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It’s always “number of teams minus 1” to work out number of games in a knockout, because every game knocks out one team except for the final. So for a million teams in a knockout you can immediately say there’ll be 999,999 games, or for 64 there’ll be 63.

I thought Powney was there?

Use bloody ounces for Christ’ sake.

Or even more so:

I was a little surprised to hear that a team had been sent to Rhodes from the foreign office with some Red Cross personnel. I don’t know who was paying for the latter, but I might think twice next time someone shakes a Red Cross charity tin at me if I thought my money was being used to help...

Try the train. I’m three weeks into a month’s inter-railing around Europe. I’m doing it with a seven-days rail travel within a month, 1st class, over-65 inter-rail pass (£350). And that includes my train from Seaford to St Pancras and Eurostar. I use accommodation within a 20 minute walk of a...

Desperately trying to keep this interesting thread going…… I was tonight sitting in a gay bar in Hannover (as you do) and came across a guy who managed Denis Undav when he was at TSV Halvese back in 2014 (and he had pictures to prove it). I’m afraid the only interesting thing he had to say...

Blimey, I was going to say that a friend of mine went out with Steve Piper. He must have been quite active.

My Mum used to tell Brian Powney to stop kicking balls against her house in Mercread Road in Seaford.

Religions are untestable hypotheses. Ask a believer what the “test case” is for their religion; what it is that would prove them wrong, and they can’t do it. Because they are untestable hypotheses they are to me, a scientist, irrelevant. Trying to argue for or against religions based on...

With both the fixtures and the Johnson report out at the same time today, it’s difficult to work out which to read first. (Well it’s not really but I thought I’d try to look clever).

Correct

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Gloria was sick in my Transit on Monday)

I did four years of Latin (to O level) at Lewes County Grammar School For Boys in the late sixties. Our Latin teacher went to the King’s Head every lunchtime so we dreaded Latin in the afternoon. He’d grab my wrist and twist it behind my back while asking me to conjugate a verb. The more I got...

Bielsius sittius on the bucketorum, Bucketus collapsius, Bielsius on the floorum.

Milieu de terrain.

Is that the same Villa that we’ve beaten once in eight games in the league with Mings playing in every one, conceding only 6 goals against us?