Whitey Grandad

That's how I saw it, I'd be interested to see it later. Instead of just lobbing the ball towards goal he tried one touch too many.

Every one went to a Leicester player.

It's all been said by everybody above. Kelvin the class an should only ever be a desperation choice. Thanks, but now it's time to move on. The substitution s changed the game, I can't imagine the thinking behind them. Clasie is going to take time to get up to the pace, not his fault but not the time to play him. J-Rod is some way behind the player he used to be. Mané made the wrong decision every time he could. He was behind their defence twice and either dithered or tried the spectacular from the half way line. Why couldn't we just close the game out? Leicester just wanted it more.

Piece

Glenn Murray in The Mail this morning blames the 'new-style pitches'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3275555/Bournemouth-striker-Glenn-Murray-blames-pitches-spate-flight-knee-injuries.html

How many did you count? No-one who knew what they were talking about thought that. It's easy enough to say that so-and-so ought to have had a penalty but when you're out in the middle with a whistle it's a lot different. If you were to give penalties for those theatrics of Mané then there'd be ten in every game. They weren't penalties because they weren't given because they were too flimsy. That's the end of it.

And a lot didn't say that.

Have you been reading old newspapers again?

Which ones? Apart from the shirt-pulling on Virgil the others were very weak.

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.