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If this league is voided and for some reason a new season is considered more important than finishing a league that is 75 percent complete then I'm done with football. As soon as it's safe to start a new season it's safe to finish this one first.

With things being quiet on the footy front at some point soon I'll close the site for a day or two to upgrade the software. Not sure when I'll do it but I'll give you plenty of notice. In terms of content for the subscribers, there's obviously no match reports or round ups on the immediate horizon but I will try to keep the diary going as long as there's stuff to comment on. I want to try and keep giving you value for money though so to replace the match reports I've had an idea. "Time Machine Match Reports" Basically I'm going to do reports on memorable games from the past but I'll be writing them as though I'm there at that time and have no knowledge of what happens over the following years. So, for example. The first one is going to be the 1986 FA Cup Final. I'll be writing a report on that game as though I'm writing it in 1986. Obviously these will be a lot harder to write than current reports because I need to do some research to see what was happening in and around these games as I want to write them in the same style I would do games taking place now. The reports aren't going to be "after ten minutes Dalglish put one on a plate for Rush and we took the lead" as that's not my style. I want to make them as close to how I'd write it normally, so to do that I'll actually need to do some background research. I'd like to do one a week but that might be overly ambitious depending on what resources are available, so in terms of the frequency we'll play that by ear. The biggest complication is that I'll only do reports on games where I have access to the full 90 minutes, but getting the full 90 minutes of old games isn't easy. I've got various cup finals from the 60s, 70s and 80s (ideally I don't want to do anything later than those anyway) and I've got the Forest 5-0, but other than that I'll be struggling so if anyone can point me in the direction of full 90 minute videos then that would be great. I'll hopefully have the first one ready to post in a few days.

In fairness, he's right, it won't affect it. In much the same way it won't affect Nessie, the tooth fairy or Candyman.

Yeah, but you started doing that 20 years ago.

https://footballia.net/teams/liverpool-fc Loads of full games pre TLW up on that website

Germany running out of sausages and cheese due to panic buying. It's the Wurst Käse scenario.

That's our highest finish for years.

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Because the idiots are in charge. You've got Bozo and Cheeto, despotic Communists and a western society that really isn't a society just men, women and families. Most people don't know their neighbors, social clubs are now whatsapp and FB memes, and everyone moaning about shutting pubs- they've been shutting at a record pace for years have they not due to no one going? Perhaps some alone time to have a think about what we've created would be a good idea. Gutting health services, running hospitals at bare minimum service, underpaying and overworking front line workers, corporate welfare running at higher levels than ever. And we get 'Chinese flu' 'we'll flatten the curve' 'the economy will pop again' etc

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John Oliver knows.

Shows about narcissistic exhibitionists with no talent are truly grim, they don't get an iota of my attention as does anything that has reality, celebrity in the title. Throw X Factor, The Voice etc into that mix as well. I suppose they serve a purpose for some though.

Absolutely fucking honking.

Stringy can help with details of the FA Cup Final against Burnley.

Antiques Roadshow Ben and Hollys little Kingdom First Dates Coach Trip

It's the same tanks, we have 3.

Well, some good news at last, the Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled.

Sorry, but I laughed...

I enjoyed "Watching" years ago. Emma Wray was great and the incomparable Patsy Byrne was in lots of them.

What is it, and what does it want?

This aged well:

Fair play to Neville here. Our offices are right next door to Stock Exchange. Tom Kerridge made my lunch the other day.

Money is a fucking joke isnt it. We are in the midst of a global health crisis and money seems more of a concern than health. Ffs just factor money out of the equation, cos its bullshit anyway. Pause money, cancel money, print money, whatever. Do whatever is required to alleviate the concerns of the precariat class (basically anyone who isnt a cash millionaire) to assure them that they can socially distance, that they can self-isolate and that they dont need to worry that their leccy might get cut off, that they wont starve, that they wont get laid off or lose their home etc etc etc. Money pffffff.

