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I've quit. Bit of a wrench after nearly 5 years and a couple of CAMRA awards but given that the bar is small I wouldn't get more than 10 people in it with the reduced footfall and social distancing. I used to take over 6 grand a week. I was paid a weekly retainer plus 20% of turnover. I'd be amazed if it takes a third of that now. Since lockdown I've been delivering 5l containers of real ale to peoples houses all over Leeds and it's been incredibly busy. I've really enjoyed having evenings and weekends to myself for the first time in years too. The delivery setup has gone to the next level. I've set up a company called The Yorkshire Ale Man. I'm having a web site built, I've got some premises and I'm moving on to metal 5l mini casks which I'll be sending out with DHL nationwide. As they say, one door closes and another opens but this was my own decision. I want nothing to do with the shitfest that pubs are going to have to deal with. More hassle than it's worth and I reckon we'll see big localised spikes in infections. I still have the app on my phone with which I can access the security cameras in the bar. I was more than a bit stunned on saturday to see an ICU nurse who I know very well and who's been telling everyone there's gonna be another spike, sat drinking in there with her husband.

That post is full of bitterness and desperate flailing. Like the silly 'rivals headquarters' shout....that in itself is born of the need to try and make themselves feel better because they have an office in that iconic building.....thing is so do fucking law firms, banks and food companies. But to your bitter it is suddenly 'theirs' a building that has been around for over 100 years and is famous the world over is theirs because the majority shareholder at their club is a partner in the conpany who bought it. It's a landmark in the City of Liverpool and that is what it is known as and always will be, nobody really associates it with Everton FC, much less as their HQ, but even more importantly no Liverpool supporter really gives a shite anyway, but their inferiority complex means they feel the need to make it an issue to the point where beauts like that whopper try and make out we 'went to celebrate outside their HQ' as some kind of deliberate classless act. The rest of his senseless rant, fuelled by bitterness and looking desperately for likes off other idiots is pretty standard bitter logic recycling the same empty shite that eats away at them and is just the rhetoric they use to try to feel better with. As for that twat with the wall post - just another sad, sad classless prick who is too consumed by us to see just how low using the deaths of people at football to score points on the internet really is. It must be fucking horrible to be so consumed by bitterness towards your rivals as they are, and the mental gymnastics they go through to try and find a way of coping is pitiful....the louder they protest, the more they try and justify, the more they attempt to claim the moral high ground - the more bitter they look and become.

Regarding the flare, not only is it disrespectful to the memory of Dixie Dean and his family, it’s disrespectful to the Everton fans who have left flowers and tributes at the foot of the statue. Football really brings the worst out in some people, doesn’t it? Fucking shite.

Club foot.

I wrote it myself, mate.

Wetherspoons - Selling tarnished cutlery that would give salad fingers the horn

I stand by everything I've said against the owners. Nobody here thinks that Tito Vilanova, Luis Enrique and Ernesto Valverde are all phenomenal football managers. Between them, they have 5 La Ligas and a champions league. We all know that's bullshit. What they actually had, was Leo Messi and they were able to scratch trophies out of him. We saw FSG's plan for this football club when they sacked Kenny and anointed Rodgers. I'm not prepared to congratulate Boston hedge fund owners, because they were able to convince a once in a generation genius to try his luck with us.

Which is why yer got sacked at the funeral parlour.

How the fuck did these get Ancelotti. It's like Al Pacino signing up to Hollyoaks.

Yeah he'd make a crap human shield for when his dad fancies a scrap with opposition players.

Paulie Malignaggi fought Miguel Cotto in the Garden, on the Puerto Rican independence weekend. Paulie was undefeated at the time, but Cotto fractured his orbital bone in a violent decision victory. Paulie is now retired and a really good analyst for Showtime, and Sky, occasionally. When he was asked to describe his experience against Cotto, he said "it was like fighting the devil in hell." When I see our obscene home record, I wonder if that's how away teams feel.

It wouldn't really be any different to the national lockdown, would it? Lockdown has disproportionately affected the least well off. If you're a large business, or you have a home with a garden, or you can afford private tutoring for the kids, then you're doing better than small businesses, people who live in flats, and people who solely rely on the state to educate their offspring.

Tbh, the bare-faced cheek of the U.K. govt describing any other country as high risk is mind-blowing when they’re willing to send plane-loads of plague-infested Brits out into the world

Nobody does mate, dont worry. Give it 25 years.

Life is pretty much back to normal - except no foreign tourists. The only flights in or out are for expatriation flights. Tourist dependent towns like Hoian are having big problems from street vendors to the horrible huge resort hotels that have sprung up like mushrooms over the last few years. Because of the governments immigration policies, there are no more border runs to renew visas, visa agents and immigration officials are all collecting Mercedes-Benz brochures - its currently about $250 US for a 3 month visa extension. Somebody used Downfall for a brilliant parody showing the problems facing expats wanting to stay longer. 10000000_1358375291029162_7595785283947998092_n.mp4

24 straight wins? At Anfield ?

