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Doesn't that depend on how you define "peaceful protest"? For example, one of the things the government has clamped down on is walking slowly along the road holding up the traffic. Is my right to stop you driving a greater right than your right to drive? Freedoms have to work in all...

You'd better hope Burnley have an outstanding season then, so Kompany can go to the head of the queue! ;)

No, what I am saying is that a lot of people have been panning Brexit in part because immigration had fallen. Now they can be pleased. The problem I have with Labour is that they want the same sort of policies that has lead us into this position now. Higher taxes, anti-competitive regulation...

I suppose this is one of the EU benefits that seems to be still with us. Mass immigration to drive down wages and keep prices lower. Si it's not all bad news! There was never any compulsion to restrict immigration from the EU or anywhere else. Emigration might be restricted subject to EU...

My Dad was in the RAF shortly after the war (pay corps - never got hands on a plane) but a few years before he died we were at a cricket match and he said "that's a Lancaster". Nothing to be seen in the sky, but there were clouds about. And in next day's paper, sure enough, it was reported...

The post I was quoting was talking about home season tickets.

That's the problem. If there are no restrictions, then you can lend a friend the season ticket and there is the chance that he or she might like the experience so much that they become regular fans and season ticket holders themselves. (There are 2 season ticket holders at Burnley who can...

Voter fraud is done by post. There is a lot of that, though the powers that be are scarcely bothered about checking it. It's a pet bugbear of mine - by making postal votes easy, they have abolished the secret ballot. The secret ballot was designed to stop husbands/wives, landlords, employers...

Fortunately for the discerning Brighton fan, the wooden seats in the away end were replaced with plastic for our European venture. UEFA rules. So while the home fans in the Cricket Field stand still get to sit on (or stand in front of) wide wooden seats, the away fans are squashed together on...

I hope not. I suppose it's not fashionable to be in praise of wealth, but there is no way I would want to go back to the average spending power of those days. I like foreign holidays, I like cheap and readily available consumer goods, I even like getting a new phone without a 6 month waiting list.

A quick check on ebay shows that a paper ticket from the 1950 FA Cup final is on sale for £20. I doubt that a computer picture of a similar ticket is going to sell for the same amount even if you do hold it for 70 years. There is no freebie on earth that has no intrinsic value that will...

Of course, the real problem will come at the ground when people who don't regularly check their season ticket still exists, try and find it at the turnstiles. Some people are still working on the older technology where a plastic card didn't need checking to see if it has lost all its info...

That's inventing a problem that isn't going to happen. Poll clerks will be told that they shouldn't reject any voter who turns up with valid i.d. in the right name, just as they were previously told not to challenge even obvious cases of personation. Back in the day they had police officers on...

That may be true to an extent. But as in all cases like this, I reckon if the full time professionals at the FA are given the full facts and do not raise any objection, they shouldn't be raising objections later. At the very least, there should be a replay. Altrincham FC suffered on the same...

Not necessarily. He died on April 23rd, but his birthdate wasn't recorded - only his christening date, 26th April, which is extrapolated backwards by a traditional 3 days to get an estimated d.o.b.

Just remember to cover your ears at 3 pm. It's going to be pretty loud round Wembley.

The has to be a certain amount of ego trip to have an attitude "I must disrupt the enjoyment of thousands of people because I know and care much more than they do".

Some of them are pretty trivial. For example, just looking at the most recent 20, one of them is that egg imports from the EU have been made harder and another is that egg imports from outside the EU are to be made easier. Putting both of those on the down marker looks like bias to me.

When a Daily Express headline is raising issues that are too complex for you to understand ... ;)

Not really. It's only last year that a teacher was effectively sacked for showing children pictures of Mohammed, with prior warning - and Mohammed was fully clothed.