El Rojo

When a reporter said that none of the press saw him wearing a mask, Trump shot back: “I can’t help it if you didn’t see me.” “I mean I had a mask on but I didn’t need it, and I asked specifically the head of Honeywell, ‘should I wear a mask?’ And he said, ‘well you don’t need one in this territory,’ and as you knew, we were far away from people — from the people making the masks. They were making the masks,” he said. “But I did put a mask on and it was a Honeywell mask, actually. And I also had a 3M mask, and I had about four other masks, but I did have it on. I don’t know if you saw it, but I did have it on,” he said. Pressed on how long he wore the mask, the President paused slightly, and responded that it wasn’t “too long.” “Not too long,” he said, “but I had it on. I had it on back — backstage. But they said you didn’t need it, so, I didn’t need it. And by the way if you noticed nobody else had it on that was in the group.” Video from the facility shows workers wearing masks, which the President admitted. “The workers had them on yeah, the workers were there. Because they’re working next to each other,” he said. When another reporter asked how it looks for him to be in public not wearing a mask or practicing social distancing, the President seemed to have had enough. “I’m trying to be nice,” he said. “I’m signing a bill, and you criticize us. Look here’s the story: there’s nothing I can do to satisfy the media, the Democrats, who are the fake news. And I understand that.” When Trump is quoted verbatim, it just looks like a piece of text that somebody has translated through 50 different languages, one after the other, the meaning slightly altering all the time before it’s translated back into English.

I think Traore is extremely limited. Conversely, I also think that if Klopp wanted him that he'd turn him into one of the most potent attackers in the world.

That whole day was beyond strange. Full-on party in the plane on the way out to Istanbul, stony silence on the way back with people trying to process what they'd just experienced. That airport was bizarre too, and not entirely pleasant with no food or even water left anywhere. And just a few years into the security-hysteria that followed 9/11, I got back on the plane without once being asked for either my boarding card or passport. As for the game itself, Kaka was absolutely sensational before Hamann was brought on for him. Even in the pits of despair, I remember admiring the different level that he was on in that opening 45. What a footballer he was (Kaka, though Didi had his uses too).

Hearing that @aRdja is now advising Michael Edwards. Presented a 312 page dossier on Traore. Moves for a pair of Harrys in Winks and Maguire imminent.

Like rats leaving a sinking ship.

Lallana in goals and Harvey Manbun in for Virgil. I like your thinking.

They’ll be dancing on the streets of Celtic tonight in a socially distanced manner.

He definitely has a pool of sharks under his office floor that he can make underlings fall into be pressing a button.

This has all the atmosphere of a nearly full Etihad on a big European night.

He’s a monster. Must have gotten that footballing talent from his mother’s side.

‘I’m hearing...’ ‘I’m told...’ Is Dan Roan just Don Balon put through Google Translate? I like the cut of his ITK jib.

It’s the Kromkamp Final in my house.

Was thinking the same. It's clearly Watford (Sarr Seems To Be The Hardest Word) or Burnley (Don't Go Breaking Joe Hart).

He'd need a pretty stringent medical given how often Mourinho has thrown him under the bus.

Looking forward to somebody suggesting that he wouldn’t be fit to lace Fabio Borini’s boots if he played in this era.