The Covid 19 Lurgy

[Dorset]

The devious nazi cunt Gove is now blaming China for not letting the world now about Covid 19 early enough and that is why the UK has a problem now. How the fuck did Germany start testing and isolating those infected in early February then Gove you slimy lying cunt?

From the New Statesman:

Germany is now testing up to 500,000 people a week for the coronavirus; Britain, by contrast, has conducted just 104,800 tests in the entire period since the end of January. Austria too is testing heavily and plans to hit 15,000 tests a day soon where Britain, with almost eight times the population, is aiming for 10,000 a day by the end of this month.

Tories like all neo-nazis and Brexirters do not give a flying fuck about the truth, all they want is someone else to blame.

I have gone all anti-Brexit again, not sorry. That cunt Gove is starting talks next week to make sure they 'get it done'. What a fucking disgrace, the world is suffering, the economic repercussions will be severe and that cunt thinks he can negotiate Brexit? The transition period must be extended until this virus is wiped out - or for eternity whichever is the longer. Now is not the time for rich cunts to try and get richer playing politics.

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

lockdown day 18

I fancy chicken

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You sir, can go and get fucked.

Nobody needs to see that.

And fuck you.

 

[Dorset]

OK, so it's a very bad thing and very serious, but we are still allowed to have a laugh innit?

Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face

www.theguardian.com

It goes to show that really clever people can be really stupid.

 

[Yid]

That's fucking brilliant...

 

[skiathospurs]

Guess the bulldog just eaten a jar of mayo is a no no then

 

[Wotspur]

Well what else you gotta do??
Truly the most memorable day&night I had in N17.

Me too , on the Shelf , half way towards the Park Lane , when Roberts scored , I ended up nearer the half way line ,and took 10 minutes to get back to me mates .

 

[skiathospurs]

Daniel spoke to his mates at sports direct,wetherspoons and virgin and had an idea!!

Message from the Chairman | Tottenham Hotspur

As recently as 18 March I said: “We shall all need to work together to ensure the impact of this crisis does not undermine the future stability of the Club.”

www.tottenhamhotspur.com

 

[skiathospurs]

Daniel spoke to his mates at sports direct,wetherspoons and virgin and had an idea!!

Message from the Chairman | Tottenham Hotspur

As recently as 18 March I said: “We shall all need to work together to ensure the impact of this crisis does not undermine the future stability of the Club.”

www.tottenhamhotspur.com

same day this was announced

Tottenham accounts reveal Levy got £3m bonus for delivering stadium

Daniel Levy earned a £3million bonus last year for delivering Tottenham's new stadium, the club's accounts have revealed.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Dorset]

Daniel spoke to his mates at sports direct,wetherspoons and virgin and had an idea!!

Message from the Chairman | Tottenham Hotspur

As recently as 18 March I said: “We shall all need to work together to ensure the impact of this crisis does not undermine the future stability of the Club.”

www.tottenhamhotspur.com

Yeah, I often used to say hello to him walking down the High Road from Seven Sisters, or stood behind him in the queue for a beer and a pie. I am surprised he has time to go to football matches while he is doing all that important work for the wider community. I expect he will not be taking his salary while the lockdown is in place and will be donating his 3m bonus to charity?

 

[skiathospurs]

 

[J.spurs]

Yeah, I often used to say hello to him walking down the High Road from Seven Sisters, or stood behind him in the queue for a beer and a pie. I am surprised he has time to go to football matches while he is doing all that important work for the wider community. I expect he will not be taking his salary while the lockdown is in place and will be donating his 3m bonus to charity?

"...to reduce the remuneration of all 550 non-playing directors and employees for April and May by 20% utilising, where appropriate, the Government’s furlough scheme. We shall continue to review this position."

One suspects he's not going to be in that number, as the song goes.

 

[skiathospurs]

"...to reduce the remuneration of all 550 non-playing directors and employees for April and May by 20% utilising, where appropriate, the Government’s furlough scheme. We shall continue to review this position."

