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Whitey Grandad

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. John Prescott slugs a member of the public and remains Deputy Prime Minister. Just saying, like....
  4. They really do have money to burn.
  5. 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.
  6. Well said.
  7. 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.
  8. Basically this, really. The whole thing smacks of bad management. All they had to do was keep their primadonnas happy.
  9. Have you tried them??
  10. I'd go with New Zealand too. A bit like England from the 1950s
  11. My pleasure Lance Vince was on the Today programme this morning on Radio 4 giving his version of events.
  12. Were you actually reading it or just looking at the pictures?
  13. 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.
  14. Pensioner
  15. Souness agrees with you. He's just had a right go at Chelsea for all their dirty tactics. Very refreshing to hear.
  16. ...and out they go ? A tremendous performance by PSG, down to 10 men for 90 minutes.
  17. How so? I stand by what I wrote. The basic fact is that those poor fans who were crushed were crushed by other fans behind them. Always find somebody else to blame.
  18. I think you'll find that these issues are directly inter-related.
  19. Not any more, I believe.
  20. My granddaughter finds the programme hilarious, but she is only 8 years old.
  21. I knew that I think he's the best of a bad bunch. These are politicians and all that goes with it. His job is more of a chairman than a managing director and he has to keep control of a collection of rogues and shysters with enormous egos. I've met quite a few of these MPs in the course of my dealings and whilst some of them have been decent people trying to get things done they're all banging their heads against a wall.
  22. You don't have to like a PM, it's not a popularity contest. At least, it shouldn't be.
  23. Doesn't Theron count as two?
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