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I didn’t watch it today, but this can’t go on. I really did want him to do well, I’d really like him to do well, but I feel the general feeling has turned, so as fickle as it may be, I’d rather join in with majority. I’d rather lump in with my fellow supporters at this stage and fight a common cause. This appointment has caused division from day one, so it’s time for Purslow to admit his mistake and make it right. We need to bring in a manager who can galvanise the fan base and that has to be someone like Pochettino. The club now needs to stop talking the talk and actually **** act like the club they keep pretending to be.

Here’s my first ever criticism of him: he’s a Poundshop Tim Sherwood.

“Hi Steven, I work in journalism but I’ve been on the moon with my eyes closed and fingers in my ears, so I don’t know if you’ve talked about this several times over the last week, but it looked to be a good performance from Emi Buendia when he came on as a sub. Has he done enough in your mind to start a game?"

Some people will be in the same situation as foreveryoung anyway; you won’t get to wear the shiny, new helmet. Foreveryoung doesn’t want a booster, other people might, but unless you’re in the eligible cohorts, the decision has been taken out your hands and made for you by the JCVI. I’m sure that’s beyond what some people will be comfortable with, but you have no choice other than to trust the experts. Perhaps it’s not great, and we shouldn’t trust the experts here, for whatever reason, but you have no choice in terms of the new booster. You will still wear a helmet (previous jabs and probably infection) or you can wear a much more effective helmet (previous jabs, possibly previous infection, plus other risk preventive measures) but you won’t get the super protection helmet. So ultimately, you’re still left with some personal decisions to make - you can reduce social contacts, avoid busy areas, and wear a high quality, well fitted masks on the rare occasions you do leave the house. How many people have genuinely been doing all these recently though despite waning immunity? And will you be doing it if you’re not in an eligible cohort for the booster? The logic for not doing these things, whilst probably not exactly the same as foreveryoung, does occupy some of the same space. “I know I could catch COVID, but I’m previously vaccinated and/or had the infection, so I’ll still go to that pub/bar/party on Friday. I want a beer at Villa park, so I’m willing to stand in a packed concourse. Despite the risk, and the airport crowds, I still want to go on holiday next week. I’ll socialise at Christmas, I’ll see my mates, and see my family” You must be weighing up your risk and concluding: “If I catch it, I’m sure I’ll be fine/I hope to be fine next time”. Or as Blandy said: “If I catch it, I’ll handle the symptoms”. Your overall risk factor has already been determined by the JCVI and, if you’re not eligible for the next booster, it’s now left to you to carry on as normal or make those other personal choices. If you had absolutely no belief that it’s likely you’ll be okay, you’d stringently stick to the full suite of personal risk preventative measures. There’s overwhelming evidence to suggest a very cautious approach would help; you’d wear a more effective helmet at all times.

As @CVByrne rightly pointed out, Carlos was signed as a press resistant, ball playing CB. Rob Holding is the absolute polar opposite of that. The link HAS to be complete rubbish. It would make no sense for us to sign him with they way we’re looking to play, not even as cover.

It’s a dangerous situation if the play breaks down, sure, and a number of players would have an awful lot of work to do in order to get back into a defensive position. However, you can also look at that photo and suggest it could have been a promising attacking passage of play. If the first ball is effective, the Bournemouth full back has to hope he can outpace Bailey. McGinn is running into a lot of space, and aiming to drive forward so he can take up position outside/in line with corner box. You can see the B’Mouth player desperately trying to get over to cover McGinn’s run, this then leaves space behind him, but the opposition player picking up Ings has allowed Ings to get goal side of him with a yard head start. There would be then be an opportunity for Ings to take up the huge area left by the onrushing Bournemouth player. So say the first ball is effective and it finds either Bailey down the line or McGinn in space (either scenario ideally requires the ball to, at some point, end up at McGinn’s feet), he should then be looking to race ahead of, or cut inside, the onrushing B’Mouth player and then deliver the ball to Ings who should use the space and make a diagonal run into the box. Arguably you’d want the players in that situation not to be McGinn and Ings; I’d expect a better outcome with Buendia and Watkins. Buendia to receive the ball and use his nous to beat the man trying to get across, Watkins for his pace to make the diagonal run. They weren’t even on the pitch though, so..! Saying all that, it’s hard to deduce anything just from a still photo, taken in the early stages of the first game of the season, that started at a frenetic pace. What we can all conclude and agree on, though, that it was mostly a horrible, horrible mess.

Or the way Zidane himself went on about him.

Same. As someone who has never watched Bordeaux with the regularity some see to have, I’d never heard of him either, those stats look dire though. But imagine being jealous about vague targets and tenuous links There was an article in the Torygraph the other day basically saying Newcastle are back to the drawing board with their recruitment plans and are having to work through a different list of targets.

