Lighthouse

Clubs don’t care about the fans, I’m not sure why you’d think this. So long as they continue to hand over their money, that’s as far as their interest goes. The idea of ‘not needed revenue’ is - TBH - ridiculous. The clubs owners will take any penny they can get. As long as matches continue to just about sell out, the prices will stay the same.

Summer holidays are no different to winter holidays. Plenty of people go away over Christmas, NY and January. Football isn’t a winter sport, it’s just a sport which happens to be played in winter for some reason. It’s an outdoor sport, played on grass pitches. Why we need to call it a day just when when the weather starts getting nice, I don’t get.

Meh, just have more evening kick offs in June and July. If we can play major tournaments in European summers, we can do it for domestic games too. Beer gardens in the sun, head to the ground for a 4pm kick off... lovely, I'll have some of that.

Why do we need to? I'd take Feb - Oct seasons over the current format given choice.

Surely this statement makes for some form of deterrent, even if they are doing literally nothing in practicality to stop racial abuse. Having said that, I've no idea how they managed to bring gender identity into this.

It's been two meals a day for a week or more now. I'd rather get Covid-19 than bowel cancer if I'm honest.

Just been to Tesco since posting that and I was actually pleasantly surprised this time. There was bog roll (not that I need any) and a reasonable amount of meat available. When I went two days ago it was basically a choice between beef and pizza.

I could tolerate the panic buying if only the people doing it actually started using the stuff they've f**king bought. It should have leveled out by now, those people shouldn't have to shop for a month with their freezers full of meat but apparently that's not the case. I can only presume those of you with enough toilet roll to last until Christmas are still going out and buying another 3 dozen because... reasons.

Just looking back at a few of our games from back then... We had a 5-1 win away to Bristol Rovers. We started with Puncheon, Lallana, Lambert and Antonio, then brought Connolly, Barnard and Waigo off the bench. What a squad that was, not bad considering we started the season with Patterson and Saganowski up front.

I've no idea what you're trying to argue here Johnny. It's a completely different world to 1948.

That's just a vague, empty statement which looks nice on the face of it but isn't actually a solution to anything. What are you specifically proposing we change?

He really is incredible. His brain simply cannot handle the suggestion that he might be wrong, or that a qualified expert might know better, about anything.

5,000? Italy are having the equivalent of a reasonably full passenger jet crash every six hours and it’s not going to stop any time soon. We’re a couple of weeks behind them.

One thing is for sure, we don't need another RB at the moment.

Sounds like a rough week crabby, glad you've pulled through it. If this kicks you off the cigarettes permanently then take that as a positive outcome overall.

Perhaps we could finish the season in the autumn and start again in the new year. From now on just run seasons starting February until late October.

Looks like Charlie is the latest celebrity to test positive. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52033845

Are we though? Genuinely curious, by what hard stick are we measuring the NHS, compared to other countries health services?

With you on that, unless they’re just so short staffed they can’t.

Which then comes back to being pro-choice, which is all I’m advocating.

You’re making the choice to definitely kill the unborn foetus to prevent a chance that the mother will die. At what point does it become worth the risk of killing the mother? You said that the mothers life must not be at risk, so where are you drawing the line with regards to risk? If there’s a 10% that continuing the pregnancy to full term would kill the mother, would you kill the ‘child’? Surely if both lives are equal you would deny the abortion and risk the mothers life in the hope that they both live?

So you've made the decision that the life of a 'child' is less important that that of the mother?

It's not an acceptable name, it's a fundamental difference. The pro-choice campaigners aren't asking to terminate 100% of their pregnancies, just the ones where they feel it wouldn't be right bringing a baby into the world. The unborn child is not a child, it's a fetus. That's a medical fact. It's brain is undeveloped, it cannot sense the world around it, it is not capable of conscious thought and therefore choice. Whenever somebody puts a debate to me like this, I always ask how I would feel if I was the 'victim'. In this case I would never even have been aware of my own existence, so the suffering experienced would be zero. There's no point really in debating this as it's been going on for decades and neither side is willing to concede. The fact of the matter is that if a women feels she needs an abortion, within a set time parameter, that's her choice. You have no right telling her what to do with her body, based on religious views or otherwise. If you have medical evidence that the fetus suffers in some way, that's a different matter.

Based on what? They can comfortably fill a 30k stadium even in the Championship. If their asking price is significantly lower than ours and they aren't p*ssing away massive amounts of cash on stupid wages for crap players, they start to look a better option.

I was frequently accused of being Islamaphobic by Verbal (no idea where he ended up). Basically I'm not opposed to belief but I am opposed to organised religion. There's no such thing as pro-abortion, only pro-choice. If you believe terminating a fetus is a sin against God, then don't have an abortion and I wont tell you you're wrong.