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Richard Leonard Offski Suppose its time for Anas Sarwar to finally get the gig and see if he can be just as useless

At the risk of getting back on topic Game has been rescheduled for 30th January meaning Dons play Livi twice in the space of 4 days (Home game against them on 2nd February)

Derby appear to have been in the financial shit for a while now so I am not surprised they are one of the first of the next batch of clubs to announce problems paying their players down south. Unlike Sheffield Wednesday they managed to get away with the stadium sales trick but failure to get promoted in the playoffs 2 seasons back suggests they were gambling alot on getting TV money.

Kudos must go to 'powerleague' Townhead. Games were only cancelled when the pitches were completely buried by snow. Perhaps Livi and co should invest in a bright red, or blue pitch with all black penalty areas

Presume Oxford will be updating the definition of the term 'all-weather'

UKs gain is new zealands loss

Is 'Brutalism' or the soviet 'cosmic' style back in fashion then?

Article is here. Think it only covers Englandshire so remains to see how quick Scotland gets on with things. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/11/downing-street-rules-out-24-hour-covid-vaccination-centres

So it appears the UK government are now not looking to have 24hr tests because 'there isnt a demand' for appointments after 8pm Am I the only one who sees this as another example of 'blame the public' for government incompetence and dare i say it 'LIES about how many actual doses they have managed to get, or how many doctors/ nurses etc are still actually fit to work? I seriously doubt its 'lack of clamour' as if its tickets for a Lloyd webber show, its more along the lines of a 12pm sunday kick off at hampden for any team north of Motherwell ie they can't fucking well get to the vaccination centres. If they want to get 70% of the population vaccinated before next Christmas give the 8am - 8pm daytime appointments to the 70+ age groups who may have to rely on public transport or family members to drive them, and then open up the 8pm - 8am for everyone else. Its not fucking rocket science. Ill happily take a 3am appointment in Wick. Fairly sure my elderly parents will take a 4am appointment too

The 1 goal shows the gulf in class between reasonably paid pros, and a 11 joiners, teachers, & bin men

Would have been nice to tick 'new boghead' off my lower league grounds list (or at least pretend id have a chance of getting a ticket in the panic). I expect after lockdown it will be all home ties, or away days at premiership stadiums. Tic & Sevco in home ties against lower league opposition shock..... again

Twitter just shut down his account permanantely......... or at least until he can re-register.

Id say its more like 5 years if at all. Mother Nature playing a blinder with this one. Everyone was scared of ebola but a highly infectious virus that kills pretty much 99% of its victims in a matter of days is actually easier to control - When there is little you can do to treat/cure, you locate the source, put all victims into quarantine and effectively sacrifice them. When the virus has nowhere to go, the strain dies out. A slow burning sleeper cell which picks and chooses who and how badly to infect in a fairly random pattern is a real test of the human race to see if we can reasses our priorities and stop being such cunts to the all the other living things on the planet. ive no idea if I fall into any special category although this year is the first time ive ever been offered a standard flue jab so using the vaccine queue thing I supposedly might get it sometime in february but who knows. If true I can't honestly say I think I should be given priority over anyone else and sometimes wonder if its even worth getting given how shit the world is.

Sums up the lacklutsre sabre rattling bullshit that is Trump. I'd day if these people were actually serious about 'taking their country back', they wouldnt have played up to the TV cameras, taken silly photos of themselves sitting in the speakers chair etc. Serious revolutionaries would have barricaded themselves in ready for an assault by the authorities, or trashed/ set fire to the building, or perhaps even both. Wonder what France would be like today if their revolutionaries had just stopped once they got inside the Bastille, Versaille etc Interesting tweet from Jemele Hill from 'The Atlantic'

Not the ones stationed in DC The Virginian ones are being sent in on the orders of the Democratic Governor.

Absolute clusterfuck this and potentialy a proper test of the constitution so many Americans cling onto. Supposeldy the DC cops have asked for the National Guard to assist but this request has been denied by Trump's stooge. Interested to see if the Delta Force end up being called in, or indeed if they actually 'can be' if the sitting president doesn't order it

After reading they have put their heads above the parapets again, apparently uploaded some of their stuff onto streaming services and hinted at releasing previously unheard material I broke out my copy of 'the White Room' Now if its possible these guys could be the next gig I attend the lockdown really won't seem so bad.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/historian-highlights-eerie-parallels-between-reactions-to-cholera-and-covid19-outbreaks/

Not an expert but id say putting undersoil heating under astroturf would either be pointless or a recipe for disaster. Astroturf should have a protective membrane underneath which would have little or no breathability. Undersoil heating is a 'wet' system which needs to be able to breath to prevent overheating which it can do through soil. Put that under a thick plastic sheet and you can probably guess what will happen.

An astroturf pitch that freezes. Thought it was just my old school that had one of them

Jim Mclean-83

I thought the obsession with winter football is down to the SFA etc thinking it will make scottish football look weak if they follow the example of Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Ireland, Estonia, Finland, Latvia etc and it will disadvantage the OF in European competition. Russia decided to switch to winter football back in 2011 supposedly in a bid to be more competitive in the Champions & Europa leagues but as far as im aware it hasn't made much (if any) difference. CSKA Moscow (2005) & Zenit St Petersburg (2008) are the only clubs to win a european trophy (1 Europa League/ UEFA cup each + 1 super cup) and both did it while playing summer football.

Perhaps an issue with the clubs medical team?

Maybe christmas eve where you are but not here Is it still the case only cinemas are allowed to open on xmas day over there and technically you cant checkout of a hotel til boxing day? 1-0 to someone

I'd say in light of tonight's news this shit really is going to start getting real a couple of weeks earlier than thought and whilst the tories can try to blame covid, it is merely an accelerant. Clearly the pricks in power never learned about the first & second world war submarine attacks on Britain's supply ships which fortunately did not succeed but did make things very difficult for a country who relied on imports from the colonies. Least the UK still had their own industries back then. This time no need for submarines, the french, dutch & belgians just have to shut their ports for all UK ships & trucks and BOOM, the legacy of shutting down most of the UK industries since the 1980s, Selling Oil & gas reserves with little or no thought about storing any, and actively encouraging cheaper imports rather than supporting home country producers so they gradually close comes together in a perfect storm.