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Joe Lewis lives in the Bahamas and owns over twice as many shares in ENIC as Levy and his family. He is more than filthy rich.

But if you have already developed heart disease exercise is essential to some sort of recovery.

Long shots foreshortened through a telephoto lens. Hardly a large social gathering.

Oh yes. When I was in hospital for 13 nights my muscles had wasted away. Regular exercise and fresh air and sunshine are vitally important.

Jamie Carragher as reported in The Sunday Times. “Former defender Jamie Carragher said the club had lost “respect” by implementing the move which affects non-playing staff, believed to be around 200 people, although the club has said they will ensure that employees are paid 100 per cent of their salaries“ In February, Liverpool announced profits of £42 million (£33 million after tax) for the year ending May 2019, while turnover increased by £78 million to £533 million. The club also spent £43.8 million on agents’ fees between February 2018 and the end of January 2019. Carragher was among the first to criticise the decision, which feels both premature and at odds with what Liverpool purportedly stand for. “Jürgen Klopp showed compassion for all at the start of this pandemic, senior players heavily involved in @premierleague players taking wage cuts,” he tweeted. “Then all that respect & goodwill is lost, poor this @LFC.”

Legally, perhaps, but from the future business point of view it would be disastrous. Personally I would prefer a refund but in extremis I might accept an equivalent credit towards the next season.

Most air freight is flown on passenger aircraft.

You might find this table from The Times interesting. Our ‘net worth’ at £3.1 be is higher than Liverpool’s at £2.2bn. There must be some debt in there somewhere. Premier League clubs’ owners and net worth Arsenal S Kroenke (US) £7.2bn Aston Villa N Sawiris (Egypt) £5.3bn Bournemouth M Demin (Russ) £100m Brighton T Bloom (Eng) £1.3bn Burnley M Garlick (Eng) £62m Chelsea R Abramovich (Russ) £10.2bn Crystal Palace J Harris (US), D Blitzer (US), S Parrish (Eng) £4.2bn Everton F Moshiri (Iran) £1.6bn Leicester Srivaddhanaprabha family (Thai) £4.9bn Liverpool J W Henry (US) £2.2bn Man City Sheikh Mansour (UAE) £24.7bn Man Utd Glazer family (US) £3.6bn Newcastle M Ashley (Eng) £2.4bn Norwich D Smith/M Wynn-Jones (Eng/Wales) £23m Sheff Utd Prince A bin Musaad (Saudi Arabia) £198m Southampton G Jisheng (China) £3.1bn Tottenham J Lewis (Eng) £4.1bn Watford G Pozzo (It) £93m West Ham D Sullivan/D Gold (Eng) £1.2bn Wolves G Guangchang (China) £5.5bn

You are absolutely right, but it has always been morally abhorrent yet nothing has been done to change that. Perhaps players’ contracts should have a clause in relating to unexpected serious interruption to the playing schedule.

The money that has been sloshing around is quite frankly obscene.

No I don’t, but this is really under a general discussion of taxation and incomes. In my view it is down to the players as a whole to take a big hit and put something back into the club that has made them so wealthy.

Do you mean ‘loses less money’?

It’s those who are furloughed that get the money, not the people at the top.

In The Times today: TOP SCORERS Players Premier League best paid: Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) and Mesut Özil (Arsenal) are on about £350,000 per week or £18.2m a year Premier League average wage: About £65,000 a week or £3.4m a year Championship average wage: About £15,000 a week or £780,000 a year League One average wage: About £2,000 a week or £104,000 a year Non-playing staff Secretary at a Premier League club: About £35,000 a year Media staff: About £32,000 a year Junior coach for academy players aged about 18: About £50,000 a year

Just remember that it’s not the rich that are receiving the money but the poor bloody workers.

Yep, this season is over and already forgotten. Liverpool have earned my respect but not my sympathy.

Nor the Olympics

That’s a good point. The transfer window would be negated and lead to unfair teams.

It’s because there are plenty of other things to do over the summer and sod all in the winter

School holidays, summer holidays and what the flipping heck are you going to between October and February? Football is a winter sport.

What was wrong with a mask?

The Times today quoted Pulis as saying that the players will need three weeks of training on grass before they can play again. Why should anybody have to accommodate Liverpool? Let me put it like this. If the there were four teams all within a couple of points at the top would anybody care about Liverpool?

We didn’t.

The only consolation is that if the BDA is successful then her furlough could be backdated. I hope all goes well for you both, and that goes for all our contributors everywhere.

More info for Trousers about dentists: https://bda.org/advice/Coronavirus/Pages/financial-impact.aspx "The scheme is not expected to be used by employers who are receiving other public funding, including NHS dental practices. We are urgently trying to work out a way of ensuring that mixed practices can get some money from the furloughed workers scheme to cover private work, as well as money from the NHS." And: Backdating to the 1st March only applies to employees that have already been laid off. Such workers would need to be rehired and then furloughed. Employees placed on unpaid leave after 28 February 2020 can be furloughed.