Dr. Gonzo

He's still very young for a keeper. You've got a young side with a young manager, I feel like howlers are a given this season.

It was from a journalist that's got a pretty decent track record (granted with us) though, rather than just ordinary twitter bollocks. Not all twitter sources are equal, obviously

I saw a tweet last week from someone saying Chelsea were considering selling Kepa in this upcoming summer and looking to replace him with Nick Pope. Which tbh, I think is a bit weird as I'm pretty certain Pope's statistically one of the worst performing keepers in the league this season going off this: https://statsscoreindex.com/20200114/stats-perform-goalkeeper-rankings-jan-15/ - and that's while playing behind 2 flat rows of 4 most of the time at Burnley. Would be a bit of a worry if you put him behind a side that plays more progressive football, like Lampard's goal is with Chelsea. It's probably just twitter bollocks though.

Hasn't Lampard publicly come out and said Kepa needs to improve on the basics?

Stranger things have happened. If being a much better side was all that mattered in CL football, 2005 would have gone a lot differently. We would have been knocked out by Juventus. Or Chelsea. Or Milan would have beaten us in the final. Sides with quality coaches and quality players - which I'd say most CL sides that got out of the group stages are (if not all of them tbh). And this is Real Madrid. Have you seen how many goals they've conceded in their league this year? 13 fucking goals, it's an incredible defensive record. And Madrid with Zidane have a pretty remarkable record in knockout competitions, especially in the CL - winning it 3 times back to back. Tbh, I fully expect Real Madrid to go through.

Brb starting a fashion thread where literally every picture in the thread is of some sort of absurd clothing getup that no person could in good conscious recommend another person should wear.

West Coast & Chicago it looks like. Delta & American Airline stopping all flights to/from China.

That approach of the right players at the right price at the right time has been Klopp's approach. Sometimes though, when a club knows you're exclusively in for your player... they can squeeze a bit more out of you, as we found with Virgil (granted, getting caught tapping him up probably hurt our case ). Assuming pressure doesn't mount on Lampard, which I fear it will because it's Chelsea, but assuming pressure doesn't start piling up with Chelsea's issues and the lack of investment... I think this is the correct approach. Those specifically chosen players (although there should always be backups - Salah was a B option for Klopp... but what a second choice, because he was still identified as a particular player that'd take us up) are the players that'll improve Chelsea pretty massively as they're bedded into the squad. But there's always little overall tweaks and improvements that can be made with the current crop of players, who aren't bad, they just need to have errors coached out of them. And fixing those errors and the whole squad getting good at consistently doing the basics right means that overall there's more consistency in that side and that little tweak translates to a bit of steady gradual improvement. I think overall that's better for Chelsea's long term prospects of success and it's more sustainable (and a better use of Chelsea's enormous resources) to only spend big on the players the club has spent a long time identifying and making sure they fit in with the more positive approach Lampard is trying to instill at Chelsea. I just hope they give him a fair shake, considering how he's still pretty new to management - especially at this level. I fear one bad transfer window from Lampard and the Chelsea board will go back to their instinct of sacking the manager.

Yeah I thought that was the funniest bit. I'd worry about the other 5 nights in Europe after the first 2 against Real Madrid, personally. It's not like Real Madrid have a history of being shite in the competition, and they've just got Zidane back this season - a man who's won the fucking thing 3 times in a row. And even if they do get passed Madrid, which is for sure possible because City have a great side... but I don't think it'll be easy because it's Real Madrid in Europe, I wouldn't worry about the matches that come after the quarter final until after those 2 legs of the quarter final are over. It's the Champions League, I don't think there's an easy path to the final or winning it. They're some of the strongest sides in Europe left remaining, and even the sides that are having a hard time domestically usually turn up and try to give their all in the CL. And upsets happen all the time in the tournament.

Apparently this bit of skill and getting fouled got you the free kick for the goal. And I’d never have expected that. Because while Messi sometimes plays in the false 9, Lingard has truly mastered playing as a false footballer. Seeing him do something actually impressive looking is strange

If you think it'll help you not get infected and you're legitimately worried, go for it - who cares if you're the only white guy doing it? Better than getting ill with something that might kill you or your family.

First reports of a person to person spread in the US just now.

I'm not surprised. It's our best CB pairing with an incredible goalkeeper behind them.