One suspects he's not going to be in that number, as the song goes.

In a lifetime of monumental PR disasters this is up there with his best,especially hours after accounts showed last year he trousered £7m.

The bald genius with £500m gambled on add ons,now puts us in a hugely bad position saddled with debt.Just think if we hadnt blown so much on the lodge,hotels,retractable pitch,basement works we could have been a bale-esque transfer fee away from being debt free with a spanking 62k football stadium.So much for fiscally prudent, following FFP,except for the vanity project.

 

[Dave]

I used to be a Levy fan....I'm not anymore and haven't been for some time now. I find that £3m bonus totally unjustified and his salary is ridiculous for a chairman who has led the club to one domestic trophy in the last 19 years. I want him out, I don't care about the knobs and whistles and gadgets in our new stadium, I want success on the pitch and with him at the helm, I cant see us having any in a sustained way. I just think his ego has to be fed first before anything that is actually important at THFC..

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

The prick has put staff on furlough. What a cunt. An absolute disgrace. Fuck off Levy, you oxygen thief.

The story is even big here in Australia, near the top of our most visited online news source.

Millionaire’s ‘disgraceful’ secret deal

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is quickly becoming one of the most hated men in English sport over his “pure greed” at a time of crisis.

www.news.com.au

 

[Dave]

I actually cant believe the fucking arrogance of the man...

 

[Dave]

He has to do a u turn on that bonus and bring his salary in line....make a gesture to divide it up to the staff or even better, give it to local homeless charity or something. ...regardless...Levy out!

 

[skiathospurs]

He has to do a u turn on that bonus and bring his salary in line....make a gesture to divide it up to the staff or even better, give it to local homeless charity or something. ...regardless...Levy out!

He was paid the £7m last year,its why it was in the accounts released,so he would have to pay it back lol .The man doesnt care about opinion,he only cares about money,he got his money and he is happy,no doubt he would happier if we actually win something and he could bask in the adoration of the fans and make even more money,but lets face it we are owned by a short bald greedy cunt.

 

[skiathospurs]

 

[Yid]

I fucking hope this grows legs....

These greedy cunts along with every other huge organisation should be paying as per the terms of the contracts of their employees. Make them redundant by all means, as that'll give them a wedge of cash and show them that you dont value them and they can fuck off and find an employer who does.

I saw that Norwich have Furlowed their non playing staff and are topping up their wages to 100%.

It's a piss take that they've raked millions of quid off their employees backs and are now not prepared to pay them for 12 weeks....

Fucking cunts.

 

[skiathospurs]

 

[skiathospurs]

I fucking hope this grows legs....

These greedy cunts along with every other huge organisation should be paying as per the terms of the contracts of their employees. Make them redundant by all means, as that'll give them a wedge of cash and show them that you dont value them and they can fuck off and find an employer who does.

I saw that Norwich have Furlowed their non playing staff and are topping up their wages to 100%.

It's a piss take that they've raked millions of quid off their employees backs and are now not prepared to pay them for 12 weeks....

Fucking cunts.

Gets better

 

[skiathospurs]

 

[Motspur Hotspur]

Jeez, there are Tory MPs from the 80s with more credibility than him now, he needs to step aside. Done his bit, made his money, now fuck off.

 

[skiathospurs]

 

[Dave]

Gets better

" He stressed the decision had been taken to try to save jobs in the long term."

How many of those jobs he's trying to "save" would be funded by £3mill ?? Hypocritical prick..

 

[skiathospurs]

Premier League clubs are living in a “moral vacuum” and players should be first to sacrifice salaries during the coronavirus pandemic, say politicians.

Julian Knight, the chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, has condemned the actions of some Premier League clubs, who have furloughed non-playing staff.

Tottenham, Newcastle and Norwich have opted to utilise the government’s job retention scheme during the pandemic.

“It sticks in the throat,” said Knight.

“This exposes the crazy economics in English football and the moral vacuum at its centre.”
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme means the government will pay staff placed on furlough - temporary leave - 80% of their wages, to a maximum of £2,500 a month.

