East Londoner

1 hour ago, TomF said:

Even by Monaco’s standards this is an absolute borefest. Either they need to come up with a better track or just remove it from the calendar 

The cars have outgrown the track the problem is the whole prestige of Monaco means we’re probably stuck with it 

15 hours ago, myol'man said:

This just popped up on Bygone Bristol. Wow, what a stadium they could have had on that site, if the directors at the time hadn't "allegedly" been lining their pockets by so much that they had to  accept a paltry bailout from the greyhound company. 

Isn’t that the river frome backing onto that stand that burnt down? Would surely have prevented any redevelopment, that and an insistence that others paid for it 

4 hours ago, Blackbird1 said:

They are a pox on Bristol, along with the Kill the Bill protesters, but our own form is pretty much diabolical too, losing at home 6 on the trot, Brum, Rotherham etc, IF we were in a postion to mock, fair enough, but we are not.

At the end of the day it’s just banter and if you can’t take it you shouldn’t give it and city fans of a certain age took it for years. Some of it occasionally gets a little childish but that’s on both sides like the whole bottle of champagne for Colin Daniel and then Windass being invited to their social in return but on the whole it’s good natured banter on both sides that fills a void during the international break 

1 minute ago, Ska Junkie said:

I have a feeling there was a game v the gas that was called off due to the area around the stadium being frozen. I remember putting my golf spikes on to walk to the shop.

Then we lost the rearranged game 2-0, beadle scored a screamer if i remember rightly 

1 hour ago, MarcusX said:

Why were they allowed to go to Dubai? Insanity.

What’s even more insane is the player that caught it is already facing 4 months out injured so shouldn’t have been there 

Its Celtic them and Rangers think they’re in charge of Scottish football 

Neil Lennon and 13 Celtic players are now self isolating after one player tested positive after their warm weather training in Dubai, what was already looking not the brightest decision to go is now looking positively stupid and will likely cost them whatever slim chance they had of retaining the league

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55525905

I was there at St Andrews that day, remembering the reception that little lad got still makes my hairs stand up, hopefully he can now go on from strength to strength 

I know this is the sun and should possibly be taken with a pinch of salt although it’s also what I’ve been saying for months, but it’s now saying the first Covid victim in this country died at Christmas, this changes the established timeline considerably and therefore April to June could easily have been this second wave we keep hearing about 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12618638/british-dad-coronavirus-christmas-china/

Am i missing something here, they couldn’t afford to build at UWE when the land was free but can afford buy the land and build which would be three times as much?

1 hour ago, BCFC11 said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/bristol-rovers-ceo-martyn-starnes-4209287

 

Football is more screwed than what I originally thought when the Country's 6th richest club can't afford £500k to finish the season.

According to the sun they didn’t vote as they claimed they had internet issues

42 minutes ago, S25loyal said:

I hope you are fully recovered now if it was covid or not, hopefully an antibody test does appear and people do become immune that way longer lasting. 

Yeah and as an essential worker have worked throughout the whole thing, have actually been more bemused by the minority thinking they’re on holiday than having to work myself 

7 minutes ago, S25loyal said:

Yes, you could be right then. Hopefully you are and this is the second wave if not a lot will die from the stats that’s obvious. 

Despite what it may seem I’m not one for conspiracy theories, i don’t really care if it started in a lab or someone ate undercooked bat and then coughed in someone’s face, but as someone who had all those symptoms at Christmas and ended up in hospital a month later and have since tested negative for coronavirus albeit a couple of months after, lots of what the government are saying doesn’t make sense and it seems like they stubbornly believe one narrative and one narrative only 

8 minutes ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Somebody in my office had what was in retrospect classic CV19 with loss of sesne of taste and smell; this was January I think.

She was in all through the three weeks that she would have had it so that would mean everyone in that office got it and then passed it on at home, at football games and then onto schools.

I genuinely expect that the majority of people of working age and below have had it because it was widely circulating well before lockdown.  Maybe 70 - 80%; and the majority of those without feeling particularly unwell.

The people who didn't get it would have been those who weren't having this close daily contact with other people - primarily the elderly and infirm.

 

Whilst this is in the category of "I reckon" a random US sampling of 100 people found that a third had hit.  That's not enough to be statistically significant but I await wider testing with interest as I would say that the much vaunted "herd immunity" was achieved in January - March for the working age population but that there was a second wave amongst a more isolated subsection of the population, the elderly, that took much longer to take off and in that subsection became big news because it was a much more serious infection for them.

The only way to know for sure is testing either testing the entire population and properly quarantining those who test positive and then life can continue as normal or the antibody testing we keep hearing about to see just how many people have already had it 

It does seem like the government are listening to just one team of scientists who are stubbornly insisting coronavirus started in March and lockdown is the only solution (even though the architect of this policy then broke it to invite some woman he was casually seeing to his house) rather than taking into account increasing evidence that it started much earlier and we could already have seen the dreaded second wave 

8 minutes ago, S25loyal said:

As long as your ok that’s fine, don’t worry about others.

