Whitey Grandad

I suspected as much but just wanted to give you the chance to correct it.

Oops! Best to avoid weddings altogether...

It's human nature to try to see patterns in randomness, to make some sense out of disorder. Most people think of 'random' as occurring irregularly but evenly but that's not the case, sometimes there are little sequences of continuity. It's my theory that this is what hooks gamblers, they remember the little winning streaks but not the overall numbers.

Isn't that the median and not the average?

That was winter: this is spring.

Perhaps more importantly.... how many goals will be scored by Saints' players at this World Cup?

Yes, I should have said World Cup finals.

Perhaps he should have stopped playing straight away.

Please remind me when that will be so I can have a bottle ready.

They have never qualified for the finals. Pahars is their current manager: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia_national_football_team

No, I'm not having that. He's far, far worse.

Congratulations, but you should know that it's probably a sign of middle age

Yes, that too

OK, if not 'Russian leader' how about 'leader of Russia'?

And in the Mail... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2573110/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Why-dont-ALL-flying-wingers-Brazil-Hodgson-rely-Sterling-Lallana-Co-score-Carroll-Welbeck.html 'Cup lift can be crucial' FA Cup football gets bottom clubs relegated. That is the dismal logic. Then how to explain Sheffield United’s rise from the foot of League One? They had taken 25 points from 24 matches before the FA Cup third round, at an average of 1.04. Since going on their giant-killing quest they have collected 19 points from nine, and risen to mid-table. Sunderland, also, have gone from averaging 0.7 points per game before the FA Cup began to 1.6 points per game during their run to the quarter-finals. Winning is a habit, too, and builds confidence — the very quality most failing teams lack. Fielding weakened teams, by contrast, is defeatist. That is what gets a club relegated.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2573110/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Why-dont-ALL-flying-wingers-Brazil-Hodgson-rely-Sterling-Lallana-Co-score-Carroll-Welbeck.html#ixzz2v5RhMlj3 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook . Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2573110/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Why-dont-ALL-flying-wingers-Brazil-Hodgson-rely-Sterling-Lallana-Co-score-Carroll-Welbeck.html#ixzz2v5RawWIR Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Yes you should, the soonerer the betterer. If I survive until July I might even get my state pension

Any connection? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?49315-Tom-Tom-for-sale#.UxXyO2ePNOY

Indeed it were. Lowe allegedly sent a text to Woodward which was 'accidentally' sent to Harry asking Clive to find out from Harry why he wasn't playing all the kids more.

If he thinks they were fantastic then he's living in a fantasy.

I only like savoury toppings.

Exactly. You can't pick and choose which games you're going to turn up for. Winning is a habit, and so is losing. Once you get used to it you stop caring any more.

Why this obsession with 'open play'? A goal is a goal, however it's scored, and if a player sets up twenty goals and scores none himself isn't he worth his place?

Certainly not. Some people expect too much of him.

We spent a day in Crimea and another in Odessa on a cruise a few years ago. We visited Sevastopol and Balaclava where we went round what had been a top-secret underground nuclear submarine base. The guide, whose husband was a lieutenant in the submarine service, said that on the break up of the Soviet Union there were over 300 submarines to share out. Ukraine got one. She also said that they were very pleased that Russia wanted to continue to use Sevastopol as its naval base because of the importance to their economy.

I know that our club would always go all out to win every game that they start so any suggestions that they don't are clearly preposterous and the incoherent ramblings of a deranged old man who is not responsible for his outburst. All in my humble opinion, of course.