Whitey Grandad

Hmmm... I sincerely hope that we don't do anything rash at Christmas. Anything less than 10 points adrift is nothing to get too concerned about. And How many times has a club that's streets ahead at 23 games ended up struggling to make the playoffs?

I believe that the big increase in debt is because of a change in their accounting methods rather than a sudden surge in spending. They do have cash-flow problems though, who doesn't? (apart from Saints )

And quite right too! ... it should be 'sieg heil'

Well they weren't (aren't) really 'Labour' either, were they?

I normally stick on the cruise control and crawl through. I have a theory that they cause long tailbacks just before the roadworks. The problem is that once you get slowed doen you can't make up the gaps again. The average speed through the works is far less than the 50mph specified as a maximum. For those who are interested, there is a concept called 'superflow' which is getting the maximum vehicle flow rate through a traffic lane. I think it's something like 53mph and 25 feet separation, or something like that. Traffic will continue to flow smoothly from 50,000 vehicles per hour per lane until it reaches 80,000 and then the flow gets unstable and the average flow then drops below 50,000 which is why you get those 'waves' of stop-start traffic. The ideal is to keep the flow just below instability which is why you sometimes have traffic lights at the entry lanes to motorways.

I have a projector but it is only standard 8, not Super 8. I have a load of old family movies from the early 60s that I once got converted to vhs by Parkers at Woolston. Then later I got them to put it on dvd for me. It cost me a fortune but now all the family have copies.

Absolutely, even though it is unbelievable at the time, all wives end up like their mothers.

If a big bank goes bust, we all go bust. Don't panic, we bought a very big bank for a very low price.

Hawkeye is certainly not infallible: http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/01/24/nine-admits-hawk-eye-not-foolproof/ Anything based on trying to observe a blur from tv cameras over 50 metres away is only ever going to give an approximate estimation of the ball's trajectory. With a hard ball like the one used in cricket there is probably less scope for aerial deviation but a football can move all over the place depending on gust of wind, temperature, spin, and hardness of the pitch. Besides, this was developed at Roke Manor and I wouldn't place blind trust in anything that came out of there.

It's all balls.

Yup, Kingsland row O centre-line. Don't worry about swapping. I'll just turn up early and put itching powder on it.

Minus a handling fee, of course...

We had great fun on the Amstel Brewery tour which was free including as much beer as you could take (there was also Heineken). Mind you, this was 1969.

I bought my ticket at the Ticket Office at 10:30 this morning. My seat had already been sold. . What happened to the Supporters' Charter and having priority for your 'own' seat?

All valid points, but in the interest of fairness it should be pointed out that a large part of the employer's NI goes bck to the taxpayer.

They sometimes talk a load of over-excited ********. All those endless slow-motion replays detract from the action and prevent you from getting completely involved in the match and its atmosphere.

If you can't stand the heat.... Please don't try that 'holidays are unpaid' line again, you'll only get laughed at. If you don't contractually have to be at your usual place of employment and you can do what you like on those days off then you are 'on holiday'. Talk to anybody who runs their own business or is self-employed and you'll find that they work Saturdays and Sundays too, and they certainly don't get paid when they are not working.

Brown was spending our money like water long before the recession. You would have to be stupid to disagree with that.

I agree with everything that has been said in the previous posts. That doesn't happen very often.

10 mins for half time, no video recordings, just memories. The game wasn't over until the referee said so. Even the 1966 World Cup final wasn't seen again until a colour film was released in the cinemas. If you saw a goal at a live game you'd never see it again. The only live game on the tele was the Cup Final once a year. You could never show that the ref or linesman had made mistake.

I'm fairly certain that there were technology trials at Staplewood a few years ago. Does anybody know anything about what the conclusions were?

Yes, a good article. So what do they suggest we do? Change the manager and only pick players from the Championship?

Certainly not. Embrace the world around you and learn to appreciate its beauty and infinite variety. A world without birds would be a very sad place. Besides, that UFO might come back and shoot you because it thinks you're a pesky nuisance.

Nope, nope of those apply. If anything the road has been improved with a separate footbridge for cyclists and pedestrians over the railway line.

Ok, I was referring to the speed limits and not the cameras. Of course, once a camera has been installed the number of serious accidents falls and then 'they' will argue that this is because of the camera whereas it is often just 'regression to the mean'.