Knight is concerned that the scheme is not being used in the appropriate way.

"This isn't what it's designed for. It's not designed to effectively allow them to continue to pay people hundreds of thousands of pounds, while at the same time furloughing staff on hundreds of pounds," said the MP for Solihull.

"I don't know whether or not the Treasury can legally turn down these applications.

"But at the same time I think football needs to have a good, long, hard look at itself and see whether or not morally this is really right and whether or not actually what they need to do is come to an arrangement with some of their stars so they can continue to pay their [non-playing] staff 100% of their wages rather than furloughing them on 80%."
However, Lord Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, says Tottenham's decision is fair, and Brighton & Hove Albion chief executive and deputy chairman Paul Barber says he can understand why clubs such as Spurs would furlough staff.



Dan Roan, BBC sports editor

This has the potential to turn into one of the gravest PR disasters in the Premier League's history.

Many are now asking whether the government's taxpayer-funded job retention scheme was really designed for clubs who - in the case of Spurs for instance - have profits of £68m, a Bahamas-based owner worth £4bn, a chairman paid £7m, and players who, on average, earn £70,000 per week.

Government sources indicate the scheme is open to all businesses and it is up to individual clubs to decide whether to apply. But by furloughing non-playing staff while continuing to keep squads on full pay, Spurs, Newcastle United and Norwich City have provoked an inevitable outcry, and also put major pressure on players - and the PFA - to agree to a deal that would see players have their pay deferred or even cut - as has happened at clubs in Europe.

The PFA is wary of the risk that some clubs may cut pay, only to then make transfer signings rather than reimbursing their staff, and want a collective agreement rather than unilateral action, as has been seen at Leeds and Birmingham.

This is undoubtedly a complicated dilemma for the sport. The PFA has to consider the interests of players outside the top two divisions who do not earn fortunes, and it has asked the Premier League and EFL to come up with financial data for clubs so it can determine which are most in need of help from players.

And as agents will no doubt point out, players' contracts must not be breached. But unless clarity and compromise soon emerges from this week's talks, the risk is that much of the good work that football clubs are doing to help their communities in this crisis could be overshadowed.

 

[Dorset]

This is a fucking joke. If they were to give the players a 20% cut that would more than pay the wages of the non-playing staff. There can be no matches without the non playing staff, but cunts like Levy know that for every member of staff at the new Lane there are hundreds of people who would take their places if they dared to take industrial action. The new aristocracy is the fucking same as the old aristocracy, the chief benefits scrounger the Queen and her family treat their lower grade staff like shit, paying them tuppence more than fuck all and now the new money is doing the same.

 

[Dave]

Under these circumstances though, wouldn't you think the players should come forward and offer even 5% of their salaries to fund the 20% cut ? Surely Kane, Lloris, Dele and others should step up now and if they do, the rest will have to follow...but...itll show the chairman up at least and put him under severe pressure....that in itself would be enough to make this fan smile...

 

[NiceOneCyril]

My blood is boiling...they are paid to entertain us and they are not doing it. They can't help that, but neither can anyone else who's work has been affected by COVID-19.

I own a small travel company in the USA sending school groups to Europe. Every group from March onwards has now cancelled - I've lost 100% of my business. I've paid back every penny of what was paid to me by the schools, because it's the right thing to do. I am paying my 5 staff 100% of their pay out of my own savings, because it's also the right thing to do. I'll run out of money in about 6 months and then we'll either all be OK, or we'll all be in the shit together. It's a team game. Apparently PL football is not.

For the PL teams, especially THFC, let all the first teamers who don't take an immediate 90% paycut (bollocks to this deferral shit) run their contracts out sitting at home picking their noses, then tell them to fuck off - we'll watch the academy boys play. Charge all the agents with human trafficking, and put all the owners in jail for tax evasion, Levy & Lewis first - you know they are all guilty anyway.

Even the scum are less scum than we are right now.

 

[Wotspur]

I saw this earlier and think it’s only fair