rallyboy

Have we had many viewings?

It's as if the population has got the idea that we are a very special country that can ignore the advice of experts, learn nothing from the experience of foreigners, and to overcome any problem, we just need to believe. If only we could trace the source of all that bonkers malarky.

All the best with that Paradise - there must be people in your position in the UK who are having their lives put under threat by the selfish madness of those people who refuse to protect the community and their own relatives.

There's a high proportion of selfish idiots out there who are too thick to understand basic concepts. #notnews

It didn't take Cummings long to start throwing his own voters under a bus. He's ruthless that boy.

As well as the city businesses losing £13m today, the league situation is 'interesting'. Early suggestions are that only the top two will go up if the season can't be completed. With pompey two points short that would mean their haul of one point from the last two games has done enormous damage. Add in the loss of vital matchday income and things look a little bleak with a very long summer of wagebills ahead. I'm sure they've already forgotten all of those stupid points dropped against nine-man Coventry...etc.

Surely, if they scrap the season and the Premier League doesn't deliver the TV contracts, that would bankrupt us, and the majority of this division. So I suspect this season will conclude, by hook or by crook.

There will always be opinions, but referees must surely agree on whether a shoulder is handball or not, and whether to book or send off an attacker for diving, when a Liverpool defender fouls them in the box. There must be a vague level of consistency, we can't have twenty refs running their own interpretations on everything.

Massive investment promised, to be delivered with other people's money. Did Storrie and Redknapp do this budget?

You wouldn't send the players out individually without some strategy - surely the refs have training sessions and meet-ups where they agree a party line on interpreting and implementing laws? There seems to be no leadership.

All I ever ask of referees and VAR checks is consistency. I don't need to agree with them, I would just like to see the same rules being applied to both teams and in similar ways by all refs. Is that too much to ask?

In case anyone doesn't think VAR is broken, just remember the Burnley non-handball and compare it with Boufal's. And if you insist that both of those decisions were correct, other than the usual suspects who just do it for attention, I don't know where to start!

Stephen Graham as the angry care home manager challenging prejudice - Boris Johnson attempting to play the PM.

Looking at the replay you can see there was little intent, but he missed the ball, was over-committed and risked serious injury to the opponent. For me, sadly a red card, correctly ruled via VAR. So why on earth did they not even judge the similar situation on Bertrand? Their guy missed the ball, was over-committed and risked serious injury to the opponent. I'm not saying it was a definite red because there seems to be a media blackout on showing it and I'd like to see a replay, but why didn't they even look at it?

I haven't worn a mask to a game yet but on reflection I wish I'd worn a frigging blindfold to a few of them.

Plucky was the verdict. Of all grounds, this is the one Arsenal players fear. Rightly so. "Terrifying, beyond any atmosphere I've ever experienced, undoubtedly the most intimidating stadium there's ever been in world football", commented a random non-English speaking foreign player. Sold out boards went up at noon, the whistle went, but the score was irrelevant. Matchday was here, but it was a game only important to the opposition players and their bucket-list dreams. Years have gone, this cup was only a massive trophy up until exactly 2010. The league is the only cup now, it's best to be out of the old so-called FA Cup, and Jackett's heroes delivered in style. How Arsenal fans wish they were in League One, and despite early season efforts, it was their dream that died at the fortress.

Aintforever is correct - The country made a clear choice - to continue running the police and NHS as they are. #turkeys

This is all a bit like Man City making a big deal out of deciding who will go up to be presented with the Premier League trophy in May.

Rehabilitation needs to be improved right across the board for offenders of all types who will be released at some point. There is hardly any serious effort or funding being put into this at the moment, and it is very clear that we have no workable plan for tackling those who have been radicalised. The sooner our government ministers stop spouting that we are the best in the world at everything, the better. Let's listen for a change, in this case, to those countries who have had more success in these areas.

I think he was giving Kevin Friend marks out of ten.

How's the healing of the country going?

Hey Duckie, I missed him staring in that TV show - presumably they didn't give him a speaking part because every time he opens his mouth something frigging silly falls out. He must be really good at looking at stuff though, a rare talent, to add to that clumsy, ill-educated, misjudged kneejerk self-promoting Poundland Hopkins Toff character he does so well. And feel free to slag me off, you can even froth at the mouth a little and mutter Pinko if it cheers you up. Lovely as you are, and I know you are all good intentions at heart, I don't need your support because Lord T himself, caught between train delays, suggested only yesterday that I am sophisticated, and that is high praise which I have embraced - it will keep me cosy warm through the rest of winter. x

He's simply a bloke no one knew, trying to promote his new career by being controversial. It's a shallow PR campaign.

Thank god the talking is over, now it's time for action. When does the first £350m go into the NHS? That will make such a difference to people's lives, it was a brilliant promise.