Whitey Grandad

That's wrong in two respects.

Historically it has been the case that the team finishing third flunks the playoffs.

Not at all, but we mustn't let our personal preferences and prejudices affect our opinions. My feeling is that there is a lot more going on here than meets the eye. I'm sure that more will come out as we move on.

I'm cool. Not worried at all. Not a bit. No, not even thinking about it. Now where's that cat?

None of this patience business. We've go to do it the same way that you kill a circus... Go for the jugular!

2 goals fewer than us?

As I posted elsewhere, If we had played Coventry earlier in the season then we would probably already been promoted.

No, inheritance tax is pernicious. It's graverobbing. You work all your life, pay taxes when you earn it, and then people like you want to take it away again. Remember, it's not your money!

Well, if you put it like that... ok, I suppose I'd take it.

Ok, so what does that mean in terms of goals scored?

Except in Scotland?

I've just noticed that phrase. A professional foul can take place anywhere on the pitch, it's a deliberate foul for whatever reason, usually to stop a player breaking away downfield but it could just be that your goalkeeper was out of position and you wanted to buy some time. I think you're confusing this with the specific offence of 'denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity' and the foul does not have to be committed by the last man in defence for this to apply, this is merely one of the guidelines often spouted by uninformed commentators. Seeing your location, I must say that the decision on Shaun Derry was even more ridiculous than this example. Time to move on, I feel, but let's hope that tonight's referee bends over backwards to help Leicester.

Thought so: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133734/Terror-case-lawyers-fight-fanatics-deportation-land-110m-legal-aid.html (It's in the Daily Mail so it must be true)

Well it wasn't May who made the decision it was the Home Office and she acted on their advice. You're right, it's the court whose opinion matters and not some journalist from the Times. The appeal was faxed at 23:13 and as it happens not actually read until the next morning, some sources say after prompting from the court itself. Whether that was Strasbourg time or BST is another question. The original written judgment was before summer time and also before February 29th. A month can be four weeks or it can be a calendar month. Without all the details neither you nor I can pass judgment. The court has not yet ruled on whether the appeal was within time, or valid.

I think we would all agree with you. A definite yellow to go with the one he picked up 5 minutes earlier. That's why everybody is so aggrieved.

Have you ever thought of supporting your local team, they play in blue? I'm only saying, just a thought....

It's the interpretation of 'within' that is in question. It doesn't matter what you and I might think.

True, but if Reading home and Coventry home had been swapped then we might already be promoted with Saturday's game for the title.

That's a common theme. They feel that they are being punished twice.

Tonight please. I want to be part of it when West Ham miss out. I want to share their pain and heartache.

Stories are beginning to come out: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133343/Euro-court-tipped-Abu-Qatada-make-ditch-bid-stay.html And in the Times, apparently the written decision gave time to appeal 'within three months' which is where the debate over the deadline begins.

Ve haf vays of making you laugh!

Or this?

Very good. That's an an unanswered question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_window End of season, which in Pompey's case was yesterday . I assume that means when all clubs in the association have completed all their fixtures so when all divisions are done and dusted.