Guesty

I used to be outraged by the sewage in the rivers till I found out how much it costs to fix; now I sort of understand why it never gets fixed. Don't agree with it, but understand. It's £100 to 200 billion minimum. Some estimate it would be around £660 billion (others say that's far too high). I think Rory Stewart on the Rest is Politics said when he was an environment minister it was around a £300 billion estimate (could be wrong, was a while ago). I'm sure that's why when the news cover it they rarely actually go into how much it would cost to fix. It's all because it's an old, outdated system where rainwater uses the same system as our waste/sewage. But something needs to be done as it's increasing at an alarming rate. Yet dividends are still going out to shareholders instead of being saved up to fix it. Privatisation hasn't worked and people's water bills will in part have to be used to fund the fix. Which is why I think it always gets kicked down the road.

It might not be human error. You can see on the longer video all the lights on the ship go out a couple of times before it hits. They must have been having power issues. No power = no steering. Which means it goes where the current and wind takes it. Even if the steering/power does come back, you can't just turn those things immediately. Surprising that a 1.6 mile bridge over a river collapses so quickly when hit by a boat. Edit: 29 seconds in all the lights go out.

Yeah it is. It might be we have no mitigation, so f**k it, roll the dice. The fact that EFL and EPL have different rules and punishments doesn't help - and they don't seem to have fully thought through what happens to relegated teams. They don't seem to communicate well with each other and in some cases seem to make it up as they go along (which when lawyers get involved can be a real issue). For all we know, maybe there is some technicality (we can dream). Maybe we were worried they might slap us with a big deduction now to disrupt our season (knowing full well we can successfully appeal it) just cause they're pi**ed off at us. So we've tried to avoid it. Just me personally and I'm sure this is looking through some blue tinted specs. But I do think if you get relegated it should be factored in to any punishment.

Don't know. But Everton appealed and said no punishment should be worst than -9 (which is administration) and the appeal board agreed and reduced their suspension. Forest still got hit with -6 (reduced to 4) and I thought they had quite a good point/mitigation as to why they waited to sell Johnson. I could see more clubs going down this route. If it's only an extra 2/3 points fine. I mean Nick De Marco was Forest's lawyer so he's been through it with them. Whatever happened there looks like he's advised us to go down this route. It's quite clear when they originally gave Everton -10 they hadn't thought these rules/punishments through properly. They haven't really left themselves anywhere to go if teams really fight it or try to wriggle out on technicalities. I imagine we're just trying to make sure any deduction happens next season.

I've worked in two toxic organisations. Both had a leader who was a nice person, but totally incapable of the job. Failed to make tough decisions; would just accept what the managers directly underneath them said without questioning or investigating themselves. Just seemed to cross their fingers and hope everything would be alright. The problem was: underneath them were a lot of unethical/untalented managers who would lie - or at the very least, not tell the full story. And the problem with unethical/untalented people is: they attract more unethical/untalented people. Unethical/untalented managers have two main skills. Very good at arse covering and they're very good at taking credit for other peoples work. Which means they have an uncanny ability to hire people who are talented; and like parasites, they ride the wave of successes. In each organisation though the problem came when talented people disagreed with their superiors or wanted a promotion. Unethical/untalented managers never want to be shown up or threatened (and they rarely leave because they might be found out elsewhere). So the talented people would always be forced out sooner or later - or they'd leave for a promotion somewhere else. Then more and more unethical/untalented people would rise within each organisation. And then sooner or later unethical/untalented managers would make wrong appointments. The person/people they'd employed weren't as talented as they'd hoped. Then they'd be in the position of actually having to do their own job and fix mistakes with no help. But they weren't capable. And they made terrible decisions. Both organisations imploded, very quickly, very fast. I obviously have no idea if LCFC is like those organisations, but the more I look at us, the more we're starting to resemble them. It really is a worry.

If we don't get promoted I'm not sure who will want him. First job sacked after a few months; then couldn't get one of the best Championship squads ever promoted. If we do get promoted he might leave if he gets a better offer. He plays a very specific way which he has gone on record saying requires lots of time to learn. Most clubs don't have that time. They want someone who can make an immediate impact or work with what they've got. Plus, he wants very specific players to fit his system which means alienating good players who you might need if he leaves (Soutter, Kristensen, etc). He doesn't want left backs. If he leaves at the first sign of trouble after assembling a squad in such a way other clubs will be wary about to appointing him (especially with PSR now so important). Look what happened to Marco Silva years ago when his stock was quite high. Joined Watford, downed tools and binned them off after only a few months to move to Everton. When he got sacked there he found no other Premier League clubs would appoint him; they viewed him as a mercenary who would leave at the first opportunity. He had to go back to the Championship after over a year unemployed. If Enzo binned us off at the first sign of trouble he might find himself in a similar position - especially when he wants a very specific squad and players.

