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The 70s called and they want their attitude to football matches back. A lot of extremely drunk (mainly) men, some perked up with the marching powder, turned London into a bomb site and tried to storm the stadium in the tail end of a global pandemic where restrictions were in place. They were a...

Played the long game and was out Saturday night and had a hangover on Sunday.

<this bit added after I replied> To be honest I am not that bothered about night clubs. Other than staff being protected they are hardly essential to visit.

I think they should be told to put one on. Before you spring your 'cleverly' concealed trap on me I am aware they are on their own but in an unventilated space the virus could linger after they get off and someone else gets on. Unfortunately laws can be a blunt instrument and mass...

There would have to be a cut off point when at least everyone has been offered the opportunity of two vaccines. Which actually isn't too far off now.

Sigh. The reason we have speed limits that are legally enforced is that some people would ignore them otherwise. If this just involved them risking themselves then one might argue fair enough but speeding drivers injury and kill other motorists and pedestrians. With face coverings although...

Problem is the Police up and down the country will do their normal trick of having a reflex reaction after the event and toughen up policing of football fans. So normal fans the majority of which wouldn't dream of doing anything like this will suffer while the ones who caused problems yesterday...

Yesterday round London was a great advert for personal responsibility.

I like a drink and I like football but when you hear of people queuing to get in pub at 0800 in the morning for a 2000 kick off you know it is going to end badly.

To be honest some people do need to be told what to do and without it being in law won't do it.

So the government want people to wear face coverings in enclosed spaces but don't want to make themselves unpopular by legislating for it. Absolute cowards, the lot of them.

I have gone through SC clearance and that is fairly invasive but the Developed Vetting (DV) he would have gone through would probably have found out things about him he didn't know about himself. Plus presumably there is regular psychiatric evaluations for Policemen who can carry firearms...

Thing is I turn up at every Brighton game hoping they win so that eventually led to the Premier League. To go to the Championship would involve us losing a lot.

I have supreme confidence that by Spring next year we will have found some sort of accommodation for Covid in this country (might be messy on the way but it will still happen). Same looks to be happening in the US and Europe. However the days when you could book a flight six months ahead of...

We are now seeing the results of the FA and Premier League finally taking youth development seriously over the last decade or so which is producing a steady stream of suitable players. Also, with exceptions, players do seem to take some responsibility for their own development so you see the...

There are other metrics to take into account. For example people returning to work need a slightly higher health and safety bar than not dying. My two weeks was up last week (if you follow me). At 47 I am sure I would be ok if I got it but the fact remains not everyone has had the chance to...

So in summary so long as people don't die we are happy now?

I feel the selection of John Barnes effort has been vindicated.

I can't speak for vulnerable people and maybe my expectations were too high but although I was expecting an exit wave I wasn't really expecting up to 100,000 new cases a day. There is stuff that could be done liking arranging supermarkets to only open for vulnerable people once a week for an...

At the moment someone with a compromised immune system is at much more risk than they were pre-pandemic as there are several thousand people walking round carrying Covid, some of which don't even know about it. Now at some point we were going to emerge from lockdown and an exit wave would...