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One more for the "I hate VAR" camp. Bloody awful thing. Refereeing decisions, rightly or wrongly, sometimes go against you. Grow up, accept it and carry on.
It's infected the A League over here as well (because they have to be seen to be a 'proper' league - just like the Premiership), and it just slows down an already pedestrian level of football.
I'd wholeheartedly support someone taking VAR somewhere quiet and doing away with it.
My son and I went to that game tonight. It could've been a lot worse. Hats off to the referee and a steward for partially shielding their keeper. Police were nowhere to be seen.
Yes, the 'Grand Final' (similar to the play off final - determines who wins the competition) has been sold to Sydney for the next three years, which is a stupid, money-grabbing idea. So lots of flares were set off at 20 minutes. Both sets of fans unveiled banners objecting to the sale. One flare narrowly missed a cameraman, then their keeper threw a flare back into the main body of Victory fans and they invaded the pitch.
So the referee takes the players off the pitch. The 'active area' fans (incl the pitch invaders) then do a planned walk out at 20 minutes. There any no announcements for 30-35 minutes, and we only realised the match is abandoned because the City players come back out onto the pitch in flip flops.
Personally I was more upset at the death of Paul Mariner, he was more of a hero to me than an old lady in an expensive hat ever was. A black armband and a minute's silence would've been sufficient.
I know that plays to the gallery somewhat but it's still true.
My beautiful home town! If you're walking up to the top of Windmill Hill, take a right, go past the cemetery and then The Three Moorhens over the footbridge and out into the fields towards Charlton and Gosmore - one of my favourite places.
Sadly, I was supposed to be designing the football club's new badge but the new(ish) marketing man and his cabal cut me out of the loop and got another designer in, and the result is bland beyond belief (and very Norwich).
Hitchin in the summer is wonderful though. And an early season match at Top Field is as bucolic and glorious as the town, just try not to look at the 5h!t new badge.
That is an impressive overview Bluelagos! Information there that I'd forgotten or indeed, just didn't know.
I believe I heard Dan Andrews say today that vaccines are months away yet, even before they start to roll them out. So it looks like we've got to hang our hat on isolationism and quarantining.
Latest from Victoria, Australia is that there's been an outbreak at the airport, 19 cases of the UK variant at present. So the State Governor has just announced a 5 day circuit breaker lockdown. He stated that we can't just contact trace this and catch up with it as it's the UK variant and too fast spreading, so it's a lockdown to get a lid on it, and I suspect if there are any issues he'll double it.
Bloomblue. Afraid I don't know how Australia dealt with incoming goods, but it's an island in the middle of nowhere and must depend upon certain imports. I know at work we received masses of PPE from China. Don't know how you would deal with 8000 lorries a day but there must be a way somehow - switch cabs at Dover/Felixstowe etc?
In Australia. We've been quarantining people coming into the country (and sometimes between states) since the thing began. And it seems the only outbreaks we get now are from workers in the hotels that serve as the quarantine centres catching it from people returning to the country.
I believe it left a lot of overseas Australians high and dry initially, stuck in other countries and not able to get home, which is pretty tough but the pay off is that Australia is essentially Covid free currently.
The UK is a much larger population with many more international connections, but I find it astounding that the government hasn't already shut the borders and quarantined arrivals. It is the archetypal island nation - it seems obvious.
The only issue I can see with the Australian method is that is has possibly been too successful. If herd immunity comes into play, we will have none. Fingers crossed for vaccines!
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