Playing behind closed doors:

To an extent, Premier League clubs are insured against this - at least if it is a temporary measure - because of their enormous broadcasting contracts.

In their accounts to 30 June 2018, Bournemouth's £5.29m total gate receipts accounted for only 4% of total turnover. That works out at about £240,000 a game, or a month's wages for striker Callum Wilson.

At Leicester, gate receipts of £14.69m represented 8.2% of their turnover in the financial year that ended on 31 May 2019. At Manchester United, the figure is 18.75% - matchday income for 2018-19 was £112.33m, or just over £4m a match.

From https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51805836

 

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Wishing ill on others is very nasty and when you get it, maybe you will wish you had been less unpleasant yourself.

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You think there's some sort of correlation?

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I have seen little evidence that life is fair and justice prevails, Saint - where does MM get these ideas?

R.

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Natural justice decrees it. People who wish ill on others, deserve whatever they get.

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Their other tip was - do it in "code" or some symbol in your work diary so the nosy don't twig what you are up to! R.

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When is the Cobra meeting today?

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China have reported 24 new cases, 22 new deaths all of which are in Hubei and 31 suspected cases.

You think nature is just? 

No, it isn't - but human beings have an inbuilt sense of natural justice. I am outraged by Saint's opinions in this thread, which go beyond mere politics and exhibit a callous indifference to his fellow man.

He is clearly a psychopath.

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You'll tempt Dom to hire him now.

Second UK MP - Maskell - down. More evidence this is far more widespread in the UK than we think.

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When they can:

a) be bothered

b) find enough members of government not infected

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According to the Tele, she is only self isolating because she met Dorris last week. Has she now tested positive?

NHS111 have advised that I self-isolate as a result of a meeting I had with the Government's Mental Health Minister last Thursday who has subsequently tested positive for Coronovirus. Thankfully I am asymptomatic. It is so important that we all follow all public health advice.

— Rachael Maskell MP (@RachaelMaskell) March 11, 2020

 

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Q kept saying how well the UK is doing, but I kept thinking that it is still too early and we don't know really. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nope - she was interviewed on BBC News just now. She contacted 111 overnight and was advised to self-isolate. One would hope anyone else Dorris has met would be taking the same conscientious action.

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Maskell is not "down", she is self isolating as a precaution. We need to get the facts right.

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Sorry - I think you are right wrt Maskell

PS: UK's seventh death now reported

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c) drag Bozo off some whore

 

 

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Anonymous from Westminster (source Guardian)

I work in parliament and developed the same symptoms as Nadine Dorries MP on the same day. I’ve had a dry cough, chest pain and fever for four days.

NHS 111 services triaged me away from Coronovirus on Friday. I could not be tested because I hadn’t been in close contact to a previously confirmed case.

The official 111 advice for me this morning – after calling again to check after hearing about Nadine Dorries MP – is to go to work with a cough, wash my hands, and assume that I don’t have it. (I am actually going to ignore that advice and work from home.)

I am worried that only testing people who have been ‘contact traced’ is missing a lot of people in the community, and that people like me may have coronavirus and are being advised to go to work anyway. Is this because the government simply can’t do the number of tests needed?

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Not very relevant to my point actually.

Re: "Natural justice decrees it." is a statement of faith, not fact, MM.

"Human beings have an inbuilt sense of natural justice" is a laudable matter of faith, very much the humanitarian view.

"Wishing ill on others is very nasty and when you get it, maybe you will wish you had been less unpleasant yourself."

Ill-wishing is an historically well documented pagan/wiccan/animist belief.

Calling someone a psychopath is either an insult, a diagnosis or ill-wishing!

I expect Saint will offer you a view.

R

 

 

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He can keep his views to himself

Anyhow, calling him a psychopath is a deliberate insult and also a diagnosis, but I do not see how it could be described as "ill-wishing".

 

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