Whitey Grandad

I’ve tried to keep out of it but I can’t let that go unchallenged. Outstanding? Apart from his part in their goal that is. He really must learn to stick with the player and not go chasing the ball. If he could cut out his lapses in concentration and concentrate on his marking rather than relying on last ditch blocks then he might develop into a useful player.

Nine goals now with two games to go. He’s getting closer to that magical ten mark

Nope. That was Stephens’s man.

I’m very pleased for the young man

There are also risks from further restrictions. Many people and enterprises are up to their ears in debt and at breaking point.

Thanks, but I looked at this the other day and it doesn’t really answer any of the questions raised so far.

I think he put his left foot out in order to turn but it was dragged away from him by Aké when he went to block.

I’ll contact him over the weekend, he might have a student card. I’ve still got to get the ticket reassigned though. What proportion of supporters are going to have ID anyway?

I’d like to know too. My other ticket is historically in my wife’s name but I usually take my grandson. For this match I paid the full price for the second ticket but the website wouldn’t let me allocate it against my grandson’s supporter number. I think I’ll have to give them a call. He’s 18 but I don’t even know if he has photo ID. How many people do?

Napoleon would have had something to say about that.

Better lock down now then since we’re going to have to lock down anyway. If you keep looking hard enough you’ll eventually find something. If this variant is more transmissible and less deadly then shouldn’t we encourage it? Besides, this year of lockdown has done more than enough damage already. Another one would result in riots and bricks through windows.

I think you’ll find it was her choice

NO You don't really need a reason why, surely?

Er... actually we don't.

Obstruction isn’t a specific offence any more but if you’re in an offside position when you do it it will be given as offside. The threshold for an offside obstruction is lower than that for a foul in normal play.

Yes, that was a big and unpleasant surprise for me. There were a few examples back at the beginning of the season but since then nothing. The problem with insisting of strict adherence to the laws is that even though it’s legally correct it unbalances the game to the extent that forwards would rather win a penalty than try to score a goal. It’s also legal for the penalty taker to hesitate or make a jump in his run up but this temps the keeper to make a move and could cause a retake. I think that penalties have become too common and are worth too much. If they’re going to hand them out like sweets then I propose drastic measures such as downgrading them to an ordinary free kick or at least moving the spot back to the edge of the D.

It’s not worth arguing over but theoretical it’s possible for an offside player to block the movement of an opposition player even though the ball is long way away. I can’t ever remember it happening.

Not necessarily true. For example a player in an offside position might be standing right in front of the goalkeeper with the ball twenty yards away. Not relevant to Benteke’s goal though. Not offside in any way.

Yes, sadly they pass away. My mother was born in 1919 and she is still going and her former neighbour is now 108 so there are a very few witnesses still around. I was born in 1949 and the Second World War was very recent. Lots of bombsites around, spent bullets all over our local mudflats and, if you knew where to look and when, flakes of cordite washing up in the surf. There was a shipwreck off Felixstowe of a collier that had hit a mine and a crashed Liberator in the marshes near Parkeston Quay. My father, born in 1918, had two brothers who had fought in WW1. What makes me feel old? Indoor toilets Bathrooms Refrigerators Washing machines Central heating Television, black and white Television, colour Plastic footballs Cars Cars that start in any weather Bicycle tyres that you don’t have to pump up every day. Realising that we won the World Cup after I first met my wife. Celebrating our Golden Wedding last year. When your eight year old grandson asks you what calculus is.

Still a classic. I must get mine out occasionally and give it a spin.

There was an American comedian who used to say, ”Everybody says they know where they were when Kennedy got shot. I know where I was. I was hanging out of a window in a book depository with a rifle in my hand.”

He’s on loan from Tottenham at 1899 Hoffenheim. He joined Spurs in 2019 for a mere £25m. Might be worth a punt though at the right price or even on loan.

Next Tuesday 18th at 18:00 I will probably have to collect my grandson straight from sixth form college. He is in the middle of exams of some sort,

I am clearing out my children's books and came across Chicken Licken. Spoiler Alert! He gets hit on the head by a falling acorn and runs around shouting "The sky is falling in" until he and his friends get eaten by a fox.

We are in row EE in the Itchen whcih is some way from our normal seats in central Kingsland but hey ho!