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I read one article (Guardian, I think*) that said JB is a long time resident of Kew. He could presumably afford it. I doubt he still lives in Huyton. *it was. The police described him as “of Widnes”, so presumably has two or more homes.

Yep. Terry planning ahead for the opportunity of a lifetime!

Well this is all very intriguing. I’ve known I was slightly colour blind since I was a teenager. At the time, it was a bolt from the blue (to coin a pun). Like many others, I was tested at school, with a book of pictures made up of circles of different colours. Some of the images were blindingly obvious (sorry about the puns) but the majority just looked like pleasing groups of various pastel shades, so I couldn’t make out the various numbers or whatever were represented. I could, though, tell that the colours were different. Seeing as there were a lot of those I couldn’t differentiate, clearly my “slight” colour blindness is more acute than I admit. However, without that test, to this day I don’t think I’d have known. I have no issues with true red and green or any other practical problems. My only colour issues are when I choose a garment in a clothes shop and can’t decide whether it’s green or brown. I remain convinced there is a greenish brown shade that is somewhere in the middle. But no doubt people with normal colour vision see a clear distinction I don’t. So for those with normal colour vision - there are a lot of colour blind people out here that barely know it and who rarely run into any practical issues because of it. We don’t know what it is we can’t see.

I know. I blame the groundsman. Or it could be the drink.

You make the common mistake of treating everybody in a disparate group of people as if they are all the same. Judge individuals, not groups or nationalities or races.* *Except caravan owners, obviously.

One of my earliest Ashton Gate memories is Don Rogers running us ragged!

I saw his first show at the County Ground in Taunton, which I thought was very impressive - but I think that was 2006! To be fair his voice held up far longer than some (like McCartney) but I think he’s struggling now.

It’s difficult to mourn the loss of one of the thousands of junk food outlets. Good riddance.

What does the new Derby announcement actually mean? £100K fine but could still be relegated in place of Wycombe if the restated accounts don’t fit the bill!

I think the one guy who has made an objection has a strong case about the parking issues. The anti car lobby ensure that car parking is under provided for new buildings, but it won’t stop flat owners wanting to own and park cars.

Are these only for people who haven’t already got smart TVs? I’ve never really understood what use they are otherwise.

Why don’t Gloucestershire play in Gloucestershire?

Yes, I spent my early years in Welshpool and there’s a definite Severn Valley connection with Shrewsbury. So I tend to see a connection down that valley and the Marches as a bit of a region of its own from Hereford to Salop.

North Herefordshire and Shropshire obviously border each other and their rural towns, like Shrewsbury and Leominster have a lot more in common than they do with the industrial North or West Midlands, surely?

Been on there years, but I tend not to post often or set out to wind them up. Just join in with the general grumbling and you’ll go unnoticed.

Exactly - he foolishly quoted the parallel of doctors being struck off. That’s not for mediocre performance, it’s for gross misconduct.

I would think it’s actionable and the club could be included as he was talking while in the course of his job. WAQ must be upset - unless of course he’s already looking for an excuse to sack him without compensation; this could count as gross misconduct, you’d think.

I’m sure relative size must be a big factor here. I wonder how competent male keepers would look if the goals were a foot higher and a yard wider?

One is a nice little bloke with an inflated idea of his intellectual capabilities. The other is a nasty little bloke with an inflated idea of his intellectual capabilities.

Let’s face it, next season will be fascinating if they do get promoted!

C&A Pulled out of the UK in 2001 but were always based in Holland/Belgium/Germany. Had nearly 2000 stores worldwide in 2017. [Thank you Wikipedia].

Yep.

Disagree. England obviously think the target is big enough but want to restrict the time available to get it. If batting is really difficult, we’ll bowl them out in a day. If it isn’t, the likes of Kohli and Pant could still chase this down. They’ve won a big run chase quite recently haven’t they?

It’s not quite that straightforward. There were massive battles between football fans over a hundred years ago. Millwall v West Ham for example was a big rivalry between dockers north and south of the Thames. It started pre 1900, but it’s a small part of history that tends to be forgotten now. I think the ruling classes and newspapers took working class violence more for granted then. However, it’s probably true that it was more civilised between the end of WW1 and the 1960s. Perhaps the experience of real wars took the edge off the male adolescent tendency to gang warfare. I wonder if there are any books out there about football violence from 1880 onwards?

You need to be more subtle. I am. ?