Rushing out a vaccine would probably do more harm than good. A vaccine probably won't even be needed for most people, especially the young and healthy. Most people only get mild symptoms anyway and it has a very low mortality rate.


It's more akin to a flu than a cold, and of course we have a flu vaccine. It's only really given to the elderly though.

Just more butthurt excuses from Wilder's camp. Do you really think he could get away with something like this in such a high profile fight. Their gloves are checked multiple times and an official watches them being put on. I'm sure Wilder would have felt something wrong and said so during the fight if there was something in Fury's gloves.


I'm not sure it's official yet. They just said that they'd 'reserved' the venue for then. Doesn't mean it will happen for sure. It probably depends on how the pandemic is by then. Most places are easing lock-downs but some places are seeing more cases and a packed, sweaty arena probably isn't the best place to be given the circumstances.

Liverpool got humbled last night. I think next season the league will be a lot closer. Would be nice if Liverpool played City very early on. Did anyone think the disallowed goal in the Spurs game should have stood? Didn't look like it hit his hand to me.


Dear god, Shut up. Why do idiots always complain about fixed matches here? Did you bet on Liverpool to win by any chance? Do you really think someone successfully managed to convince the entire Liverpool squad to throw the game for some unbeknownst reason? They just got beat by a much better team on the night. Liverpool have nothing to play for now really so maybe that contributed but it's not like City aren't a great side. I expected them to win just not by that margin. 

Liverpool were certainly humbled last night. I expected City to win but not like that. I don't think Liverpool played bad either, they just got dominated by a team that played far better and tighter. It's probably a good thing for them really so they don't go into next season thinking they'll walk the league again. I like it when the league is a bit tighter anyway. Kinda boring when one team is so far ahead and impossible to catch. The last goal that was disallowed was harsh I thought. Similar goal in the Spurs game ruled out by VAR for handball but it didn't even look like handball to me.


He's one of the best in the world. Should be in contention for the ballon d'or at some point I think. Belgium need to step up their game as on paper they're probably the best team in the world but they usually under-perform.

A lot of surprising results yesterday and I only got one point from the Arsenal win. Vital three points for West Ham but not so good for Watford. If they lose their next game they'll likely be in the relegation zone and playing Chelsea away it's not looking good. City/Liverpool game should be interesting tonight. I'm not sure I'd back Liverpool to win even though they're really not going to want to lose this one. Maybe they'll get a point but I think I'm going to back a City win here.

Was pretty optimistic about my 0-0 last night, especially as only one other person went for it. At least nobody at all backed the Burnley away win.


There was another bitcoin advertisement in one of the FA Cup games I think. It was for an exchange I think but they even said "hodl" on the advertisement. There's at least one other team with a bitcoin-based company or sportsbook as well (not Watford).

I think I prefer one game a day, or certainly prefer it when they're not over-lapping so you can watch what games you want with no overlap.


But do they want to risk doing this and lose a load of games? Since they can make 5 subs now they should probably bench them and bring them on late-ish in the game if they're winning comfortably.

I can't see that happening anytime soon if they won't even let fans in stadiums, but tens of thousands of people have been going to the beaches recently during the heatwave were currently having so I don't think this would be any different than having a parade. They should probably wait till the end of the season though. It's a shame City didn't win the game really as Liverpool play City next so it would have been good to give them the trophy there if they managed to get a point from the game. Still, with no fans it might be a bit of a let down.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/judge-accepts-craig-wrights-autism-defense-says-no-to-sanctions


Is this for real? You can just claim "autism" to excuse lying and fraud in court now? Will the "autism defence" become the new Chewbacca or Matrix defence? I'm kinda hoping it does just to add insult to Craig.


I've always wondered how these witnesses work. Can't you just find anyone who will be willing to diagnose you with autism or schizophrenia or whatever just to try get you off? I doubt it would even be that hard to feign something like autism or some sort of mental illness to a neutral doctor but when you can present your own to back up your claims it seems easy to abuse. I'm not sure autism is an excuse for calculated lies and fraud either.

These rumours of PayPal accepting or dealing with Bitcoin have been going on as long as I've been on this forum. The new round of speculation seems to be based on nothing concrete but yet more rumours as well. I think Paypal should get on board as it shouldn't be that difficulty for them to implement and it would open them up to a whole industry where they can make a lot more money on fees (which I'm sure would be large).



Of course they would be potential users, but you're right that most Paypal users probably don't care but at least if they did implement it it would pique the interest of the average user and maybe make it safe and accessible for them to be able to buy crypto. To the average person on the street a lot of people think getting into bitcoin is overly complicated but in reality it's pretty much as simple as using PayPal and that could open it up to potentially a lot of users and especially ones who otherwise wouldn't have cared or bothered. Even though I'm very sceptical of this news I do hope they implement it as some point as it would be huge for adoption but I'm not holding my breath.

