The Belgian league put the cat amongst the waffles yesterday by declaring the Jupiler League over and Bruges champions. They sorted out their TV and other commercial arrangements and can start next season as soon as it is safe to do so.
There are very few calls to cut seasons short. Tight leagues, such as in Italy and Spain, would forever have questions hanging over them, while those assured of winning the title, as in Scotland and England, want to do so on the field, not at a league meeting. Still, it was nice to see panic among the Null and Voiders, who would rather everyone lost than anyone (Celtic) won.
The Belgians have been pragmatic but premature, football is finished for the season, their champions are assured without controversy and they will accommodate those threatened with relegation. The rest of Europe still clings to the hope that competition can start behind closed doors in the summer. It will next month before we know if this is possible, there is no reason to make decisions before then.
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GG………
Which Exit on the Parkway is Gowkthrapple?
;)
Exit 67 for Barnegat is already taken!
HH
BIG JIMMY on 4TH APRIL 2020 1:13 PM
Frankie Wright was in my class, and team not seen him since those days….but i meet Andy now and again at the games
PHILBHOY
I’m with you on the amnesty, most of the red cards were due
to misunderstandings, too much booze, or just the way the
written word isn’t the same as when someone says something
to you with a wry smile.
They’re not evil people , just Celtic supporters like us.
H.H . Mick
Bankiebhoy
The only person here that knows it lives off 151 of the GSP.
It was a word that came out the blue, and tickled my fancy.
It’s a grey day here Today, but Palm Sunday promises to be a pleasant 66F. Or about 18F in the French system.
Some of the tourists need their heid looked…………….
GG…………………
Our trip out has been bounced into who knows when…….we miss that wee part of heaven.
Keep safe and well Bhoy!
MELBOURNE MICK
I was the dubious recipient of a couple of yellow cards in bygone days.
I had been drinking on both occasions.
I did apologies.
Davie Hay and Archie MacPherson on Radio Scotland soon talking about Celtic v Leeds games…
apologise obviously
GG/BANKIEBHOY
Always loved when i was working away from home, wherever, and
someone would invariably ask where do you come from in Scotland?
and i’d answer ” Auchtermuchty ” it was always a party lifter with
them all trying to say it .
Amazing how the wee ghuy fae Glesga always got the attention if you
know what i mean.8-))
H.H . Mick
An amenesty, especially at this time, would be in keeping with the ethos of this blog, por cierto
Mick……….
Auchtermuchty?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGQbgrp6uR4
;)
I’ve often wondered where the phrase ” Brass Neck” came from?
JudeanPeoples’sPopularFront CSC
PHILBHOY
I don’t think it should be a hanging offence when two or three
people fall out on a blog. invariably it’s all forgotten in a couple
of days.
And if not, then you just scroll by anybody who’s not on your
want to read list.
The world and the blog will go on as long as Paul can be bothered,
but if not then we’ll all join another.
As long as it’s Celtic related we’ll be there.
H.H . Mick
We Magnify his Name.
Let my people go.
I would echo calls for an amnesty. Of Course red card recipients wouldn’t know they are welcomed back unless they were lurking.
It is indeed great to see so many former Posters returning but there are still a good few more I’d like to see back, it’s dangerous listing names as you are bound to forget a few obvious ones, but Starr Plough, Delaneys Dunkey, Weet Weet Weet come quickly to mind, Of course if Phyilvis returns, returns it will be a case of celebration.
Anyhow good to see Blog thriving again.
MELBOURNE MICK
I’m asking for an amnesty.
I’m not suggesting PAUL67 relaxes existing guidelines.
Just forgives previous rule breakers.
Take care.
PHILBHOY
Didn’t think you were.
H.H Mick
P.S Wry smile.
Philbhoy
I’m for an amnesty mate…..miss Jamesie (16 roads) hh.
Headline of the week? From Popular Science (31/03/2020)
“Uranus blasted a gas bubble 22,000 times bigger than Earth.”
Perhaps a nostalgic squint distorting the reality and memories in some cases?
It would appear the angry / drunk / narcissists have ample outlets in the far reaches of the internets…….
:)
HH
Aberdeen owner Dave someone talking an awfy lot of sense on shorty just now,
Simple take aways
lawyers advise that players cannot be on furlogh because “keeping fit” at home means they are still in employment.
doubts anything will be back in football before july
community works they are doing is excellent
season will probably have to be called , as it is, and he supports it, sensible thing to do.
he is a breath of fresh air to be honest,
humble man,
dave cormack to give the man his proper name.
BBC1 World Cup Classics on now
SS- Sounds like he has good plans .
Saint Stivs on 4th April 2020 2:39 pm
‘doubts anything will be back in football before july’
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I assume he means July 2021.
Saint Stivs – listened to that, really interesting debate.
To say players are breaking furlough rules, by keeping fit,is pretty ridiculous.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 4TH APRIL 2020 1:26 PM
Big Jimmy
“One of the Wright brothers was my best man at my last wedding in 1999.”
Orville or Wilbur must have been some age by then :-
…………………….
I just KNEW that someone on here would mention Orville/Wilbur as I was typing that sentence !
LOL
To be fair…Flying wasnt always “PLANE SAILING” back in Orvilles and Wilburs days ?
LOL
HH
Bada Bing – it’s not really ‘breaking’ furlough rules. The government help is for employers who would otherwise have to lay off employees. Employers who could still get their employees to do some sort of work (the Aberdeen chairmen was also explaining that the players were going onto club helplines, talking to supporters, finding out if they need help, etc etc) . he came across as a very decent guy who isn’t looking to take advantage of the situation and accepting that all of this government help will eventually have to be paid for by you and I….
