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        • Sadly, his club have just undone all Klopp’s words by furloughing a load of non-playing staff. I’m pretty sure that when the government set up this scheme it wasn’t intended for a club who made £42m profit from a turnover of over half a billion last year, who paid agents fees totalling £43m and are continuing to pay the players in full, at least a dozen of whom are being paid in excess of £100k per week, and one of whom is on £200k per week.

          Football clubs have absolutely no shame. I stopped watching football on TV a few years back, including things like the Cup Final and the World Cup. Two reasons – I can’t stand watching the cheating, particularly cheating that has been practised and is being encouraged by the manager/coaches, but mainly because of the way money has ruined the game. Completely ruined it. Hopefully, the likes of Liverpool and Spurs claiming taxpayers’ money like this will set a chain reaction off that will lead to the bubble being burst.

  6. Probably thousands of nurses, medics and paramedics, except they can’t be tested unless their symptoms require admission to the beds of their own hospitals……….

  14. Courtney Marie Andrews performs a John Prine cover as a kind of get well soon card on her Facebook page,

    https://www.facebook.com/CourtneyMarieAndrews/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARDcunkiSqbP11rB8nKh3d8DtlHNFI3Wp1nLhmcQBfLd2IHyOpg4BYmiaECs21Ll4nXnwf7P8snz2ER4&hc_ref=ARQhYOT6J1sD8Z9wqAHnd3IwH9pYQ2Earsqp1pHtsu5Vb05z0K6Gr1lW86qbftzxZqg&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDZM5b6EiRDxD9JyTj7Gcfmjfxh1AdC4fNRT2DBR5bhA5mdRyHo6xMtlkbL2xsNqCmbevLtkqzuR4p8uVxDC6Gbska9GM2mCmc3GeeeqrH3Uce-2mN7CJ0nZVfKIRruq8wJAqsltIOIHXxP_VpGQCZB2PcoCmClptuqSU-OlPsGA6m8VL8ZdpaZBC6aMg0HFctlyYpsjktBAuXGpfX4bslXIGGVI-0UmytAy3oRumjy2PNc16hFCIDpAZkgSSE8-yPv4tfPtCz78EkK76eLw97zrj4e5oEgPtJtRBV0ZRMugBmI4zeYffQZA_OSLC76S63z-_yTB_9DZ2DkaELD0KiPXEe79huE

    • Due to circumstances too complicated to go into but certainly beyond my control, about 20 years ago I found myself at the same dinner table as Griptyppe-Thynne. He stuck to the script admirably. He turned up with two wifelets, who kept going to the loo and reappearing ostentatiously wiping their noses on the backs of their hands. The rest of the time he rummaged around in their bras and they in his voluminous oriental trousers. My first and only exposure to the aristocracy as far as I know.

  20. You get the feeling that the Obit files kept by news outlets are being dusted off and given a tweak when there’s a diagnosis, even if there are no symptoms..

    Details like “He was born in Putney in 1943 and first rose to fame as….” are not really necessary when the subject is still very much alive.

    • He managed the best Barnsley team I have had the pleasure of watching, although I guess there haven’t been many good Barnsley teams in the 43 years I’ve been watching them. His team though, with Ronnie Glavin, Mick McCarthy, Ian Banks and Trevor Aylott were fantastic. Fingers crossed he deals with the virus like he dealt with his opponents on the pitch.

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