That's not going to come along any time soon though is it ? It's hard to see a way forward other than suspending the leagues until such time as a vaccine is found.

Yes you're right- wherever there's easy money to be made the crooks will gather.

Yes, I've given a few like that as a full back and received a few when I was playing as a winger. As you say- normally a booking but occasionally it would be a telling off from a lenient ref. The secret was to get it in very early in the game.

It was a bit late but the number of crocodile style rolls by the Celtic player tells me it looked worse than it was. Definitely an early bath these days though.

After Johnson's speech today It looks like next season just got moved further away. I suspect we won't see any " normal " football this year. How long can we go on playing behind closed doors ?

The dingles are probably grateful that somebody is putting Gibson in the shop window.

Exactly, how many people would volunteer to go into work tomorrow if they still got paid for not doing. To 95% of pro sportsmen it's just a job of work. Most of them won't do anything without being paid. The ones that will are a very small minority.

I see the goalkeeper on loan at Rochdale isn't far behind in that list.

That sounds painful, didn't Donald Trump suffer from that ?

Quality post as usual. Peggy Lee would have been proud of you.

I saw a bit of Sanchez at Rochdale. He's really tall but quite agile for a big guy. He reminded me a bit of Raya in style in that he was capable of clawing one out of the top corner one minute and passing the ball to an opposing forward the next. Like Raya he's still got a bit of learning to do. Going off my brief experience of him if I had to chose between Sanchez and Walton I'd go for Sanchez. Not a great recommendation I know but at least Sanchez will stop a fair amount of shots.

Don't tell 'em Paul !

If you were getting this sort of treatment managing in industry there would come a point were you'd have to say - " Sort this out or I'm off ! "

I'm surprised by that. He didn't look to have that killer burst of speed that he when he joined us after the op. Just my opinion of course.

That injury took half a yard of pace off him though.

We still had the likes of Fergie, Hole, Newton, Rogers, Hunter, Wilson, Metcalfe, The Don Etc to admire at least half of that time. We had a couple of crap seasons then. I'd swap the last ten years for that era tomorrow.

Well he's done it once so maybe you are right.

Yeah, living in Wigan or living in Bristol. How long would you need to think about that for ?

Yes but at the end of the day he wasn't. What did relegation cost us ? Penny wise and pound foolish.

That what I noticed as I reached the wall- my boots seemed to have got heavier and I seemed to be " reaching " for the ball more than I was previously.

Or left back ?

Yes I'd agree with that.

Callum Camps, who Rovers were linked with awhile ago, is set to sign for Fleetwood.

Lots of top players don't have to do that these days. They've made enough money to just retire. When was the last successful player manager ?

Not for me. He's done nothing for ages. I read a while ago he'd had a few injuries since leaving Rovers.