CB Fry

And? That's the whole point of the government's strategy - it's highly infectious so once it goes into a household, everyone in that household is very vulnerable. Do you think Dr Harries was suggesting everyone should pile on a train or a bus to get away from their disease ridden homes?

I think it is reasonable to assume that some shortcuts will be taken.

I think it's great that at today's press conference the journalists have stopped demanding to hear details of the easing of restrictions ("why are you treating the British public like children") to complaining that the British people are now confused because some details of the easing of restrictions has been revealed ("why have you hinted at that at the beginning of the sunny bank holiday weekend"?) Sheesh.

I can't remember the content. However, Nikki Kanani the Director of Primary Care for NHS England was great.

Press conference absolutely exceptional today.

All we ask for is to be entertained, win or lose.

All clubs don't need to agree in fairness. The Premier League works on a defined majority voting system - can't remember exactly but it'll be 14 or 16 clubs that need to agree for it to carry.

Crash, bang, wallop. I've heard he's interested. Back of the net.

Once the estate agents get involved putting ideas in their heads it's difficult for arable land like that to remain focused.

I find it difficult to believe that the club would have let one of the most prized chunks of real estate in the northern hemisphere slip through their fingers.

10/10.

Announcement on Tuesday, all being well.

Switzerland is the home of the Toblerone after all.

Ooof. That's awful. Get well soon.

Maik Taylor was a forces child and was born in Germany but there must be someone since then, surely?

Le Tissier is Shearer's mate and Ian Wright was full of praise and was raving about his best goals video. Matty got plenty of airtime on the programme last night too.

Just to recap, you described a few behind closed doors football matches as "the most high risk activity you can think of" in the context of this crisis and then said you were fine with 40,000 hairdressers opening up serving millions of people in villages towns and cities all over the country. You don't understand anything about what is happening. Don't worry about it.

But the only person showing an emotional reaction is you. I don't think football is going to restart because I "give a sh it" about football, its because it would be an appropriate thing to do in the correct stage of a reduction of lockdown. Personally I I don't give a sh it about hairdressers. You are the only person making emotional, personal subjective judgements about who is allowed to be responsible for Covid deaths: someone connected to one of the 40,000 hairdressers fine, someone connected to professional sport not fine. Clear. But you realise that the opposite it also true in the boundaries you have drawn up. Single parent hairdresser has your permission to work to put food their table but the children of local journalist in Newcastle writing about Newcastle United, or a social media exec working for Burnley can fu ck off and starve. Clear.

Earlier up this thread you were complaining about other people making "false equivalences" and getting jolly upset. But yeah, well done on a really good point about, er, a Polo tournament at Eton. I think we all get it. You're absolutely hysterical.

We're going round in circles because you don't understand how this virus actually works. Once you've opened up every single hairdressers in Britain, once you've decided to take that risk - which you are quite happy with - then the additional risk of putting on some football matches behind closed doors is statistically jack sh it. There are millions of people in and out of hairdressers and garden centres and DIY shops and bookshops but that's all fine as long as you can make some "principles" point about an activity involving only hundreds of people, not millions and millions of people. Crystal clear. Your only actual objection to Premier League football is money is evil and TV companies are evil and the owners are evil and football is evil. But all of this was exactly the same three months ago. So maybe ask yourself what are you doing on a Premier League football club fans forum and supporting such an industry that you seem to object to so much?

But pumping out entertainment into people's homes can encourage them to stay at home. That is part of the thinking behind getting football back up and running. The government are supporting activities like this for that reason. It's a bit strange people don't understand that.

I think it's pretty dangerous to accuse others of false equivalence when you have said that some behind closed doors football matches is the highest risk activity you can think of in relation to this virus, especially when the things you are prepared to support (millions of different people going to the hairdressers) is unequivocally, statistically, epidemiologically and in absolute terms massively much more of a risk.

I've got contacts involved in this deal and I am hearing that Denis Bergkamp is only interested because of Jackson's Farm, while Koeman had been badgering the council about structural improvements to Western Esplanade for years and has decided this is the only way to make them really listen.

Someone calling a few behind closed doors football matches "the highest risk activity there is" deserves to be patronised. All I think is that the current lockdown measures will not remain in place completely the same as now for the entirety of the month of June, and that the lifting of restrictions will not be determined by waiting for zero people to be dying of Coronavirus. Things are a little bit more complicated than that.

That's funny I don't recall anyone, anywhere, at all, saying that the easing of restrictions should "start" with Premier League football matches. Do show me who has suggested this. I'm not saying we should "crack on" with anything sweetheart. But it is interesting you have quite a blasè attitude about 40,000 locations of hairdressers, let's say 4 staff per outlet, 10 customers a day six days a week - millions of people, all touching each other, every day. But yeah, you seem super glib about that. Coupla masks, bit of distancing, splash of disinfectant. No probs. There's not going to be any variation in standards there, that's for sure. Compare that to a few locations in the country where 50 people, all tested in a controlled and highly monitored environment, plus a supporting workforce smaller than a typical garden centre, an Amazon warehouse or food factory that could all socially distance just as well as a hairdresser in Barnsley can. I think you can criticize parts of the government's approach without going into hysterical meltdown about some behind closed doors football matches being played at an appropriate time once restrictions are lifted. It's not "the highest risk activity there is". Jesus effing wept.