Lighthouse

If you think Levy can phone our players up and say, "yes, if you wouldn’t mind playing sh*t for six months, so we can sign you a bit cheaper that’d be great. Oh by the way, we’ll also be able to offer you lower wages if you don’t have any competing offers, so make sure you properly suck. Cheers," then you are grossly mistaken.

Absolute nonsense. If he goes anywhere cheap it's because his contract is running down, no other reason.

Just for the record, my post wasn’t a criticism, I just think it’s going to be a hard sell.

I think it’ll be determined by rates of infection and hospital capacity more than actual numbers of fatalities. If admissions start to climb again, sphincters will start to twitch.

327 deaths on 19th Feb (the most recent complete data) and dropping by roughly 30 per day. At that rate it’ll be zero by 1st March, in theory. In reality, it’ll be interesting to see what level deaths actually plateau at and how the government reacts to it. It’ll be a hard sell keeping businesses closed for another month if we’re down to single figure deaths.

You’re confusing the issue of whether a particular crime is right with whether group X has a problem with Y. For example, if I murder my wife and so do 50,000 other people this year, then the UK clearly has a problem with murder. If however that happened to be the only murder committed in the country all year, then clearly we as a country don’t have a problem with murder. In either case, the crime I have committed is equally bad. There is no attempt to excuse the actually act of murder, just questioning the rate at which it is committed.

I wouldn’t disagree on that, the point I was getting at is that these are individual tweets out of a total football viewership in the millions, in this country alone. Peak viewing figures for a big game on Sky are apparently touching on four million. Supposing 40 of them sent racists tweets, or 1 in 100,000. Is that ratio unacceptable?

Genuine question; what frequency or severity of racist abuse constitutes a ‘problem’ in your eyes and what level would it have to drop to in order to not be a problem?

So hard to judge him in a team playing this badly. I agree with those saying play him up front. Armstrong —————- Tella -——-Ings ——— Mina

I’ve genuinely been getting into women’s biathlon skiing during the lockdown. Also, having just seen the draft for The Hundred, I’ll probably be more into that come summer. We’ve got a decent side, especially with the ball.

Yep. A trip to Goodison, I’ll pass thanks. Enjoy, everyone!

That second half was as bad as the two 9-0s. We could very easily have let in 6/7 in 45 minutes without a couple of decent saves and some wasteful finishing.

I agree. This team isn’t 2007 Derby. We’ve been in games, even if we are mentally weak and devoid of confidence. The fact that we got a point at in form Chelsea and were good for a win against Wolves until that penalty shows we have something about us. If I’m wrong and Chelsea ends up being our only point in 20 consecutive games then whatever, I’m giving up football.

So... who’s up for three more years of a slower, more ponderous version of the player we saw tonight?

We will stutter and dribble our way another 6/7 points in the games against Palace, Brighton, Fulham, Sheff Utd, Burnley, Leeds and possibly a surprise draw at somewhere like Spurs or West Ham. No amount of Saints sh*tiness will make the teams below us good.

Our defence has some sort of exponential algorithm, whereby the more they concede, the more chances they allow. Going 1-0 down very quickly becomes 2-0, 4-0, 9-0...

Meh, whatever.

Just bereft of any ideas, completely clueless, then they casually stroll through our team and score, unmarked.

Because he completely misjudged the ball and tried to make up for it by grinding himself into the legs of the attacker.

I must confess, at no point in the last hour have I wished Yan Valery was on the pitch.

Queuing up for a shot.

Yep, confirmed in the studio, pretty unequivocal. Tella should have been booked for diving if we're being honest but nobody is giving those decisions.

Unpopular opinion - Both of those were the correct call.

We ain’t getting this one. Oh well.

F**k me, Redmond!