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Mightier than the sword (5)

I got sent to stay with my grandparents in ... er ... Rotherhithe, SE 16.

Yep. There was an eight coach train to Eastbourne (all stops, including Glynde and Berwick) at 22:01. It ran on time and left Falmer with some seats not taken and nobody left behind. It got to Lewes before any of the shuttle buses did. Not a great deal different from the previous strike day...

Even my local county councillor has defected from UKIP. I can't for the life of me work out why the Tories have accepted him into membership. He's a buffoon.

Indeed. Poyet OUT!

Likewise in Dick's Bar. I was sitting in front of one of the screens, reading, not watching the TV. The third goal came and there was no noticeable reaction from anyone. I only noticed that the score had changed when the final whistle blew.

The staff ARE doing what they are told to do ... stand in a huddle for as long as it takes one person to pour enough beer to satisfy the customers of eight serving assistants, and then you will be able to collect the beer YOUR customer has asked for. This will take more than five minutes...

The point is that it's incredibly inefficient to get EIGHT serving assistants jostling for position to get to the head of the queue to be supplied with beer by the ONE pourer of beer who is able to provide it. At the very least, this means that there are seven serving assistants who are doing...

It can't be that obvious, surely? There ARE more beer pumps in the West Lower Concourse. I'm sure that if more beer pumps was the answer, they would be using them. Wouldn't they?

What surprised me was the way the team spent the rest of the first half giving Stockdale more practice at dealing with back passes. And I regret to say that he proved himself Not Very Good at this task. But maybe there are better ways to clear the ball from the back?

As, indeed, was Glenn Murray.

It comes down to simple mathematics. If you place eight serving assistants behind a counter and eight long queues of customers in front of the counter and then require each of the eight serving assistants to jostle for position in front of one man who is operating the only working beer pump on...

You might think differently if you'd have been in the pub near London Bridge Station the day we stuffed Charlton 4-0 and Millwall beat Palace by a big margin at Selhurst Park. The joint celebrations between Millwall and Albion fans came as a big surprise to everyone who was there.

I've always enjoyed the encounters I've had with opposition fans pre-match (and, sometimes, post-match).

All looking good so far. Albion still in fourth place at half time.

Ewan MacColl.

Burl Ives. In fact, I shared the bill with him at the first event to be organised when the Brighton Centre opened. He was top of the bill. I wasn't.

But wait a while ... and watch what happens to the price of oil.

Good grief! Do people really imagine that the UK is controlled by Brussels, Germany and France? I thought the country voted OUT, because that meant that the NHS would get more funding.

His use of words sometimes rivals the style of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Conveying so much in just a few syllables.