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I have to say I am in line with all the people wondering why its just football clubs getting it in the neck. British Airways have furlughed 30,000 staff but I bet they will be spending 100's of millions in new planes sometime in the near future. Transfer fees are just business expenses for...

I can only assume that if the government had more time to develop a furlough scheme, it would only make companies eligible if they did not have substantial profits or if dividends to shareholders were restricted. And it would have had to make the laying-off of employees during this period...

I get why the government keeps making the point that we shouldn't visit these places, because certain parks and beaches can get ludicrously crowded on hot weekends and bank holidays - but the finger-pointing and aggression that so many people and journalists are engaged in at the moment is way...

It didn't quite work without a studio audience, but I think a lot of that is in the edit, and they'll work that out for future episodes

Puerile and therefore very funny, in my opinion

People surprised he won't be punished further? Two Derby players almost killed their club captain in a drink-driving accident earlier this season, they're still playing. Some Villa players hijacked a taxi overseas and drove it around drunk. This is what footballers do and they are allowed to...

Well obviously there will have to be compromises made by all sides. What you are describing is a few teams sticking their heels in and being difficult, but in reality I am sure that all the leagues in Europe will come together and agree a sensible way of resolving this to complete the season if...

I would be certain that rules on registration would be altered, there would be a UEFA-wide agreement that player registrations are extended to the new end date of the season, and the opening of the transfer window delayed to that point. Its a very simple thing to do, and would be completely...

No of course they can leave Chelsea on that day, my point is why would they want to? They can't be registered for another club until the transfer window has opened, which it won't do until the season has ended. So they would just be sitting around watching other people playing football, plus...

I can't think of a reason why any player would walk away at that time, they wouldn't be able to play for any other team in Europe until this season had been completed. They're already able to discuss pre-contract terms with other clubs. No, they would be offered and accept a short 1-2 month...

As about 50,000 people die a month in the UK, the 780 from coronavirus so far won't make a huge difference. I imagine the mortality figures for this March are relatively low compared to previous Marchs, as the winter has been so mild. February 2020 had about 2,000 fewer deaths than February 2019.

That is very interesting that there is a rapid test available that is identifying infected without symptoms, excellent news. The actual figures must be taken with a pinch of salt as tiny sample size, and even if 10% of a large city like Brussels were infected that would still not mean 10% of the...

Stoke have just fined him 2 weeks wages for it, he's apologised and deleted his account

It's a weird decision, as leagues above might find themselves on a different schedule. If the leagues above complete this season winemakers they're well be a point where clubs are relegated but no one promoted

I'm talking about two very different things matey.... My unsubstantiated, speculative hypothesis was that an earlier version of this virus has circulated and up to half the population has come into contact with it, and they will have some immunity to this current version, and the other 50%...

Its kind of weird to read that from a NHS consultant pathologist, although I suppose you can find someone in any walk of life to give a contrary view. Would you agree that this is another version of the argument that Covid19 is not that bad, isn't as impactful as suggested, not much worse than...

I'm not aware of that study, but please send. If 75% are asymptomatic, and the 10,000 is the number with symptoms, then that would be 40,000 in total infected. The chief scientific officer said that he thought the true figure would be 10 times the number reported, i.e. 100,000. I can believe...

10% of the population? 6.5 million people infected with 10,000 confirmed cases and 6,450,000 mild or asymptomatic cases? I don't think that chimes with the numbers from China or South Korea or elsewhere.

OK, no worries. Surprised you still find validity in their analysis. I'm not arguing for the sake of it, I just hate dramatic conclusions presented on the flimsiest of data so wanted to point out the flaws. Their interpretations would get destroyed if peer-reviewed and yet they can happily post...

Well, no, they are suggesting just that, their conclusion is that there have been up to 2,300 additional deaths so far in 2020 which don't appear in the official mortality figures, and that most of these deaths were elderly coronavirus victims. If true, the bodies have to be somewhere! What...