Whitey Grandad

I read it as 17 enquiries for players to come in and 7 received for players to go out.

Do they get given a charm as well as a watch? Respect

Every time I feel depressed about it I think of his miss at Sunderland.

Yeah, looked what happened with Glen Johnson.

Thanks for taking the time to post this.

He's a very good player and we need every one of those that we can keep our hands on.

His wife and family might be an important factor. If she loved the area then he wouldn't have been so keen to go.

Is it just Fonte who's the problem? If so, a heard-headed business person might conclude that he should be the one to leave.

Well said Wes. People will believe what they want to believe.

What does 'ignored' mean. If they accepted calls from others but not him then that's 'being ignored' but if he just couldn't get an answer then that could mean anything.

Wouldn't that contract have included provision for an increase upon promotion?

I've had a couple of sailing cruisers, a Westerly Warwick and a Hunter 232 which I built from a kit and I did quite well in the around the Island race in 1995 but my wife was never interested in anything more than a couple of hours in a flat calm on a sunny day so once the kids had left home I swallowed the anchor. I've still got my Mirror dinghy which I built in 1974 and which gave me a lot of fun in Christchurch harbour and took me over to the Isle of Wight a couple of times but it's hanging up in the roof of the garage. I'm hoping that the grandchildren will take up an interest one day.

They've both been the same for a long while now.

I started watching that but I soon had to stop. Please don't twist the knife, it hurts.

That's the least we could hope for.

And the manager...

We are 5 or 6 players short of a squad as it stands at the moment, and we are short of a manager. There won't be much of a pre-season either. Of course I'm worried.

Hmm... not very inspiring. A lot of clubs and not much achieved, it would appear.

That's the reality. I have the feeling that his career is effectively over. He may not even get a game in the World Cup and I don't see him getting much playing time with Liverpool next season. I can understand him wanting to go there but I'm struggling to see the logic from Liverpool's point of view. There are a lot of big egos up there who may not take kindly to his arrival.

Losing players is not the end of the world providing they get replaced by equivalent or better.

Yes indeed. We've been short of players for over half the season. I cannot see this turning out well.

Booger. I was hoping for Palafrugell again.

Any towels would be better than no towels. They run out in 10 minutes.

From what little I read a couple of days ago it appears that any calculations about aircraft impact did not take into account the effect of the fires caused by the fuel. In these buildings the fuel had an almost unimpeded path over several floors, partly due to the open design of the office spaces which were a characteristic of the building design.

I started watching it but the commentary shows such a poor understanding of the physics involved that I gave up.