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Thank you everyone for your kind words.

This will probably be my last post Twice recently I have come close to joining the great football forum in the sky. I have on each occasion asked people to contact the forum to say how much I enjoyed being a member. I realised that when the time came they would forget. So here goes. One...

I am reminded of Jeremy Thorpe's comment on Harold Macmillan having sacked a third of his cabinet "Greater love hath no man than that he lay down his friends to save himself." Liz Truss will probably survive in the next few weeks. However, the real test will come with a byelection in the...

I think BM has been proved right. I cannot think of a Prime Minister who lost credibility so quickly. Fox Fan criticises my use of History but I feel it useful to ask how the party of Churchill and Macmillan came up with Boris Johnson. How did the party of Wilson and Callaghan end up with Jeremy...

In retrospect my comments on Parafox post went too far and were unduly harsh. I was going to send him a private message but since my comments were made in public I think it right to apologise to Parafox in public.

I rather enjoyed Blue Maniac's response. I had made what I felt was a serious comment on Liz Truss and Blue Maniac gave what I felt was a serious response about Liz Truss. I have not asked BM or anybody else for a better response. "Condescending supercilious oneupmanship were your words and...

The discussion has got off track which is partly my fault. I was diverted by Parafox attempts at punctuation. I would have left out the passage on Sir Anthony Eden if I had realised that Foxfan finds History difficult . My point is a simple one. Since at the time of writing Liz Truss was not yet...

Sorry but I will not be taking your advice Fox Fan I will continue to read Parafox I would guess you are reacting to his adolescent language. However, I found his use of three question marks in one sentence amusing though his English teacher may feel differently. It is important to read his...

Parfox all they have in common is my contempt for them. I have contempt for Thatcher because of her divisiveness, I believe leaders should aim to bring people together. I cannot imagine Churchill. Attlee or Wilson saying that "there is no such thing as society". As for Corbyn he has consistently...

So it is goodbye Boris. For me the most contemptable leaders of recent years have been Margaret Thatcher and Jeremy Corbyn. To be fair to them neither would have partied while the country was in lockdown. There was the poignant image of the Queen sitting alone at the funeral of her husband and...

Rest in Peace Mikhail Gorbachev and thank you. . He was surely the greatest leader since Churchill. Obviously Nelson Mandela was a great leader but apartheid was already fragile and would have soon ended without him Mandela liberated one country. Gorbachev brought freedom to over a dozen...

Edmund Burke on Mrs Vardy I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of Leeds United supporters has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever

How sad to be a modern footballer. All that money and yet they will not see four of the tern best churches in the world (IMO) They will not eat bruschetta and sip frascati. Perhaps it is best they will not see that no WAG can compete with the women of Rome - second only to the women of Aylestone...

Twenty years ago I was in a Roman taxi with a friend who supported West Ham. To my friends delight the taxi driver had heard of West Ham but had not heard of Leicester City. Well the Roman taxi drivers have heard of Leicester City now. I love Rome and believe it is the greatest city in the...

Enjoy it while you can Lako. For the first time since 1968 health issues have prevented me going this season. When it is being shown I enjoy it at a friendly pub with beer and a cheese and onion cob But it is not the same. It may have been a poor game but Lako I would have loved to be there.

I think I have missed something. No doubt there is an important link between Boris and Brendan but are you arguing in favour of retaining Brendan or sacking him.

Well I did not expect such extraordinary responses. No doubt some will be bemused by Hitler and climate change being linked to Brexit. I have come across worse. A lady asked me if I realised that the EU headquarters were the same shape as Babylon . At a time like this I miss Macky. He liked to...

Those people who blame Brexit do not know what they are talking about. Those who do not blame Brexit do not know what they are talking about. You do not know what you are talking about/ I do not know what I am talking about. In 50 years time some historian will perhaps know the answer on...

"Three points shuts then up" - Brian Clough

There seems to be a conspiracy theory that the voices in the Meerkat commercials are by human actors and not real Meerkats I cannot believe the media would stoop so low.

