Wullie

Good. £125m down the football pyramid as well it seems. I'm more bothered about that in this context than money to the NHS, that's for the state to worry about.

Let's face it, the real culprit at Ewood Park was Shaka Hislop's utterly embarrassing goalkeeping.

“But the thing with this current situation is, it shouldn’t be left up to the lads to make individual donations. The non-playing staff wage bill isn’t that big. The club should fork out for that or the fucking owners should; they’re richer than any of us.” That’s pretty much exactly what I’ve been saying and you disagreed with it? The last point is that the FA and Premier League should mandate pay cuts. You disagreed because you don't want anything taking off the poor souls. I would have thought the left wing position is that nobody should have that much money, money that they cannot possibly spend. Must change my definition of socialism to "hoard as much money as possible as long as you can claim to have earned it" letf wing = socialism? Umm... yes? height=400https://i.imgur.com/S0wN0Yc.png[/img]

I've never said they should volunteer themselves. In fact I specifically said the complete opposite - mandatory pay cuts, like the rest of society has had, only most of them would actually notice, unlike footballers.

“But the thing with this current situation is, it shouldn’t be left up to the lads to make individual donations. The non-playing staff wage bill isn’t that big. The club should fork out for that or the fucking owners should; they’re richer than any of us.” That’s pretty much exactly what I’ve been saying and you disagreed with it? The last point is that the FA and Premier League should mandate pay cuts. You disagreed because you don't want anything taking off the poor souls. I would have thought the left wing position is that nobody should have that much money, money that they cannot possibly spend. Must change my definition of socialism to "hoard as much money as possible as long as you can claim to have earned it"

Love to know who this is: https://www.football365.com/news/feature-premier-league-player-wage-cut-matt-hancock Never agreed with anything more in my life. Wouldn't be surprised if it's Milner since he's never used an agent.

Amazing how quickly avid lefties will turn into free market capitalists when it comes to footballers having to give anything up.

Just what we need in the end times, the worst night of our lives replayed in prime time.

Are there any higher paid employees in this country than footballers? Genuine question. IMO the PL/FA should have taken the lead from the very start. As soon as the leagues were suspended it should have been pay cuts across the board, all into a big pot and shared down the pyramid to support the clubs further down who will die without even a few weeks of gate receipts. They look obscenely greedy at this point and it won't be forgotten.

Why should it be 20%? Why not take them down to the furlough cap of £2500 a month?

That's why some people (as in many millions) are being furloughed down to 80% or being made redundant - to cover costs elsewhere in the business, whether it be a pub or an airline or a factory, affected by this, such as wages. BA have done it today: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-ba-nears-deal-to-furlough-36-000-staff-report-11967241

You've not noticed tens of millions of people being made redundant or having their pay reduced? The chancellor said "oh yeah if you've got a cleaning job that you can't do, we'll give you 80% of your £12k annual salary" and most people said that's a pretty good compromise given the circumstances. But then someone mentioned maybe the footballers on £120k a week could do down to 80% and all I've seen is weeping over those poor poor people. They apparently have to keep every penny of it. Really fucking weird.

Yeah they're only one game before the convoluted play offs start so they've basically just cancelled them and are taking the league as is.

Belgium have cancelled their league and are taking the standings as they are.

Post the apocalypse, when the world stands smouldering and humanity verges on extinction, there'll still be people going "why should the players be taking wage cuts, this isn't their fault!"

Football in England is currently showing itself up in the most obscene way.

Count me out for next week if this cunt's playing.

Big one off Benton Road, it was alright actually. Decently stocked and they're operating a 1 in, 1 out policy kind of thing so there's not many people at all in store at once. I had to queue to get in but only for a couple of minutes and everyone was keeping their distance.

I agree but I think it's the only way they can do it now. Before a vaccine is created, crowds aren't going to be allowed to form and nobody is going to be want to be part of them anyway. I went to Sainsburys today and felt like I was dicing with death, and you could tell everyone else in there felt the same. It's just not going to be possible to go back to any sort of crowd situation pre-vaccine so it's either closed doors or over a year without football.

Cheers Greg, that was great.

I see he's put pictures of him training in his back garden and his daughter running around, it's right near the church at the top of Osborne Road.

Agree. There's a very good chance this thing will spike up again anyway before a vaccine is found, are they then going to fucking off two consecutive seasons?

Put me on the Maybe list.

Loving the amount of "can't believe they've done this, shocking" sentiments around. Like being surprised the sky's blue.

Him and the dickhead from Wetherspoons trying to outcunt each other on a daily basis.