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An unbalanced level playing field, eh?

I become instantly suspicious of anyone who attacks unions. It suggests to me they've never done a decent day's work in their lives.

The problem with online friendships is when they actually meet in real life.

of course they’re all over this

MLF I heard. Only a matter of time before he buys them.

Where’s your patriotism? We’re getting covid done

Baines and Emerson to be unveiled by the weekend

They’re great at friendship, it’s just a shame they’re shit at football eh? Sunderland friendship club win the friendship cup & are champions of all of Marraland. Meanwhile in real life...

I think that’s the point they’re trying to make.

Expert.

If there was any lingering doubt about the BBC...

"Heroes" i.e. let's push a narrative in which these workers are showered with plaudits from the public to distract from how much the government are royally shafting them in every way that matters.

I had a three-pack of this delivered from Amazon the other day. Literal sportswashing.

It's a mixture. Everywhere I've worked in the city have had provision for home working but I always got the impression it was to encourage out of hours work more than anything else. I've always used it when the trains have been completely screwed or when I've had deliveries or dentists appointments. When we moved two years ago due to running out of space they decided to introduce activity based working which meant laptops instead of pcs so you could move around depending what you were doing. Pretty much a waste of time for someone like me who doesn't have many meetings. Anyway they deliberately made the building capacity 80% of staff numbers on the premise of more home working. Of course some bosses were more flexible than others and it wasn't appropriate for client facing roles. In the run up to the lockdown we were told to take our laptops home every night in preparation and as it happens I was in the middle of a weeks leave when they made the call. They had to ramp up the bandwidth but since then its been fine. In our head cheese updates we've been told that loads of banks were caught completely cold with no provision and have had to ramp up from scratch losing business because of it. There seems to be a desire for us to return eventually but I noticed in the last update the COO did mention "months" for the first time - I think reality has struck. As I've mentioned before there was a hint that even when we get back there's an appetite for a lot more home working as the cost savings are obscene and they've realised there isn't a huge difference in productivity if any. I think there'll be a huge realignment which will see only client facing roles and businesses being 100% office based. Fuck knows what that means for property development.

So if everyone at London can work at home, whats the point in those expensive office skyscrapers? When this is over, will we see things moving out the capital? I don't get the advantage of conglomeration when people work remotely and communicate virtually?

I shut down the majority of our sites right at the start of this but have been told that we are now going to start up construction again. Absolute headache, being asked for risk assessments etc. Apart from published guidance it’s pretty difficult to risk assess a virus, especially when we could have 30 different subbies on the same site who all have different circumstances

Went to ALDI yesterday and they've completely abandoned all pretence of prevention. Nobody on the door monitoring numbers, nobody adhering to social distancing, hardly any tills open. It's like the British Public will only stick with something for a week and then chuck it away. A nation of kids.

I know it’s always been known but fucking hell the Chronicle is fucking tragic. They’ve tweeted out the story from yesterday about the conservative MP demanding the deal is looked into twice already today, even though the blokes request was denied.

He really sorted Paul McGrath’s problems out too

Will this be before or after last summer’s 72 hours?

Aye It’s the equivalent of a stranger saying “here mate. Do you want these chips? I’m finished” Most normal clubs would be like AVOID AVOID AVOID

They’re good at it until they forget a friend because of all the friends they have. Like how they had a special connection with Manchester United, as Keane was their manager and they bought all the shite Ferguson wanted rid of, but then they celebrated when Manchester City won the title.

ANOTHER magical friendship

Had to go to the post office just now and crikey, down at the shops you wouldn't know there's a crisis on. I'll politely describe the prevailing attitude as "casual".

Ask a mackem.

Replace "be" with "die as". The teacher isn't even socially distanced in that photo ffs. She looks like she has her arm around him. I fucking hate this paper, whenever I see someone buy it I despair. I have to say it is usually always old retired twats that have ruined the country. I guess their younger equivalents have the Sun.

They might as well have gone with "Out Of The Trenches And Over The Top With You, Plebs"

I think we can all agree Khashoggi’s murder was despicable. However if MBS was responsible, I don’t think preventing his sovereign wealth fund from buying an also ran football club will have the slightest impact on him or his regime. Its utter bullshit to suggest otherwise, MBS wont give a shit if it falls through (if he even knows about it). Do they think hes on tenterhooks watching sky sports (on pirate tv) to see if its gone through yet? To pretend that the PL is some kind of moral policeman is a big fat joke given who theyve passed fit as owners; if people have a problem with the saudis using the PL for sportswashing they should demand a political solution and a govt response. And that includes Kashoggis widow imo, who I notice doesn’t direct any flak at Ashley whos the one choosing to sell to PIF. And its got nothing to do with the club and the fans iyam, no one consulted us about the sale.

If that's true, there are literally no good journalists.

Essembee on Good Morning Britain tomorrow.

Elvis typing.

my phone auto-corrects my lazy typing, i was posting while sat on the toilet earlier

With apologies to Lou Reed.... Gloom is waiting for his man Jimbos telly in his hand Up to Leazes, one, two, five If he gets in CTs Taxi, he'll be more dead than alive Gloom is waiting for his man

Reckon they’re going to cancel League One?

Sewpa Kev creating a real dilemma for mackems with this take.

Kiss of death.

It doesn't cause any harm to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia to get some other stupid muslims killed, but beware of the threat to the general public because some arabs are able to watch british sports without paying for it.

Ooh, I know sir! Because he's a fat little cunt?

Yet six months after that post, you voted for the Corbyn cult in a general election. What changed?

Someone’s bottom lip is quivering.

Best centrist non-PM of his life.

And yet you voted for Labour under Corbyn, remember?

Is this the week CT finally gets the hang of this politics lark?

If Essen is a post industrial shithole and isn’t a proper city

Ffs now because the mackems are a bunch of desperate for a football friend losers our lot are getting harassed by Bundesliga clubs.