Lighthouse

It might be just my imagination but this photo of Cruz looks like Chris Moyles has had a few too many cans at Leeds festival, got up on stage and started ranting about how ‘it’s all the Jews fault, they control the media.’

Because mixing with 150 households is slightly better than mixing with 151.

Because what’s ‘fair’ and what will control the virus are two different things. You being exposed to 30 households is slightly better than being exposed to 32 households.

They might be if they win their next four consecutive games. I just want them to score so that our proud record of being the only team who couldn’t so so against Palace stays intact.

Many things don't work at the moment, I don't see there being an awful lot of choice.

I'd hope so. We need to go in hard with this, short term pain for long term gain.

Am I seeing things? Pogba blatantly kicked the back of his own calf there. 🤨

I just can’t fathom what they’re thinking. A couple of old fables spring to mind. The emperors new clothes - It’s as if everyone on the FA disciplinary committee is ignoring the blatantly obvious; it wasn’t in any way a racist remark. The boy who cried wolf - slowly fatigue and boredom will wear in and people will lose interest in the issues that really need tackling.

The irony of the FA showing complete ignorance and intolerance of other cultures, so that they can slap a fine and a ban on Cavani is peak ‘wokeness’. There’s a wilful and deliberate ignoring of context which makes them look nothing short of incompetent.

I believe a lot of them have two, one public for generic PR and marketing stuff and the other personal, like the whole Rooney/Vardy saga. Wasn’t it Darren Bent who’s publicist tweeted, "please tweet something like ‘great win today for the team, so proud of the lads, on to the next game!’" And didn’t bother to edit it?

Both sides suffering significant losses, then using varying criteria to claim victory.

This is like the Battle of Jutland.

Bad guy - usually an international drugs/arms dealer, terrorist, stalker or serial killer - gets captured early in the movie by special forces/police in a raid which clearly took months of planning. Bad guy is then immediately granted bail, despite being a massive escape risk and danger to the public.

Watching Jurassic Park, a film I love, and the 100ft cliff which magically appears in the space where the T-Rex just ate the goat annoys me every time. It kills an iconic scene stone dead.

No mayo for me - crawfish and rocket salad from M&S, although not at the football.

All true but they’re in conjunction with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which will push the total numbers up a bit.

It’s an awful thing, dementia.

Perhaps you could borrow a copy of The Sun from Delldays.

Typical fair weather doggers. If you’re not out in national trust car parks in January, you’re not a true connoisseur.

I’ll go with the flow and agree on LB but outside the starting XI I think striker would be our next priority. No team in the top two divisions should be starting Shane Long because of one injured player and there remain serious doubts about MO’s attitude. A more physical Pellè/Lambert type would be useful when teams defend deep.

Actually, I'd say Djenepo has pretty much matched Boufal's contribution perfectly - a couple of excellent goals a season but (as of yet) not really much else. SB's replacement this season is Walcott, who has already done more in a dozen games than Boufal does in an average season.

I guess that's the key to it. It's being reported that the AZ vaccine is easy and cheap to mas produce and distribute. You'd think at some point the bottleneck in vaccinations will come not from the number available but our ability to administer them, at which point there will be some surplus.

How would everyone feel about the vaccines being available privately to people who are not in the ‘at risk’ groups? Footballers were used as an example on the main board. Supposing people, who wanted to travel but were only in their thirties or forties, could get a jab through BUPA or whoever; this would then give them a QR code which could be used to travel abroad.

The issue is that testing doesn’t stop it from spreading. With the country facing a tier 5 lockdown, football may well be called off for a few weeks.

There’s obviously an element of media sensation in all of this but I think the worst is yet to come for this wave. Last time we didn’t reach peak hospital loads until a couple of weeks after the lockdown started.