Whitey Grandad

Not really. Those at the front of the queue would have got there more than an hour before the kick-off. There's nothing new about going to a game and paying cash to go in. 40 years ago we used to do it all the time with crowds of over 50,000 and pay on the turnstiles.

Yes, hands-on experiments are usually the best, I find.

All fair points. As for Pellè and replacing Lambert's 15 it depends on whether he takes the penalties. How many of the 15 were they?

The gristle was still there but the heads were already in Liverpool.

Yes, I was pleasingly impressed. Has anyone done the 'Tidy Taïder' thing yet?

Late? There was a big queue 30 minutes before kick off.

Good news. Next please!

Sorry, of course you're not. In order to get the maximum brightness out of these LEDs they run them at the maximum current possible which means they tend to run hot and need special device packaging to get rid of all the heat. The hotter any electronic device gets the more unreliable they generally become but LEDs in particular suffer from various progressive degradations and lose brightness over time. That's if they don't fail altogether. They're getting better though The ones we use are for electronic signage and are driven at more sustainable currents which is what I meant when I said that these were over driven.

Does the sport ever get in the way of the eating?

I use tens of millions of LEDs a year and mine are not the over-driven lighting type. They'll go dim.

Yeah, I queued for over half an hour to get my ticket and got to my seat 14 minutes in. Despite it being cash sales with no choice of seat they were still taking 1:25 to 2:00 minutes to serve each customer. The queue stretched back to the Chapel car park when I was being served. Then spent the first half jumping up and down whilst the rest of those behind me in the queue dribbled into their seats and then the 10 minutes before half time getting up and down whilst the alcoholics rushed down to the bar and the little kids wanted daddy to take them to the toilet. The last 20 minutes of the game were just as bad as they all decided to go home early. And I had a little bored brat behind me kicking my seat all the time. As for the game, I was so far up in the Itchen-Northam corner in seat CC3 that I couldn't actually recognise any players.

Irritatingly bright but not very illuminative, if you get what I mean. They have a very narrow angle of illumination and I found them intrusive but I was sitting in row CC in the north east corner instead of my usual row O on the half way line.

Is that any good? I've just polished off the bottle of Orkney IPA that I brought back with us. Not bad, but a long way to go to get a pint.

After you cancel be prepared for endless letters and phone calls begging you to come back. You will need a card for the Sky+ box if you want to continue using it for the free channels but the recording feature will be disabled because you're no longer paying for the plus element. You can get a Freesat box which will record for not much money.

That's true, this aspect is often overlooked. Often a player has moved to a new club and 'found it difficult to settle'.

Most important position on the pitch. You build a team from the back.

Good. Every club needs two quality keepers to provide competition for each other and cover for injuries. Now just a couple of signings to go, a defender and somebody to score bucketloads of goals please.

Could be, these sort of games go on all the time.

Me too. That was two gallons of petrol. I offered a checkout girl in a supermarket 'tuppence' to make the change simpler. She didn't have a clue what I was talking about.

Good, that's one step nearer.

As you wish, but if they weren't European they wouldn't be immigrants. Unnecessary though, I'll grant you. (No pedantry about the rest of the world please)

Mr Poulter probably stopped her pay for the time she couldn't work.

No, 5 o'clock for some reason.

Just checking. That definition applies to anybody and everybody in the world so if you go looking for racism you'll find it everywhere.

Do we get all of him or is his head somewhere else?