BBC Scotland Tonight at 7.30..Bill Shankly story. Channel 9 on freeview.
BBC 1 78 Scot v Holland
Morning all from a beautiful spring day in Kentucky although some sad news on the pages today.
Furloughs in the post for my company it seems, pay cuts this week but the industry we work in is tanking fast.
NORRIEM @ 12:58 PM
What are your chances of dying if you get infected by the new coronavirus? Despite data pouring in from many countries, there is still a wide range of estimates, from as low as 1 in 1000 to as high as 1 in 30.
What is clear is that there is no one answer: the risk depends on your age, sex, health and the care you receive if you become severely ill. In other words, death rates will vary from place to place and over the course of the pandemic.
In the UK, as of 2 April, 2921 people had died out of 33,718 confirmed cases – a crude case fatality rate of around 9 per cent. For Italy, the figure is nearly 12 per cent and for Germany just 1 per cent.
These figures don’t tell us what we really want to know, though: how many of those infected will die as a result, which is known as the infection fatality rate.
Crude case fatality rates are so-called because they don’t take into account the fact that some of the people counted in the infected numbers have not recovered yet and may still go on to die. Early in March, for instance, South Korea had a crude case fatality rate of just 0.6 per cent. That has risen to 1.7 per cent. Among resolved cases – those who have died or recovered – the case fatality rate is 2.9 per cent.
The differences between countries are also partly to do with how many older people have been infected, says Melinda Mills at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science in the UK. In South Korea and Germany, the first people to be infected were mostly younger.
Based on what is happening in Italy, Mills and her colleagues calculate that if 10 per cent of people become infected, there would be 302,530 deaths in Italy, with its ageing population of 61 million, but just 142,058 deaths in Nigeria, with its much younger population of 191 million.
The big question is how many infected people with mild or no symptoms are being missed. If lots are, the infection fatality rate will be much lower than the case fatality rate. We know the UK is testing only severely ill people and missing lots of mild cases, but South Korea and Germany have been testing more widely.
Neil Ferguson’s team at Imperial College London has estimated the number of missed cases based on how many people who were evacuated from Wuhan tested positive. They concluded that the infection fatality rate in China is 0.66 per cent.
Julien Riou at the University of Bern in Switzerland instead assumes all covid-19 cases among people over 80 are being detected. His team estimates that the infection fatality rate in Italy is 3.3 per cent, rising from 1 per cent among people aged between 50 and 59 to nearly 90 per cent in those aged 80 or above. For China and Spain, the overall rate is 3 per cent. If half of cases in those over 80 are being missed, it would halve these figures, says Riou.
At the other end of the spectrum, Jason Oke at the University of Oxford thinks not all of the deaths attributed to the coronavirus are caused by it. He points out that while there is an excess of deaths in Italy according to EuroMOMO, a public health monitoring organisation, it isn’t as large as that during the last bad flu season in 2016. His team thinks the infection fatality rate could be as low as 0.1 per cent.
But on 1 April, the EuroMOMO website had a highlighted warning against drawing such conclusions based on its data. While that warning has since been removed, it still states that the “number of deaths in recent weeks should be interpreted with caution”.
What’s more, it has also been reported that one badly hit town in Italy called Nembro has reported 158 deaths so far this year compared with 35 on average each year for the past five years. Only 31 of the 158 deaths were recorded as due to covid-19.
For now we still can’t say for sure what the infection fatality rates are. This will start to become clearer once antibody testing reveals who has been infected in the past, and thus the number of missed cases.
Journal reference: Lancet Infectious Diseases, DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30243-7
the wee budgie on shortbread now sounds like a woman at the end of her tether, she is gonny start greetin i think,
Jobo- heard that as well,even that sounds very harsh.
SS- No time for the Eastern Star witch,I hope we’ve tapped up young Hickey
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FOURSTONECOPPI on 4TH APRIL 2020 1:40 PM
BIG JIMMY on 4TH APRIL 2020 1:13 PM
Frankie Wright was in my class, and team not seen him since those days….but i meet Andy now and again at the games.
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Frankie was a great Pal of mine during our Lochbridge/St Benedicts playing Days and beyond. We also played together in the early 1980’s for an amateur team for a few years.
I havent seen Frankie since his Mothers funeral a few years back.
Andy was the class mate that I mentioned earlier all the way thru Primary and Secondary School……and beyond. I used to rent a Flat from him in the early 1990’s and we have always kept in touch and as I said he works about 100 yards from my home these days.
I was always invited to the Wrights family get togethers for many years…being “The Seventh Son”.
Andy, Frankie and Brian were the three main brothers that I played fitba with and drank with for many .
years.
Frankie Wright was one of the hardest players that I ever played with…thank God he was in MY Teams !
When I last saw Frankie he was STILL involved and playing fitba and he had some connection with Junior Team Cumbernauld Juniors…and he was in his 40’s…but STILL Fit !
It was Andy and Frankie and Mr Wright who took me along to play for St Benedicts Boys Guild…on my DEBUT , I came on as a Sub at centre forward with about 20 minutes to go….I got Sent Off for fighting after 10 minutes…and I took THREE of the opposition with me, as the were also sent aff !
We drew 4-4 that day in an away match against a team called…..
Wait for it….ALL SAINTS !
Mr Wright wrote my letter of apology to the League Committee after that sending off…but I still got fined a “Fiver”…Bassa’s.
HH
LOL
HH