Crinklyfox

It'll be neither if the players, as some on FT, presume it's a done deal. Forget about the other clubs and just go for the win on Monday.

I was discussing this with a supporter of a PL club today. His club went digital so he bought a cheap phone and put his digital ST on it. He gives the phone to any of his mates when he can't attend the game. He knows others who have done the same thing. So a digital ST can be transferred to another person almost as easily as a hard copy ticket. So there's no security advantage to a digital ticket.

Just your perception I think. I do my weekly shop on Thursday to avoid the crowds. I know a few old people (my generation) and a lot of them seem to shop when I do and at other less busy times.

Deb I'm not an experienced cruiser, in fact my wife and I only did one, but that was to Madeira and the Canaries, also in November, I can't comment on the position of your cabin as I deliberately took one in the centre lower part of the ship. Even in that position there was significant movement on one night as we went across the Bay of Biscay, nothing on the rest of the journey of any significance including the Bay of Biscay on the return leg. I was told by a more experienced cruiser that 'the more you pay, the more you sway' as movement was more accentuated in the posh cabins on the upper decks. Madeira was our first port of call - we took the cable car up the mountain and spent some time in the botanical gardens at the top (my wife likes gardens), There are other attractions up there and the cable car is an experience and a relatively short walk from the dock. There was a market on the way to the cable car which my wife also liked. The cruise offered a number of tours at each destination but we did our own thing, I did a bit of research in advanced and worked out which places we'd like to visit. This involved some taxi rides which you would have to budget for if you do the same thing, and it's worth leaving any destination enough in advance of the ship leaving to make it back with a bit of time to spare (I found taxis on Sundays a bit too uncommon for my liking). My cruise didn't do La Gomera so I can't help there I'm afraid. Our cruise had a number of sea days so we flung ourselves into whatever activities were going to make the most of the cruise experience, including quizzes (which I like - we even won one), bingo and the most hilarious was indoor golf - they set up a putting area where participants had to put golf balls through holes in boards to gain points, the serious golfers turned up in all the gear. It sounds easy but of course the ship is swaying so the balls can't be putted in a straight line. Anyway my wife who had never played golf in her life won to the consternation of the serious golfers. There were so many different activities that you could easily fill your day in the intervals between filling your stomach with too much delicious food three times a day. The weather in the Canaries was great, just like early summer days - they don't have much rain. If I had to recommend only one attraction in the Canaries it would be Timanfaya on Lanzarote - its a national park entirely of a volcano and volcanic dust, you can't walk around it, coach tour only, but it's like nothing else I've seen. Just a personal preference. I hope that you really enjoy your cruise.

For part of my career I worked in a team of management consultants, and towards the end of that time was responsible for training the new entrants to the team. All the team were experienced professionals. What I found was that the best consultants were those who, in addition to the basic abilities of knowledge, communication and man management skills, were those who were flexible enough to adapt their style to the companies they worked with. The more limited ones were those who had experience of success using one particular method or regime, and who then tried to shoehorn every client into that system. Some of them were intelligent enough to realise they they weren't maximising their clients potential in that way and adapted accordingly, others did not and were less successful as a result. I look at Enzo and see that he has the basics to be a good manager. He is a good communicator, he has some experience, he believes in himself and he has found a playing system that has worked for him. What is yet unproven is if he has the ability to learn from the consequences of solely using that system. If he does and is willing to adapt style to suit circumstances then I believe that he can achieve great things as a manager; if not then he may find his career progression more limited. The recent past hasn't been good but it's not terminal - I hope that Enzo can find the right way forward.

Enzo comment. He must be the only one watching the game that thinks that. The performance for me was good. We create many chances. The problem is not the performance. But in this moment, hopefully we can reach our target.

A lot of us have lost faith in Enzoball. But a bigger problem is that it looks like many of the players have lost faith in Enzoball. The confidence, swagger, fluency and any dynamism that there was has gone and been replaced by listless displays which just go through the motions. I'm genuinely concerned that this will prevent our promotion.

It's about as likely as me being there to see it.

I rarely post on match days, the emotion is too raw. But looking back on the match now it's a much more significant result than just the three points. We retreated into our shell after the first goal but played with purpose after the equaliser when heads could have gone down. We kept going after Mads horror mistake and still won, so he can learn from that without it having cost us points. We should have won much more easily but for the referee - given a better one we'd have had two penalties and the tie would have been much easier to watch and the result a fairer indication of the play. Winning under adversity is the sort of thing that boosts confidence which should see us in good stead for the rest of the season.

