dohadeer

I was just interested as to the source of the article, because it looks to be 100% fictional.

I’m going to show some total ignorance here..... What do face masks do? Are you not still breathing the same air? Do they have some kind of filter system within them? Or is there another obvious way that they work, and I’m being totally stupid? I’ve often wondered that, when I see people wearing them for pollution reasons rather than infection reasons.

The old saying ‘I have a gut feeling?’

Hahaha, I genuinely just laughed out loud at that one. ‘How dare you let the Coronavirus randomly stop you from hosting this football match ‘properly.’ We’re going to have to remove that privilege from you.’ Is that a balanced, well-considered opinion you’ve come to, or is that one made with your saltire-tinted glasses on? Even if home fans are banned from matches, the team are still allowed to host the match. They don’t switch it to the away team’s venue. Surely something which was no fault of the home team, shouldn’t lead to them being punished, by having the match switched to an away match?

El Desmarque? I assume that’s a Spanish newspaper or something? I tried googling it and got a load of Spanish results. And where is your article from? Because you’ve just written it without stating any source, as if you wrote it yourself. (Sorry if it already says the source and I didn’t spot it, I can’t see it anywhere though.)

Surely the fact that they were drawn at home is a pretty obvious reason to hold it in Norway/Serbia.

When I said ‘paper talk,’ I meant is it not just a completely made up story, with no evidence behind it? Where did you get it from and where did they get it from?

Stick with those logical reasons then. I don’t think that your gut - or anybody’s gut - can predict the future!

Paper talk, surely? What’s the source for this?

Off-the-charts levels of selfishness. ’Knob’ seems fair.

Yeah, I did wonder if you were aiming for ‘clean slate’ or ‘clean rap sheet.’ You kinda got stuck between the two.

Ah, the old ‘gut feeling.’ The safe way to make a prediction without having to justify it with logic or reasoning.

Clean slate. Unless you’re playing as a goalkeeper.

Where are you getting this from? I have had this one account for fifteen years. I am not that person. Look at the evidence. I spent way too many hours of my life arguing with that troll also. They are a different person to me. They wouldn’t last 15 days without a ban, let alone that number of years. Why do you think I am that person?

I can search for statistics if you like, but I thought that it was fairly well-known/widely accepted how horrific flying is for the environment? Particularly domestic flights which require such a large amount of energy for a relatively short distance.

No, I don’t know who that is, but not me! I think that three-at-the-back should be left in 1996 where it belongs. France and Zidane’s 4-2-3-1 killed the back three stone dead.

By quite an environmentalist I meant that I try to make choices which benefit the environment. I’m not a chain-myself-to-a-building and get-myself-arrested level of environmentalist. You’re right, I think it was only 18 months ago when Greta Thunberg made her first school strike for climate change, remarkable what she’s achieved in that time in raising awareness. I ‘jumped on the bandwagon’ in terms of giving up flying, due to her influence. However, I’d given up meat and driving a car long before that. As you say, as bandwagons go, it’s certainly not one that I’m ashamed of jumping on!

Well, yes, it is still hugely polluting. I believe that we’re decades and decades away from any kind of carbon-neutral flying being developed, that could transfer a significant number of passengers over any significant distance.

I mean, possibly, but still hugely polluting, surely?

How do you mean that I haven’t used them enough to form a viewpoint?

I used to fly, but I gave up last year, when I realised just how bad flying is for the environment.

You can’t go back and retrospectively decide that though. Finland qualified a year after the Nations League. They may have got lucky with their qualification draw. Hungary were in fact themselves the top seeds in all of League C, at the time of the Nations League draw. So whoever drew Hungary had the hardest draw - not the other way round.

The best team in the Nations League? One of the four runners-up from League C were required to remain in the League C path, so it was done by a random draw. That doesn’t seem a problem to me.

I don’t understand?

Yeah it’s another problem with the current set-up. The Nations League is good in doing away with friendlies, and in allowing teams to compete in a league structure, against teams of a similar standard, but they have to find a better and fairer way for it to link in with European Championships and World Cups - if at all.