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Sagan said that he was aware that Cavendish was there.

Isn't there some regulation about having to keep a straight line in the last 200 metres?

It's very rude to talk about somebody when they aren't in the room. ...or is nobody allowed to express any opinions that differ from your own? Wht exactly is wrong with what I put in those two quotes? Isn't this matter now sub judice?

I rather think that's the point.

Your wife is not alone. Poor wage increases apply right across the employment spectrum.Incidentally, how is productivity increasing in the education sector lately?

Those statistics are meaningless. as we have discussed before, unless the shots are graded by 'degree of difficulty'. They can vary from a screamer into the bottom corner to a scuffed dolly drop into the keeper's arms.

Your world, you sort it.

I wouldn't call describe that as negative. Quite a realistic summary, all told,

Great song.

As the saying goes, 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him play football'

Welcome to the club Mauricio. We don't expect too much, lots of goals, a solid defence and sparkling high-speed football. No pressure.

The alternative is to allow them to stand but bore them senseless with some turgid football. We are halfway there.

Oops, that didn't work either. Not been my day so far.

Edit: not reading properly.

Poor performance, good performance, it made no difference to the way the manager responded.

...and a lot of them do go, but they have to wait for the next transfer window.

The team-sheets are given to the FA officials and not the players but whatever, it is a matter of minutes and not hours.

I would rather have a team that was mentally prepared for the task ahead. In Puel's system every player is mentally unprepared.

Mental preparation is very important. These are not machines and it's not like choosing which bike you're going to use for a leg of the Tour de France. A bicycle doesn't need to be motivated. As has been said earlier, a player can do well in one game and then dropped for the next, and not even find out about that until minutes before kickoff. It's very poor man-management.

One report said that he wouldn't say who was playing until the last possible moment, just before the kickoff. Presumably he must have given the teamsheets to the officials at some stage.

Legally we finished 8th but to say that we were 8th best is stretching things a bit.

When I was a kid we didn't have a TV. Only posh people like my wife had one that they had bought for the coronation. There again she did live in north London and actually had a usable TV service. We had to wait until the Bradfield repeater at Manningtree opened in 1962 before you could watch anything reliably. You are right about the cars, my road when I was a kid was always empty. We used to play football in the middle of the road and got quite narked if a car came along and interrupted us. We were let out to play in the summer with instructions to come back when it got dark.

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I'm beginning to ask myself the same question. It's actually a pair of seats in prime position on the halfway line in the Kingsland so I am reluctant to relinquish them. I'm hoping that some of my family can go but August is a prime time for family holidays.

Strictly baby boomers were born just after the war when the soldiers started to return home from across the world. This caused a bulge in the birth figures for a few years. When those children themselves started to reach chidbearing age then there was another bulge around the late 1960s but this second bulge was more spread out.