Spiritwalker

What about Andy Peake.

CS is a tactical genius, up there with the greats.

About 10yrs ago on the way home from a family holiday in Spain my Ryanair flight was delayed by 17 hrs due to maintenance issues. These things happen and I would rather get home late than fly on an unsafe plane. What did piss me off was their terrible customer service. At 22.00 we were told to collect our luggage and make our way back to check in where we would be met by by their staff who would advise us what was happening and help sort out accommodation for the night. When we got back to check in there was no one from Ryanair there. The airport closed at midnight and we had young kids with us. Luckily we tagged along with those who had booked through Thomson and got sorted for the night. The cost for the overnight stay was 180 euros which Ryanair refused to reimburse me for even though they were bound by European law to do so. Because the delay was in Spain I had to deal with the Spanish authorities and it took me nearly a year to get my money back. I've never flown with them since.

The issue for me is that we seem to be setting up against the top teams with the aim of not getting battered. We appear to be happy to accept a narrow defeat then claim that if xy or z had gone our way then we could have scraped a draw.

As an ardent remainer I must admit Boris's article is the most persuasive piece I have read. He is one of my favourite Tories ( it's not a long list ) and it would be interesting to see how he would do in the top job.

Miss Cov is carrying some timber.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Apparently Blair has met with Juncker so he may have been given encouragement that this is an option, but with the lack of a pro EU opposition and little public appetite for a u-turn I don't see this gaining any momentum. Ken Clarke gave a well balanced( slightly patronising) interview about Brexit on Sky News this morning.

There is more at stake here than a player losing a week or twos training. Do you really think FIFA can tell a club or player( not under disciplinary sanctions) when or where that player can train?

FIFA has no control over where or who a player trains with. The player and his club decide where he trains. I suspect it is LCFC who have told Silva to train on his own.

Was thinking this myself

I think this is a bit of brinksmanship by us. If we pretend we don't want the transfer to go through unless Silva is available straight away then Sporting will also be putting pressure on FIFA to let this go.

I've watched the first episode and thought it was quite good. After reading some of the negative publicity I was expecting it to glamourise Islamic extremists but it felt quite balanced.

He reminded me of the first time I saw J Terry at Leicester, every aerial ball seemed to be attracted to his head.

He wasn't great. I think the average fan just wants to see their players giving 100% and not shitting out of tackles. I know he's not in the team for his ball winning skills but some of his leg dangling was embarrassing.