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Another non-committal response from the EFL. Roughly translated it reads to me as " As of yet we haven't found anything in the business plan to scupper this deal. However we are working diligently to achieve this and will take great delight in informing everyone as soon as we do."

FWIW I just checked the excess deaths for the latest week available here;
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00NDk2LWFlMTAtOTg0OGNhNmFiNGM0IiwidCI6ImVlNGUxNDk5LTRhMzUtNGIyZS1hZDQ3LTVmM2NmOWRlODY2NiIsImMiOjh9
Males 0-24: 12 deaths / 1.2x expected deaths
Females 0-24: 7 deaths / 1.19x expected deaths
Males 25-49: 13 deaths / 1.05x expected deaths
Females 25-49: 24 deaths / 1.17x expected deaths
Males 50-64: 53 deaths / 1.09x expected deaths
Females 50-64: -15 expected deaths / 0.96x expected deaths
Males 65-74: -45 expected deaths / 0.95x expected deaths
Females 65-74: -36 expected deaths / 0.95x expected deaths
Males 75-84: -53 expected deaths / 0.97x expected deaths
Females 75-84: -53 expected deaths / 0.95x expected deaths
Males 85+: -55 expected deaths / 0.97x expected deaths
Females 85+: -249 expected deaths / 0.9x expected deaths
 
If you look at the graph over the course of the pandemic however you could argue that the +50 age groups are seeing negative excess deaths atm due to covid having already taken its toll on the most vulnerable - almost 90% of covid deaths have been in the over 65s, a good deal of whom would have been expected to live into this year.
Likewise the 0-24 age group saw periods of significantly fewer than expected deaths during the pandemic probably because the couldn't go out and do the mad stuff that youngsters do ? 
 

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According to the covid tracker they have (hopefully) peaked and are starting to fall again.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?s
Whilst deaths may have been high recently, we have also been experiencing record numbers of infections (I think it went as high as 1 in 8 or 1 in 9 of the UK population iirc) due to Omicron which whilst providing no comfort to those deceased, puts the fatality rate into some sort of perspective.  Furthermore, as mentioned earlier the death rate is skewed to include everyone with covid (60%) not from covid (40%) which would reduce the actual numbers further.
Additionally, deaths in the under 15 category stand at 49 since the beginning of the pandemic.
 

Yup, it is all deaths within 60 days of a +ve covid test - covid, cancer, stepped in front of a bus or flattened by a steam roller ?

Some wonderful goals here ?
 

I'm gonna give it to Cooper based purely on the fact that winning Manager of the Month is often a curse - what will winning Manager of the Season do ? 

I hope Burnley stay up, but thats mainly because my brother-in-law supports Everton ?

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

So glad he’s found a home
 

It would just sum the whole thing up if the EFL rejected his business plan because he formatted it in Times New Roman and they only accept business plans written in Comic Sans.

Davies and Bird for me.

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

Yep, beat me to it - I posted the video as I was watching it.
Hopefully CD will stick around like last season and wait until there is a contract available to sign and carry on playing for  us.  He's the kinda guy you want around the club long after hes finished playing.

Confirmed he wants to stay but can't say for sure what will happen without the takeover happening