Open End Numb Legs

There is something a bit sad about the body language of the young lad in the foreground. 'Dad, can we go home now?'

Can they make up their minds please, are they a massive club or plucky underdogs? Can't have it both ways.

As an older person, I try hard to adapt to today's standards and as far as I know I manage to do that. It isn't easy though as there are many new initiatives and therefore pitfalls to avoid. As such it is pretty easy to make an innocent mistake and then have to learn from it which I am more than happy to do. So in this context, seeing as there is enough unintentional hurt going on, it does seem unacceptable to intentionally go out to pass on discriminative hate to someone. As others have pointed out, you don't know what their threshold is for accepting the abuse. An analogy would be, there will always be accidental collisions on the pitch with serious injuries, so to go out and deliberately hurt another player is not acceptable. My moral compass on this is a good friend and work colleague who is mixed race and incidentally hates forced box ticking, the like of which we see in business and to his view causes more problems than it solves.

I am also long in the tooth and used to get a buzz as a youngster, stood towards the south end of the enclosure listening to the chants behind the goal. I can remember though when some moved to the Dolman and to me it just seemed to dilute the atmosphere as the singing element was then split between the 2 parts of the ground. Humble apologies for my ignorance in recent times but why were the singers moved to the corner after the redevelopment? It feels like somewhere you would place visiting fans.

Fish puns should always be marked on a scale.

Very thoughtful of them to have the face covering, there is still some COVID and flu going around.

It must be a tough place to run a high tech project though. If you were in a city centre it would feel all business and focussed on the job at hand, every detail counts. Take it down to Cornwall and it probably feels like 'whatever, maybe I will correct that dodgy wiring tomorrow, let's get down to the beach for some fresh air and chill out, who has the beer?' They did well to get the 747 off the ground if you ask me.

Do you think Kane's penalty might have hit it on the way down?

Quote this morning sounded like a football manager - 'we go again...'

Why are the TV companies allowed to play the audio for adverts at a higher level than the program they are interrupting? It means turning the volume down, then up again when the programme continues.

Don't mention the sausages.

Waving bed sheets badly painted with protest messages? Not something I want to see. Not a good look, not helpful.

I like the approach they are taking, using the atmosphere to provide lift to the 1st 35k feet, then the rocket takes over, rather than a monstrous rocket to break free of gravity. I kind of hope there is a big piece of blue touch paper somewhere with someone striking a match.....that would be very British. Anyone worried about space junk as seen in the film Gravity? Too many satellites going up?

Not a fan myself, there are some players who are not likeable for some reason. As for the stats, they look ok in isolation but he didn't do it all on his own and in some cases didn't play that much when his side won trophies.

So if he ran very quickly back to his own box and was passed the ball, could it be a penalty for the offside 50 yards away? Sorry for being facetious, as said, a silly law.

So does this mean the offside player, knowing they are offside, should run towards the oppos goal and receive a pass 40 yards offside so the free kick is deeper in their half?

He was probably too busy grilling the players at HT. Sounds like he made a decent job of that at least.

If we went back to the letter boards for half time scores we could do a match day Wordle at the same time.

Clearly we don't have enough South American players in the team.

I don't see enough City games to be sure but I see us passing to feet a lot with defenders close on our heels when I think the better coached teams play the ball into space, away from the marking defender so that the receiver can run onto it and possibly draw another defender out of position. Just a small detail, otherwise I agree our touch on the ball can be poor.

Whoever gets it should be purely on merit, boxes should not need ticking as the studio pundits alongside the anchor give that opportunity if the BBC feel that is what they want to do. Good call with Alex Scott, knowledgable and easy going.

Looks like it came off his toe on the BBC replay, just one of those things you don't expect to happen. Quite a cool finish to be fair, passing instead of lashing a shot which many would have in surprise at being gifted the ball.

If we aren't going to get a penalty the club could save money by not marking the spot with whitewash. When one is eventually given the groundsman/woman could just nip onto the pitch and measure it out.

As a boy I remember the half time scores elsewhere were on a board marked A to Z and you had to check your programme to see which game related to which letter. Or did I imagine that...? Very exciting.

Yes, I agree with that though of course by the time the proper guy/gal has attended site, inspected the work, tested it and provided all the paperwork, the bill for the club (with a premium for the short term work) would mean they might as well have just paid them to do it all and build a proper business relationship. Maybe add some advertising for them to the stands etc. (Insert joke here ref stands.)