CB Fry

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.

Alan Pardew has just been sacked by his Dutch club. In fairness he hasn't won a match for weeks.

Mark Paul.

Scott Bevan.

Shayne Bradley.

Kevin Gibbens.

Edit: I knew I should have checked.

Belt up and start guessing. Ian Andrews.

Total deaths (all locations) graph now looking like the UK striking out on own vs France/Spain/Italy. This is literally the truth catching up with the government.

Back in business today. Absolute fox.

It's odd they made such a thing of that: I'm no expert but latex gloves like that come in boxes like tissue boxes right? They're not all nicely paired up like they would be in the clothing section of a garden centre.

Bravo. I didn't even know he played in the Netherlands.