Jimmy_D

How has he changed his mind on that!?

The actual rule is below the level of the armpit, if the arm is down by the player’s side. They’d never base it on the shirt because that can shift and move, as well as be different lengths. Not to mention some players play in long sleeves. https://www.premierleague.com/news/1820123

Ah, sorry to hear that, hope you and your family get well soon Badger

That's actually specifically banned. https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-4---the-players-equipment A megaphone, however, I'm really not sure whether any rule deals with that.

It's definitely a vaccine, and intended to be one, but it's still a little too early to tell for certain if it's completely having the intended effect. It really does look promising so far, but unfortunately, there's nothing we can do except wait for more data to come through, and hope that news about it provides all the context of exactly what's been found so far and where it is.

Basically it comes down to us still not knowing enough about COVID-19. Or rather, what we do know meaning we can't make assumptions about what the vaccine is doing. We know there's evidence that COVID-19 can infect asymptomatically, and be transmitted by those it's infected asymptomatically. We also know it's possible for COVID-19 to reinfect people who have been infected before. However, we don't know what causes the difference in severity of symptoms. At this point, we're not certain, because it's not possible to be certain, whether the vaccine is actually preventing infection completely, or is simply causing a difference in severity of symptoms.

At this point it's not known whether it's preventing infection entirely, or making asymptomatic cases that would otherwise have been symptomatic. The entire point of the vaccine is to produce antibodies that would act against the virus, so everyone appears as if they've been infected, and it's not possible to tell the difference at the moment, hence this being an interim result. Don't get me wrong, it's very VERY promising, but it's not absolutely certain that this is 'it' just yet.

Ah, that's a big caveat... Unknown yet whether it prevents transmission, which is what would be required to get the benefit of herd immunity from the vaccine. Just have to wait and see on that one.

Hah, probably a bit late to jump on the Pfizer bandwagon now. The good thing about a vaccination programme, though, is that everyone benefits from increasing herd immunity as it rolls out. It's one of the 6 vaccines the UK had backed in advance, which is also a positive for us.

90% really is promising if that holds up. It'd bring the r rate well below one once enough people are vaccinated. That would put us back on a path that'd allow us to start getting back to normal.

Don’t worry, they’ll have to put us front and centre with the trophy next season

I’d imagine that probably helped. Unfortunately we don’t have that to help us at the moment, which is partly the reason they’ve chosen to impose the lockdown again.

The rate of increase has been slowing. That means it’s still increasing, which eventually will overwhelm the NHS. The local measures have been helping, but unfortunately not enough. Full lockdown last time worked to reverse the rate of infection (bringing r below 1) and unfortunately that’s needed again.

Or not!

Ooof... Palace are not a team you want to go behind early in the game. Be interesting to see if Leeds c... oh... guess they can lol

And now I can safely set Match of the Day up to record!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_five_live Go back to 14.27 and listen for a minute

We’re top! And not just because we played early on the Friday now!

That’s probably the reason they were able to prise their current manager, with his excellent track record and managerial reputation, from his previous job.

Depends how much a manager believes expectation exceeds ability at Man Utd now. That job has been a poisoned chalice ever since Fergie left.

United 2-1 up now. Unless Everton score twice we’ll be top on Match of the Day

Haha! Just occasionally, my cursed posts can be weaponised

Well, at least we’re a more attractive team for a manager at the moment than Man Utd. Utter shambles there at the moment, have to say I’ll be gutted if we end up finishing below them the way things are going.

Just think, all those years of hoping for a big result on the opening day of the season so we could get to see Saints top of the Premier League, and we've finally managed it in a season where we lost the first two games

We’re top of the league... We’re top of the league.... We are Southampton... We’re top of the league!