Whitey Grandad

The sale of VVD?

I presume that he cannot play on Saturday so that only leaves four games for him to feature. Maybe he was brought here with a view to taking a good look at him.

Far too young. The same age as my wife’s sister. I remember his first games. He had a big price tag to live up to.

Some top managers also rotate their goalkeepers. Not only that but they regularly have different players for different games!

Care to elaborate?

They usually decide between themselves which way it goes. Sometimes there is a possibility of a doubt and you will see the referee pointing discreetly with his hand but not his arm. In Sunday League football the linesman are usually provided by the two teams and the instructions are usually “ball in or out of play and offsides” but the referee will keep a close watch on them, particularly for the offsides. Are you sure that Mike Dean didn’t add some condition upon his instructions?

Respect! ✊

Or another referee...

You could say that about anything that doesn’t work properly. “In theory it works perfectly”. There is also the converse in a famous quote, “this is all very well in practice. But how does it work out in theory?”

He was good on the pitch but these days he is a great proponent of VAR so I have changed my mind over him.

India has just reached its highest daily deaths total of around 3689 in a population twenty times that of the UK. The highest figure in the UK was around the end of January at about 1800. There is a widespread view that their official figures are an understatement. Each death is of course a tragedy.

Patently part of the problem would have been decontaminating the common areas that the poor precious hyperstars would have used. Unbelievable

Bank Holiday Monday innit

What I find really annoying is that when they are a co-commentator they their inexperience leads them to think that they have to say something all the time. They won’t shut up talking. They don’t give any insights, they merely tell us what we’ve just seen. I don’t approve of violence against women but if they were sitting next time at a live match I would not hold myself responsible. *other genders of commentators are available.

Thanks, but I knew that already. These are not measures that were earlier than planned though, are they.

That’s good to hear. What are they because a good the government the dates are ‘not before’ 17th May and not before 21st June.

Agreed, except that these refs are only doing what they have been told to do.

Yes, the vaccination programme has been very impressive and the sooner the world gets some protection the better. Personally I can’t see the date of 21st June being brought forward because too many things have to be done before then but some measures could surely be relaxed now with no increase in perceived threats. I don’t play golf and have no interest in it but why were golf courses closed?

Worry is not the right word but I am considerate of the lives of other people and their jobs, not that they all have jobs. Yes, I am nearly 72 but high risk group doesn’t include me. I know people who are in it. Over the last year I have lost several friends and colleagues, none of them to Covid. One in New Zealand (72) to a heart attack, one in his fifties to an aortic aneurysm, one at 55 to an aggressive brain tumour, several before then at 54, 61, 64 to various cancers. I know of no one in my small circle who has had Covid. Life is a risky business. None of us is going to come out of it alive. It is very unlikely to kill me but I know the risks and how to minimise them. Beer queues are indeed trivial and easily avoided. This lockdown has been a lot stricter than just that. My lifestyle doesn’t involve closed contact with people and physical contact is extremely unlikely to give you the disease. This has been the mistake from the beginning. It’s an airborne infective agent. You won’t catch it outside and you won’t catch it by touching gate posts. Did I mention large groups? Did I mention foreign countries?

But many people can’t work! And many more will not have a job to return to.

They train at it. My father used to go and watch the Spurs training at Cheshunt back in the 1960s. One of their trainers used to sit on a stool at the edge of the ‘D’ and shout at the forwards “Make him foul you!”

Control Freaks don’t do it for material rewards. They do it for the sense of power that it gives them. In six weeks I still won’t be able to travel widely and freely. I shall have to make difficult decisions about making staff redundant. I shall have to try to work out how to repay debt that will take a decade or two to clear. And I shall have to do it without being paid myself for over a year. You don’t prevent people dying by stopping them from living. These measures have made no difference to whether or not my wife or I would have died so don’t expect any thanks from me. Wait until you get old and then see how you feel about how much time you have left.

I’ve just had a good look at that incident again but this time with the view from the south east Chapel corner. From the other view that Sky showed last night it looked as though Vestergaard had gone into Vardy’s ankle with his studs but from the other angle you can see that Vestergaard plays the ball and then Vardy arrives and deliberately plants his feet down where Vestergaard’s boots are in the intention of winning a foul. He trips over Vestergaard’s ankles and then makes two complete rolls whilst screaming his head off. He really is a nasty little squirt.

His goal for England was from open play. Not that it helps Saints, of course.