Whitey Grandad

They were right, to be fair.

And a bit of a bastard because I shall be away. My fault, I hope I don't miss a thrashing.

We were there several years ago on a cruise and visited from Civitavecchia. A Lazio day pass cost around €9 and included all trains (not expresses 'Freccie'), buses and metro. You can buy in tourist offices and outlets but you must remember to validate them on the little yellow wall-mounted printers.

Fairy muff. It's often overlooked though.

It's not just the fee, there are also the wages to pay. Any deal has to consider both.

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.