cityloyal473

Your last sentence says it all and that's why I said Sturgeon is a grandstanding idiot. Throughout she's tried to act like Scotland is some world superpower.

So will England and Wales shortly. Sturgeon grandstanding again.

Neutral grounds, playing overseas, less than 45 minutes per half - football seems to be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. I'm fast losing interest in it.

Desperate - you've hit the nail on the head there.

I don't think it was ever intended to be a 'lockdown'. And secretly I think they've been unimpressed with the extent it's been observed. The media forced the government into doing something that I don't believe they really believed in. Herd immunity was their goal (and still is) hence a pretty weak lockdown.

The government is going to have to be very careful deciding when to end the lockdown; get this wrong and it could end up being one step forwards, one hundred steps back. I get the impression that the feeling amongst the public is we are getting to the end of our tether so do something, anything to give us hope. Dangerous, dangerous time for the government.

Then the government, unsurprisingly, has its priorities wrong. They are looking to deflect attention away and football is the fall (or should that be fool) guy.

I think this is madness. Forget football.

Fair enough. But it seems to me that there is no need to rush back football, yet many seem to want to do that. Other professions mostly provide a useful service; football, at the end of the day, is just a source of entertainment. I'd argue that reopening a hairdressers or getting Mc-bloody-Donalds open, is a higher concern than getting football going again.

Is watching twenty two blokes kick a ball around an empty stadium, making it more akin to a training match, really be of interest to people and raise their morale? Won't be to me, that's for sure. I find the idea putting me off football to be honest. Every game will feel and look like after the lord mayors show.

It gets worse every time I see it.

Yep. Forget about going to AG for a year or so. Gonna be a very different footballing landscape when we are allowed back in again.

Quite. They go on about their amazing away support, but on a couple of occasions in the early to mid 90s they failed to sell their allocations for games at AG. Bunch of absolute whoppers.

A large part of football will die. Clubs cannot survive a whole year with no income; no business can.

It helps to have friends in high places

Not just football, but society, banking, employment, etc., - it's all due a reset. And we're going to get it. We will come out of this a different country/world.

Complete bunch of jokers.

Bit early to start drinking paint stripper isn't it?

Perhaps Wael feels slightly bullish now that he's sailing alone. Problem is, as the saying in Texas goes, he's all hat and no cattle.

I think he means that the 'internal debt' is owed to himself so is not (hehehe) a problem. Even so, shaky use of language with someone whose family had supposedly made their money from banking. You'd think he'd be a little more financial savvy in his speak.

I don't. Sooner they go bust the better. The only ones I would feel sorry for would be the staff who would lose out.

Then it speaks volume for his supporters.

Seen that too. He's incoherent at the best of times, but that briefing looked and sounded like a man who was ready for a straight jacket.

Any graph with China on it for comparison is not realistic; they've BS'd their figures from day one.

Nope. Try again. I'll help you out: a precedent is related to historical terms. Two weeks is not historical. If City won on the 1st of March, drew on the 8th of March, won a midweek game on the 11th, and lost on the 15th, what is the historical precedence? I'll not stay up all night waiting for your answer.