Lighthouse

Yes, that's exactly the point. The disease will spread through supermarkets, etc. and we wont be able to stop it, only reduce the rate at which it spreads. The difference being we need food shops to carry on living, we don't need football and trips to Ibiza.

You can't isolate this for certain. Even with testing, you can't be certain that someone who tests negative hasn't got it on his hands, water bottle or it's too early to show up in the test or whatever. Then he is just a walking petri-dish, who is going to spread it to others even if he doesn't directly come into contact with an elderly person. It's a fundamental point; you have human beings from all over the country coming together for physical contact for no reason other than entertainment. They aren't providing some social or medical service, you're talking about spreading a killer disease for the sake of a game of football.

Yes, because he were safe by the middle of January and he didn't need to do it. FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW we did not desperately need defenders - He's the owner, his POV is the one that counts. When are some people going to get this. We are an investment for Gao, so long as we're a secure Premier League asset he doesn't need to spend more money.

Yes because wealth is a reasonable way to judge whether someone’s elderly relatives deserve to die.

Agree, it’s got to be either one or the other - Either everything stands or nothing. Can you imagine the riot Leeds fans would start if they gave Liverpool the title but didn’t promote them. There’s no line in the sand here, so who decides what is definitely/probably/maybe going to happen in the last 2 months of the season.

It depends how long all this goes on for. The best solution IMO would be to finish the league this year, have a shorter summer break with no Euro and start next season late but cancel both domestic cup competitions. That should free up enough space in the calendar for an extra 8-9 league games with a few midweekers thrown in.

I never mentioned what I want, I’m telling you what happened. I want to see us fighting for Europe but that’s not going to happen with this bloke in charge. When we beat Palace in the middle of January, we had 31 points. We weren’t going to go down from there, so Gao had no need to spend.

Premier League clubs will host a second emergency meeting on Thursday.

If anyone has already booked their train tickets and wants to go anyway, I know a cracking owl sanctuary.

Everything was fine and still is. Maybe not to you but to Gao it is and that’s all that matters. Do you think a businessman 6,000 miles away in Shanghai really gives toss if some people in a football message board are entertained by his investment? Gao didn’t need to invest in January to protect his investment. Ralph I’m sure would have liked some better players but that’s life and he will get on with his job without them.

It's exactly the same position on the other side of the pitch. It's not relevant. If you disagree then fine, there's not much else I can say really. If you're just going to make stuff up, I can't really discuss it. Ralph wanted players and if we were still in the relegation fight we might have spent a bit more to try and stay up. We are 'fine' as far as the board are concerned; we aren't going down this season. If they don't have to spend money unnecessarily they wont.

He was a reserve fullback, which side is irrelevant.

Nobody is naive enough to believe Ralph is happy with this squad. Obviously we wanted to bring players in but clearly the right ones weren’t available within our obviously limited budget. Is Vokins a Premier League player? Not yet but he’s hardly a downgrade on Danny Fox or Jeremy Pied.

Unless you know someone is interested, in which case it's 'How to get the best price', chapter 1, page 1 - "It's not for sale."

Or alternatively; Ralph wanted to bring players in but because of financial constraints it was only ever going to be if the right player was available at the right price. Despite Glasgow’s fantasies, clearly there weren’t a dozen Andy Robertsons available for £8m and that’s very much the exception, rather than the norm with today’s prices.

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.