CB Fry

We can only conclude that Duckie believes this is the very first time in human history that any public body has ever covered anything up.

And how did you manage to catastrophise that into 800,000 people on the streets of Liverpool?

Indeed. "Excellent for behind-closed-door matches during a global pandemic" is never the first thing on my list of requirements for a football stadium. But the Bet365 stadium could yet have its finest hour. But Stoke is also good from a connectivity perspective - you could easily see the North west clubs playing there.

Indeed. "Excellent for behind-closed-door matches during a global pandemic" is never the first thing on my list of requirements for a football stadium. But Stoke is also good from a connectivity perspective - you could easily see the North west clubs playing there.

What if, just after the kick off, a coach full of London based Liverpool fans crashed their coach into Buckingham Palace, setting the building alight and burning the Queen to death in the ensuing inferno? You're right let's cancel everything forever.

Pride Park would be an excellent choice - a ground that would be pretty easy to isolate from any groups of fans as not particularly close to any residential areas.

If only we'd built Stoneham we would be in prime position to host a behind closed doors match between Chelsea and Bournemouth. Absolutely sickening that Rupert Lowe did not plan ahead.

Which is exactly what will happen in the real world. When any data is compiled by the actual people conducting the tests, the data will only show real completed tests vs the positive results. I guess someone somewhere will track tests sent vs tests returned but that's of limited interest. Save it for the public enquiry when we find out the Tories splammed a load of tests to people on the electoral roll or on the Conservative Party mailing list to get the numbers up on April 30th.

He's dun the test target he has. Hancock currently going through his Oscar acceptance speech about it.

Yes. I only remember the date now because about 15 years later my daughter was born that same day, and I noticed the link a couple of years back. So Le Tissier's performance now only the second best thing that ever happened on that day.

Early nineties, tail end of Branfoot to Alan Ball era. Fan power in the protests which as a 15 year old was brilliant to be involved in, the Ball resurgence was miraculous and one of the rare moments that a new manager bounce really worked. Ronnie freakin Ekelund. And still standing at the Dell and rolling around the Milton end when a goal went in. I had Saturday job so only went on evenings and Sundays but luckily significant things happened sometimes (Sunday October 24 1993 i was there, and Crossley saving MLT's pen must have been an evening match too). Great days. I wish I was young.

We would never have done that: for one the fanbase would be in deranged meltdown (sleeping on the job/dithering/caught napping/clueless/amatuers/give the man what we wants/etc). Two, it would have dominated every press conference and post-match for months. And for three the club would not have ceded that much power to the manager. So he would have signed a 1 year rolling contract, signed the deal we offered (or a similar one) or left. And he left.

It is but I dispute the last sentence.

And to think that there are literally thousands of Guido Fawkes supporting free market libertarians working right across the front line of the heath and social care sector. It's amazing they didn't speak to them about how brilliantly everything's going and why don't we privatise it all like what the Institute of Economic Affairs say we should. Lots of big fans of Mark Littlewood in the palliative care community.

Ooooh if it's him I'll be right mad I missed it.

Fair enough didn't read that opening post - it wasn't linked to any news report and I hadn't heard that anywhere else, just hearsay. They obviously will not do that because it would be utterly mental. There's no need to do them all at St George's Park. But I guess they might reorder some matches to minimize some travel. And playing some at training grounds might make sense: the MCFC one is pretty much a conference level stadium already. But I think they will be played at the stadiums because the broadcast infrastructure will already be there.

I just looked at a squad from the 1970s and picked a name I recognised (only for the very sad reasons). But he was a full back in the days of yards. Steve Mills.

I'm a bit bewildered by these threads. Fair play if some people genuinely haven't left the house for six weeks but for the rest of us there have been people working at factories, warehouses, shops for the entire time. All of them almost all the time working closer together than a groundsman, a press photographer and a TV production manager would be in a freaking football stadium on a behind closed doors match day.

Why would you aggregate it up to include all the separate stadiums together, that makes no sense whatsoever. There wont be anything like 500 people in one stadium, that's absolutely hysterical. By the time football restarts every garden centre, DIY shop, florist and hairdressers in the country will be open. How many hundreds of people will that be. I'll give you clue: you won't be able to count it in hundreds. It's the players, officials and physios who won't be able to socially distance. Everyone else would be able to.

That is absolute disingenuous bullsh it from Koeman, as was obvious to everyone at the time. We were never going to let him go into his final season running his contract down, it would have been utter madness and people like you would have been moaning like hell about why we were "dithering" and not tying him down earlier etc etc. His stock was as high as it had ever been and he got a great offer. From us. And then Everton offered more. The bizarre thing is there is no evidence that if he'd have stayed that we would have been on some unstoppable march to the Champions League. He was absolutely dogsh it at Everton and spunked money on garbage. With more power at SFC he could have been equally dreadful in subsequent seasons.

500 people?

Which is kind of my point. I was wearing it because I had too and it was dished out as I went through our reception. But no guidance on how to put it on etc. When I've been in the supermarket I see people walking around with filthy looking ones, clearly re-wearing the same one over and over. I just think the government have it about right on this. I think the negligible benefits of masks are likely outweighed by the level of effective application causingmore harm than good. I just don't think people will wear them correctly (like me) and at the same time then walk around like they are invincible because they have one on. Needless to say, once Asda can get consistent stock levels to make a few quid on, they'll be everywhere whatever the government say.

I had to go into my place of work today, only the second time in six weeks. So lucky me I got to wear a face mask for the first time. Fair to say I don't think I have ever touched my face more, spent the whole time with glasses steamed up and uncomfortable to the point of feeling utterly counterproductive. And I was only in the office for a task that took 90 mins or so that I couldn't do from home. The poor buggers in the office/plant every day are wearing them all day. For the marginal gain the experts say they deliver, I remain unconvinced it is a sustainable solution for the general public.

Raymond Wallace.

I preferred this game in the good old days before the money men ruined it.