Whitey Grandad

For all you sugar-junkies: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289584/What-treat-Old-fashioned-sweet-shop-selling-pear-drops-rosy-apples-hit-nostalgic-customers.html

Once bought, a player's value is capitalised and written down over the length of his contract so the transfer fee paid is not completely 'lost' to the company because its assets are increased by the acquisition of the player.

Wasn't Fletcher priced at £12m minimum? I know he's a bit younger but that's what goal machines cost.

They were playing at home.

It's the same woman except that in the second picture she's wearing makeup.

I had a young Canadian customer many years ago and we had a spare day. I took him to Portsmouth Dockyard, Southampton Walls to show the Mayflower gate and inscription, West Kennet Long Barrow, Stonehenge, Silbury Hil and Avebury for some really old stuff. Anything historic, really.

Yes, Highcliffe Castle is a burnt-out shell near Christchurch that has been partly restored. It's not very historic.

Hmm... It's beginning to look more like a gamble the longer it goes on.

That was a red.

Ah, poor diddums.

Our passing was woeful last Saturday, very much out of character and under no pressure at all.

Couldn't they have just beamed him up?

Carry on like that and we should finish above them. The only problem is that they have to play QPR and Reading and they can't all lose.

Oh, yes. Law 11: • “gaining an advantage by being in that position” means playing a ball that rebounds to him off a goalpost or the crossbar having been in an offside position or playing a ball that rebounds to him off an opponent having been in an offside position

They look a bit asymmetric to my untrained eye.

Playing well is irrelevant. All that matters are points won.

I expect more people might recognise her nipples than recognise her face.

You're right about Fox. His antics for their first goal were comic. Ball-watching whilst Remy ran straight past him, then run back to try and catch up, then when Remy went to the right to open up an angle run in the opposite direction towards goal. If he'd run towards Remy it would at least have restricted his options of where to shoot.

Their first was down to Fox and the second to Shaw so on that basis we're stuffed. Poor passing all day long and no sense of purpose. Very depressing. I don't want to watch too much of that in the Championship.

I had a couple of friendly PMs with him before Christmas and I have an email address for him. He lives in New Zealand. I'll chase him up.

And I agree too. Should I be worried?

I saw their team coach (Colisseum) joining the M3 from Leigh Road at junction 13 this morning. I couldn't see anybody on it.

Time for us to turn on the afterburners and pull away from the pack.

Oh ye of little faith!