Whitey Grandad

Aren't they usually finished by then, or thereabouts? Good question though.

If that's true then it distorts the whole 'fair competition' business. Couldn't club A, having played Pompey twice and won, lend them some of their best players so that club A's rivals would have less chance of picking up points?

Thanks Gingletiss. There's a couple of points there: 'No one wants to see the club go under.' Er, excuse me! :smt039 The young lad three weeks short of getting his redundancy might like to know that he needs to add his period of notice to the amount of time that he has worked there.

So what happens for the FA Cup final?

Let me ask what may seem a stupid question... With all the player sales over the last year is it conceivable for them to have made a trading profit whilst still being in debt? If so, will there also be a bit dollop of corporation tax due?

Oh dear. We're not bitter, are we?

She'd done her job and was past her sell-by date.

45% I believe, of the proceeds after matchday costs. 10% goes to the FA pot for distribution.

I'll ask me mum. She knows everything.

Thanks for that. Is it really 2011?

So how would he compare with, Churchill, say?

Technology's not the answer. What we need are better refs. Saturday's ref might have had his view blocked by Schneiderlin but he should have been better positioned so that it wasn't. I'm sure that the assessor will have mentioned it but it won't help us now. Our forwards' mistakes were more significant the the referee's.

A bit like Mike Riley's first premiership game at Leicester when 'we was robbed'.

I suppose the only other indirect free-kick offences in your own area must be dangerous play and anything which needs a yellow card, such as dissent or unsporting behaviour. Not many people know that you cannot score an own-goal straight from your own direct free-kick or corner kick, nor that you cannot be offside from a goal-kick.

So all that can save them now is a huge injection of money, or their players volunteering to take massive pay cuts. Any chance of that?

This is scaremongering. Even the direst prophets don't expect it to happen. Don't worry about it.

Obstruction is rarely given, if ever. There are technical offences which warrant an indirect free-kick, such as a 'backpass'.

Point taken.

Karl Marx actually (and it was religion). Orson Wells was also wrong about the cuckoo clock.

You and I agree.

The question is 'was he tripped' or 'did he trip'? The first is a foul, the second isn't. I can't speak for the rest of the match but this was a very poor decision, and I speak as a member of the referees' club.

Are we safe from relegation yet?

The fall of the Soviet Empire and the loss of its subsidies had a far greater effect on Cuba than the American trade embargo.

Can you see them playing in orange instead of blue? They'd probably change their name to Easymouth too.

How do you measure the degree of a country's capitalism/socialism/communism? Is it by the proportion of GDP that the government controls? In my view, once it gets over 50% that country is more communist than capitalist.