I doubt any points deduction will be worse than -9. Part of Everton's successful appeal to get a reduction from -10 was PSR is to stop clubs going into administration (which is the worst case). The deduction for administration in the Premier League is -9 (-10 in EFL). Therefore any PSR breach should be lower than the worst case. The appeal board agreed.

I think that's exactly it. On the news they said they'd waited till today because it's half term so their kids won't have to deal with it at school.

I've not really been keeping up with this. But I thought she might have had a hysterectomy. Not something you'd want people to know/talk about. Can really effect some people mentally. And can be taken out through abdominal surgery. But who knows. Like others have said that photo is massive own goal. Photography is one of Kate's big hobbies I think. She probably put all the settings in and just told William to press the button. But whoever edited it needs firing. No one cares where the kids arm is.

The way Red Bull have handled all this is so bad. If you're a sponser, you can't be happy with this. Today you've got Horner saying we need to draw a line under this and move on. Then they do this. Why on earth do you suspend a woman who has accused her boss of harassment the day before International Women's Day and at the start of a race weekend. The only way this makes sense to me is if she's decided to take legal action against Red Bull and her lawyers have waited till right now to tell Red Bull. Which would be quite clever. Cause I think then they'd probably have to suspend her on full pay.

It's mad that Russell Wilson hasn't played one game of his $245 million contract extension. That extension is even worse than the trade. As a big Seahawks fan, it'll be interesting to see where he ends up and how he does. Payton was possibly the worst coach to team him up with. Wilson always had problems passing over the middle and with timing. He also liked special treatment which Payton was never going to allow.

I worked for a council for a while and that is most definitely true. I only worked in one department but other people I talked to had the same experience in different departments. Most of the senior managers in local government seemed to be people who started 30-40 years ago as apprentices and receptionists who worked their way up. They have no experience of the private sector. People who had any proper business or management skills left for the private sector or retired. There's no consequence for poor performance; even mistakes which cost the council millions. It tends to lead to a very toxic environment where a lot of people know they've been over-promoted and don't want to be exposed - so they only promote yes men/women from within instead of outside expertise. Occasionally you'd see managers from the private sector join the council. One of three things tended to happen: 1.They'd become so frustrated with the waste and incompetence they'd leave after a few months. 2. They'd heard all about the waste and knew they'd fit right in. 3. They were consultants who knew they were dealing with people who they could rinse massively for consultancy fees. I worked in a payroll dept. In the time I was there they tried to introduce two new big IT payroll systems. Both failed miserably. Last year 30-40% of the department I used to work in were made redundant - but no managers. Now that council is having to pay private sector payroll providers to run most of the payrolls they used to run before the upgrade. It's cheaper than continuing to waste money trying to fix the software they originally bought. When you look at all these councils going under. Keep an eye out for: new IT payroll system failed. I saw it happened at Birmingham (£100 million and counting for an Oracle system which was originally meant to cost £19 million) and i know of a couple of others where it's gone wrong. Where unqualified managers have wasted millions on software and then wasted millions trying to fix the software so it will do what they need it to. But it's also true to say councils are demonstrably underfunded.

Everton must be over the moon that Sheff United have taken both Tom Davies and Mason Holgate off their wage bill. Holgate's had two debuts this season; and lost both of them 5-0. Southampton sent him back cause he was out of his depth in the Championship. People will look at that tackle and think he meant it; no, he's just that s**t.

I read or saw something about him and someone else who's imprisoned (might have been the documentary about him on BBC IPlayer - but I can't remember). They said something along the lines of: How can we ask Russian citizens to stand up and fight against our government in Russia when we aren't prepared to do it ourselves. They felt like they were being hypocrites. I imagine he knew this would probably happen. Brave man. The documentary is quite interesting; it starts when he's recovering from the poisoning and finishes when he gets arrested (from what I remember - it's been a while since I saw it). There's one part where Navalny pretends to be a Kremlin Investigator and phones up one of his assassins; asks him what went wrong and why Navalny wasn't killed when they tried to poison him. The assassin admits everything, not realising he's actually talking to Navalny. Navalny says after: poor guy, they will kill him now (because Putin and the Kremlin were denying any responsibility).

This Covid inquiry really is something. Cummings seems like the type of person who's an expert at seeing things coming after they've already happened. So infuriating seeing the amount of incompetence and just how shambolic everything was.

There's a big difference between punching someone and putting your skate into their throat (or anywhere near it). I'm not suggesting a player might not ever try to intentionally hurt someone. All players and all fans know that if a skate goes near someone's neck what can happen. Watch the Malarchuk video.

There's no way an ice hockey player does anything like this intentionally. They all know what can happen. As someone else mentioned it happened to Richard Zednik. It also happened to a Buffalo Sabres player called Clint Malarchuk in 1989. He was a goaltender who had his carotid artery and jugular vein cut by a skate. He survived because the team's athletic trainer was a medic in the Vietnam War and knew the only way to save him was to put his fingers inside his neck, pinch is artery and kneel all his weight on his collarbone. You can watch it on youtube, but it's grim, he loses around 1.5 litres of blood in a few seconds.