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Here’s hoping that wasn’t too bad

At least PPV games have made looking forward to MotD a thing again! As things stand, we’re actually in a title battle

500-1 is probably decent value, but you're looking at finding and making hundreds of bets of that sort of value before you start seeing a return. The time you need to invest to have a decent chance of making money usually means it's not worth it in the end. That said, imagine we actually go and win the bloody thing and you had £10 at those odds

Pretty close to a complete performance! Comfortable win and Everton restricted to a handful of half chances. Our ball retention and pressing was especially effective today. On top of that we looked dangerous every time we went forward.

The point is that teams that normally get shown on sky are paying far less to watch the same number of games for the exact same product. Yes, it’s a replacement for games that wouldn’t normally be shown, but going to games to watch them literally isn’t an option at the moment. Sky are taking advantage of a monopoly gifted to them by a global pandemic to charge far more than they would for any other game, prices comparable to going to the games themselves, and it fans of the less fashionable clubs that are being disproportionately affected.

See Crystal Palace have 5 games in a row on PPV, including today. Absolutely shafting fans of the teams that don’t get shown on TV almost every week.

With the players Everton have out, as long as we play anywhere near how we did in the second half against Chelsea, I'm expecting us to win this one fairly comfortably.

So looks like the 'founder' members of the league won't be relegated for 20 years. In effect, a closed shop for the next two decades... can't say that I'd be that interested in watching a league that stale.

Depends on whether it's a competition you have to qualify for. If it is, it's more or less replacing the Champions League. That's not a move I'd be a fan of, but it likely wouldn't change much beyond the music used at the start of the match.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12109174/european-premier-league-liverpool-and-manchester-united-in-talks-for-fifa-backed-tournament Looks more like FIFA are trying to replace the Champions League and have them in charge of a competition rather than UEFA. Doesn't look like it's about replacing domestic competitions, not yet anyway. Does feel like that much European club football would interfere with the domestic leagues though, I suspect that was the motivation behind the drive of Project Big Picture to reduce the number of teams to 18.

Out for the season is probably the best case scenario for Liverpool. Obviously he’ll have the best treatment available, but even so, it’s possibly career threatening.

Ouch. VvD needs surgery on his ACL, likely out for the season.

What a way to finish it! Unbelievable game.

Spurs defence, however....

Have to say Spurs attack is quite something to watch this season.

The actual rule is below the level of the armpit if the arms are down by the sides. Looks like it should have been overturned, albeit a fairly close call.

Oh man.... What a finish! Can’t help but feel that game would have been amazing to be in the ground for though...

Had absolutely no chance of flying that one. Part of what's good about the current voting structure is that it stops daft ideas like that one. I guess they'll start talking about a European breakaway league again now. The chance of a European breakaway league was already pretty remote and an empty threat before COVID. Between the risk of legal ramifications over player registration, financial risk of getting it off the ground, and the fans simply not wanting it, not to mention the additional complication of keeping COVID secure a league that's creating travel all over Europe every week... it'll remain an empty threat for the foreseeable future.

I think they've looked at people having a few extra quid from not going to games and based the pricing on undercutting that. They've forgotten that everyone's been getting those games for nothing extra for months, and that watching games on TV even when the atmosphere on there isn't like a training game is a crap experience compared to being at the match. Never mind that most people are looking at where they can reduce spending at the moment, on top of that, this just encourages people to group together to watch and split the cost. That's a fantastic idea during a global pandemic

Solent are about to get the highest listening numbers they've had for a while.

Great showing by Ings capped off by a fantastic goal. Really nice showing by JWP off the bench too. Obviously it wouldn't have been playing for us, but you have to wonder how good Ings would have been without the injuries...

So do you want everyone to pretend that masks don't help, so that you don't have to wear one? Or do you want footballers to stop playing football, despite taking a different route to reducing risk? Or do you want footballers to start playing football with masks on?

He might not have ended up being what we wanted him to be for us, but if nothing else he gave us an absolute gem of a goal.

There's no need for the (sic) as it's an American video. The 50% isn't pulled out of thin air, it's what university studies have shown the effectiveness of a basic cotton mask to be based on studies of relative infection rates, after any other effects have also taken effect, for example feeling safer. https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/set-c/set-c-facemasks.pdf?la=en-GB&hash=A22A87CB28F7D6AD9BD93BBCBFC2BB24 Of course there are other ways that it can be transmitted, and you should be taking precautions against those too, basic hand washing and avoiding touching your face for a start. That doesn't mean you should ignore the effectiveness of wearing a mask. Anyone choosing to ignore that at this point is just putting themselves and others at unnecessary risk, and being pretty selfish to be honest.

Anyone that has any doubts about the effectiveness of masks, and why it's important to wear one, should watch this.