Whitey Grandad

Which, kicked the ball up in the air or had a go at Maya? I miss the old-fashioned indirect free-kick in the penalty area. Always good for a laugh

The root of the problem was in the US as is the case with many things and goes back to Clinton's efforts to give loans to the poor so that they could buy property. The collapse of Fannie Mac and Freddy Mae set in motion a chain of events that coupled with peculiarities in the American banking system started the dominos falling. http://spectator.org/articles/42211/true-origins-financial-crisis

You can't let that influence anything, it's not the fault of the game. These vast sums are paid for the game as it is. One of its big attractions is the continuous ebb and flow and any extra stoppages will spoil this.

Not, that one was pretty obvious. You can't kick a ball at head height and expect to get away with it. Dangerous play all day long. As The9 says earlier, it used to be indirect, now it's direct. If you want to blame anybody have a go at Maya for heading the ball straight up in the air in the penalty area.

It was a lot more complicated than that but people will believe what they want to believe.

Very true, you should hear me speak

More UTC than GMT these days. The abbreviation comes from the French Temps Universel Coordonné and is a compromise between TUC and CUT.

A demonstration would probably be clearer

Hitler was a good orator. That didn't mean that he was right. (Can we apply Godwin's Law now? )

Of course they make mistakes but I maintain that they're not as 'clear' as many make out. I presume you meant to say 'not neutral' there?

Let's have Suarez and Neymar as well whilst we're at it.

That's despicable, trying to make political capital out of people's deaths.

It happened during the war, but we don't want another one of those.

Indeed. Who can forget this man?

Don't clubs in Europe skip the early rounds anyway?

Not really. When I started university in 1968 beer was 1/6 a pint. Tha's 7.5p to you young whippersnappers.

Be careful not to spoil your paper.

Yes, many times. I usually keep my eyes closed. ?

Thanks for that, it seems I wasn't far out. One of the reasons for the change in Sweden was that a large number of their cars were imports with left-hand drive. In the 1960s Japan did not have a large car export business but because they drove on the left they could export to Britain without large investment. This helped start the growth in car manufacture in Japan.

One of you might be wearing a wig.

Amen

That's not the way it works. We vote for the representatives and they get on with it until the next time.

Fonte (?) got the ball, didn't he? And watch Agüero throw his head back at the moment the tackle comes in.

They're both despicable. The ones I feel some sympathy for are those which are just trying to get out of the way yet still get booked. The body language tells you a lot, some of them are looking back at the referee before they even hit the ground. Some throw their heads back and give out a little yelp. Pathetic.

If it was a clear penalty it would have been given. We just have to remember that the referee is neutral and probably won't see the incidents in the same light that we do.