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Agreed. We need a Milner, Barry, Parker type. Not necessarily fast but does the hard work and can watch the game. My jaw dropped when we signed Perez for the amount we did. Newcastle rinsed us

Was Rodgers behind the Perez transfer? Or was it already in the pipeline?

I'm slowly getting to the end of my tether just being cooped up in the house. I absolutely feel for people who have lost loved ones to this but I'm also finding myself a lot more short tempered with the other half and we're on the verge of separate bedrooms. I am trying my damnedest not to go out. I do a run a couple of times a week or a long walk of an hour (ish) and avoid people as much as I can. Supermarkets are a nightmare and I've given up trying to distance in them. If the govt announce 3-4 more weeks of this I'll really struggle.

But also Germany has a different approach to healthcare and they appear to take it much more seriously, based on what I know from friends who live/ lived there.

From a selfish perspective, we were / clearly on course for Europe (CL or EL) and if they end the season, our spot in the competition should 100% be reserved for when we can take part

Already blood sick of those crowd-sourced webcam videos. Plus every advert is some "helpful" staff member for a company telling you to stay at home and spend your money online instead. How about I keep hold of it because I don't know if I'll have a job in a month's time?

Just had to check facts and he's only just coming up on 24. However, it has been a LONG time since he had a consistent run of more than 60 mins per game. Clearly Brendan doesn't see anything in him. It's such a shame because he really had potential but he was given most of the season under Puel. It's a tough one because you really want him to progress. I like to have SOME hope because Nacho absolutely turned it round and showed us all what he's capable of but Demarai's been here nearly 4 years now. I think, unfortunately, it's back to the Championship for him.

The other option is to only play a proportion of the remaining games. There's 9 left for most teams. No way we get through all nine games with UEFA breathing down necks to get CL going. I do think dominoes are starting to fall with most of Europe ending their seasons and we surely can't be far behind. If the players were to report back to training on 1 June, they'd need at least 2 weeks to warm back up. That then puts you into June 14 and teams could do 3 games over the space of a week, in neutral grounds and perhaps be stationed in one part of the country. They could also each play a team above and below them. Take us for example - base ourselves in London and play Watford, Chelsea and Palace on Monday, Weds and Saturday - all at Charlton's ground. There could then be a group of Bournemouth, Wolves, Southampton and Spurs all based at Swindon's ground. So on and so on. In theory, you can have five "groups" of four. Is it perfect? Far from it but if all teams go into it knowing what they're getting into, all players currently with the club (and not on loan) can be used then the TV companies can be happy, you're minimising the risk. It also takes VAR out of the equation if you use lower league stadiums. At the moment - I do not see the season ending and this is as creative as I can get.

Never been to Welford Road in my life. Rugby mad city? Load of rubbish. Growing up I don't remember any kid talking about Tigers. I still couldn't tell you anything about them.

I probably can't help much but I've done secondary. Been sending some work out for some kids I've dealt with. If you PM me I can send some bits over. I stress it won't be fantastic but will be some research for them and get them learning.

I used the BBC's official figure calculator to check out how many confirmed cases in my county (Derbyshire) and relatives. Even if I take the official figure with a massive pinch of salt (1,100) and multiply it by 5, it still only comes out to about 0.6% of the population being infected. Testing needs to be done, particularly antibody testing, to give us a true understanding of where we're at with infection rates. If it turns out that the infection rate is much higher than predicted - up to about 5%, then that massively puts into perspective the mortality rate.

About time but I'll wait until they actually put out the numbers of tests they're doing. I think they need to be regularly hitting the 100k mark before I'm convinced. We should have been doing this ages ago though. Even if they'd have just done it region to region - start in the South East and work up.

Just because I'm catching up... Little number divided by big number times 100 I've a mate in central Manchester who told me the other day that, from what he's seen, the city centre is fairly quiet but the cops have been having a job dealing with gangs of homeless breaking into shops

As in, if a gig that was only about 1500 people has been rescheduled until next summer, I can't see a stadium full of 35,000+ being ready to go by the end of the year.