Before getting to the point I regret that we have not heard from Jeremy Corbyn If Corbyn had become Prime Minister in 2019 he intended taking Britain out of NATO and becoming an intermediary between NATO and Putin. How much influence Mr Corbyn would have had in the present crisis I leave others...

Oh dear BN. It is wise to avoid the word "never". There were civil wars galore between 1642 and 1746 British armies fighting British armies. A king being beheaded and another forced off the throne. Figures are difficult but the percentage of the population killed between 1642 and 1646 may have...

BM you are of course correct that the right claim to put facts over feelings but do the opposite. Why do you confine it to the right? So do the left. It is called being human. I go back to my post number 172 and a far greater crisis. Those who supported James II and those who supported William...

We are getting off topic but bigotry should always be challenged. I thought the phrase "0od wonks" was merely thoughtless targeting of a group. . The phrase "grumpy old people" suggests you have learned nothing. My guess is that if somebody wrote about Asian wonks or gay wonks - grumpy...

Wonderful. It is along time since I heard people described as "a shower" Bring back the old insults. They are ne'erdowells and Softswords. Castagne is a varlet; Senucu is a cad; Westergaard (sp?) is a bounder and Bertrand is a lickspittle. We need to bring back Huth and Morgan who were true...

We drew away from home to a mid-table Premier League side. It is not so long ago that we lost at home to Millwall in a League One match. Bring back Carl Cort. Matt Mills where are you when we need you.

e So many people learned their politics under Thatcher. that there is a temptation to give her credit or blame that she did not deserve. It is true that Thatcher had no sense of community - can you imagine Churchill's reaction if somebody told him "There is no such things as society," However...

My heart goes out to those Leicester fans who went to Warsaw. I intensely dislike airports. After about 20 minutes I have had enough of laughing at foreigners. I like food to be good and eaten in comfort which does not happen on planes. They then had to return. I have never been to Warsaw...

Some interesting posts from a member I have always respected. Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are both remarkable politicians. Johnson is the only man to gave won the Mayorship of London for the Conservatives. Traditional Labour voters in the Red Wall seats wanted to have selfies taken with...

We did not take the game seriously. Any game in which Vardy and Barnes are on the bench is not being taken seriously, When Evans is not playing Mr Rodgers should be reluctant to play youngsters. Daka deserves time to adapt and this may be a season to soon for him. The same may be true of...

I have been reluctant to post on this topic since I do not understand the 21st Century. My consolation is that neither does anybody else. - there may be some child under the age of ten who will eventually understand Brexit but not for several decades. One obvious point. Millions voted to...

No. Jeff is quite right. I regularly make a fool of myself as has been noticed frequently

Is the match on tv?

If there was a chance of goal Jimmy Greaves was the most likely to score it - even more than Lineker or Dalglish He did nothing else. There were no "assists" - the concept did not exist when he was playing. If he was in a position to assist he would rather score. Jimmy Greaves had quick feet...

Pork Pie Fox is surely right that good honest Cheddar will not hurt anybody. However, they may have been searching for a cheese called Red Hot Dutch. This is a cheese that would turn Mother Teresa into a hooligan. The trouble with searches at the King Power is that they are so dull. I was...

Iheanacho is the kind of player they used to say "Can do a job". Players who "who can do a job" play in teams that are fighting relegation. The club has moved on from its days as a yoyo club. We will not become a top four club unless as players are as good as the Liverpools and Chelseas. I can...

Daniel Farke the Norwich manager claims that Norwich should have been allowed an equalizer wince the offside player was not interfering with play. I have always thought this rule was a nonsense. Bill Shankley said "If a player is not interfering with play what is he doing on the pitch." With the...

I hope Mr Rodgers is relying on medical staff rather than prayer.

RIP Don Everly. The BBC news site seems to think that the main thing about The Everly Brothers was that they influenced The Beatles which is strange, At their peak they were the most successful singing group in the world IMO Nothing then Beatles did compared with Let It Be Me or Cathy's Clown...

My favourite football pundit-presenter is Alex Scott. So I was surprised that she came under fire from Lord Digby Jones. He attacked her diction and I was reminded o the words of Edmund Burke. He was in fact writing on the death of Marie Antoinette but I am sure he would have said the same about...