I remember my Nan watching the wrestling on TV on a Saturday afternoon. Bearing in mind she was in her eighties the soundtrack went along the lines of: - kill him - smash his fucking face in - kick him in the bollocks - kill him Rinse and repeat.

I am the weatherection

I can only hope that caused her some genuine pain.

Ancelotti looking as arsed as Michael Caine was when doing Jaws: The Revenge. In an interview, Caine once said about it: "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

Surprised any of them are watching tonight seeing as they wanted the season null and voided because lives were more important.

They're like playing with somebody else's dog , it's amusing taking the piss at first but annoying that they wont go away when you're bored.

On the road again is indeed a great track and would certainly be in my top 5 all time best. I've been a fan of the blues music of Canned heat for a long time and Alan Wilson was the creativity behind the band and often wrote about life experiences in songs, if you listen to the track "London blues" he sings about a girl who strung him along and then blew him out while he was staying in the city while the band was touring. As for the lyrics for "on the road again", Alan's mother did actually leave him when he was quite young, he was three years old at the time when she walked out on the family and it was quite a few years before he was reconciled with her. Before his untimely death Alan has suffered what would be classed today as "mental health issues" and today would have received the appropriate treatment but in 1970 he was just released back in to the care of another band member Bob Hite with no help or treatment. At the time Canned Heat seemed to be permanently touring and it's written that Alan had long had enough and wanted to quit, the day before he was found dead the other band members were already flying over to England for yet another long tour but Alan never showed up at the airport and after a search was found dead the next day in the woods behind the house where he was living at the time. As for suicide, it is well documented by his friends that Alan used to have trouble sleeping and would take barbiturates to help him sleep, it will never be know whether he intended to take his own life. In my opinion Alan Wilson was probably one of the greatest ever blues harmonica player, something John Lee Hooker agrees with and it was tragic that his life ended at the young age of 27 but one thing is certain, he was no killer.

I’ve seen a picture of it and there’s wreaths laid at the feet of the statue and behind it against the wall, so I personally think it’s fucking disrespectful and whoever did it - and let’s face it, it was a red - is a prick.

Very sad news, Rest In Peace sir.

Do they go the game dressed as blue plastic seats then?

I find it hilarious that Evertonians think that they are the only set of fans who go to football matches. One of them said to me yesterday that the lockdown has affected them more than most because they actually go to the matches in comparison with other clubs.

Why did you wait until November? Most of us were aboard the Jurgen train on day 1.

I hate Brighton. Knocked us out of the FA Cup in successive seasons when I was at an impressionable age. Listened to one of them with a transistor radio pressed against my ear hole, whilst on a long car journey and sharing the backseat with two of my three sisters and my brother. None of them empathised with my pain. They could have redeemed themselves in 1983 by beating the Mancs in the final but Smith deliberately didn’t score just to piss me off. Also, American Express is shit. I used to have one for work when I had a proper job. Spent more time wondering the streets looking for places that accepted it than sticking it to the man by racking up unnecessary expenses. I hope we win 0-10. That’ll show ‘em.

Well shut up or everyone will want one.

To be honest mate, a number of your punters from here said they thought your soup actually tasted better after that incident.

You were barred pre-lockdown because your bird pissed on the cutlery tray if I recall correctly. People complained for months afterwards that my chicken soup starter tasted like rancid piss

Can anyone sun this up for him?

No issue with him being fifth in line up front, but should never be first cab on the rank.

Origi is an enigma. There is obviously something there but he just doesn't seem to have the intelligence to provide his ability consistently,or at all of late.

It's been disgraceful that Liverpool have failed to locate any locals in recent times. The idea that there wasn't one teenager in a football-mad city capable of playing for a team that was struggling to make the top four was a damning indictment of the Academy. Now they have found two who look at home in the best team in the world. Just champion.

I did not come on here to be sunned at.

Vietnam has had 355 cases total (340 cured), 0 deaths. 80 days since the last community acquired case, only repatriated Vietnamese. Quarantine, tracking and mass testing. Borders closed immediately, schools closed for months, and an almost total lockdown for about 6 weeks. No public transport, essential services only and face masks compulsory in public.

Its never enough. What we've won is now in the past and we prepare for next season and do it all again. We are Eurpean, World and League Champions now we prepare to do it again next season. We are back on our perch and we plan to stay there.

Last time I went to Brighton I got some whelks on the pier and a seagull swooped in and grabbed a beakful then shat on me as he flew away. Avenge me, Reds. Just get these beat.

And his sisters got the XHamster