kent_white

The Legia Warsaw example you just cited shows allocations DO get reduced based on anticipated trouble. The difference here isn't that they're Jewish - it's that the threat assessment is based on geopolitics rather than football rivalry. Whether you think that threat assessment was accurate or fair is a separate question. But Russian clubs got banned from European competition entirely after Ukraine. Turkish and Greek clubs have had severe restrictions when playing each other. This isn't without precedent - it's just a different type of security concern.

Glad we can agree on the hypocrisy 👍

Where was this level of outrage and government intervention when we were watching thousands of Palestinian kids being killed? It's interesting what gets called a 'national disgrace' and what doesn't. A few hooligans get banned from travelling away and all of a sudden people's anger has been irked! It's amazing what makes some people's blood boil and what doesn't.

I see Trump has had his belly tickled again!

This is a great quote but it took me a while to get my head around it! 😂

You could catch dysentery on the outside bog too! 😁

Dear me! 🙄

Are their fans still banned or are they going to be there tonight? I'm confused about where it's all up to now.......

Blessed are the Cheesemakers 👍

I don't know if 60% are REFUSING it. But I know something like 60% haven't HAD it. Which is different - but that's how it's being spun. There's a very small percentage of anti vaxxers in the workforce (I know 🙄) - a larger number who are meaning to have it but can't get off the wards to the clinics the hospitals put on, an even larger number who keep forgetting, and a significant number who don't want to feel potentially under the weather for a couple of days while they're doing 13 hour days/nights. There's also a little bit of god complex I always feel - clinicians rarely like to admit that they're as prone to picking up a virus and anybody else is. Hospitals need to do better at taking the vaccine to the wards and vaccinating people who are on (or are just leaving) a shift. Or timing the vaccine offer for a time when front line staff are about to start some time off. But that's very difficult when they're operating on not much more than a skeleton crew. So I have got some sympathy. Logistically it can be quite tough to manage. FWIW - Bolton does comparatively well with staff vaccinations I'm pleased to say.

Exactly. What we need is good old British fraud. None of this foreign muck! 😁

Be a banging fancy dress that! 🤣

I know. It's bloody horrible mate. I think most people that follow the news know it's going on. But the general public are still completely oblivious.

Bonfires > Fireworks