I was so close to the 1-1 draw and I was the only one who went for it. Those ones sting the most. Was a great game though. Walker's clearance off the line was incredible. No idea how he kept that out. De Bruyne's world class free kick and Fernandinho's great save  . I'm sure he could have kicked that instead of hand-balling it.

I wonder if Liverpool will change things up now and give some usually benched players a game or carry on as usual. I think they can still go for a point record but will have to win pretty much all their remaining games. It could be done but now the pressure is off I'm sure they might drop some points. They're playing City away next week as well.

Liverpool played great. If City to don't win tonight I think that means Liverpool have won the league right, or do City need to lose?


I think all the games today are hard to call and should be close. Will probably end up going for all draws. You can't trust Arsenal these days, especially away. I'm also not sure Watford can beat Burnley away. If I had to pick a winner out of Chelsea/City I would pick City but I don't think it will be easy for City away hence the likely draw. Going for all stalemate sis ricky though but I just can't really pick a winner out of these match ups.

I went for all one-nils on all the games except Norwich/Everton where I went for 1-1. It was between that or 0-0. Just watching the Man U game now and they're already 1-up and I think they'll probably get a couple more. They've already had one disallowed. All other games are currently 0-0 at 34 minutes played.


Wolves should win, but I think it will be close hence my 1-0 pick.

Yeah, those are what I've gone for as well. The Norwich match is shaky for me and could see any result in that but when I can't split them I go for a draw. Norwich need some points if they want to stay up but I don't think they're strong enough to beat Everton, and I don't think Everton are decent enough to beat them away.


I'm backing United to win but not sure I'd put money on just them. Maybe stick them in an accumulator.

I'd stay well away from corners. Sometimes there's loads and other times there's hardly any. I used to put on a lot of the bets where it was like both teams to score, over 4.5 corners, a corner in each half and over x amount of cards etc and it was usually always the corners that let me down. Stopped doing them really unless there's a great offer and the corners aren't really more than 4.5. 9 is too much though.

Lol. What's wrong with that? Personally I think we should be keeping politics out of football, but if they are doing things like BLM then players and fans should be able to support what they want. I remember a while ago UEFA condemned fans showing the Palestinian flag to deeming it to be an “illicit banner”. I'm not sure how a country's flag is illicit but I know they'd never allow an Arab Lives Matter banner despite mass human rights abuses going on in Palestine by Israel, but they'd never dare do that so I'm not sure how they choose what to show support to. Some Qatari players in 2017 were fined for wearing t shirts that were deemed to breach the rules against political statements and Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri were also fined in the World Cup for making "hand gestures with political overtones" so I'm not sure why the rules have changed, or is it only political statements that UEFA agrees with? But that's why I think they should stay out of this stuff. Either let fans and players show support to whatever they want or don't force them to take part in things en masse.

I don't even think players should be wearing the poppy for Remembrance day during matches. It's kind of meaningless when it's something that is forced upon people, especially when they don't give a shit about whatever they're meant to be showing support for. I mean, how many players are wearing the BLM shirts when they're actually racist? Kinda defeats the point and I don't like all this bending over to political pressure from those who screech the loudest. I can guarantee you that other groups will start screeching that they want their logos or catchphrases on the back of shirts at some point and the PL will probably cave to that and then it's a slippery slope.

I haven't seen it as it doesn't seem to have show up on youtube yet, but I have respect for the guy. A lot of fighters don't know when to quit or throw in the towel, even when they're struggling to walk back to their corner or get back up from it between rounds. If you know you're defeated, mentally, physically or both then there's not much point walking out just so you can get knocked down. I liked Dana's response to the situation as well. Hopefully he'll give him another shot at some point.


He's just getting embarrassing now, even if he is only joking. Tyson shouldn't be fighting anyone at his age, but if he does it should be someone his age at least. JJ asking for both a boxing match and an MMA match with him is just stupid. He seems like he really is desperate now to keep his name in the limelight.

Anyone gone for anything other than home wins on both the games today? I don't think Spurs and Leicester should have too much trouble at home against West Ham and Brighton. I suppose the only possible issues is them both fighting relegation.


I expected them to win comfortably but not by 4 or 5. I predicted 2-0 on the pool but was thinking of going with 3-0. A friend said it would be 5 or 6-0 so I asked if he wanted to take the 4-6 City goals and I take 1-3. I regret that now haha. I don't think Burnley are a bad team really and didn't expect them to get turned over, though I didn't watch this game so don't know how they played.

I think it is far too easy for bots and spammers to create accounts here en masse, but bots and spammers could just as easily create email accounts en masse too, so it probably won't really do much apart from give them another hoop to jump through. It may deter some but not the worse offenders.


Is that the actual reasoning behind why we don't have it though? I don't think I've seen theymos (or satoshi) mention that.

I'm really surprised someone went with the Burnley win. Pretty surprised with the draw though to to be honest, but you never know.


Personally I just saw it as one of those games that was potentially going to be really close. Then add to the fact that it's the first game back in three months and it's a scouse derby, and give the home advantage to Liverpool. You win some and you lose some though as I didn't do that great on all the others.