Mudface

I'm pretty sure Villa would have had a better league record from the late '80s to about 2010 too. It was only from maybe 2012 that they started to fall away when Lerner got cold feet.

Villa pretty much are Everton. Faded club with past history, little support outside their immediate city (aside from Colombia of course, Juan Pablo Angel is fucking nothing on Instagram).

They've gone too far now.

Time for Meibion Glyndwr to fill up their Zippos.

It's so shocking and devastating that your brain refuses to process it.

It's very odd, both Flintshire and Conwy- where friends and relatives live- look low too. Are they worried of a spillover from the north west of England or something?

It's like Bill Hicks and George Carlin reincarnated.

Fuck, that's rough. Kind of similar to us. We usually see her at Easter for a week, then she has the kids for a couple of weeks in the summer and I go down for the last week. So last time was July 2019. While I'm feeling sorry for myself, my missus turned 50 this year, and we had a trip planned to New York in March and a country house in the Scottish Borders booked last week with half a dozen other couples- her school friends who were 50 this year as well. Both cancelled, along with the family holiday in July. And you've got cunts whinging about wearing a mask for 5 minutes in a shop.

Yeah, it's not great. We live in Scotland now and she's in Flintshire, so it's not easy at the best of times. She's a former nurse though, so will keep herself safe at least.

It's a pain in the arse. Every time we'd planned to go down this year, something cropped up. She's in her early '70s and is asthmatic, so no way I'm risking it.

Most of North Wales going into lockdown from Thursday. I had a brief hope that I'd be able to get down to see my Mum there sometime in late October, but there's definitely no chance now. Looks like it'll be 18 months at least till I get to see her since the last time.

Tyler starting rambling on about how many goals there had been so far in the PL, and said it wasn't so much a pandemic as a 'pendemic'. He chuckled to himself in that smug way he has, and there was dead silence from Neville who was probably considering launching himself from the commentary box in despair.

Make that 4- Really hope this is the peak and it starts to decline from here.

The first half dozen or so were played over two legs, then it went to a single Wembley game. But yeah, the Forest game was a replay, not a second leg.

Best part of the night was when Jota was walking off the pitch, puffing his cheeks a bit and looking a bit relieved. Klopp came over, gave him a fist bump and a hug, and Jota's face immediately broke into a big grin, like a kid who's just been told the homework they were worried about was excellent.

He is extraordinarily sexy.

From the comments-

Same happened with NHS workers- as they're more likely to come into prolonged contact with people who've had a positive test, they'll be getting messages telling them to isolate when they likely don't need to as they'd be wearing PPE.

Someone left his coke out in the rain.

Nah, just that Gambon was downright weird in the Dumbledore role. Harris was a calm, stately figure, Gambon over the top and neurotic.

Well quite, the vaccine is a Hail Mary pass and the Tories have brought us to this position. There is no easy way out, but you can guarantee if this bunch of fucking cunts thought they could get away with it, then they'd just let it go. The fact that even they aren't doing this, shows that it would be worse than the current situation.

That's not going to happen, Obama's a Muslim.

The problem is if you do just let it rip, you stand the chance of overwhelming hospitals and killing or incapacitating health workers, thus making things a whole lot worse. Plus, you're still going to have to isolate the most vulnerable- particularly in care homes- so they're going to be in the same situation as they are now. That's before you even consider nasty stuff like long-Covid, where a significant percentage of people are still ill months after the initial infection. As for the rules, they're a hodgepodge of sensible and stupid ideas and seem to have been cooked up on the back of theoretical models and actuarial figures. To take one example, either close pubs completely and compensate them financially or let them stay open as normal. Trying this ridiculous middle ground of shutting at ten is the worst of both worlds with a load of unintended but entirely foreseeable consequences- something this shithouse of a government seems very adept at doing.