Whitey Grandad

That’s always been the way. Mike Riley’s first game was up at Leicester against Saints. MLT got set off for handballing a ball that was blasted at him from two yards. They are trying too hard.

9-0 mentioned again. Lazy journalism.

It was no worse than what Vardy did to VVD

Presumably it was the referee’s decision and VAR didn’t want to damage the poor little sweetie’s confidence. The only consolation is that it’s only a one game ban and not three.

They are now saying that it was a Denial of an Goal Scoring opportunity. What the f**k?

“Inexperienced referee” That says all you need to know. Trying too hard to make an impression.

Football has gone completely down the pan. That is nowhere near a red, not even a yellow. What is the point of VAR if it can’t correct an obvious mistake like that one?

Serious foul play, not denial of a goal scoring opportunity.

We had our second jabs today. All very efficiently organised and no queues with spare vaccination stations available. This time there were two pods operating, one for Astra-Zeneca and one for Pfizer and we were asked which one we had previously been given. I’ve had no obvious reaction yet but my wife has a pain in her left arm which is strange considering that she was injected in her right. We’ll be back again in a few months for our boosters I expect.

So you think we will only score two?

Sea levels have been going up and down by enormous amounts for a very long time. In the last ice age they were 130m lower than now. 10,000 year ago you could have walked from Jersey to France. Thinking that we have any chance of keeping them down is worthy of King Canute. None of this should be taken as meaning that we shouldn't be reducing our emissions though.

But he's the one who hits the long balls. I think I can see where we are going wrong here.

What is that supposed to mean? A season lasts for 38 games. That’s why it’s called a season.

We’d be knackered after 20 minutes.

I'm thinking similarly to you. I don't think there's much point in sacking him at the moment. This season is a write off and is an anomaly anyway. This is going to be an interesting closed season with the Euros taking up a big lump of it but usually the big footballing events are when the club officials get together and have a group haggle.

More first time passes! That should speed the game up

That ought to be the case but historically there have been some clubs where the chairman, for all sorts of reasons, handles the transfer dealings without consulting the manager/headcoach/whatever. Sometimes the chairmen agree a deal between themselves and inform the team manager afterwards.

I broadly agree with you but how many of the signings are purely down to Ralph and how many to down the chairman?

I’m not clear about how many false positives are officially reported but there must be some among the figures. Likewise false negatives aren’t reported. I can’t help thinking that this revelation about asymptomatic carriers has been invented to try to explain the failure of their modelling. A bit like Dark Matter being dreamed up to make the Universe equations work. Or, for those who are old enough, the phlogiston theory.

That doesn’t worry me. To be honest I’m rather pleased about it

My son’s stepdaughter tested positive on Wednesday evening but the follow up checking test confirmed negative.

Yes, I would suppose you would expect the suppliers of fund to have a ct in the action. It’s all a bit like those Mafia films with all the Capi di Capi sitting around the boardroom table.

Indeed. I also blame Stamp Duty as partly responsible for the high cost of moving house and indirectly increasing traffic congestion. Back in the 1970s when we were young buyers it was much easier to move. People who changed jobs would relocate rather than commute. Chatting with Godfrey Olson once upon a time he told me that estate agents saw the threshold as 40minutes of commuting. Nowadays it is quite common for people to drive an hour and a half.

Binding contracts with whom? I admit that I haven’t been interested in all the details of this fiasco but who owns this ESL? If they had any sense it would be the clubs themselves. But if they had any sense they wouldn’t have got into this situation.

Seller gains £24k to spend on the next house up the chain. And there is a surge in house prices.