Corona virus and football

Bari are fine now - they're owned by Di Laurentis who owns Napoli. Not sure how conflicts of interest work in that country mind.

Italy is a weird country. About a third of the country are Juventus fans I believe, mainly in the South (after Turin of course). I think it has a lot to do with migration and the south being so poor. Many from Southern Italy went to work in the Fiat factories (owned by the Agnelli's). Probably a lot to do with success as well!!

 

Oh right. Yeah, I knew they'd folded (or whatever) last year- I thought you meant it had happened again since! Wouldn't have been that surprised if they had mind, it's not uncommon for Italian clubs is it?

I'm not sure they bother that much with conflicts of interest in terms of ownership in Italy. Luciano Gaucci owned several clubs and he had control of at least Perugia and Viterbese at the same time. He owned Perugia for quite a while, so his ownership of them might have coincided with the period during which he had Sambenedettese and Catania too.

Yeah, by the 70s FIAT employed around 100,000 people in Italy making it a major part of a lot of people's lives, so I think the southern poor felt a strong affinity with the Agnellis and therefore Juve. I've also heard it said that because the south rarely produces teams that can compete at the highest level that a lot of people in the south latch on to Juventus. Which goes against Campanilisimo, a big thing in Italy.

 

Welcome to the UK

please log in to view this image

 

Is fookin reet pal.
Me 76 year old dad was down to his last bog roll and couldn't buy any at Asda 08:00 hours the other day, yet they'd let some young prick buy 20 cases earlier on.
Rationing it now like.

Luckily i had 50 cases so i could give him a couple of rolls.





Joking, i had a couple of packs, and i gave him a couple,
He only wanted one lol,
Dropped him a couple more with the newspaper this morning off nights

One arsehole in work has been bragging and showing a pic of his spare room full of bog roll, soap, tinned food and pasta, the bellend.

 

So how many at Cheltenham last week came down with corona

Still think it's been blown out of proportion I kna where in uncharted territory here

How many fans were at the full footy fixtures plus the Cheltenham festival

Nee reports of anyone taken ill

 

There will be though..

 

Cesc Fabregas in isolation in Monaco.

 

What a dreadful souless place to be ...

... and Ken Bates haunts the streets!

I'd rather live in Shotton tbh.

 

i am garn to the match i do not give a crap about whats out there i love my team. We have had aids the cold war crisies and swine flu now corona virus but i want to be there when we play Shrewsbury.

 

It’s amazing what Johnny Walker does to your brain.

 

See Chelsea have closed the hotels at Chelsea village and made the rooms free to NHS staff to save them commuting.

Fantastic seeing things like that, well done Chelsea.

 

Have to say I do have a lot of toilet rolls - 48 to be exact. But I always buy them in packs of 45-48 (5x9 or 3x18) from either Costco or Makro - have done nothing different to the norm. But I did only take one pack of 48 - there were people in Makro, as you say with trolleys piled up!!

 

There you go... Oh were ytou talking about Monty...

 

Gary Neville now closes his 2 Manchester hotels, told his staff they will be paid indefinitely whilst away, and given them free to the NHS.

We truly are starting to see the 2 sides of humanity here, that’s a magnificent gesture from an individual, wealthy or otherwise.

 

H'Way the Hotels there mate. Hope they can keep a sheet clean better than we've done recently.

 

Yet the company my wife works for, where the overall boss has a net worth of around 20m, won’t pay her a penny when the schools close! She’ll have to self isolate before Friday to get even ssp! And that’s a grand off our monthly income

 

Unbelievable mate. Are you able to claim the mortgage break?

I feel very fortunate to not have these concerns, I’m seeing folk all around me close to meltdown about how they are going to be financially affected. It’s grim.