Whitey Grandad

Felt

This is obvious in TV coverage of a live game. All the inactive time is filled with endless replays and shots of the managers an crowd.

As a ref you'd normally give a warning or two before punishing a keeper for this. The Laws used to say 'about six seconds'. The 'about' has now been removed. A few seasons ago I used to watch this at the Premier level and the average time of possession of a keeper was about twelve seconds.

There's a long-term plan at work here. If Champion League comes this season, all well and good, if not then there's always next season. Panic buys don't fit into that plan.

Yes, I think we have absorbed too many changes at once, nothing beats a settled team. Of course, we did have a rush of injuries to contend with.

Actually, I'm with both of you on this. Economic union, yes please, political union? Probably not.

That depends on your definition of success.

Immigrants get old and sick too and their children need schooling. What you are proposing is one giant Ponzi scheme. What nobody ever mentions is the capital cost of providing all this new housing. Then there is all the necessary infrastructure to go with it - roads, electricity, gas, water supply, sewerage, it goes on and on. Somebody has to pay for all this and if it hasn't been brought into the country with the immigrants, as is the case with countries such as New Zealand, then these costs have to come out of the existing economy. Then some smart Alec will remind us of our commitments to reducing the amount of CO2 we produce.

Both Chelsea goals were deflections. It shows the benefit of having a go once in a while.

Yes indeed, brilliantissimo. It didn't seem to work though, but maybe worth a try.

It clearly doesn't benefit us. (I don't eat Maltesers and I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else to give me theirs)

What the hell are you drinking? You really haven't got a clue what I was talking about. Infrastructure, both physical and social, didn't just appear out of thin air. It was created and developed by those who went before us and nobody has the right to walk in and take it away from us. I'm certainly not going to squeeze up just so that somebody else can stroll in and take the benefits from those who have worked for it.

I've found quite a few mugs on here.

At the start of the season, perhaps.

I somehow feel that 1-1 or 2-2 would leave people feeling less worried.

It used to be reckoned that you need 6 chances for each goal.

Yes indeed, especially if your parents and grandparents had worked hard and made great sacrifices in order to build a better society for you to live in.

Didn't we have exactly the same problems towards the end of last season?

We're safe. What's the problem?

Alan Shearer said something similar last night on MOTD. he went through a bad phase at Newcastle but then Bobby Robson came in and spotted the problem. He said Shearer was too easy to play against because he always showed the defenders the number on his back. He should have been making more runs in behind. They then illustrated this point with Falcao (?) at Man Utd.

That whole season was one big clusterbuck. Looking back, it seems we had a death wish from the first game.

I'm struggling to see how not playing a player means that he will score more goals.

A fair summary. Perhaps the board took the view that we were safe for this season and anything else would be a bonus.

Shot

That's far too sensible for this place on a Sunday morning.