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Perhaps they're looking to boot Billy Sharp, just like we did eh..

Offside used to be pretty simple, if you were in front of the lino who was level with play it was offside. Now it seems that a player who has say, size 10 boots might be offside against a defender with size 8s even though their heels are on exactly the same horizontal line.. Same with VAR penalties, if you blast it at an opponent who's 5 yards away and hit his/her arm or hand...bingo...spotty. Isn't that what happened at the end of the Dutch/Japanese game the other day ?

Apparently the average US customer wants a bigger truck or SUV, none of yer wimpy European made rubbish then!!

The French set up this court a year ago, there are others in Europe as well. It's common knowledge to anyone who can read really. https://economia.icaew.com/opinion/february-2018/paris-opens-english-speaking-court

Vince looked pretty good for Hants in the season so far. Probably why he got the England call up for the warm up games. But then again Markram looked pretty great for Hants as well and he's not had a great WC so far. Couple of decent'ish scores and a few failures. Vince's problem, as I see it, is the same as it's always been, poor judgement on occasions, trouble is that now everybody knows it and good bowlers just set him up time after time.

Vince may well be an international cricketer but he's just not an opener at that level in any form of cricket. But as England are short an opener they keep giving him a chance there. He'd probably be OK at 4'ish but that place is already taken.

Well you might have spilled hot tea onto yourselves due to the visual shock and the emotional stress..... And to think our parents and grandparents survived 6 years of global conflict without so much as a tenner in compensation..

Like I said, they may be open to taking him on but certainly don't want to pay anything or the totality of his salary. We're between a rock and a hard place. We either let him go now with some sort of salarial compensation or he'll be here doing virtually nothing except taxing our funds for another year. Let him go wherever he wants for nowt with a 52x10000£ gift.

Some of these games are just batting practice for them. If Maxwell hadn't been run out they'd have probably easily made 400 today.

Apparently Williamson should have been given out on 76, might have made all the difference. Still it's up to SA to review it I suppose and they didn't.

Like some of Bertie Wooster's chums in the illustrations in those books.

So with the result of that game it appears that whomsoever wins one of tonight's "no interest" games will qualifiy for the knock out stages. Imagine the absolutely dire Thailand beating Chile with Cameroon and NZ drawing and you have Thailand in the last 16. Don't think that'll happen though, Cameroon should get the spot easily enough.

Sounds like the sort of thing he might say actually, along with "everybody else jack it in in my favour and let me take on the favourite". That probably cost him some votes.

Less votes than yesterday then. Little Weasel obviously got too pushy and some ditched him.

Wow, that Italian number 13 was useful, a bit of a pyscho though. Not a bad game yesterday evening, apart from the ridiculous penalty of course. Seems now that with this new-fangled VAR you just need to run into an opponent in the box and bingo, spotty.

T'is true. World Cup is misleading. They should call it the British Empire (Former and Present Members) Cup.

260 on that wicket is poor.. That's why England made just shy of 400. You'll not win many WC matches with 260, and they might not even make that.

Just proving that there's no place for sides like Afghanistan in the final stages of a world cup. Need to have yet another sub-tournament before the final round robin stage, think they do that for some olympic events, basketball etc. 8 teams is quite enough.

Well according to Platini's lawyer there's nothing dodgy about anything at all, never has been, never will be and that he's just responding politely to requests for information and hasn't been placed under any judicial restraint. Mind you Platini probably pays him a shedload of money to say that.

I think there's also a question of a Picasso painiting that he might have been gifted for the 2018 WC in Russia. Hasn't been found yet though so they're trying to pin something on him fr the 2022 edition.. Don't know if they'll make anything stick though. It all leads back to Sarkozy and Qatar which is probably the prime target.

Ah but pulling and not driving this time. Bloke needs to watch hours and hours of Chris Smith videos if he really wants to be an opener. I'd say Bazza and Gordon but they weren't always that disciplined but they had talent that no coaching could ever instill.

Probably yes.

Ha, Kyle having a tonk, wouldn't it be great if we say make 97 or so for 8 or 9 and then it rains for 2 days.

Biggest question now is will we make 50. We probably need to complain about the pitch, no way that Harmer should be on 11/5 on the second day of a match. Jeez I hate Essex and everything it stands for.

Well what a forlorn hope that was, Alsop and Rahane gone already either side of lunch and we're 5/2 again. The county must adress the problem of openers if we're ever to be anything like consistent again. If it means that there's no money for an overseas player then so be it. Markram was great, Rahane looks feeble against fast bowling and the new ball. And now Northeast has been stupidly stumped by totally not paying attention. 16/4 now, Rossouw comes in, hits four and then gets out next ball, do we have some sort of problem that is provoking our players into wanting to lose? That's it, Donald out to another, stupid, stupid shot. We'll not even make them bat again as likely as not. When's the next game ?