Whitey Grandad

Indeed

It’s usually the difference between wind speed and the speed of the gusts.

Wimps

Manchester United have been charged over their conduct. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60408906

Thornden school is closed tomorrow. Any excuse.

I remember Leeds doing something under Revie. If the other team was having a good spell then someone would go down 'injured' in order to give themselves a breathing space.

Around 1.4 million for Hampshire alone.

Whatever, it's still VAR re-refereeing the game and it undermines the onfield referee.

Karma has a habit of biting you in the arse.

For £5m I’d consider either. Maybe both.

So she got what she wanted. Then and now. Allegedly.

That can’t be right. I know for a fact that there are two of us going. Probably.

When that thing went up I was flying back from Denmark in a single engined aircraft at 10,000 feet. Apparently we went straight through the cloud. Oops.

A team that is safe will often take the opportunity to give some experience to their less experienced players. Although prize money for places nowadays can make this less common.

It’s an Americanism though and therefore to be deprecated. It might mean something significant if all the teams played each other on the same day/days.

It depends on the country. Some see it as bad manners if one team desperately needs the points and the other doesn’t.

It’s a meaningless statistic. If every team was of roughly equal quality and goals were scored at random times then one team would be top of the table and one would be bottom.

I had a couple of day visits when we were on a cruise in 2016. One day in the Crimea and one in Odessa. We went to the Raglan Heights and saw where the Charge of the Light Brigade took place and also had a tour of Sevastopol before having lunch at Balaclava and doing a tour of what had once been a secret underground nuclear submarine repair base. All these are now under the control of the Russians. Sevastopol was leased to the Russians and Ukraine was grateful for the revenue. Maybe Russia got tired of paying for it and decided to take it over. It was interesting trying to get the locals to open up when you were chatting to them. They were guarded in their responses almost as though they were still afraid that someone was listening. Our guide’s husband was a lieutenant in submarines in the Ukrainian navy and in the Soviet navy before that. She said that of the almost four hundred submarines that had been in the Soviet navy Ukraine got the worst two when the Soviet Union was dismantled. When the Second World War ended all citizens of Sevastopol had to donate one day’s free labour every week in order to rebuild the city. She showed us an apartment block that her grandmother had helped to build by working Sundays. Odessa was an interesting lesson in capitalism or rather the absence of it. There were half-finished apartment blocks where people could by an empty shell and then fit it out later once they had earned some money. There was no banking system that would lend them money for them to pay off over time. Good luck trying to start a business there with no capital.

As Oscar Wilde once said, "It would take a heart of stone not to laugh"

Colour? Luxury! Watching the cup final on a black and white television was a challenge if one team played in red and the other in blue. It was usually the only live game you’d see in a season.

Such stores don’t exist any more, do they?

Watching the other games this weekend has made me appreciate even more our slick passing style. Other teams seem haphazard in comparison.

I’m prepared to cut him some slack. Let’s not overlook how much players improve once they receive the benefit of our coaching system.

Or maybe it was Croydon, that was the ITV transmitter. In the early days the BBC and ITV companies built their own transmitter masts so there were duplicates everywhere, such as Rowridge and Chillerton Down on the Isle of Wight. Eventually they agreed to cooperate and later transmitters shared the same mast. I cannot believe we used to spend so much time staring at a screen waiting for the pages to update.