Whitey Grandad

What took them so long?

Do you think it would still be effective in today;s game? I would like to think so.

And there's the problem. Football is played on grass. I didn't like him from the start because his football was soporific. I don't care about profile and he could have spoken French as far as I was concerned. It was all about what went on out on the pitch and the answer is, not a lot.

I hope that means we won’t be moved to the Friday

It certainly beats lions versus Christians.

I spent the whole game waiting for West Ham to step up and take over. I came away almost in disbelief that we had somehow won 3-1. I never felt that we were in total control but maybe that’s just me.

I felt the same. We weren’t playing our usual slick controlled football and were resorting to hoofing the ball up the pitch or into the crowd at times. That wonder goal changed the whole complexion.

I was surprised to hear that Chelsea have made a loss of £900m over Abramovic’s tenure.

It used to. Ten years ago they were allocated two from the Soviet fleet. The "worst two" according to our Ukrainian guide who was married to a submarine Lieutenant. I don't think they still have them.

That's not true, and you know it. The only land they control is what they are standing on.

According to Putin this is not a conflict zone.

From some reports I’ve read the individual soldiers didn’t even know where they were or why they were there. “Exercises” is what they were told.

There’s no such thing as stonewall.

Did he actually touch the ball? If so where was the point of contact, above or below the bottom of the sleeve? Answers on a postcard please. Entries are limited to no more than 1200 words.

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?