Lighthouse

All English PL, FL and FAC games postponed until at least April 3rd. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51867989 Non-discussion thread, updates as and when they are announced.

Matt Targett cost £17m and was no better than Valery.

So a club with a massive wage bill making significant financial losses, not spending £20m+ on a fullback we don’t need (I.e. there is no promotion or relegation hanging on our results) is a shambles?

You think players who test positive shouldn’t self isolate?

That’s not the point, it’s about trying to prevent the spread of the virus. If one player tests positive, he can spread it to maybe 60-70 players, youth team players and non-playing staff. Times that by 92 FL clubs...

Does that classroom full of kids meet up with a different group of kids for 90 minutes of physical contact, in different parts of the country, every weekend?

I don’t think sense actually comes into it. That game couldn’t not be cancelled.

The F1 has just been called off for this weekend. Won’t be the last such race either.

I wonder if they could host a playoff between the current bottom 3 and Championship top 3. Not a perfect solution but fairer on the likes of Leeds and WBA.

All Austrian ski resorts are set to close for the season from this weekend.

Without wanting to turn this thread into a political mud wrestle, you can be fairly confident a conservative PM isn’t going to sit there and let over 70s die if he can help it.

I’ve enjoyed the games I’ve been to but somehow we’ve managed to win all of them (at it looks like the seasons going to end that way). On the flip side I was off work when we played Leicester, Burnley, Newcastle and Chelsea but chose not to go because it’s such an irritating waste of money.

TFFT! I think I can just about tolerate them winning the league if that’s where it ends. No invincibles, no European glory, no cups, doubles/trebles etc. Just a bog standard league win that someone achieves every year.

I’ve been taking the train to the Alps whenever I’ve been skiing for about 5 years now. It was never intended as an environmental stance but that is an added bonus.

Okay, split thread if you must discuss it again. As Whelk says, you’re not really getting the vibe of, ‘small things in life which bring you joy’. The smell of fresh silage, a cuppa tea and an egg custard, a bored housewife sitting on the washing machine. They’re the kind of light hearted pleasures we were after.

Doctors much better informed of the circumstances than you or I will have had their say in this. There must be some reason in the finer details and tomorrow's game could yet be cancelled.

Does the 1.5m rule include hairdressers?

TBH I really can’t remember all that many people ever actually criticising him for being lazy. That’s never been the accusation, more that he has a poor attitude towards team play. He often looks like he’s playing for himself and by the time he’s shown everyone he can beat a man, 6 more have got back to defend. There’s no excuse to slate him, he’s just not actually done anything since she’s been here. A couple of screamers against crap teams when he first signed, that’s about it.

No, he doesn’t. Nobody deserves credit for simply ‘putting a shift in’, that’s the absolute bare minimum I’d expect from any player. That’s how we’ve ended up in this mess, crap players like Long and Boufal who ‘put a shift in’ are seen as being worthy of praise, when in their actual role of setting up and scoring goals they are terrible. Armstrong puts a shift in and is good. We are a noticeably better team with him in it, as we were with Stephen Davis. As a team we’ve put in many awful attacking performances with Boufal on the pitch.

Things were hardly great in 2009 either but for some this could be seen as an opportunity. Perhaps Gao will want cash quick and be willing to sell to a relatively low bidder. All hypothetical but the financial situation is not necessarily doom and gloom.

It's both really. All we've been doing recently is signing Neil McCanns and Darren Kentons at 2019 prices.

Don't forget Philip Glenister as the DCI trying to expose a cover up by the local council.

Ah yes the, "men are so shallow, they only care about what a woman looks like," brigade, who then spend £50 having fake eyelashes glued on because they've spent hours obsessing over some photoshopped pictures of other girls on Instagram, who've got more likes than them.

Don't forget the social media photos with the dog, butterfly or other sh*te snap chat filter.

Everton looking pretty awful.