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Once for me as well. Horrendous. I was young and super fit and have never been so ill. Hospital several times inc coronary care unit, and a throat so inflamed it warranted a biopsy. Hideous stuff and I've made sure I have the vaccine every year as a result. Your timing was better than mine, every cloud etc.

Ha!! True story Whitey 🤣

I doubt many on here have ever had actual flu or know people that have. What people call flu isn't. When you've had actual flu, you know about it, and cab understand how it can kill and why it needs an annual vaccine.

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It may have been me. His asset is running from deep and dragging us up the field. For me, that gets nullified by him starting 30 yards up field, and in a position that's alien to him. That said, I reckon he could do a job up and I wouldn't mind seeing it, especially in a 4141 where the wide men have a different role.

Sure covid will be grim for some, but I'm not sure what you're advocating should be done. We can't lock away the majority to protect the minority. Life is going on for the masses, and quite rightly too. That should apply to sport too. Sure, businesses, services, infrastructure, etc are creaking because of Covid but they're getting on with it. Football clubs, managers and players should look at that, stop moaning, and follow suit. With that all said, I hope that you and your wife will be OK.

Self isolation is one part of it. It's very easy to say that players are too unwell to play. Newcastle may be playing with a straight bat, but I suspect they're milking the system.

I saw that 7 out with covid comment, then saw that squad, and couldn't join the dots. It's bollox to suggest that they have 7 first team players unavailable with covid. He's someone who likes a moan, worst in the league by a mile.

You boys seem to struggle with the concept of a forum.

If course, but if a man likes a challenge and has money to burn...personally, I see more appeal in pushing for top places here than fighting PSG for top dog status in Ligue 1. It'd arguably cost more to do that than fund a top 6 push here.

For me it's whether he sees value /any point in trying to take Nice from 2nd to competing with PSG. It'd cost a fortune and he may see acquiring us as a better use of his cash.

Well that ties him more to the area, and yes, he's moved out of the shadows for sure. I won't count my chickens, but stranger things than this have happened.

Indeed. He also had a look at Newcastle and ruled out a premier league club for the "foreseeable future" as he wanted to build up Nice. I'd hazard a guess that he's taken them as far as he can without chucking daft cash at them to compete with PSG, but where's the global attraction of being France best team? The Prem has more appeal for sure. He's been trying to get planning on that house for ages and I'm not sure where he's at with that, but he certainly has an affinity with with area and has called his yachts Hampshire 1 and 2. Ineos/Ratcliffe would be very good news.

Due diligence and prep for a deal like this would have been done well in advance. The actual process of transferring shares/creating new holding companies/moving money around isn' a complex one. If it's happening now, the lawyers and accountants will have been on standby and draft docs will have been circulated ready to go. The timing ain't an issue.

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Can't see it. They're a huge brand worldwide already, and I can't see what's in it for them commercially by paying £125m+ to buy us and tens of millions a year to improve us.

I agree entirely - saying that someone is playing the keeper not the ball because he has his back to him is very dumb. That was my point.

Sad that you have to get arsey when someone has a different view to you. It wasn't a foul. You think otherwise. I'll end the discussion there mate. Enjoy your afternoon.

Nor did one of their players. He dropped it, nothing to do with their player. The point on our defenders is that someone said that Doherty must have been playing Fraser not the ball cos he had his back to him. Our defender also had his back to him. The point being that having your back to a player doesn't mean that you're playing the man not the ball. Simple point to anyone who has any understanding of how to play the game.

You're confusing playing and getting. He played the ball, fraser dropped it, they collided. I can't believe that little Doherty went looking for a collision with big Fraser - crazy notion!

Was our defender also fouling Forster being as he was also near him with his back to him? Assuming you've watched it, did he drop it before or after contact was made?

Bingo, and some of those saying that they were never goals, were also complaining about Spurs bias. We got more rub of the green than they did.

In that screenshot, our defender also had his back to the goal. Presumably that must mean he was also playing the keeper not the ball?

That makes as much sense as saying that Forster was jumping into him. They were both playing the ball which Forster dropped. Never a foul.

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