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The last time Leicester City lost in Round 1 of the FA Cup was in an away game on 12th. January 1924, when The Wednesday beat them 4-1.

So all the USAF B-1Bombers have gone from Fairford. Is this really for non-political reasons and should we be concerned? I think we should, especially as it comes just days after Britain was excluded from talks about NATO's future. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyve191dlko

According to the BBC, the woman wishes to remain anonymous. If that's the case, it's an odd way to try to get 15 minutes of fame.

Man-cheats-er City!

Two things are inevitable - death and taxes. We're taxed to death whilst alive then taxed again after death. Great! My advice is to be sensible with money until about retirement age, then splash the cash like there's no tomorrow. Economists call this deferment of gratification.

Back in the early Eighties, I learnt how to unscramble any Rubik's Cube in about 3 minutes - completely hopeless compared to the insanely short times that it takes these Chinese children to unscramble them now! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cmvgyzgnq9e3o

I was recently forced to change internet providers to EE, because Plusnet couldn't or wouldn't continue providing my landline phone service. This meant having a new hub, into which my old pulse-tone phone is plugged, and the original phone number carries on as before. Any local calls I make now need the 0116 code to be included. Even though Plusnet instigated the (unwanted) transfer to EE, that hasn't stopped them from charging me a cancellation fee and sending various text messages saying how sorry they are to lose me as a customer!

Being an even bigger pedant, I'd say that the factor of 1/2 isn't a function - it's a coefficient.

Dunno about anyone else, but on a couple of occasions recently, I've found myself scanning through the Championship scores/results on the BBC website and been puzzled as to why City's match was missing from the list! Perhaps it's a sign of old age or a subconcious inability to accept that the club is now just a random third-rate outfit.

One bigger negative, if you're dealing with addition and subtraction.

The club's worst defeats when in League 1 previously were never by more than two goals, so yes, this is the worst ever league defeat in the club's history.

Perhaps that delightful Barnsley couple, having read the BBC article, will have spotted that it fails to mention exactly where the new telescope will be parked in space. However, they'll doubtless have realised that it'll be positioned at L2, the second Sun-Earth Lagrange Point.

The tractor boys will probably field a crop of youngsters, but still plough through our defence and sow seeds of doubt in our supporters, finally to reap the reward of victory.

The previous league game between Leicester and Burton was in March 1907, when Leicester Fosse beat Burton United 1-0 away from home, Harry Wilcox scoring the goal. {Burton Swifts + Burton Wanderers -> Burton United (1901), Burton United + Burton All Saints -> Burton Town (1924), Burton Town + Burton Albion -> Burton Albion (1950).} Let's hope City's unbeaten start to the season doesn't go for a burton tomorrow!

Following last week's government alerts sent to our phones regarding fires, I suspect that we might soon be receiving a lot more, but for a different reason. Russia's warning that the UK's supply of drones to Ukraine will 'inevitably carry consequences' seems pretty alarming to me. I'm convinced that we're soon going to be in for a big shock in this country, when Putin's frustration finally boils over and London (and maybe a few Amazon warehouses) get attacked by drones. And because we've been so lukewarm in helping DT's Iran war effort, we're probably more vulnerable than perhaps we like to think.

And why does the sale include both Leicester City and Belgium's Pro League club Oud-Heverlee Leuven? Is the Belgian club being thrown into the mix to try to sweeten the bitter pill of buying the English one? (Leuven's men's team are in the top flight there, and their women's team has won the Super League titles twice in the last two seasons.)

The guy on the BBC stated that there's a new moon tonight as if it were a coincidence with the eclipse. No it's not - every solar eclipse coincides with a new moon!

Kevin Keegan and John Toshack - what a fantastic pairing they were for Liverpool back in the day.

The only positives from this 3rd Place Play-off match seem to be: 1. Kane, Bellingham, Mbappe and 2 others still have a chance of depriving Messi of the Golden Boot award, 2. The result is factored into the world rankings, 3. The Bronze Medal winners go home happier than the losers of the WC Final, apparently, 4. Players who've not previously played much get their chance to prove the manager wrong.

Aren't International Friendlies equally as pointless?

The tactic of defending deep and trying to hold out against Argentina was probably based on the Mexico game, when it worked. But against stronger opposition, it never was going to work and Tuchel is to blame. We were thrashed, despite the scoreline and despite all our superstars, and even lowly Cape Verde did better against them than we did.

Source of Infantino's power? The eyes have it!

Tbh, I'm amazed that the French referee didn't give Messi a second go at taking his penalty. Clearly the ref and his VAR mates didn't look hard enough for an excuse to have it retaken.

It's bizarre that a goal can be given following a foul in the build-up, which occurs in the opposite penalty box, but which doesn't quite reach the threshold of a penalty-giving offence. In effect the team conceding the goal is being penalised twice, once for not getting anything for the foul on their player and secondly for the goal being allowed to stand. No wonder the Egyptians were furious.

On the basis that, in France, they refer to NATO as OTAN, maybe we English should anglicise the French acronym FIFA to AFIF, standing for Association Football's International Federation, especially as English is the de facto international language.