Cheltenham Festival/ Corona Virus?

[Slim]

Makes a lot of sense.

They'd be struggling for articles.

Today's Weekender has cards and form for Ireland for the rest of this week plus tips for US racing.

They claim it costs a fortune to produce occasional season-to-date indexes, the reason for limiting themselves to end-of-season ones.

I wonder if they lay people off they're hoping the government will cover the 80% of their people's wages.

They laid off someone I know in Dublin. Imagine every has been.

 

[G-G]

Lee mack infected,attended cheltenham/

Yes but so did 249.900 ish people including me and they are not......

 

[G-G]

And still no-one breast beating about the 130000 who were at Old Trafford and Anfield around Festival time.

and the 59,000 at West Ham either

 

[archie]

West Ham have a losing record against Stockport County. Their supporters are immune from almost anything.

 

[granger]

Blame game has begun

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cheltenham-festival-spread-coronavirus-across-country-vbzmn5p9q

 

[wilsonl]

What a lazy fu*king correspondent. Of course we'd have less than 100 cases countrywide if the festival hadn't gone ahead

 

[Desert Orchid]

Must have been a lot of Italians and Spaniards there too.

 

[simmo]

It was a right wing conspiracy to infect the nation.

 

[granger]

Blame game has begun

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cheltenham-festival-spread-coronavirus-across-country-vbzmn5p9q

Italian media done similar on a game between Valencia and Atalanta in Milan recently

 

[jinnyj]

What a lazy fu*king correspondent. Of course we'd have less than 100 cases countrywide if the festival hadn't gone ahead

I think it was exactly the same article word for word as the one in the Daily Mail (although I wasn’t going to subscribe to bother reading the rest). But typical sensationalism.

 

[Truncheon]

BBC wankers at it now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-52485584

About 12 million were packed like sardines on the London Underground during the 4 days of Cheltenham, it's as if they think only 200 people would have died if the festival was called off

 

[G-G]

And 72k at Old Trafford and 59k at West Ham that week, aside from any other matches that went ahead that week and the All England Badminton Championships went ahead that week with players from South Korea, Japan, and China and ........and it was held indoors, no really it was, in front of a crowd and ............ completely fed up with Cheltenham being cited as cause of everything from that week.

 

[frontrunner]

No mention of the 166000 who attended Cruffs 2 days earlier eh?

 

[Perpetual]

BBC could not give a shite about racing