I haven't watched any daily briefings. So much of it is repeated information on deaths and so forth. When they have something to announce - they will. At this point it's a waste of everybody's time.

There is nothing I like more than a mardy player getting his "dream" move and it going royally tits up. My favourite of these has to be Pogba. To go from multiple Serie A winners and CL finals to scrapping for a Europa League place. If Wilf gets tempted by a big European club that's fair enough - he'd walk into any of them. But I don't want another Kante/ Mahrez/ Maguire

I've had an email telling me a gig I booked tickets for in July has rescheduled to 2021. Absolutely no chance you'll get a packed stadium for another two years, in my eyes.

I don't think we're even anywhere close to Coutinho purchase and we're being used as the leverage club to get a move to Chelsea. The more this virus goes on, I also think this is actually what bursts the football bubble - or shrinks it a bit. There are going to be a lot of disappointed players this summer. Fact is the vast majority of club money comes through sponsorship and broadcast rights. For top tier football matchday income is a fraction of it. It's when you see the oil price crash affecting the PSG, Man City and other clubs that we'll see a change. This could well be it. As for selling Madders to bring in Coutinho - not for me. If we do that, it signals something to the rest of the league and before you know it you've got the likes of Man City offering us John Stones at a stupid price and trying to act like selling them Chillwell would "make it run smoothly".

People like crisps. The other option would be a pork pie.

I work in education and have done some Skype tuition. To be honest - if 20% of kids are doing work each day I'll be amazed. I'm already seeing standards massively slip and it's not as if parents can put in punishments to make them do it. Can't ground them because they already are. Can't take away their Xbox because then what will mum and dad have as a respite? Schools absolutely have to start back in September or you either massively lower the pass marks for next year's exams or have a whole generation of kids retaking a year.

Yes. Domestic abuse and violence is something I've got very strong opinions of and know a lot about, unfortunately. Even though I've had my wages cut I've made sure to donate to charities that deal with it. I'm not in a position to help at the moment because nowhere is accepting volunteers due to the virus, unfortunately. Made myself available to a few local charities and community projects but nobody's biting. It's a really horrible Catch 22. I can't go out to work and I can't volunteer or help out. Just sort of stuck feeling a bit useless.

Also from a mental health perspective - I'm generally reasonably resilient and pragmatic but have noticed I'm having a shorter temper with my partner and getting wound up by things a lot easier and longer than I was. I cannot begin to imagine what this is doing to people with mental health issues. I personally feel there'll come a tipping point where people will either just start outright flouting a lockdown en masse or you'll really start to see domestic violence cases (even between housemates) skyrocket. I know of two couples having issues that would normally be fine. Unfortunately, I think lockdown is a short term measure with long term consequences the longer it goes on.

Thanks mate. I tried bingeing and dieting before but it just doesn't work for me. Hoping I lose the taste for the sugar stuff. I did really well a year or so ago cutting it out - to the point where if I had a can of coke it felt rough in my throat - but a stressful spell at work didn't help. Now I just try not to buy them and have more juice/ water.

I've not weighed myself in a while but I am definitely not the fattest I've been. I got to around 13 and a half stone a while ago - am not a tall chap - and it worried me. Since then I've definitely started eating healthier. I don't drink or smoke but it's the sedentary lifestyle and sugar that gets me. So lockdown has been a really good opportunity to try and cut that out. Only one can of Coke in the last two weeks and am exercising a few days a week - nothing too strenuous but I've got a punchbag, doing short runs and I started yoga with an app a few months ago. I prefer the slow and steady school of thought - I'm not trying to shed loads of weight, I just want to be healthy. So I change my lifestyle incrementally and in a way that makes sense for me. If I can get to six months from now and am keeping the sugar intake low while still getting in at least an hour a week of cumulative exercise, I think I'll be in a good place. As an aside - I do think people need to be able to talk about weight without being seen as "fat shaming".

I think the last couple of years and certainly this virus have made me change my feelings on football and the owners/ authorities in particular. If we got taken over by a nasty regime or some dodgy oil baron, I do think it would make me question the club and certainly hope for fans to voice their concerns.