Whitey Grandad

As my business partner said as he was dying from lung cancer, "something's going to get you in the end".

Tadic should have had a yellow card for all that faffing about.

Hmm... I thought they had to live at least 125 miles away. Mind you, that was a long time ago.

Or look at Tadic. His reaction is also significant. I would up the decision at 70/30 in favour of a penalty. Tadic makes sure that his left leg gets caught but there's enough of a wallop there to give it as a foul, in my opinion.

Pay their bills? Do I detect a hint of irony in their somewhere?

Old man dies aged 70, It happens to us all in the end.

Please see my comments on the match thread. The penalty was not quite as stonewall as some make out but the red card was for something that never happened.

Here's my view for what it's worth. I can see why the penalty wasn't given. Tadic does rather hang his leg out there to make sure that he gets caught and his fall is somewhat theatrical. Having said that nobody could complain or be surprised if it had been given. In principle there's not a lot of difference between this incident and the one on Benteke. The red card was simply ridiculous. I don't know what the ref thought he saw.

On Sky Sports now as full extended highlights. No need even for the red button

Small populations with enormous natural resources distort the comparisons. In Switzerland's case not being bankrupted by wars helped a lot.

I'm with you on all of this but the solution is to reduce the size of the population.

Certain not not, but they've been going on for years . The Blair government positively encourage it.

Surely the fact that one game would have been at home and the other away must have some bearing in the probabilities.

Studies that show a positive effect of immigration on the economy are deeply flawed in that they take no account of the use of capital infrastructure and services that have funded by the indigenous population. When you say that the government (i.e. you and me) haven't invested in services and infrastructure to meet the increased population this rather proves my point. To have any chance of accommodating all these extra expel we would need to spend far more than they will ever generate in taxes. Let me put it this way, if the population increases by 10% then we need at least 10% more housing, water, electricity, gas, roads, schools, surgeries, hospitals, doctors, nurses, police... the list goes on and on.

Nothing to do with the Torys. You mustn't let your prejudices affect your judgments.

Operation

I'd settle for that.

Is that because of the EU or despite it? Anyway. The comparisons are in US$ so exchange rates have a lot to do with things. At the rate we're plummeting well soon be a lot further down the list.

Has-beens, the lot of them.

Cyprus will always veto Turkey's accession for the foreseeable future. Actually the UK is a supporter of Turkey's accession bid. As an EU member at the moment we could veto it but of course if we left the EU...

The fourth official is only there to control the benches, take charge of substitutes and to assist with disciplinary matters. You're right about the assessors. Even in my day the ref got a set of videos of the game, one of which showed the normal TV game and another concentrating on the referee with comments on every decision he gave and whether it was correct and also pointing out situations where he didn't give a foul but should have.

No wonder she hasn't rung me

That's the penalty for being first. I really liked the Danish trains to Midtjylland.

Thanks. I thought I read that they were intending to close Derby.

? There's one advantage to failing eyesight. Gracie would be ok but I can't stand her squeaky voice. If only I could find some way to shut her up ?