Treble season reports: https://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/index.php?/forums/forum/26-1st-team-2000-2001/

I wasn’t being serious. Sorry for assuming people would get that. I started the fucking thread

Because for the majority of the last 40 years the prevailing attitude of countries like ours has been to prioritise profit over everything else and largely been run by politicians who have been bought and paid for by sociopaths who don't care who lives, dies or is damaged as long as they make a profit?

Genuinely thought our name was on the trophy after that goal.

Wow, lots of conspiracy theories! The real scary thing about this is just how quickly and easily the world has been caught out by a virus that in the scheme of things, doesnt have a particularly high mortality rate. You can look at the pandemics through recorded history that wiped out millions and this doesnt come close, even if it is in its early stages. Depends how much you depend on stats and from whom but China has reported only 1 new case for the 2nd consecutive day. Even Italy is showing a slow down in fatalities. Everything is crashing,literally, around your ears be that public sensibility, stock markets, currencies and commodities. How could the world get caught out so easily?

https://amp.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-australia-queensland-researchers-find-cure-want-drug-trial/news-story/93e7656da0cff4fc4d2c5e51706accb5?__twitter_impression=true A team of Australian researchers say they’ve found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month. University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research director Professor David Paterson told news.com.au today they have seen two drugs used to treat other conditions wipe out the virus in test tubes. He said one of the medications, given to some of the first people to test positive for COVID-19 in Australia, had already resulted in “disappearance of the virus” and complete recovery from the infection. Prof Paterson, who is also an infectious disease physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, said it wasn’t a stretch to label the drugs “a treatment or a cure”. “It’s a potentially effective treatment,” he said. “Patients would end up with no viable coronavirus in their system at all after the end of therapy.” The drugs are both already registered and available in Australia. “What we want to do at the moment is a large clinical trial across Australia, looking at 50 hospitals, and what we’re going to compare is one drug, versus another drug, versus the combination of the two drugs,” Prof Paterson said. Given their history, researchers have a “long experience of them being very well tolerated” and there are no unexpected side effects. “We’re not on a flat foot, we can sort of move ahead very rapidly with enrolling Australians in this trial,” Prof Paterson said. “It’s the question we all have – we know it’s coming now, what is the best way to treat it?”

Too late Barry. The forum has spoken and I can’t even be arsed carrying on with the tournament. Father Ted over Bottom has done it for me. I’m going to run as MP for Liskard

I haven’t come on her for positivity and talk of existing anti-viral medication working. Keep posting panic-mode shit instead please.

Seinfeld The Larry Sanders Show South Park The Simpsons Family Guy Most live action US sitcoms are written by committee, and end up incredibly formulaic. The rhythm of the set up lines and the pithy comebacks makes me want to vomit. For some strange reason, I never really got into Curb Your Enthusiasm. Should really give it another go.

I'm sure they'd target the NHS if the NHS were interesteded. The government aren't interested in testing people. You get less positive results if you don't test, so they're able to hide the real number of infected people. In the mean time I'm sure lots of businesses would prefer the workers were not isolated at home for 2 weeks at a time because someone in their household has a seasonal cough or a temperature from a bit of a cold. Just because our government is shite, doesn't mean private enterprise needs to sit on its hands too and slide us into further economic ruin.

I’ve already started putting gravy browning on my legs and shagging American soldiers.

I’m on Ciclesonide every day. Bonus.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/03/17/premier-league-seek-clubs-support-confirm-season-will-not-declared/

Women when you want to watch the footy or go asleep.

I know I've put this on here before but I've had some 2 year. Lost my dad, my dog, my job, mums had a major heart operation and the mrs nephew. To add to being woken up to find I'd lost my job (news was on tv before we were told due to stock market rules) mrs found out her sisters cancer had returned (bladder cancer which is what killed my dad)

They were. Bread was Fucking Rubbish.

As long as he does go... Complete shite that's nothing but a disruption to a decent defence now.

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