The playoffs are good commercially but are inherently unfair - a middle of the road club getting into the final play-off spot twenty points below third could have a form or injuries advantage over three games that negates the efforts of the whole season for the more successful club. I would never have introduced playoffs and dislike them to this day.

We will live or die on the cross of Enzoball. Which is a real shame as I like Enzo, he's turned the club around at the start of the season, which was no mean task and is easily forgotten now. He believes in his style of play, and you have to have belief in your abilities as a manager so I don't and won't criticise him for that. I think that he is a much better fit for us than BR, but in my view BR was absolutely correct in his early analysis of our troubled team - you can't just play one way. If you do it's easy for the opposition to learn your strategy and vulnerabilities and set up accordingly. If we are to recover this season (which I doubt at this stage) then we have to be able to switch the play to a different mode when necessary - and I don't believe that Enzo will do that. I wouldn't sack him, he's been too good for our club and I believe that he can still develop as a manager to our eventual advantage.

It's not a distraction. Our focus must remain on promotion but the FA Cup is giving players opportunity for game time that they otherwise wouldn't have had. IMO Enzo has this right. I expect the side against Chelsea to be much like the starting line up against Bournemouth.

When you're young you have a number of things that you want to achieve in your life. For example a decent house, car, and maybe a family if you want the responsibilities. These become your drivers and you gain satisfaction from achieving your goals. Then you get to a stage in your life where you have, to a large or complete extent, achieved your goals. The children eventually grow up and don't require so much of your time. You have most or all of the material possessions you wanted. So what is there now to drive you, to give you that sense of purpose you once had? You either end up accepting that you can now be a different person and don't need the drivers you once had, or run the danger that you become frustrated and listless. There may be little to satisfy you. There is more than one way forward. A sense of purpose can be re-established if you can set yourself a goal to work towards and throw your energies into it. Or you could look at yourself from an outside perspective, realise that actually you've done well with your life, and devote more of your time to activities that give you pleasure. Personally when my life changed in my 50s - my mortgage was paid, my career was ending and the children were grown - I found a local charity that was struggling to survive and became a Trustee. I spent what would otherwise have been down time trying to raise funds for them and applied my professional skills to do so. I gained a lot of personal satisfaction from helping them pull through and get onto a solid financial footing, and the charity (support to children with special educational needs) benefitted. It's already been suggested that you try charity work, I couldn't endorse that possibility more, you have a range of skills that have helped you in your personal and professional life that a charity would be lucky to have available to them. You just need to pick one that is close to your heart.

This is where we find out if we have the mettle to be champions. We've just had one of the most ghastly matches of the season where virtually nothing went right. If we're made of the right stuff then we put in a performance on Friday, and if we do that regardless of the result it will keep the confidence high for the rest of the season. Crumble and the cracks will appear.

Rugby was compulsory at my school (Wyggeston). I didn't like the game, and opted out as soon as I could. As I have the physique of a pipe cleaner (that'll mean nothing to the younger generation here) I was never suited to the game. Nevertheless I had to play in a team for two years, and in that time eleven of my teammates suffered physical injuries. Sport is good for exercise, team and character building, and I'd encourage anyone who wants to play a sport to give it a go. But I don't think that it should be forced on the incapable or unwilling. Many sports have the potential for injury, to prevent children or adults playing one is just the thin end of a wedge.

This could have gone in the Covers thread as the original was released in the 1930s - but this was the first UK chart entry for the song in 1961.

The first music I loved.

This is going back to my childhood mostly: Abbey Park (went there mostly with my parents but did visit with my friends as well) Hovis Bakery (used to cycle to it then stand on the corner by the park and breathe in the gorgeous smell of the baked bread) Charles Street shops (Marks, Woolworths and the bike shop whose name I can't remember where my Gran bought me my first bike) Bruccianis (Ice cream soda for a treat after shopping) Fenwicks (for toys and games) Drawing Office Requisites (where my Dad used to work) Aylestone and Jarrom Streets where my Grans lived - Jarrom Street had a sort of sweet shop you now only see in Victorian era films (this was in the 50's) De Montfort Hall Wyggeston Boy's School (of the day, huge site shared with the University, spent seven years there) The ravine (which is what we called the grassed area between Mowmacre Hills and Stocking Farm estates where we used to play - unfortunately it's a road now) Town Hall square and fountain (loved the lions) Leicester market (the traders used to shout out the prices of their wares, always a vibrant place)

Before heavy metal was an established genre, this was Top Ten in 1968.

Merry Christmas to all and a happy and healthy New Year.