Guesty

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).