I did not watch the semi-final between City and United... but I did just see this and it makes me go "what the fuck, is that Lingard?" https://streamable.com/ljir0 Lionel Jesse

The original picture one of those iconic images when you look at pictures of Liverpool before our time:

I mean as a Wirral lad, who's family and loads of friends are back there... I'm obviously going to be biased against wanting people sick with a disease that's been killing people around the Wirral. But yeah, I'm sure it's got some sort of legitimate reason based on our medical facilities. Or at least I fucking hope it does. I think with my granddad passing and my gran being old... me hearing this news has just given me something new to worry about in the back of my mind. At least until all of this blows over.

Ah fuck, that's awful news. Fucking Tories.

This is the way!

Keep yourself warm as fuck mate - if it's coronavirus, heat (and alcohol) are supposed to kill of the virus. I'd say get drunk as fuck too, but I'm not sure it's good health for your health to drink heavily while you've got a weakened immune system - even if alcohol is supposed to kill it off. Because that might weaken your immune system further and get you sick with something else.

Sometimes I feel like an introvert the way you're describing. Sometimes I don't. Although in my perspective it's a bit different because I'm married now and before that I'd been living with her while she was my fiancé for 5 years before I got married. But I feel like I've certainly had an interesting relationship with the balance of loneliness vs. preferring to not be around people, even though I'm a fairly social person. And it got worse when I went to uni and left home. I think it was most particularly bad when I left the UK - which makes sense because I'd left behind my family and friends I'd known my whole life, and it was just to a different part of our little island like the first time I'd moved out of the house I'd lived in my whole life. And while the internet's made things easy to keep in touch and regularly communicate with the people I care about from back home... there's still a feeling of loneliness that exists when you know it's not so easy to just go back and see everyone whenever you'd want to. And there's a feeling of constant loneliness being somewhere that feels so different to where you're from and with people who are so different to the people you grew up around. AND THAT'S JUST THE UK TO THE US - I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT'D HAVE BEEN LIKE IF I'D MOVED TO SOMEWHERE LIKE CHINA. But for me, I need a balance. My family, the ones I'm related to by blood and my wife, and my friends - the ones I've had all my life, and the ones I've made since I made my big move, and the few close friends I made at uni - but there's also time where I need to be alone and just do my own thing. And that's also for my sanity. So I don't know if that's weird or not - because I am happy I've got a pretty active social life, and I'm also happy when I do get time just to myself to do whatever the fuck I want to do. And when I've got that balance just right, that's usually when I'm feeling most happy in my life. It's good when that balance is perfect, so Thanos was definitely onto something.

My favourite thing about this Liverpool side is the number of times we’ve scored from a corner against us this season. Sides would almost be better off hoofing the ball to their keepers from corners than trying to score. It’s a far cry from those days under Rodgers where we’d concede off 10% of the corners against us. And I fucking love it.

This song always reminds me of my dad because when I was a kid he was always constantly listening to The Jam (and Paul Weller's solo shite).

Milan fans seem to hate him too. So many are practically begging for him to leave. I've barely watched any Serie A football this year (which is a shame, as it's my second favourite league). But I asked my old roommate (a Milan fan) what he thought about Spurs & Chelsea being interested in Piatek & he said: he's a confidence player that's out of confidence & other than scoring he doesn't make any contribution to the side - so when he's not scoring and out of form (like he's been this season), he's felt like Milan were playing with 10 men. It seems like if he's getting service and he's feeling confident in himself, there's a potentially great striker in the lad. But if he's on a side that's struggled for creativity until they had to plead for Ibrahimovic to come back and he's lost all confidence in himself because he's not getting service and when he does get chances his shots are awful... well then he's going to look extraordinarily bad. I can see why both Spurs and Chelsea would be apprehensive about paying a lot for a player that may have just had a purple patch last year and isn't all that great. At the same time, I can see why both clubs that are currently lacking in striking options would look for a player that's got the upside to get them more goals with a change of scenery.

He’d have to get 30 odd people willing to break laws and assure them there’s no chance of them getting caught or facing legal repercussion. It’s possible... but I think it’s extremely unlikely. I think this is just more of the Twitter melt mentality crossing over into the real world. A group of twats deciding to take things way beyond normal limits because they’re attention whores.