’ that encouraged all those nasty ‘foreigns’ to come over here and not the cheapskate employers, governments and their cronies who benefited massively from low labour costs. Meanwhile all the dumbed down right wing Sun readers were moaning about them ‘taking our jobs’ – jobs that those very same people thought were beneath them.
Imagine if the players have to maintain social distancing, even Xhaka can walk the ball into the opponent’s goal…
Dave, the science said that without lockdown 260,000 would die – that’s 712 people every day for a year, almost double your cancer figure. Doing nothing and the number was more than half a million – nearly 1400 people every single day. I’m sure most people would rather take an economic hit than have deaths in their family. On the up side for Boris at least he can blame the economic damage from Brexit on CV-19.
Dave, can’t you get it into your head that it was a no win situation. If the government had ‘kept the economy going’ and not insisting on a lockdown, the virus would have spread catastrophically, overwhelming the NHS and causing the deaths of possibly four times as many people.
As it is our economy is fucked, many people with other conditions will be worse off etc.
It was a classic ‘lose, lose’ scenario.
So saying the government has called it wrong is not a particularly convincing.
Tom No wasn’t me on Hiliary Clinton I might have said she’s fucking useless but that’s a fairly standard level for politicians all over the world – comments I’ve made about Bill Clinton is that he repealed the Glass Steagall which was a major step that resulted in the crash and that he had chances to kill Bin Laden and never took them – which can be argued that he has blood on his hands. I think you’re referring to me going back to someone who said Bush should’ve stopped 9/11 and I pointed out that the first attack on… Read more »
The science was complete bollocks.
According to the ‘science’, the same imperial college model, 80,000 should be dead in Sweden now.
And the guy behind it has just resigned after flouting his own recommended lock-down rules.
Apparently he believed he was immune, despite claiming constantly up to this point – along with others – that there was no evidence of immunity. As I said from the start, WHO and Imperial should be completely ignored.
Andy
80 languages spoken in one of the meat processing plants employing thousands of minimum wage immigrants working 12 hour shifts with limited bathroom brakes, some wearing adult diapers, standing shoulder to shoulder during the outbreak.
How many American born workers would take a job like that?
None, probably.
Bob N16May 6, 2020 10:28:24
Tried google translate on Sid’s last post, no luck there!
Thats why you heard it here 1st, im telling you this for free!😊
Sweden is 85% bigger than the whole of the UK but only has a population of just over 10m.
More people live in and around London than in the whole of Sweden.
Work it out.
It’s far easier to control things in such an environment.
Belgium has the highest death rate.
Not surprising really.
You cram people in, you’ll suffer the consequences.
Same as UK.
Far too many people in such a small area.
“oligarchy is that a set of elites have enough material resources to spend on securing their status and interests”
The main tactic of oligarchs is keeping people divided e.g Wenger
Republicans vs democrats
Labour vs Tory
Im telling you for free!
Science said 259,000 based on what, it’s a joke. When Aids came along they said 30% of 5e worlds population would get it! They are never right because the virus is unknown , so they put out a big number to get noticed. The best solution now is to give all the facts and risks to the public and let people make their own decisions . Only 215 people under the age of 60 have died with no preconditions. That’s worth fucking up the economy! The government are not our nannies , allow the populace to act in a grown… Read more »
Graham
The whole of Ireland’s population is about half that of London’s. Just crazy.
It’s the same reason New York has been hit so hard.
Ozil has all the markings of a future oligarch, it must be ensured he does not run for political office in Turkey,
You heard it here 1st!
Graham
The Swedes live in only 15 % of the country due to its remoteness and climate.
They took a herd immunity decision we took a lockdown.
They are right we have screwed it up with a half hearted approach.
It’s now a mess.
“I am an older gezzer but I feel for the younger populations future.”
And why shouldn’t you and the rest of the boomers? You’re fucking responsible.
Time will take of your pathetic ilk.
Aids would have killed 30% of the world but there are variables were not included in their projection,
like internet porn has increased masturbation thus reducing real sex
You heard it here 1st😊!
The blue eyed, blonde, homogeneous population of Sweden need not worry of pandemics
You heard it here 1st!
Sweden is not a major international destination. It’s not the meeting point of ll the worlds cultures that the UKis.
I’ve been to Stockholm and Malmo and can’t understand why anyone would try the herd immunity experiment on a country that’s 600% the population of Sweden.
That short-lived herd immunity by exposure experiment was the daftest shite I ever read here. It’s probably why Boris allowed Cheltenham to take place.
