Whitey Grandad

Now hold on there cowboy. It never used to be considered as a state benefit. We paid for our pensions and the amount we now receive depends on extra payments that may have been made years ago. And don’t believe the figures you see quoted about the amount of the current state pension. That only applies to new pensioners. Nothing to do with Trump of course but it’s always interesting to compare the UK welfare system with other countries.

I’m 75 and Brexit has been shit for me. You say that many pensioners don’t need it but however you spin it it’s a cut in their pension of over 2%. Bearing in mind that it is not taxed it actually represents a higher cut than that. It’s equivalent to a reduction of £250 a year. Robbing pensioners to give to train drivers. They don’t need it and we can actually do without them in many instances.

The pitch is the same size for everybody.

Taylor Swift. Every place I look. She can’t be avoided whatever you do. I get The Times every day, mainly for the puzzles, and she seems to be in every sodding edition. It seems to be her official publicity outlet.

Hasn’t he just had a long trip to play for Japan?

It’s not a narrative. Stephens is not good enough for this level. THB has had a poor couple of games by his standard but he’s not been helped by Stephens playing him into trouble. Stephens will never improve. THB will.

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What was never clear was why the leading edge droop was retracted. I believe they subsequently fitted a speed interlock to stop it happening again.

But what if it’s not just broken but really, really f****d?

I was working in Havant for Plessey at the time and someone from the Flight Data lab next door brought in the plots from the flight recorder. They weren’t very long and were about a three foot spread across the desktop. He pointed out where the leading edge droop was retracted and the aircraft stalled. The autopilot pushed the nose down and the aircraft started to recover but the nose was then pulled up manually and the aircraft stalled again. The autopilot pushed the nose down and again the aircraft started to recover speed. Then whoever was in control disconnected the autopilot and the aircraft stalled into a field. It made a big impression on me.

I wouldn’t call them mistakes, unless you’re referring to the suicidal passes themselves. We invite pressure and pressure causes turnovers. In the two recent instances the only solution was for the recipient of the pass to hoof the ball upfield unceremoniously, in which case what was the point of the pass in the first place? See, this is what I don’t get. If it doesn’t go wrong we may have passed the ball around four or five times simply to end up back where we started. How is creating an extra man or more importantly, ever going to lead to a goal for us?

I take it that you don’t?

I was 13 at the time and living near Harwich. I remember it well. There were piles of snow and ice on the pavements for months. The winter term at school was supposed to be the football term but we never played one game. Even the sea froze along the river Stour and along my beach.

There you go again.

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There you go again. You cannot project last season’s performance onto this. We are playing in a drastically different environment. We keep giving the ball away on the edge of our box and even inside it not because of mistakes but because we invite the opposition to come and take it off us.

You’re right. A bigger sample gives a better indication. That shows that we finished fourth and conceded 63 goals. The fallacy is in assuming that we got promoted because of the style of football and not despite it.

Can you tell what it is yet?

He’s a one-scoop cornet.

It’s a direct consequence of playing “his way”.

Finding a freshly opened conker. That beautiful shiny chestnut colour doesn’t last for long.

Damn! You’ve reminded me about another place that I’ve always wanted to go to. I’ve got a pile of Virgin Atlantic Flying Miles and a couple of companion vouchers to use but unfortunately they don’t fly there and anyway I lost my lovely companion about this time last year. I must start investigating again.

Keep it quiet or they’ll all be at it.

Very low. If you asked him where the goal was he’d say “What’s a goal?”

You don’t actually have to tell anybody although they do say that confession is good for the soul. #saintsfansanonymous