Whitey Grandad

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 ?

The chances must be quite good, I would have thought. I don't think we build trains here any more.

Strange, she looks fit to me.

I used to use Fusion on my MacBook Air but that was some time ago. It seemed to work ok once you had worked out how to get file access from one side to the other. I seem to remember that you need to set up a disk partition for the Windows bit.

So does every blocked nose but other approaches are available

It was a loan and not a grant, but still controversial.

I think we can all agree on this one