Whitey Grandad

They are not allowed to view replays at half-time. I wouldn't call the Mané incidents dead-certain myself. Some yellow cards are mandatory, such as shirt-pulling, others discretionary. Yeah, like most people he missed the attempt to steal Virgil's shirt.

It seems to me that your technique needs some attention On a serious note you are quite right. I have never broken my nose but two split eyebrows and a cut lip are witnesses to some head clashes and I too have seen coloured stars on a few occasions. I remember one match where a colleague asked me what the score was because he had a complete memory blank for the previous few minutes, something that these days should involve a trip to hospital. I'm just old enough to remember leather footballs before the plastic-coated ones arrived in the mid sixties. My dad played full back in Isthmian and Athenian League before that and he refused to head the ball if it was wet and told me that I should avoid it as well. It used to be said that football injuries tended to be leg-related whilst rugby were all necks and collar bones.

I think you're looking at him through red and white striped glasses.

You might want to check your temperature settings

Soldiers

It's difficult to see how he could do better.

Together with Mick Channon but I don't think they played for Portsmouth until later in their careers. I get your drift

Another one of Klopp's crocks.

So... misses Leicester, Liverpool and may be on the bench for Bournemouth?

True. That and teaching a knowledge of the basics and how to think for yourself.

You are quite right. We often say that we 'won' the war but it bankrupted the country in the process and cost us an empire whilst it was the making of the USA as an industrial giant and a superpower. It all feels like smoke and mirrors to me. Coincidentally I was watching one of the last episodes of 'The World at War' the other evening discussing the economic and social outcome of it all with a very interesting appraisal by a young Stephen E Ambrose (Band of Brothers etc.). We are still living with the consequences of the cataclysmic upheavals of the struggles amongst nations of the last century. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/03/britains-first-world-war-debts-repaid-what-does-it-mean http://qz.com/290183/in-2014-countries-are-still-paying-off-debt-from-world-war-one/ I particularly like this paragraph: So the solution to this was brokered by the future US vice-president Charles Dawes, who in 1924 proposed that the US lend money to Germany to fund its reparation payments to France and the UK, who in turn would use the money to repay their war debts. The solution was so good that Dawes won the Nobel Peace Prize the next year in recognition. And the plan worked. I guess that means that the Americans leant money to Germany so that it could pay back France and Britain who could then pay the money back to America. In effect Germany took on the burden of the allied debts added to its own reparations as dictated to it at Versailles. No wonder Hitler rose to power.

What is often not realised is that Britain also received it share of the Marshall Plan money but it was not used to rebuild our industry, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/marshall_01.shtml

Why not? If such selection means that the children receive the appropriate education targeted to their needs then that must surely be a good thing. Or should everybody be taught at the lowest common level?

Good idea. When is this going to happen?

It's quite clear from these and other comments that we need a pie chart so that we can compare one club against the others.

'Overwhelmingly positive'? You just cannot be serious.

They would need to know the email address, of course. Is that a condition of buying a ST?

Let's hope not

We don't actually know that they haven't sent a letter. But with the cost of postage these days who could blame them?

I, for one, appreciated it I expect some would spell it Kelvies

That's the spirit You could sell tickets for that. Sorry about your dad, I shall be thinking of him at the games.

Hmm... not too embarrassing.

Exactly this. I can't see what the fuss is about. I have had lots of letters go missing in the post, who knows?

... and the FC stands for Feckless C***s ?

Actually, I think Italy are playing quite well. More fluidity than England and more urgency.