Whitey Grandad

Maybe he just didn't think Lovren's handball was deliberate, and I would agree with him. The second Djuricic one I don't think he saw it clearly enough to give us a penalty, unfortunately.

He'd go down well at Chelsea.

I can only find this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear Where they describe a 'fracas'. If there is to be a disciplinary hearing then the BBC would have acted inappropriately in releasing any allegations without the agreement if all parties.

Because so far it is all a bit anecdotal.

It's an illness.

He is known to be a recovering alcoholic and as such deserves all the support we can give him.

It's all a bit 'he said, she said' at the moment but as others have said, if there is to be a disciplinary hearing then all sides are supposed to keep their comments under wraps.

This is true. At first sight I would say that with a small volume of liquid you should lay the barrel on its side so that the liquid was as shallow as possible. I don't think it will make any difference since most of the whiskey will disappear through evaporation through the wood anyway (the Angels' share). A friend of mine once made a barrel full of home-distilled whiskey but when they eventually came to open it only 10% was left. However, it did taste delicious.

In most cases that I have seen the TV replays have not proved the referee to have been incorrect, I have often maintained that seeing something through a remote lens in slow-motion does not give you a true interpretation of the incident. Some of these players have spent many hours practising their simulation and it needs a good close-up view in 3-D real time to detect this. You are right that it easier not to make a decision and be thought wrong than to give one that may have a more influential outcome. There was an article in The Times recently describing this. I think they called it the sin of omission rather than commission.

I'm just making a comparison, I didn't offer an opinion. There are differences in that Prescott was caught egg-handed on video whereas this incident is still in the world of the unsubstantiated.

John Prescott slugs a member of the public and remains Deputy Prime Minister. Just saying, like....

They really do have money to burn.

They're only controversial because the media try to make them out to be worse than they are. There are very rarely the obvious howlers but these are few and far between.

Well said.

You're quite right, I cannot find any official reference to this supposed requirement at the moment but a few months ago I found a couple of mentions of it in the newspapers. My apologies, sorry if I have misled anybody.

Basically this, really. The whole thing smacks of bad management. All they had to do was keep their primadonnas happy.

Have you tried them??

Colony

I'd go with New Zealand too. A bit like England from the 1950s

My pleasure Lance Vince was on the Today programme this morning on Radio 4 giving his version of events.

Were you actually reading it or just looking at the pictures?

His son has been living and working with him for some time. He also helped to raise her child from a previous relationship that she already had when she met him. I don't beleive she has been chasing the other fathers of her children for more money. This case has only got this far because he is funding both sets of lawyers, against his will. From what I can see the case now needs to go to the Family Court to determine how much, if anything, she should receive.

Pensioner

Class

Souness agrees with you. He's just had a right go at Chelsea for all their dirty tactics. Very refreshing to hear.