Whitey Grandad

Stopgap at the moment. Needs to go out on loan to an upper Championship side. I'm sure the experience is doing him a world of good but it's not helping with our current performances.

Very, very few keeps would have saved Ericsson's shot. You have unrealistic expectations of what keepers can do.

Nope. He was off. He was nearer the goal than the second to last defender, what more do you want?

H was comfortably offside. All he had to do was hang back a yard and let his speed get him to the ball.

He wasn't level, he was offside.

They won't offer him much protection. He should play in a protective boot from now on, just to be safe. Two boots would be better Seriously, good news.

Shame your dart missed

He wasn't shocking at Watford. Let's keep some sense of persepctive please.

Kane got an ankle injury today. I know I shouldn't but.

Final salary pensions? I've heard of them but never seen one. I vaguely remember some old people talking about them but they're up there with Santa Claus, the Yeti and women who always say what they mean. They're a myth that's told to upset youngsters. We're going to discover neutrinos, dark matter, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail and life on Mars before we ever find evidence of one.

'Might not'? 'Probably'? As an example: My wife paid extra whilst she was working and bought extra years for her pension. Her friend who is a couple of years younger received the same amount despite never paying any extra. The plans are for everybody to get the same basic amount whatever their contribution record.

??? Just take a look at the figures for government borrowing and budget deficits. No matter how worthy the spending it is unsustainable.

'Entitlement-showered'? Where do you dig up this claptrap? Anything that I get I have paid for several times over.

There have been cuts in increases. We are still spending wildly beyond our means.

Surgery? I've not experienced this myself but my brother-in-law has had it done (C2/C3?) and was back to playing golf fairly promptly. He's about 75 and now he's going in for gall bladder removal. None of this has prevented him from drinking, at which he is Olympic class. My secretary's husband (about 50) had more complicated problems up there in his neck and eventually had surgery on it after a wait. One disk removal and some pinning on another and he is now in slow recovery. I feel for you, I have often had back problems and you cannot believe that you will ever be able to move again. Chiropractic treatment as necessary and follow the rules on twisting and lifting and regular exercise to strengthen it all. I wish you all the best.

Correct

Or if Virgil had been fit.

That's how it looked to me. Mings might have been deliberate, Ibrahimovic definitely was.

Ok, and thanks

Being hit by a bullet is an impact injury. This was not just minor soft tissue damage.

Not before?

Of course we don't, but any ankle injury that keeps a player out of action for several months has to be considered as serious. Injuries never heal completely, there's always scar tissue and structural weaknesses.

It gets disguised as 'image rights' and other such vague concepts that are paid to a representative offshore company. Sol Campbell was subject to a tax case over his payments from his time at Portsmouth. I wonder what the outcome was?

Thanks for looking again. Their second was very fast from close in and actually went in off the post so it would be asking a lot for anybody to stop it. Their first was placed several feet outside his reach. As I said, he has his faults but on Saturday he did all that could have been expected of anybody.

? It's still a save, even if it was low down by his feet and he did have to move to stop it.