Lighthouse

The hypocrisy of it all is possibly the worst thing about it. For months Tiss has been all about government control, coercion, misinformation, fear etc. etc. Then one day the Bangladeshi government apparently (I haven't seen this verified, personally) reports zero Covid deaths with a low vaccination uptake and BOOM - This government is 100% trustworthy, their statistics, reporting and medical records are totally accurate and I completely trust everything they say. Telling people they need to wake up whilst exhibiting the absolute antithesis of critical thinking. Wonderful.

Haven’t all Bednarek’s goals been the opener in a game we’ve lost 3-2 having been 2-0 up?

Amazing isn't it, you can make anything sound like a conspiracy if you nuance your phrasing the right way. Most of the people dying of Covid are unvaccinated. What a 'coincidence', all the people who refuse to comply with government instructions are slowly being killed off! 😲

Tuned in for the last five mins or so, the Latvians can barely kick it beyond their own penalty area, it’s something of a farce.

That’s a non-sequitur, boosters haven’t come about because of the new variant at all. They’ve been administered for a couple of months, would have been planned for several months before that and probably discussed with medical experts since the vaccines were first developed a year ago. We’ve been ramping it up because of the large spikes in cases of delta variant across Europe.

Booster jabs started being rolled out on 30th September and we’ve known about the onion variant for barely a fortnight.

At this exact moment and only in the UK. The rest of Europe is seeing a spike, so would it not be best to pre-empt that and get everyone a booster?

You don’t think increased infections of the Delta variant are a problem in Europe right now?

Yes I would, not that it’s mathematically plausible. Your definition of how good a manager is performing seems to hinge on how other teams in the League are doing and not how good we are on the pitch. Supposing every team in the league except Saints was caught fiddling their taxes and deduced 30 points from last season. We end up about 5th, so would that make Ralph better than Puel in your opinion?

So you’re judging who’s the better manager purely by the number of points OTHER teams scored in a season? In other words if Pep’s Man City team had lost a couple of extra games against Palace and Everton two years ago, that would have made Liverpool and Klopp better, in your eyes?

I didn’t realise number of points scored was a "ridiculous measure" of success. The only actual example of that is Liverpool two years ago who won 30/38 games, scored 97 points and were 13mm away from being invincible themselves. Yes, I would say they were marginally better than Arsenal’s invincibles.

As opposed to Ralph never having any of those players and in his two full seasons here averaging 48 points, two more than Puel's 46?

It’s how we’ve played 80 minutes of this fixture for the last two seasons.

One of the all time greats of the sport. My earliest memories are of watching Hill and Villeneuve fight it out for the world Championship. For most of the 90s and parts of the 80s, they were the team to beat.

Infection rates have been fluctuating around roughly the same level since early August as they are. Anything which would have reduced the R number would have seen that level steadily decline.

He was, for one of the three seasons he was here.

Don’t be silly, everyone knows the batteries in the microchips only last six months. If you Google, “electro-thermic lithium decay in organic microchips by professor Keith Malcolm,“ you’ll find an article on a free-web hosting site on page 32 of the result, which explains everything for you.

He is the Clinton Baptiste of sports journalism.

We were going to play it at 1945 but Austrian leaders were a bit out of fashion then.

Relatively short turn around. Couldn’t even guess at which way this one will go.

Cheers, this was all booked weeks ago, before the current surge and new variant. Back then it looked like everything was going to sell out as everyone had gone two years without and was desperate to get back on it.

I’m not even sure what you think that is supposed to represent, even if it was in some way credible.

Meh, I never stopped personally. Now I’m worried about my ski holiday in January, surely they can’t cancel another season.

Palatable as opposed to what? Liverpool have just beaten Man Utd and Watford 5-0, Arsenal 4-0, Porto 5-1, Norwich, Palace and Leeds 3-0. This is routine stuff.

Meh. Like I said, we gave it a go. The alternative is basically what we got under Puel, a nice safe 2-0 defeat in most of our games against the bigger teams. We never looked like getting embarrassed but we never looked like troubling our opponents either. Steady and disciplined, they could just play it easily around in front of us like a training exercise. I wouldn’t want that again, I much prefer going into big games knowing it could go like it did today or like it did at the Etihad.