Whitey Grandad

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?

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?