Whitey Grandad

He’s still not sure even now.

A good friend of mine at Cambridge worked for him in the early 70s and I asked him if Clive had a research and development section. “Yes”, he said, “himself”. Sadly my friend succumbed to prostate cancer in his mid thirties. I remember when he started in the 1960s selling small home electronics kits through sensationalistic adverts in the hobby magazines. They never worked as well as promised and it used to be said that he made his money from the kits that were thrown in the bin. His first wife used to help him pack the kits on their kitchen table and when they got divorced she successfully used this to win a bigger divorce settlement. I was never really impressed by any of his developments myself but he seemed to capture the public imagination. How apt that he died at the age of 81. If only he’d called it the ZX105 he might still be with us.

Pity. That’s another to add to my list of lifetime disappointments.

Do they take out the old version or just leave it in there? Asking for a friend.

There are some Tories whose looks would be improved by wearing a medical mask.

I was thinking more about size than age but the one advantage of getting old and being ignored is that you can say what you think 🤗

What would the point of a lockdown be? So what if the infections run riot through the schools. So much the better. A fixation on the numbers of cases alone is a meaningless obsession unless the distribution of those cases is also considered. All that any attempts at suppression will do is spread this pandemic out for longer.

Possibly, I hardly remember him

Does that apply to women too?

For comparison I've just looked at how long our own youth products spent playing for the first team. Gareth Bale April 2006 to May 2007 Theo Walcott August 2005 to January 2006 Luke Shaw August 2012 to June 2014 So apart from giving us a profit when sold good young players are unlikely to be with us very long one way or another. Let's enjoy them whilst they are here.

If we had bought him and he turns out to be fabulous then he would be gone next summer anyway. We are renting him for a season, hopefully to do a job for us.

Exactly. Given the chance, would we have wanted Ronaldo for a year knowing that he might leave at the end of it?

At the current rate of infections surely we must be starting to reach some sort of group immunity. There are around a million cases a month predominantly amongst the unvaccinated. Unless the figures for the population of the UK are grossly underestimated of course.

Why should I? This one will run and run.

Don't forget the ST holders who were kicked out of their regular seats.

He starts almost on the centre line and what goes up must come down so just see where he is at the final whistle.

Hose them down with diluted Covid vaccine or failing that, battery acid.

He is both frustrating and annoyingsince there is obviously a talented and capable player in there somewhere it's just that it doesn't show itself very often. You'd think that he could be trained up to be a lethal addition to the tem but so far it's mainly disappointment.

My secretary said that her son and a mate were in town on Saturday and thought they might go along and see the match. The queues were so long that with the uncertainty about whether they would be allowed to buy a ticket they gave up and walked away. Can anyone just turn up and buy a ticket on the day?

And that weird decision early on when JWP got fouled so he played on and then decided later to bring the game back for a free kick to us. An uncontested dropped ball is new to me since I stopped blowing my whistle so I have just looked up the decision of the IFAB In all other cases, the referee drops the ball for one player of the team that last touched the ball at the position where it last touched a player, an outside agent or, as outlined in Law 9.1, a match official All other players (of both teams) must remain at least 4 m (4.5 yds) from the ball until it is in play The ball is in play when it touches the ground. https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/the-start-and-restart-of-play/#introduction Now here's the weird bit. As I recall Redmond didn't touch the ball as it was dropped and the West Ham players all hared after it. The referee sent them back and dropped it again even though the ball was in play after it had touched the ground irrespective of whether Redmond had touched it or not.

Many thanks. I couldn’t possibly comment Thanks, I don’t know if I did at the time. We’ve actually been together since we first met when we were both sixteen and that was in 1966. What a great year that was Fifty five years that have gone by in the blinking of an eye and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Well you never know who reads these things 😳

Some did. Some didn’t.

Thanks. We’re having our daughter and family for lunch. It makes a change from roast lamb

It was a good game between two evenly matched teams in my view. If West Ham had won they could have gone to the top of the table.

You don’t need to explain any of the Laws to me. ” and accepted that the correct call may well have been made. You have obviously missed the point that I and others have made. In that situation the referee should wait a few seconds to see what advantage, if any, arises. Then he can stop play and administer the second yellow. We are not talking about a long time here, just some awareness of the onfield situation. Antonio would have taken no part in that counter attack so could not have scored or made a block.