I recall there were some here [cough, cough] who cheered on the herd immunity crappola.
Sid, an expert on internet porn and masturbation…who knew?
Spanishdave, you should get your camo gear on and liberate Bury St Edmunds! Your fellow ‘nanny state’ attackers are showing you the way in the USA.
Go on Spanishdave, start making your banner ‘ We don’t need no nanny state!‘
Well Dave, I guess the only way you will contain your selfishness is if either yourself or some of your family members are struck down with it. Hope that doesn’t happen.
As for me, one person dying unnecessary, let alone 215 is unacceptable.
I guess oldies don’t count as ‘people’ then? Why not go the whole hog and euthanise everyone when they stop working? I mean, the wife’s parents are well of and I could do with the windfall, not as if I’m that attached to them anyway.
Spanishdave Ok, that’s fine. 15% of 450000km2( size of Sweden) = 67500km2 So 10m live in 67500km2 in Sweden. London has an area of 1500km2 with roughly the same population as Sweden. Put Sweden’s entire population in an area the size of London and do you really think the Swedes would have reacted in the same way? England has an area of just 130000km2 with a population of 56m! Do the maths. It’s easier to control your population with an infrastructure that can cope, than one that’s stretched to breaking point. As Marc rightly highlighted, it’s the reason NY has… Read more »
Spanishdave
You need to get out more.
Oops sorry……..you cant!😷
🍺🍺
Alex
You are a very rude person , probably Billy No mates.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Graham
Look at a map most Swedes live in Stockholm , Gothenburg, and Malmo.
They are not spread evenly as you suggest.
You need to travel more, like I did.
I got out.
Lol
Bojangles
Let’s stop the world because one person dies!
In the UK 1700 people die each day, snowflake.
San Francisco, taiwan, hongkong, seoul are densely populated but the deaths are incomparable
Im telling you this for free!
It’s too long since I’ve been in a playground to come up with an appropriate response to Spanishdave at 13.38.
13.36 ‘I got out’……
Whether accurate comparative statistics are possible right now is not really the main point,there is no way our figures can be considered a ‘success’ or impressive despite the incredible work our NHS is doing.
Comparing density of population, travel habits, responsivity to civil directives, past scares etc cannot hide the fact that the UK’s figures look grim and that’s with a lockdown.
Just as well Spanishdave isn’t the man with the plan!
It’s a mad old world when we have ‘Boomers’ telling ‘Snowflakes’ that their inclination to protect the old (like the Boomers) is misplaced. What are you, suicidal?
Speaking as a member of GenX why can’t you guys at least try to get on?
Obesity, population density are not the main causes…. lets hear another scapegoat excuse
Safety comes first.
Simple as that. Cancel the season. The players wouldn’t be able to do a full 90mins without getting injuries at this point.
Bob You don’t have to agree with what dave is saying but you do need to absorb that he has a point – I’m not sure he’s making it in a way that someone like you will accept but he’s asking about the bigger picture. 1784 people were killed on the roads in 2018 – should we ban all cars etc? That doesn’t include the number killed by air pollution. 78,000 die from smoking and smoking related illnesses why haven’t we banned smoking outright? 6.8% of all deaths in England are related to obesity should fat people be locked up… Read more »
Thanks Marc exactly my point.
I was surprised to learn that over 400 people die per day from cancer.
We have to live and enjoy each day, can’t be afraid to live.
It will be 5 o’clock soon time for a beer.
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
At what point will you realize that you are irrevelant?
And by the way, you barely-literate pensioner, this is the full quote;
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence.”
Just shut up and fade away along with the rest of your generation.
Spanishdave
What’s the population of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo?
Combined it’s about 3m. Still leaves about 7m scattered around a very large landscape.
As Bob N16 rightly highlights, the UK figures are grim even with a lockdown. Have a feeling though they would have been a damn sight worse if we’d followed the Swedish model.
What do you think Dave?
dave
I see you have the same type of watch as me! Beer o’clock!
On a serious note the Government are in a no win situation what ever they do, what they’ve got to try and do is find a middle path that keeps deaths to a minimum whilst not destroying the economy completely.
What I would like to know is precisely what was this Neil Ferguson thinking?
What a complete and utter fool.
Graham
We’ll never really know. What will be telling is when an home based easy to use, accurate anti body test is available and we can get an idea on how many have had the virus in total. As I’ve said 100,000 cases with 50,000 deaths and 50 million cases with 50,000 deaths are two completely different scenarios.
