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Whitey Grandad

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  1. Thanks for sharing that with us. There's no whistle there.
  2. There's something in this argument. Like everybody else, all I saw was Fonte outside the area but having watched the replay several times you can see that the defender pulls Fonte's arm and ends up inside the area whilst still pulling it. The linesman flags for the foul but not for a penalty so it was Walton's decision. Even after meeting for a discussion he sticks to that decision. The handball was not intentional, the shirt tugging was six of one etc. Hammond's dive was embarrassing, Rickie made the most of the trip (or attempted trip) for the second penalty but you couldn't say that it was wrong. The mugging at the far post is harder to forgive. In the end our pressure told and Brighton cracked.
  3. He didn't blow his whistle for the second penalty.
  4. It's for those watching in black and white.
  5. I never heard a whistle?
  6. Blatant dive. He was down before the keeper got there and tucked both legs up like a pancaking aircraft.
  7. It was at Asda today, as promised, and people were queuing up to see it. Haven't they seen a lorry before? The bus driver said that it had been causing traffic problems all afternoon.
  8. My wife's aunt always used to give me sugared almonds for Christmas and I, of course, feigned delight. Many years later my son came back from holiday and presented me with a box of them because he thought really liked them. Sometimes you have to suffer to be nice.
  9. Oops, let's hope they don't beat us 25-0 at their place. They'd never let us forget it.
  10. I long for the day when the colour of a person's skin is no more important than the colour of their hair or the colour of their eyes. BBC radio are just as bad at discrimination. Even if a black person is on the radio speaking with an English accent they always have to bring up the subject of the person's skin, something that the listener can't see and doesn't need to know about. Off course black footballers', black musicians', black whatevers' awards are a bad idea, they differentiate and they promote discrimination.
  11. It looked full to me, although there were plenty of empty season ticket seats mid-Kingsland.
  12. Couldn't quite break them down first half but I always felt that Brighton were playing flat out whereas we still had a couple of gears left. I don't know where you all saw the first half penalties because there was nothing seriously wrong with any of his decisions, unless you're biased. Second half, our first penalty must have been a foul because the lino gave it as well but he didn't put his flag across his chest and Walton never gave him the chance. It might have been on the edge of the penalty area but I'd like to see it again. The second looked like a clear trip to me, but I was 100 yards away. Kelvin never had a shot to save and Brighton looked what they are, a mid-table team.
  13. Can't complain really. I don't think he got much wrong. Taricco was in his face all the game and must have said something nasty to have been sent off. I couldn't hear what he said from my seat in the Kingsland.
  14. Let's face it, our run of results in the second half of last season (as was Huddersfield's) was unprecedented for Saints' fans, but who's complaining?
  15. I will almost certainly have an empty season ticket seat next to me if you still need one.
  16. Ah, this sounds like 'if you're innocent then you have nothing to fear'. It is the difference between a police state and a free society. Many years ago my wife and I went to Elland Road and whilst sitting in the stand we had a video camera pushed up our noses. Now I have no idea what made the copper decide that two old white-haired citizens were potential trouble-makers, but my dear wife was so annoyed by it that I had to stop her from starting a riot.
  17. Stick with it if at all possible. Can you change your course mid-stream? One of my fellow students did a 3 year engineering course and at the end decided that he really wanted to do law so our tutor found him another grant (those were the days!) and he then did a 2 year law course and became a barrister, wig and all that. Until you're about 21 you don't really know what you want to be doing for the rest of your life. I will say that there are precious few opportunites for graduates in 'media studies' of any sort.
  18. First check the contract.
  19. And we all thought that Alexander's tomb was in Alexandria.
  20. If we don't sell out it will be because of the restrictive travel arrangements.
  21. How dare you call these people whingers and moaners. This police action is completely over the top and treats everybody like a convicted criminal. Illegal immigrants and sheeep to the slaughter are treated better. We are responsible adults in a free society and should be treated as such.
  22. Mine is similar, but nowhere near as bad as yours. A wrist support may help and you can try Ibuprofen gel and steroid injections but I think that the only solution is another operation with maybe an implant. Back to the quack.
  23. It's very tricky getting the acceleration out of the aircraft to be as smooth as possible. I read the biography of the test pilot who worked for Martin-Baker (sorry, can't remember his name) and he used to demonstrate them at air shows from the back of a lorry. On an early test he was severely injured and bruised all over because there was a slight delay between the initial ejection and the firing of the rockets. My wireman was in the FAA and tells of an aircraft that returned after the pilot had pulled the ejector handle but the hood had not released, so he had to come back to the carrier anyway. They couldn't lever the hood off because as soon as they did so the seat would have fired. He had to be cut out very, very slowly.
  24. Sounds dodgy to me. Except that all dealings would be to your email address so unless somebody has hacked that and intends to change details later it's difficult to see what they could gain.
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