Whitey Grandad

Ta, didn't notice that, what with the blinding light and everything. I could do with the other forums at the top and the other quick links at the bottom, though.

It's a bit too bright for me. Is there a quick way of jumping to another forum, e.g. from 'The Lounge' to 'Technology' without going through the tree? The previous format had a drop-down box at the bottom-right.

It might be that. I have recently updated Tapatalk. What is the situation with those that are ok? Have they updated yet?

My sentiments exactly. No matter what colour they were to start with, they will all end up brown. On second thoughts, there's no chance of them in the UK. 'Elf and safety' will see to that, unless the club issues us all with earplugs, of course.

It says "non tonerà" and not "non tornerò" so it's "Papa Waigo will not return..."

I agree 100% (if not more).

Still not working for me. I get two messages: 'The forum you are visiting is not part of the Tapatalk list' 'Server plug-in is out of date'

I hear that there is a new 'Robert Green' computer virus around. If your computer is infected you can work normally but you can't save anything.

There must have been plenty of men who could have competed on that measure.

I think we may be in danger of concentrating on the goalkeeper and overlooking the fact that for over an hour the rest of the team were gash.

Those slow-mo replays were driving me up the wall too. After 10minutes of the games I had seen 20 minutes of replays. It said in the Mail today that it was part of the FIFA TV feed and nothing to do with the individual broadcasters. What with these replays and that infernal racket it ruins trying to get involved in watching the match.

Why? Does he need to do a drugs test?

Perhaps their viewers are used to hearing a mindless droning dirge all the time?

He'll be ok. I'd still prefer James though. I think it's a mistake for Capello to wait until only a couple of hours before the game to name the team. There's no time to get in the right frame of mind.

A couple of points there.... We confiscated all the royal property and in exchange we give them a 'modest' subsistence. We are quids in. Having a repulic with a president instead would actually cost a lot more. Just the cost of holding regular elections would be a lot more. How do you like the sound of 'President Kinnock', or maybe 'President Prescott'?

Plus the NI.

Oh dear God, no. My biggest dread is that everyone with a two-year old's brain will be blowing them at Football League grounds next season.

An excellent and succint summary. Why don't the studio experts put it that way? I've slept on it and have come up with a couple of thoughts: Green's mistake was due to poor technique and is quite common amongst British keepers. They put their hands down together to let the ball run up into their chest but if it deviates in any way it will spill off to one side of them. If the ball does kick-up towards their face then the instinctive reaction is to turn the head away. In most of these mistakes the keeper is already thinking about what he is going to do next and has literaaly 'taken his eye off the ball'. Only scoring one goal is rarely going to be enough with our unsettled defence. Heskey, SWP even Lennon got into good scoring situations and fluffed it. That's not good enough in the World Cup Finals. I'm desperately trying to make 'waste of space' out of the initials SWP.

I think we'll be lucky to get to the next round.

Would that be Frank 'where were you in Germany' Lampard?

Ooh! There are so many to choose from! Where do I start?

It serves you right for driving in the BMW lane.

So, what if the World Cup were to be held in some previously unused part of the world? What local musical instruments might we expect to hear there? In Australia I suppose it would be bloody didgeridoos everywhere.

But I might want to donate to the Cause!

In my second year at university a previous occupant had left on the wall a map of the USSR which was of course was centred on the Russian empire. It was interesting to see the world from their perspective, surrounded on most sides by potential threats. It's no wonder that they needed buffer states on all sides.