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Agreed. We don’t have to sell. And the owners don’t necessarily want to sell either. Pay rediculous money, or take a hike!

I stand by my opinion that we have been a lot worse without him. I don’t know the true facts... haven’t been bothered to research it, but I think we look a lot weaker.

He sorta did, indirectly - he said stay at home, or you can do stuff with members of own household... suggests you can’t go and see people (in the normal way) yet. Talking of people going back to work - what about removal companies? I’m still waiting to move house!

There’s a chance for teams, higher up the leagues, to come up with some inventive ways to engage with fans and still make some money, as I’d imagine their main revenue streams are through sales of merchandise (I assume they are still open for business in that sense). What clubs could be doing is asking their players, who are still being paid wages, to perhaps have fan engagement sessions online that we can pay to be a part off and perhaps pay a small fee to enter, a bit of a Q&A session. Or come up with some other inventive ways to generate revenue... certainly things clubs can be doing to generate income. That’s what other business are having to do during these times - need to adapt!

Very against us having to play any games behind closed doors at home. Especially as the teams we are playing at home have had the advantage of playing us at their place with fans to cheer them on. (I get that every team will be in the same position). Playing behind closed doors is used as a punishment. Season needs to be scrapped, that’s all there is to it. Shame for Liverpool and others but, nobody saw this craziness coming! Stupid really that there is no disaster plan in place to account for this type of thing.

Tilt your phone sideways, you’ll see why!

I’m confused by the advice of staying in doors... The wording of it seems to just be geared up for Londoners, rather than thinking nationwide. Can we go out an sunbathe in our gardens or not? Can we go for walks which counts towards our exercise?

Myself and the fam went for a walk today. 5miles through fields, along bridleways etc. Annoyingly the route we took, which we didn’t realise took us through someone’s bit of land past their house (public right of way though) to which he promptly came out the house as we were climbing over a style and asked if it was sensible... hes probably right... but would have been more sensible for him to stay inside rather than coming to ask us if what we were doing was sensible... i don’t know if we are supposed to be doing these types of walks or not, to be honest..

Got a company call in a few mins - sounds like we are going down the furlough route as we need to save on costs - sales are shit. Customers are having to close shops apart from those that sell online. Dont know if my role is directly affected, as IT support and e-commerce manager for UK, I’d probs expect to still be working, but, don’t know. Really annoying, and worrying

if there are elements of truth in this, then, he needs to be stripped of the captaincy...

Nahh. I was just trying to be funny whilst working at home, slightly bored. Wasn’t worth it though as I didn’t get a single laughing emoji. Next time I come up with comedy gold I’m keeping it to myself. Or will share it with the wife instead. Bastards.

Well, another week without a win. The lad must be feeling the pressure now.

My days start with me hoping for some positive news come 5pm when it comes to the Italy figures being announced. It’s just constantly getting worse and worse. Would love to understand why there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Freaking terrifying.

A couple of well established village pubs close by to where I live have decided to close, having both only last week launched takeaway versions of their normal menu, and closed the restaurant and bar. We bought from one of them last night, and saw the announcement this morning, which is a shame because they offer a lot to the community as well. I wonder if the recent announcements by the government are making it easier for these places to just shut up shop completely as wages can be paid to staff, rather than fighting to remain semi-functional...

Edit: tried to post a video but the damn thing didn’t embed due to an error. Sad face.... Here’s the link to it anyway, it’s Russel Brands view on what the coronavirus has revealed to us all...

So where are we in terms of finding a proper treatment for this, has there been a defined concoction of drugs that seems to work in treating some of the serious cases? Guessing we are still years off a proper vaccine also....

It’s very unsettling to say the least. We did quite well out of our sale (which was one of the main reasons we decided to go through with it in the first place), so we have been able to put down a decent deposit and keep some back for ‘stuff’. However, to reach a point where we have to spend that money because we are not working, worries the hell out of me... its just impossible to know what’s gonna happen. Massive gamble. Also don’t forget, can take months for a purchase to even get to the complete stage... so you can have your offer accepted and go with it for a bit... if you then need to pull out due to unforeseen circumstances, then you can with little (to zero) financial loss... sucks for the vendor, but, that’s the game...

NB: purely selfish post... supposed to be completing on a house purchase either tomorrow or early next week. Kinda don’t want to now! Dreading what’s gonna happen a bit further down the line, especially if one or both of my wife or I lose our jobs. Weve already ‘completed’ on our house sale, we exchange next week. Living with the in-laws currently. **** knows what I want to do right now.

Just on the WFH thing, was tasked end of last week with setting up 20 odd office staff so they can remote work - some already could as they have laptops, others use desktops and some have VDI boxes. Monday came and I had arranged for a number of the staff to bring their devices in on Wednesday (tomorrow) so I could set them up. However, after Boris Johnson’s update yesterday evening, it became apparent that I would need to get them all sorted today, which, I had booked off for my daughters 2nd birthday. Got in for 9 and was done by 12, teaching people how to remote connect to their work comp is a bit of a nightmare!

Pretty much the same here. Completely doesn’t need to happen though if people shop less selfishly.The supply chain is good, plenty for everyone to lead their normal weekly shop routine. (For now, at least).

yea, but that's the thing. Its not a catch it once and then never catch it again type of illness. Each time someone gets it fights it off, you are building up a defence, so the body becomes better at dealing with it, to the point where eventually it becomes a common virus/disease... I don't think it has ever been reported that it is a one-time thing... I might be wrong.

its not a Flu though... its a different type of virus that presents with flu-like symptoms... Its much worse than a flu Its going to kill a lot more people in a short space of times than compared with a flu Governments all over the world are not treating it like a flu Hospitals are struggling to cope with the amount of sick people who have Covid19 than compared with the flu. Its not a Flu!!

Howcome it’s upsetting you? WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!

Dont worry - @rodders0223 uses a bar of soap..

hah - yea, definitely not!!