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Looking for the perfect version ... but this will do.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - I Believe In Father Christmas (1993) - YouTube

This is the quintessential Christmas song of the last fifty years

39 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

Comfortably winning MOTM poll. Lots of comments before HT awful, rusty, rubbish, get him off at HT, must be subbed.

I guess the goal erased those

Your first mistake is going to the match thread.

Almost got an assist!

1 minute ago, briny_ear said:

Olsen has had a good game so far.

Heresy!!

1 minute ago, briny_ear said:

Olsen has had a good game so far.

Heresy!!

I rewatched the game, paying close attention to Matty.

Did not make any more mistakes than anyone else.

Apart from his horrendous yellow, he was fine.

32 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

What do you suggest we call profit then?

Mostly profit???

The one-two with Watkins leading to the winner was sublime.

Overall great team performance. Rode our luck with a lacklustre first forty minutes or so. 
Did not like the four yellows ... two for dissent, one soft and one fully deserved.

I hate to say this, but it was bringing Diaby off that changed the game. Tielemans played a slightly different role to Diaby ... attacking midfielder versus second striker. Of course Bailey an obvious and effective substitute for Cash.

One great set piece and a beautiful interplay between Tielemans and Ollie for the two deserved goals.

Great game/time management. 

MotM? Most of the team could have got it. Ended up giving it to Luiz, but Emi had a great game,

Nice to see JJ and Jhon come on for their cameos.

While I also agree with the sub ... for different reasons. I thought Cash was OK. Diaby in front of him seemed to be on the wrong ordnance survey map.

I really did not like his tackle to get the yellow.

3 minutes ago, GarethRDR said:

Not the literal one, the rather excellent band (who are from considerably far away from Manchester):

I'm sorry ... I thought your answer was funnier if it was referring to some literal mythical orchestra from Manchester.
C'est la vie.

23 hours ago, GarethRDR said:

Guessing I can't cheat and say Manchester Orchestra?

The Hallé?

The only reason I know my wife's sister-in-law plays cello for them?

1 hour ago, VillaJ100 said:

I saw an old episode of Porridge the other day and Fletcher somehow skives his way into the local pub with a £1 note. He manages to buy a couple of pints and about 10 bags of crisps and still has change!

My first pint (must have been 1969), was 1s 3d

47 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Brazil vs Argentina tonight at midnight - anyone know a way to watch Doug vs Emi?

 

Google hisgoal??? 

13 hours ago, mjmooney said:

TBH I'd have that problem even with the 'big' teams. 

I don't have a problem not being able to name opposition players.

6 hours ago, luckyeddie said:

I thought the the dress was inappropriate, so obviously I am a henious human being

No, you are not heinous. You are a product of your conditioning. Now how do you (and we in general) examine our conditioning?

47 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

They already were on verge anyway so when Covid came it tipped it over the edge so not really a valid point 

Are you speaking for Canada and the US as well? If not then I think I do have a point. We don't run our hospitals with tonnes of extra capacity for obvious reasons.

14 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

There was fear mongering by the press. Then you’d have politicians telling us what may happen then going out partying in groups. I’m not saying it wasn’t serious I know of young ish people that died from it although chances were you were going to get a mild case from it

Were hospitals overwhelmed or not?

5 hours ago, luckyeddie said:

Ideally, they take between 10-15 years to create, test and refine, whereas this one was available in around 12 months

Interesting! Next year's vaccine was developed ten to fifteen years ago.

23 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

I agree Covid had massive strains on the hospitals and healthcare which we are probably still feeling the knock on effect of to this day . I’m not saying Covid wasn’t a problem I just think there was too much fear mongering which is what is expected in this age .

And if we are community minded then here is a reason in general to take vaccines. 

What I don't understand is this so-called fearmongering. Were hospitals overwhelmed or not? Is it a concern or not? The UK's early response was particularly ineffective around the winter of 20/21.

@Thug Not exactly my point though.

6 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

in fairness, there's numerous anecdotal examples. people dying from a heart attack that had covid put on the death certificates. i don't think this is the full story though. a very quick google search indicates that actually a death certificate forms multiple parts. 1) the disease etc that started the chain of events that lead to one's death. 2) other contributing factors.

i suspect that COVID was automatically mentioned in section 2 if a person happened to be COVID positive at the time.

more than happy to be corrected, i probably spent less than a minute getting the above info

Tom just take a look at the hospitalization data I linked to in a reply to Rugely just above.

1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said:

What I meant was some people were dying anyway and had other issues that were main reason for them dying. For example my grandad was dying from end stage dementia caught Covid , then the Covid subsided and he died few days after coming back out of hospital . I’d say thousands of cases were like this . I’m not saying they were randomly putting Covid on death certificates although Covid was put on my grandads. 

Fair enough ... but having a whackload of people in hospital with COVID putting a strain on other illnesses and emergencies is not desirable, is it? Here's a nice link giving hospitalizations per million for Canada, the US and the UK. You can add and subtract as you wish. UK has not reported any data in the last while. Canada has a relatively high number at the moment. Is it an unwanted strain of the health system?

Your Grandad sadly was taking up room that might have saved somebody else's (non-COVID related) life.
Again, it's not about you or even your Grandad, it's about the system/community.

Just now, Rugeley Villa said:

I think a lot of the deaths were manipulated towards it being covid when it wasn’t.

Citation please.

On 16/11/2023 at 02:58, Made In Aston said:

The caveat is that he won't be playing against the likes of Hibs every week. 

But occasionally Malta.