Whitey Grandad

Only when he's not playing.

Are you afraid they'll vote to stay?

Cheers for that. Look after yourself too.

7 out of 10. Three steps forward and one step back. Overloaded my chest after my big operation last year and damaged my ribs and cartilage four months ago and the hole in my chest still hasn't healed over. Must lose weight next year.

How much evidence do you need that our infrastructure is overloaded? Health, transport, housing, education, power, water, sewerage are all creaking at the seams.

Thanks, I'll give it a try if I can.

Somebody has to interpret the technology, all you are doing is referring the decision to another person who may equally be influenced.

Infamous rather than famous.

Big club syndrome innit.

Time has not been kind. Eerily reminiscent of my late mother-in-law

We can't be that hard to beat. Many teams seem to manage it ok.

There's nothing wrong with the people, it's just that the country is already full and bursting at the seams.

I still haven't got over this: http://youtu.be/veCZvM6-okQ

We've just watched Cloud Atlas. Hmm... Visually very good but doesn't quite all hang together for me. I suspect it's all pretentious twaddle but what do I know? Perhaps the book is better.

Whatever you do it'll be offensive to somebody. You can always find 'some people'. I've never heard of it either but I'm offended that somebody finds it offensive. He's old enough and experienced enough to know that whatever you do, somebody's going to complain.

I think there has to be a hearing and they need to get the FA members together for it. I expect they're all on holiday at the moment.

Technology is never the answer. The off side rule is impossible to judge exactly in marginal cases and there would need to be a complete overhaul of this aspect of the laws. Fouls and hand balls are subjective anyway so in the limit it comes down to one man's opinion. As for TV pundits, they all need to go and learn the Laws of the Game, it seems that after playing hundreds of games of professional football most of them still haven't learnt anything. Michael Owen is perhaps the most honest of them, even if he is a poor commentator and obviously biased. He is always talking about 'playing for the foul' or 'taking one for the team'. There's too much money involved and TV takes the blame for Manley of the problems. Let's leave the game as it is, a sport with all that that implies. If were not careful we'll end up with American soccerball with timeouts, grid lines painted across the pitch, rolling substitutions, video reviews with the result determined by phone-ins and franchised clubs with silly names being sold to whichever city bids the highest.

I missed the start but I didn't see them. I hate all that arty-farty stuff too, it's what happens when you let the kids loose with their toy kits. When you're at a game you just want to sit and watch the match, you don't want to run round seeing it all from different angles.

Quite so. I just want everybody to be happy

As Bob Monkhouse used to say: "They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. They're not laughing now".

I'm too old for that sort of thing now:(

2012 had been a bit traumatic for us so for the first time ever we went away at Christmas on a cruise to the Caribbean. The cruise was great and we didn't bother with any of the tree or decorations or anything. The Christmas Day dinner was a big disappointment though, not a patch on our own version.

Clean sheet - luvverly.

That was then and this is now. 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'.

I thought he did it sweeping up leaves?