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It's only right that Tony Blair's supposed boyhood club are owned by the Saudi's who pay him for his advice

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-armed-michigan-residents-protest-against-stay-at-home-order-calling-it-tyranny-11973905

Furloughed staff get 80% of their salary, which the government pays.

The furloughed staff are hoping that they'll get full pay when the new owners come in.

The usual suspects in the US took to the streets with rifles.

Football is high profile and noticeable. Risky for someone under scrutiny. Mike Ashley got far more public scrutiny by making himself known through football than others in his industry. Saudi involvement in things like Twitter, Uber and Snapchat goes unnoticed. This won't. Questions will constantly be asked.

I wonder if that might partly explains this

Vaccine human trials in England are starting in the next 2 weeks. If all goes well there could be a vaccine available for frontline workers by September.

Barcodes

Yes I was one of them and so were the flag makers Ticket prices weren't reduced. 10,000 season tickets were given away for free.

Keegan! Keegan! Keegan!

No idea of the clout of the potential new owners. Doesn't matter a great deal anyway. We don't need someone else's wealth to repair what the club means, is and behaves.

£200m upfront. £150m over 5 years according to the Daily Mail. That £150m is what is in the latest legal documents causing today's frenzy.

On a serious note it's the breaking news on skysports

Is this it? Is it happening? Holy fuck! £150m deposit made by PCP capital.

Nearly 60% in France think Macron has handled the crisis badly. Don't assume his "honesty" now is anything but a political strategy.

For a counter point to earlier Ireland post

I read success rate of even the best tests at the minute is only 90%, don't know how true that is though.

Didn't see anything about China in there unless I missed it?

Limitations for sure, especially geography and density. Nationwide lockdowns shouldn't necessarily happen in a country the size of the UK. That's a failure in test and trace. Outbreaks happen in enclaves, regions, small communities then spread. This is what Italy tried to solely lockdown without testing so they had no idea the scale of what was happening. UK shouldn't be considering everywhere opening back up in sync in my opinion. If we had the data you could open the lower risk areas. It will certainly be the case that some towns and cities are currently unnecessarily locked indoors and others don't need another 2 months of lockdown.

Chance for us to see how to come out of lockdown successfully so we can make sure we don't do that.

Click tweet for the thread on how Ireland started locking down 2 weeks before UK, where people were just washing their hands and arguing that we can't shut schools because who will look after kids.

The tweet is just one line from the report, there's a lot more in there. But I recall a big Boris fan telling me we can't lockdown because of the economy. This was when Italy was locking down. The mind boggles at what these people must think of how the economy works in Italy and China. Italy must be a country of only 80 year olds sipping state subsidised coffee and doing fuck all else every day.