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I understand that the police have informed the football leagues that due to the Olympics they will not be able to provide police presence for any pre-season friendlies. This isn't just a London thing, because police will be used from all across the country. So any friendlies which are...

I have seen babies at football matches wearing ear defenders which is probably better for baby and other supporters.

Not sure it could be cost-justified, unless there was also demand for it in the week. Otherwise there's a facility that has to be fitted out to Ofsted-approved standards and staffed with properly qualified people, massively strict staff/baby ratios - and it only gets used for 23 sessions of no...

I can't see whichever club comes third actually getting promoted. It's clubs like Blackpool who'll succeed in the play-offs, because they have the momentum and optimism that's needed in the play-offs. A club that has just missed out - especially if they've been in the top two for all but the...

I'd suggest that rudeness and impatience on the road increases proportionately to how close to the centre of London you get.

Nope. Leeds certainly voted against this, Bates always opposes anything like this. West Ham is correct but not sure about the other - deffo not Reading, though. May well be Leicester or Cardiff.

2014/15 season. never forget that loans, even soft loans from owners, still equal debt.

Not arguing with that. I was just making the point that comparing the absolute sizes of nations' debts without taking into consideration the relative sizes of their economies concerned is just shallow and fatuous.

Certainly some Lib Dem voters might have thought it through and come out with the end-result of a coalition with the Tories, resulting in massive cuts to public services, tax cuts for the wealthy and increases to tuition fees etc (all actions contrary to Lib Dem manifesto commitments) - but I...

I'm not really sure that those who voted Lib Dem did get what they asked for.

It's a large debt because we have a large economy. But if you look at debt as a proportion of GDP we're in much better shape than many other countries. But expressing statistics in a meaningful way does tend to spoil the soundbite, doesn't it.....

I know I'm coming to this thread late, but what exactly did he do with the IRA? Talk to them and make the point that the only way the "troubles" would ever be resolved and peace delivered would be by negotiation? As if a ludicrous policy like that was ever going to work!

Quite. As far as I'm concerned the coldest depths of hell are reserved for those people who I let out of side roads or who I stop for to allow them to pass parked cars and then they don't thank me. Genocide, rape, murder, child-molesting whatever pale into insignificance compared with my fury...

Depends. If I'm crossing already when they appear then no thanks are necessary. But if someone slows down or stops so I can step out then I'll always thank them.

Farting in a lift is just wrong on so many levels.

A big no to anything that involves replays or winding the game back, because you have to stop for a replay and that brings the choice or either artifically stopping the game or cancelling what happened after the incdient in question. A big yes to the system they're looking at, Hawkeye, which...

While Reading are still missing their two key central midfielders thanks to Leeds, it's got to be Saints. As was shown on Tuesday, any competent team can carve Reading apart - if only that competent team had competent strikers .....

Nope- it's just that now the Nurofen's patent has run out other people can make and sell the generic version cheaply - Nurofen are just relying on the brand now.

By the time Brum play Reading and Boro play Saints the top two places might well be decided, so the relevance of them as playing "top 10 teams" could have gone.

Let's hope they don't ban bigots from London taxis or there'd be no-one left to drive any of them.