Very interesting, thanks for that. Had to read through it twice but it was worth it!
It strikes me as quite the snapshot of America circa 250 years ago and a very logical process for the time. A massive country (geographically at least, quite something to think that the (white) population in...
I still don't understand - (and I know I could go to Wikipedia but it sounds like you could explain it better) -
What's a caucus? Do we have an equivalent?
Who or what are delegates? And why is it good to have a lot of them?
Who or what's a nominee? Sounds like they're deputy for the actual...
I don't really understand their election cycles and caucuses etc, but wasn't the Iowa vote the same as asking a load of Brighton fans in, say, Peacehaven, to vote for who they want as their manager next season? Chances are it'd be RdZ.
So I don't get why people are getting so excited.
- which is the scary part for me. If it was all over politics, and ideas and visions, doing the best for the country, then all well and good. Someone I read said the R party is now a 'movement', not a party.
Sam Kinison once asked why it was just the people who tried to do good get killed...
If we had lost because they got a questionable pen to make it 2-2, I wouldn't have been cursing the ref/lack of VAR, I'd be blaming the team for not going on to win. Or accepting that Stoke were more up for it.
Years ago, someone said that yes refs make mistakes and get pilloried for it, but...
Not by me. I'd presume the ref was happier too with being the sole person in charge, not having to 'send it upstairs'. There was thrilling jeopardy to some decisions, and even the pen I had to agree with. Maybe VAR would have overturned it but I rather liked the frustration of the decision being...
According to The FA, shin pads should "provide a reasonable degree of protection". So anything goes.
I absolutely loved mine in the 90s, looked like Robocop legs in socks. Wouldn't have it any other way.
This is an amazing site if you support Barnet. Lineups, scorers, tables, all stretching back decades. This is what we want!
http://www.downhillsecondhalf.co.uk/Football/LeagueTable.aspx
It was very grating to hear Martin Tyler bang on about this on the tv, and not a mention of our numerous absentees. Not one. Only that Pervis and Jakub were back. It's almost as if an analogy between King Canute holding back the tides, and older should-know-better commentators wilfully ignoring...