What a lovely world we live in. 

If that is the case with your theory on November/December why has there only been a surge of deaths across Europe the last couple of months? 

We keep hearing about second spike don’t we?

Oxford University are now estimating that there’s 140,000 people in the uk infected with coronavirus which is 0.24% of the population, it could be that lockdown has brought that number down dramatically although that isn’t really reflected in the governments own data or it’s like how i said at the start that it started in November/December and that millions have already had it 

It would be tragic if it’s the latter people would’ve needlessly lost their livelihoods while cases of mental health issues and domestic violence have rocketed 

Obviously finding those 140,000 is like looking for a needle in a haystack but it does beg the question whether a vaccine is necessary 

19 minutes ago, 054123 said:

That’s interesting.

What source are you using for the 0.04% mortality rate of covid-19?

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
 

John Hopkins suggests the mortality rate of the virus is far higher.

If you are referring to just the rate per 100k of the population, then any medical professional will tell you that’s not how you judge the threat.

 

Is just a basic calculation of the published total death rate which around 35000ish divided by the population which is around 66,500,000 so is nothing particularly scientific 

The government did a very effective job in scaring people in order to keep them at home, unfortunately it’s been so effective that people have been led to believe that they won’t be safe until there’s a vaccine, but it’s worth noting the mortality rate from coronavirus is 0.04% of the population, that’s not much consolation to their families i admit but it’s unrealistic to stop all of life’s activities until a vaccine has been found 

To answer the original question of when football should return, there’s no real right or wrong answer to that but this season is probably a write off as it’s just too complex with too little time to get it up and running again anytime soon

Apologies can’t send a link as the athletic is behind a paywall, the gist is that league one and two will be abandoned next week and they’re looking at deciding the table on a points per game basis with a weighting to reflect points won away over at home as games played home and away is not equal. It does mean no playoffs however 

2 hours ago, daored said:

Which ever way they do this , they cause problems. I assume several local hotels will be used for the clubs to stay at - so effectively everyone who works at the hotel , coach driver etc will be required to be tested every two days?

I would imagine that the hotels being used for the respective teams would also be known. You can see Liverpool fans gathering outside the hotel to celebrate when they win the league. 

For some reason that made me wonder if there was a premier inn in Burton, they could allocate hotels depending on league position so Norwich world get the Travelodge etc etc 

45 minutes ago, hodge said:

So whats the difference between that and waiting until 'whenever that is' to finish this season? It could be February if things don't get better and then you may as well just finish this season off, I don't get why there is a rush to decide about ending this season. From a financial perspective there's still no money coming in from match days etc for clubs if the season is ended/delayed through that period. 

Contracts would be the main thing, currently they’re asking people who may be out of contact to play on, except they wouldn’t be covered by insurance and if they got injured suddenly they’ve got a big problem 

Also starting from afresh would mean no rules change midseason, they make a big song and dance about sporting integrity but whichever way they it’s done someone will get shafted, promoting Leeds and West Brom like some suggest is no fairer than having no relegation this season 

The whole thing is becoming a farce, end the season give Liverpool the title as anything else would be ridiculous, everyone else remains the same and start again next season whenever that is 

34 minutes ago, BarnzFM said:

Is it fair to take players away from their families for weeks on end? 

International players do that every two years for major tournaments 

8 hours ago, hodge said:

I didn't realise the prem proposal of neutral stadiums to finish off included the possibility of non premier league grounds being used to prevent fans congregating. Have to wonder if Ashton Gate would be used given the nearest prem team would be Villa/Bournemouth, the addition of the facilities being very modern would make sense too. 

I thought that but apparently grounds near residential areas are being ruled out, so likelihood is it would be places like Reading or Bolton which are out near the motorway and not particularly appealing for people to congregate outside, although the sun today is saying there’s a proposal to finish the season in Perth (the Australian one) and apparently the Australians are quite keen so probably means it won’t happen 

In fairness having now heard it whoever it was speaks very well and gives a good assessment of the situation and showing why they’re Rovers pfa rep

5 hours ago, Seneca the Younger said:

Have to bring these back yearly, post takeover 

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/5985/sh-gutted-pantsdowns

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/5974/confirmed-al-qadi-family-takeover

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/5971/sold-out-river-view

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/6034/time-list

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/6183/wael-qadi-sun-article-interview

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/6026/incredible-journey-begin

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/5986/pig-flying

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/5962/qadi-investment-takeover-press-conference

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/6018/new-memorial

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/6069/uwe

 

City fan posts facts and instantly gets banned and the thread locked:

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/5999/sorry-on-bonfire

You don’t have to do much to get banned over there by the looks of it 

5 hours ago, Seneca the Younger said: