Jimmy_D

Could go either way, it would be a huge hit to morale, but it could also turn him into a martyr, especially with the story of how he came to power in the first place, and the way he's stayed to fight when he could have fled. Hopefully we don't have to find out.

It's not like they turn the engine off if they have to stop and fight. If they're fuelled as far as they can go, and use up that fuel, and the supply line that's supposed to refuel them is stopped by the enemy, it's not like they could have done anything differently themselves. You could call it incompetence to underestimate the resistance they'd face and not secure their supply lines better I guess. Failing to secure the airports severely hampered them. They'll be a key target and it'll be far more difficult for Ukraine in areas where Russia manage to secure airports.

So it's tanks on the shortest route from the border to Kyiv that have been reported as running out of fuel then?

A quick Google tells me Russian tanks have a fuelled range of 150-250 miles, so fuel supply was always going to be needed. As far as I can tell, they went in expecting Kyiv to fall within 24-48 hours, and resistance to crumble after that. They weren't expecting a slog and it seems that they overextended, with attacks stretching further than supply lines could reach, and resistance successfully cutting off supply lines better than expected.

It's not the entire invasion being halted, just reports of a few units that have ended up isolated from expected fuel supplies, probably due to successful attacks on supply lines.

Russia were expecting to have control of airspace by now. Failing to secure that, so far, has cut off a huge proportion of the supplies they were expecting to be able to deliver to their forces. On top of that they've faced more resistance and been bogged down in more fighting than they were expecting. Russia still have superior forces, and are likely to be able to overwhelm Ukraine's defence eventually, but it seems to only be Putin that really wants this war. If Ukraine can keep holding out, they've got a chance of Putin being forced to give up one way or another.

Would have taken this weekend of results if you offered it to me beforehand

*West Ham goal Dawson scored against Leicester.

Indeed. I guess it's at least consistent with the Leicester goal scored with the 'shoulder'? Looked like a handball to me though.

Roman Abramovich gives trustees Chelsea 'stewardship' - BBC Sport

Wow, extremely lucky to get away with that.

Hm, I think that actually should be a penalty. Ridiculous, I don't know what he was thinking.

What was that defending?

Burnley and Watford both managing to squeeze out a point today, I’d be surprised if Everton don’t drop into the relegation zone with the run of fixtures they’ve got. A lot will come down to how they react to that.

I had Burnley as relegation certs a few weeks ago, looking pretty unlikely now to me.

As I say that... Son and Kane breaking the record for combining for goals is mightily impressive, especially as it’s not at one of the clubs regularly competing for the title.

This should be about 5-3 this half alone. Shocking finishing on display.

Leeds right in it now, bad luck on top of leaking goals that badly...

It’s not just Chelsea. The funds behind Everton seem to be in danger of being affected by sanctions. Also to a lesser extent Newcastle, that’s probably just down to PIF having a wide portfolio of investments, something was probably going to be hit.

Shots blocked by defenders don’t go in either.

Two great goals for different reasons. Adams reacting extremely quickly in the way he did to take that chance, and Romeu with one of the cleanest and sweetest hits of a football you'll see all season. Romeu MotM for me, but only just in front of Salisu and KWP. One of the most comfortable wins we've had since, uh, Everton at home?

Getting bogged down in a drawn out war would be a disaster for Putin, I think he might have been caught slightly off guard by the level of resistance that's been shown. He's been appealing to the Ukraine military to overthrow the govornment too.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549

The USA is already sending more forces to NATO countries and pledging to fulfil its article 5 obligations.

So we should base whether we honour treaties on whether we think Putin is nuts enough to directly attack a nuclear power with the ‘Moscow Criterion’ as part of its Nuclear Policy?