Graham, following a Swedish model may get you done for stalking. Marc, course I understand I that there is massive collateral damage involved with lockdown but the argument that people are dying all the time anyway is specious as well as stating the bleeding obvious. What do you honestly think the government should have done, middle of March? With hindsight you might say anybody of 60 or with an underlying health issue should stay at home. They would be fed, receive home visits from medical professionals and generally looked after, while everybody else just got on with their business. Fair… Read more »
Bob My point was not that people are dying all the time it’s about the risk’s we take in life and how far do you go in curtailing civil liberties to protect people against themselves. The issue behind this is who is vulnerable and it’s something we don’t yet completely know but it’s clear that certain groups are particularly at risk whilst many don’t even know they’ve had it. What if the chances of being seriously ill and dying from this for anyone under 65 and who doesn’t have any underlying condition is one in a million? We could have… Read more »
Bundesliga going ahead confirmed today.
Meanwhile the Prem are still arguing.
Bottom teams want to cancel the league so they can stay put for another year.
There will be legal punch ups over this.
dave
I don’t think it’ll be anywhere near that dignified.
Bloody marvels these Germans.
Shops and Soccer back on agenda in Deutschland ASAP!
Per Mertesacker
Lucas Podolski
Jens Lehmann
Dortmund Eye
You cant go wrong with these Germans.
More Germans and less Spaniards at The Arsenal please.
Resourceful people.
(ps. even our Wenger was 1/4 German.)
My son in Munich is back to work full time. He said there is no social distancing just common sense washing hands etc.
We have to make a meal out of everything we do.
I don’t expect us to finish the league, to many differing opinions, and the money is key to everything.
Mark Clattenburg said today that the atmosphere is bad and the game is slower with no response from the crowds.
Let’s see
On a more positive not there is an interview between Cazorla and a Spanish Journalist. Cazorla has indicated that he wants to return to Arsenal and work as a coach alongside Arteta. He has indicated that the postponment of the European Championship means that his international career is likely to be over at 35. If there is one footballer in last 10 years who I would choose to come in as a coach factoring his personality, professionalism and football talent it would be Cazorla. I think that a partnership between Arteta and Cazorla would be a major plus for the… Read more »
Sure Marc but the bacteria tests aren’t available yet. When they are it will provide an invaluable picture going forward and with tracking and tracing we’ll be able to get much closer to a more normal life until a vaccine comes out. Until we know how many people have been infected it’s dangerous/ foolhardy to open up society too much, otherwise we could be back under serious lockdown for another chunk of time if we get another spike. Let’s not forget that the NHS workers must be running on fumes about now and to allow another jump in hospital cases… Read more »
ES, it’s a yes from me too. Santi should always be welcome even if he isn’t German!
Bob
I never said it’s an easy situation and my point has been too many unknowns.
Do you think Pedro would ban me for doing the Rumsfeld Known unkowns quote?
Emirates
Agree 100% on Santi – one of the things I liked about him most – he played with a smile on his face, as much as it’s about winning and professionalism it should never be forgotten that football should be enjoyed as well.
Did you ever see his kid play in the kick about after the last home match of the season? Ball was waist high on him first time and he was still amazing on the ball!
Santi and Dennis back at the club we would be humming.
dave
A living God at the club – could go with that as long as none of the idiots start calling for him to be manager.
Have not got the foggiest why MA chose Round as his assistant.
Dennis, Santi, Kolo. He had a blank canvas.
But Steve Round?
Round. A total looser.
just look at that CV and weep.
“ruthless” my Arse!
Marc, just looked up the Rumsfeld quote. Clear as mud!
Erring on the side of caution is not that surprising . The sword of Damocles is above Johnson’s head!
“As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
Marc – Rumsfeld quote is Rorschach test, some people think statement is important, don’t get too cocky, but others think it gibberish.
I long believe it is terrific idea to keep in mind, don’t convince yourselves that you know everything because there is good chance that you don’t.
I disagree about a lot of things with Rumsfeld, but not this quote. A lot people think he was trying to be clever when in fact he was trying to explain knowledge in generic term. In every walk of walk life that quote is useful. Basically it tell us that whatever you are planning, (scientific experiment, business planning, medical testing, etc), things coming from left field can happen and you should be aware of it. Keeping an open mind to be able to handle the unexpected and be able to react on your feet is a prerequisite of any good… Read more »