Whitey Grandad

Yep. It went on for ages.

That’s very true. You can’t even score direct from a throw in. The problem is that there is now a discrepancy between attackers and defenders.

Different rulings for attackers and defenders. Yes, it’s a complete horlicks. Edit: I’ve found a reference to the IFAB ruling, “Starting from June 1, 2019 onwards, the IFAB have confirmed that a goal scored or created with the use of an accidental handball will not count.” Also, “There will be no penalty if: the ball touches a player's hand/arm immediately from their own head/body/foot or the head/body/foot of another player.” Nothing there about touching their hand after they’ve juggled it from one to the other.

We don’t know how bad they might have been without this ‘improvement’.

Thanks, but it's the wrong colour.

"Skacel retired following Příbram's relegation playoff victory over FC Zbrojovka Brno on 2 June 2019" Wikipedia. Yes, I know you weren't being serious.

As soon as he pulled up I thought "eight weeks". I don't think we shall see much of him until after the World Cup.

First faulty spark plugs and now dodgy window latches.

Does anybody have any knitting plans for a kettle cosy? And some needles and a spare ball of wool.

Yes, but we don’t know how much. He was entering the last year of his contract and had been here seven years 😯

I thought that too, and I thought the same about Man Utd. They weren’t the sort of team that you would pay good money to watch.

Apparently we have. The deal also includes an option to buy following the end of the loan Daily Mail 😳

I see what you’re saying. (hear?) Some kettles you can touch. Of course, in the winter any heat that escapes from the kettle goes into warming the house.

We’ve done some serious pruning there. We’ve got rid of a lot of the deadwood and brought in a significant mixture of solid replacements and some promising green shoots.

Improved a lot lately but never going to reach the required level. I wish him all the best.

That’s idiotic. If there’s one appliance that doesn’t waste energy it’s a kettle. All the energy goes into the water. Eventually.

Forbes Phillipson-Masters

Quality

If Russia has no claim on any of the assets of the USSR then it does not have a claim on Ukraine or the other states it has taken over.

Are you going to tell them or am I?

From Wikipedia, "On 24 December 1991, the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations Yuli Vorontsov delivered to the Secretary-General of the United Nations a letter from the Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The letter stated that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist, and that Russia would continue the Soviet Union's membership in the United Nations and maintain the full responsibility for all the rights and obligations of the Soviet Union under the United Nations Charter. The letter was circulated among the United Nations membership without any objection, and Russia formally took over the Soviet Union's seat in the United Nations General Assembly, in the Security Council and in other organs of the United Nations. The letter also confirmed the credentials of Soviet representatives to represent Russia, and Soviet representatives to the various United Nations agencies continued serving as Russian representatives without presenting new credentials. Ambassador Vorontsov continued serving as the first Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations."

Classy.

Me too. We knew that this day would eventually come but that doesn’t make it any less poignant. Like the passing of a much-loved pet 😢

I said much the same to my grandson sitting next to me that we had abandoned the silly passing the ball around between the goalkeeper and the central defenders in favour of getting it upfield quicker. There was one occasion when Bazunu rolled it out to KWP but apart from that I don't remember another.

The one that plays on the left hand side?