Not Southern Indian but some of my shouts would be: Kricket. This is good for causal dining and it has a large seating counter. It's more of a modern take on Indian cuisine but the food is great and it's got a lively atmosphere. Go to the sister bar next door called Somo for a few cocktails. https://somasoho.com https://kricket.co.uk/soho/ Tayyabs. https://www.tayyabs.co.uk This is over in East London. It's been around for decades and remains popular. It's rustic with no frills, but I don't know anyone who's been there that didn't enjoy the food. Dishoom https://www.dishoom.com This is very popular so they've now got a number of locations. It depends where you're staying but I'd try one of either Carnaby St/Kingly Street, Covent Garden or Shoreditch. I like the one on Kingly Street. You should also definitely have a look in Kingly Court if you go that way.

God, this thread is a weird load of bitterness. I don't understand the jokes, memes, over exaggerations and furiously partisan opinions of football fans on a football forum. It's just bizarre. Oh, and I've never seen Jack waving pom poms.

Chambers won POS for Fulham as a midfielder. Tell me you know **** all about football without telling me you know **** all about football.

The earlier pages of this thread are pure, unmitigated comedy. Football forum punditry at its most hilarious. Go have a read if you want a laugh on a Monday morning.

Here’s pro vaccine, pro 1st & 2nd lockdown, mask wearing promoting, anti-viral supporting, whack job Dr Ali, who was against ALL restrictions from the very start (apart from the ones he wasn’t), spouting his bullshit again. I don’t know how he keeps flying under the radar of the Guardian’s editorial process and being allowed to spout his startling quackery. What’s worse is that he STILL retains his lofty positions at three prestigious institutions. How are top scientists in those places not seeing what the layman can see? We can only hope the epidemiology experts on message boards and newspaper comment sections continue to take him to task. Maybe then his fellow colleagues at Cambridge and Oxford will wake up and remove this man. Once we stamp out scientific debate, and censor those that don’t agree with us, only then can we end this pandemic. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/28/lift-plan-b-restrictions-england-vaccines-restrictions

So now we’re just trusting the government now are we? Wow. Another long winded post but you still haven’t explained why 400 deaths per day from COVID is accurate. You’ve provided no analysis of any data. You’ve decided a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge and an honorary consultant in acute medicine at Oxford University is wrong because of some vague reasoning: “a tainted history”. I have suggested you should provide your analysis based on the ONS stats. You don’t even have to address Dr Ali, just the raw stats instead. Devi Sridhar is also wrong and should be discredited. Okay, so who is correct and which scientist have you decided to trust?

It’s not his own data, it has come directly from the ONS. Here’s the link that he provided in his Tweet. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales You have your own narrative but you don’t seem to be able to back up your claims. You don’t have the time to look at the data but you seem to have the time to post long-winded messages on a football forum. Odd.

That the deaths have increased wouldn’t change the fact that the data could be skewed by certain factors. He provided the raw ONS stats. The link to the data tables are in the thread. Let’s see your analysis then and you can explain why 400 deaths from COVID a day is accurate since you’re standing by that claim so vehemently. Oh and did you see the recent article by Devi Shridhar in The Guardian? (A paper that Dr Ali has also written for). She’s been courted by all corners of the media throughout the whole pandemic and has had an extremely risk averse and cautious approach throughout. You’ll note a massive change in her tune. How about her analysis or nah because it doesn’t agree with your opinion that we shouldn’t be moving to the stage of living with the virus. https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/19/science-covid-ineradicable-disease-prevention

I think this is mostly fair. I do think there is some underlying bitterness to Malone. The relevance of the heartburn drug, though, I am not so sure. In the early stages of the pandemic a number of pre-existing drugs (treating all sorts of ailments) were being reviewed and analysed by scientists across the world as potential treatments for COVID-19. Some drugs did show early promise but fell by the wayside. In terms of the $21m deal, that’s was paid to his employees. It does wonder whether he was rewarded with any of that money, but we just don’t know. It could be that he walked out on the basis of the company reneging on paying out certain financial incentives. He blamed the environment as being difficult to work within. I guess we’ll never find out. I’d be very surprised if he didn’t make a dollar out of it though. There might also be an irony to it being a heartburn medication. Pfizer are one of three companies currently going through litigation in the US. They’ve been accused of concealing the dangers of a carcinogen they’d been using in Zantac (a heartburn medication). The drug had been marketed as safe and the chemical was never listed as an ingredient.

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I don’t really know how this is a response to what I posted. Did you mean to quote me? I was talking about why some people might be vaccinate hesitant for reasons other than stubbornness and ego. And how it’s not helpful to tell all currently unvaccinated people to stop crying and get on with it.

Some people can be vaccine hesitant (for many reasons) so it’s wrong to use these labels and to just tell people to “stop crying and get on with it”. (Yes I am vaccinated).

Indeed. Gladly, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard also said he thinks the worst is behind us. Also, Dr Raghib Ali in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/04/pandemic-end-uk-covid-hospital-vaccines-optimism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59865108 There seems to be a slight change in tone & direction albeit with some tough weeks ahead still to come.

What ever happened to the AZ vaccine? I don’t understand why that isn’t being also being used as a booster. Have there been studies to show it’s ineffective as such? I genuinely have no idea why the UK Government just seemed to sideline an effective vaccine!