Whitey Grandad

That is beyond stupidity. Mike Riley has hung his colleagues up to dry. That was not the clearest penalty that you might ever see no matter what old mother Riley thinks about it.

Yeah, right. Now look what we've made him do.

I read one report that they are running out of precision munitions.

“Under Siege 2” “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” Nice allusion

Offside before the 'handball'?

That’s a rhetorical question, surely.

Britain had already closed its airspace to Russian aircraft.

I’m not trying to prove you either wrong or right. Merely pointing out that words have multiple meanings.

Team GB or something stupid like that. Have you seen what the United Nations thinks about it? https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states 193 of them I believe.

Don’t try to be clever. There are plenty of ‘nation states’. The full title of Israel for example is ‘The State of Israel’. France is both a country and a state, or as a king once said “L'État, c'est moi ”

Where do you see a distinction?

Kyiv won’t fall in one night. It would take hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy and suppress a city even if they use extreme measures. Even if key buildings were occupied this conflict would drag on and on throughout the country.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says 500 Stingers and 1000 “anti-tank weapons” are being sent. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/berlin-schickt-ukraine-stinger-raketen-und-weitere-waffen-17836825.html

I believe that the Russian method is to airlift fuel to the units as they advance. Without control of the air that must be difficult.

Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact?

#whataboutery

KWP seemed to be enjoying himself tremendously last night.

Are we safe yet?

I’ve not been back long from the game but I’m still buzzing about it. There was a real carnival atmosphere around the stadium this evening. The place is filled with hope and expectation, something that has been lacking up until only a few months ago. I like it 🥳

"Surrender now before we get beaten"

The Ukraine isn't an EU member. I cannot believe that you didn't know that.

"I (a) hate all this gamesmanship in the PL and (b) want us to do it."

They’d need to cut a lot more than just one. The internet is derived from a military specification that allows for widespread disruption to signal paths. A few years ago I was in north west Ireland where I could see a cable laying ship a few miles out. I was told that the fibre optic cable it was laying had the capacity to handle all the transatlantic traffic between Europe and North America.

Ah, of course. I tend to drink at home. I like bottled craft beers and I keep a few so that when Saints win I can have a celebratory glass. Before this season they used to go out of date before I could drink them.

Can't you drive back to Farnborough after the match?