Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

“I'm on a plane that looks like it's going to fall apart, and I'm leaving for Cardiff,” Sala said in a WhatsApp audio message carried by Argentine media.

“If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don't know if they will send people to look for me, because they will not find me, you know. Dad, I'm so scared,” he added.

fucking hell.

Fuck, whoever took the decision to put him on that plane is criminally negligent at best and maybe guilty of manslaughter?

oh god that message ;_;

as someone with a lifelong fear of flying and a big terra firma fan, it seems to have played out just like my worst paranoid nightmares about getting on a plane, and in particular one of these small planes. I'd imagine if his parents have given this very personal stuff to the Argentinian media themselves, they are feeling a lot of anger as well as anguish.

Cardiff have been at pains to point out that apparently Sala organized the plane himself.

This is the pilot (and plane) apparently talking about all the things that can go wrong:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-34492176/my-life-as-a-ferry-pilot

TBH, it’s not just the type of aeroplane, it’s the type of flying that is being undertaken. Flying at night, overwater, in weather is probably the hardest flying that any pilot will ever do. There are a number of effects that upset the human gyroscopic balance, which can become deadly. Effects such as black hole effect, where a pilot gets disoriented by the darkness, giving a feeling of too high, too low or just not flying level. Strobe effect, where the flashing white lights bounce off surrounding clouds and cause disorientation and nausea. The leans, which is one of the most deadly. Often caused by false horizons from lights or clouds, also caused from accelerations in turbulence(especially at night), where the body/brain thinks the aircraft is flying in a turn or straight or climbing or descending, when in fact the aircraft is flying not as perceived by the brain. The pilot then compensates for the feeling by turning or pushing down or applying power, which increases the feeling, which then leads to the pilot turning further or pushing further. Just ends in a crash. It’s the most awful and scary feeling on a dark night.

Throw in the fact that the equipment isn’t really the best to be taking on those conditions, an aging, single engine turboprop aircraft with most likely a primitive autopilot and navigational/radio aids, it puts this pilot in a difficult situation.

I’m trying not to speculate here and trying more to offer a number of reasons why I personally would have never stepped on that aircraft.

some more horrific context from someone who has flown one of these things.

Nightmarish

horrible

we had a very high publicity rescue helicopter crash a few years back and even a basic skim over the environment, scenarios and likely causes were similarly nightmarish

3.15pm Update.

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football twitter has got Madeline McCann trending!

R/soccerstreams appears to be completely broken, anyone know any other decent stream-link pages that aren't the absolute pits.

it's here now

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerstreams_pl

cheers!

Burnley blimey

'kin 'ell ole

this match has got fellaini's name all over it (is he even on the bench?)

lol what the hell are brighton up to?

Fellaini's off to China allegedly

just send his brother amirite

Newcastle!

oh you useless pricks

Ole out

Well this might interfere with our Cup chances

Rats. United equaliser.

well played burnley i guess

Fuck those BNP twats

it was a shite first XI and Burnley pressed like mad

still, the Utd way and so on

<3 rafa

Sanchez is sooooo done also

how the fuck do we get rid of him though?

Gah. Fucking Newcastle. Must have gotten a boost by Tony Blair today.

Getting rid of Sanchez is easy: disband contract. It's only right. Fuck fetching some millions for that tosser.

Sanchez is sooooo done also

Looked more useful than Lukaku had been when he came on

well, I don't agree with that but I've made my feelings on Lukaku clear before

Gah. Fucking Newcastle. Must have gotten a boost by Tony Blair today.

city's owners make blair look fairly good.

they're ludicrously expensive benchwarmers at best, which is not really a sustainable situation

Christ it's nights like tonight that could make a fella into a believer

In most of the multiverse Sanchez isn't even in England, let alone at ManU. It's just the worst fit.

city's owners make blair look fairly good.

let's not go mad

lol

The United Arab Emirates announced the winners of its Gender Balance Index awards: They were all men https://t.co/coXLboLnlZ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 29, 2019

lol i saw that today but my point stands

like Wormtongue is still worse than Saruman

i guess perhaps, having said that wormtongue was not laundering his reputation by running an army of orcs praised for their style of war.

not to stretch the analogy too far.

something something Helm's Deep something something parked the bus

it's like having a beauty competition for over 50's male pissheads in a whetherspoons is declaring which scumbag oligarchs/politicians are on the higher moral ground imo.

feel like jose as wormtongue and man united as that old ashen-faced king lad is the only possible wormtongue/ashen-faced king lad

tbf he did sell their chief Uruk-Hai in the summer of 2017

all of this is fair from the man hierro but i can't help but feel he's going in too early. wait until it's a 9-point cushion with 5 games remaining imo

hating city is not a sign of confidence - believe me i dunno how tf i'm gonna deal with the drama for the next 3/4 months, it's already fucking excruciating.

ahem, Sanchez has been pretty good so far under Solksjaer

He's had a couple of good *moments*. In his overall play, he's been slow, sloppy and weak

He looks inferior to Lingard and he's the Premier League's highest paid player by a distance. And there's absolutely no indication he's going to get anywhere near his levels of 2-3 season ago

He's wasted out wide because he can't go past players anymore, so the only place you could really play him is in false 9 role. But he doesn't have the pressing ability to play there in Solskjaer's system. Also he seems to get in Pogba's way, generally

He's done