adrian lord

Relegation beckons.

I guess it is really lucky we haven't got anything else really serious to worry about. I mean, like if Putin had amassed 100,000 troops at the border, poised to invade Ukraine, with China watching the West's reaction and weighing up when to do the same with Taiwan.

This Pass thing is brilliant. I'm looking forward to Climate Emergency Passes. The selfish, antisocial swines who haven't gone vegan, got electric cars, solar panels, and ground source heating should be excluded from society, humiliated and interned in camps. Then exterminated.

Omicron looks like it is hyper-infectious but hypo-virulent. As such it is probably going to be the end stage, run-out variant, transitioning from pandemic status to a background endemic coronavirus, just like the common cold.

But the unvaccinated chose that path and presumably are happy with the risks. It is their personal responsibility. Any who are not vaxxed but worried about the risk then they can choose to stay at home and not expose themselves to other unvaxxed at the football match. If you are vaxxed then you are at minimal risk of serious Covid illness and again can take adult personal responsibility for choosing whether to attend or not.

Can someone explain what risk unvaccinated people would pose to the vaccinated at a football match, and why?

There aren't many moments of euphoria supporting Saints these days.

A handkerchief, perhaps?

Bloke on Sky said Arse should have had a pen in first 3 mins.

Similarly I cannot bear Everton but the second disallowed “offside” goal is completely against the spirit of the game even if the VAR officials think they can see a couple of millimetres positioning difference. The defender was several yards away.

Norwich Watford Burnley to go down.

Idiot. I was referring to the Ref

Every game the same pattern

V 10 men to boot

FFS

Clueless baldie

This half is dragging

Great stuff Tella

Excellent

New Statesman? Don't make me laugh! That's the Speccie of the hard left. Gibb was appointed precisely because of the bias I described, in order to address it at Board level. He will still find himself drowning in a sea of lachrymose Remoaner tears gushing from the dewy-eyed, pronoun-toting Guardianistas as they choke on their granola. 😘 https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/bbc-chief-mark-thompson-admits-leftwing-bias-6509105.html https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/21/john-humphrys-attacks-bbcs-liberal-bias-days-after-retiring-from-radio-4

In the opinion of a far-left Sociology lecturer at Aston University, on an obscure far-left activist website.

Indeed. There remain islands of excellence at the BBC but it is a sorry shadow of the colossus that once bestrode broadcasting across the globe. The problem with the BBC News and current affairs output in particular, is that it is all produced, directed, researched and presented by a workforce from a very narrow, navel-gazing self-appointed elite echelon of Metropolitan society. All with the same set of left of centre political views. An incredibly unrepresentative, homogenous workforce recruited almost entirely from the careers pages of the Guardian, or nepotism. This has led to a myopic, arrogant, patrician culture of "we know what is best for you" and this has severely compromised their impartiality. The bias was perhaps an unconscious process initially, but since 2016 has been increasingly widespread, less subtle and premeditated.

It has - but perhaps not in the way I think you mean. Covid - the governmental and societal response to it - has led to the fetishisation of health and the NHS, elevating it to a pseudo religion, and spawning a mawkish, voyeuristic health fascism which apparently now seems to require the match to be stopped every time a person gets taken ill in the stands.

3rd game in as many days suspended due to apparent medical emergencies in the stands. Why does the game need to stop? It is a disproportionate response. And no, it is not disrespectful, nor callous to carry on. Suspending play only serves to focus the crowd's attention on the casualty and compromise their dignity and confidentiality still further. With 10s of thousands of attendees at games, medical emergencies and events such as epileptic fits are simply going to be very common. If fans cotton on that a "collapse" now apparently mandates interrupting a game, and so potentially allow a losing team to regroup for 15-20 minutes in the dressing room, and simultaneously wreck the momentum of the term in the ascendancy, then you can bet some clown will fake it.

Clearly, the songbook needs re-writing. Here's a start: "Can you see us, can you see us, can you see us holding hands?"