benjii

Why the hell are we dealing in terms of “guidance”? This is a natural disaster causing death, long term illness and ruining the economy and the longer it drags on, the worse it will be. That’s not hyperbole. This has caused more deaths than any earthquake, flood or storm in modern history and its results are more widespread and wide-reaching. If people shouldn’t travel for exercise, make that a law. If someone isn’t wearing a mask properly, hit them with a material fine. Have checkpoints ensuring people out and about have a reason to be out and about. Pass appropriate laws and enforce them strictly. Pissing around with “guidance”, coupled with the hypocrisy of people like Cummings, is one of the reasons why people still aren’t taking this seriously enough. I’m not generally in favor of big government but this scenario - complex system, large numbers, relatively small immediate personal risk for most people but very large societal risk - is exactly where a government can add tremendous value.

The slightly unnerving thing about this whole Trump episode is the reminder that a nasty, divisive, corrupt, criminal, megalomaniac, psychopath can get elected to President of a powerful country if they play the right tune. Luckily, this time the guy who did it was an absolute fuckwit mess of an individual; a witless, charmless, desperate, incoherent, fool. But cannier nutjobs will have taken note.

Putin must be pissing himself laughing. What a masterstroke. Imagine getting a compromised, financially dependent dementia patient elected as president of your biggest rival and him managing to convince half of his country (and various other useful idiots around the globe) that extremism is the way forwards.

The Bell end. (RIP etc.)

That's a fucking Jan Poortvliet bench.

Yep, this is incompetence on a grand scale and has been since the start. They are afraid to do anything difficult until there's not really any choice, by which time the best time to do the thing in question has long passed. Weak messaging, lax enforcement, contradictions and hypocrisy.

I tend to agree with this. We have Armstrong, Redmond, Walcott and Djenepo who are all fairly similar players who rely on movement and dynamism and I don't think he's any better than any of those. A more creative ball-player / passer "number 10", is something we lack.

Bizarre post. I'm sorry you've had such a shit life though.

You know that review you quoted is a joke, right? Just some armless fun.

Long and Ings is a very different proposition from Long and Adams so I don't think Long coming in would be too catastrophic if Ings is fit.

The Arsenal shout is a nonsense, I'm afraid. Never a foul, just sloppy desperate play by Djenepo, and Bednarek committed more of a foul in our box in the first half which wasn't given, so we weren't hard done by there at all. The West Ham offside, I agree, looked tight with respect to their right back so I'm not sure why the lines didn't appear, but he was probably off. The Adams kick in the head was a complete accident and wasn't a high foot so I can see why no action was taken. The Fulham penalty shout would 100% have been given as a penalty in the first couple of months of the season. They seem to be trying to row back on giving handball now, which is silly because changing the rules mid-competition doesn't make much sense. However, again Bednarek also handled in our box so we could also have conceded a penalty. I have no idea how the ref didn't give the free kick on KWP. The Man City one did really annoy me. I don't know why we didn't get a penalty for Sterling's handball. It came up off his leg but I don't think that means it cannot be a penalty; they still need to consider arm position, reaction time etc. We've been fairly lucky too. The penalty we got at Brighton was a little farcical with the officials clearly having no real idea where the foul occurred. If there was no VAR and only replays, no one (apart from our biggest weirdos) would have seriously been claiming we should have had a penalty for that, and it won us two extra points we barely deserved.

Are you having a laugh? It was an excellent tackle.

This is similar to the City match. Plenty of neat football and long periods of control but no quality in the final third.

Does anyone apart from me quite like the idea of Djenepo up front with Adams for this one? Means we can leave Walcott playing where he has been and Djenepo should be less likely to pick up a yellow card in the first half.

A good analysis of the deal for those interested in cutting through the government propaganda.

Are kids still moving between classrooms during the day? If so, that's stupid. The teachers should be moving, not the kids.

And Dunk has just clearly handled then scored and VAR says its OK. WTF?!

If it makes anyone feel better, Burnley got rogered hard by the ref today.

No they didn't. The ref awarded it on the field.

I think a point would be a decent result. They outplayed Liverpool recently and our spine and bench looks pretty Championship today.

We bought Salisu because we needed an upgrade at centre back. Sticking Stephens in would be completely retrograde, if Salisu is fit enough.

Epstein should have hung in there. He'd be free now.

Disappointing not to see Chilworth, Wellow or Lyndhurst on the area round-up.

People who begin answers with, "Listen,....". Blair seemed to start this and now loads of people do it. Rude, arrogant, aloof, slightly sinister, cuntish way to converse. So, people who begin sentences with, "So", as well. Jelly-brained morons.

I'd start Redmond upfront and let Walcott continue in midfield. Walcott is finding great pockets of space in his current role and it seems a shame to lose that as well as losing Ings. Give Redmond a crack up front and if it's not working we've still got options on the bench. Also, Armstrong back in for Djenepo.