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Eddie

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  1. Edit: Memories can be deceptive. He played in the group stages, but got injured against France, suffering a shin gash which required 14 stitches.
  2. Greaves was injured at the start of the tournament, and would not have been fit enough for selection until the quarter-finals anyway. There were no substitutes allowed in either domestic or international football until 1967. You ended up patching up on-field injuries and sending them back out again. I well remember Hungary sending someone back out on the field after dislocating his shoulder against the Soviet Union (possibly Florian Albert?) in that World Cup. It would have been a huge risk to pick Greaves against Argentina in the quarter-finals only for him to break down after 20 minutes - and by then you're into the "Don't change a winning team" scenario.
  3. My opinion: Putin's only reason for invasion is, purely and simply, an attempt re-establish the Soviet Union. If he succeeds in Ukraine, you can bet your bottom Rouble that he will move on to other countries, one after the other. As a former Colonel in the KGB, he sees it as his legacy.
  4. There's one in Coalville - and they brew the best beer in England.
  5. I don't think that Russia has any DFNDMS. /Attack 'ems v Defend 'ems //Sorry - puerile, I know.
  6. The only way to determine the perpetrators is to obtain bits of the rocket/bomb. Both sides use different offensive weaponry. Of course, it could also be the case that a projectile (from either side) was intercepted (from the other side) and the debris from either or both fell on the hospital. Ah, the fog of war.
  7. I was more than silently rooting for the Netherlands today as they put South Africa to the sword. Celebrating later with a bottle of La Trappe Quadrupel.
  8. Unfortunately, he didn't finish the job.
  9. Probably anticipating the blame and subsequent kick up the jacksie.
  10. At my age, and with my knees, squatting for a dump would be more likely to be permanent - I'd never be able to get up again.
  11. It was a thoroughly entertaining game. I don't give a toss that England lost, and was (silently) rooting for Afghanistan. Don't tell the Memsahib.
  12. He won't lose credibility until England start losing matches.
  13. Nowhere A migrant (Mia) wants to escape a totalitarian government and is smuggled out via a shipping container. Everything that can go wrong does. The title is quite apt.
  14. Since The Worm Has Turned closed, it's a Belgian beer desert. Can anyone enlighten me as to where there might be an oasis?
  15. I'd love us to bring Lockie Ferguson back.
  16. John Wick - Chapter 4. It's mindless tripe, just like Chapters 1 - 3. Superbly choreographed, superbly shot, stabbed, blown up, flame-throwered, run over and basically mutilated - and so many of them too. Just suspend all belief for almost three hours, grab a large bucket of popcorn and try to count the number Wick pops off. I soon lost count, but someone actually went to the trouble of counting them - 140.
  17. Bullet Train Down (Amazon) (Spoilers) It's an utterly absurd rip-off of 'Speed' (without the undoubted on-screen qualities of Messrs Hopper, Reeves, Bullock etc), badly written and with a ridiculously predictable - yet at the same time inexplicably unpredictable - plot which seems to change direction far faster than the train could ever do. Saying that, it's worth watching, just for the plot-hole spotting, incredibly poor CGI resembling stuff I was able to do a better job putting together on the Commodore 64 almost 40 years ago, and the biggest one of all - how to gain access to a computer system that you have been completely locked out of, seemingly just by walking up to the console and (I presume) saying the magic word. Maybe not the biggest, on reflection. The hero surviving a 200 mph crash which demolishes a couple of city blocks may just edge it. Derek Hales/10
  18. Removing all vetoes from Security Council members would be a necessary first step
  19. It needs a totally permanent solution - one where both sides are absolutely blameless yet tragically wiped out. Where's a giant meteorite when you really need one?
  20. Perhaps he ought to consider asking whether we need improvement from the fans? And if that touches a nerve, tough titty you whingeing lot.
  21. Often, they moan when we win. Incoming.........
  22. And why Hungary, for goodness sake. Perhaps it was a case of being in the right place at the right time? Perhaps he just went to watch (maybe Wayne Madsen is playing for Italy again), there was a braai there and someone said "Are you hungry?" "Yes". "OK, get your pads on."
  23. Why is giving the ball away (i.e. individual mistakes) the manager's fault?
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