No optimism here about this fixture. How could there be? Every stat imaginable suggests a comfortable away win for the champions to be. We can only hope for one of those flukey draws that sometimes occur.
Realistically, I only hope our goal difference doesn't take a beating. Defeat is almost inevitable so a good performance might help us in this desperate battle against the drop. I'm not optimistic about that either.
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Friday, 29 March 2013
Pope Francis and his own way.
No doubt His Holiness will come from in for some criticism for this public display of humility. But in washing the feet of prisoners in this way he has already shown that the world has had a timely stroke of luck in seeing this amazing man become Pope.
On this holy day we should all of us, and not just Catholics, be thankful for his presence among us.
On this holy day we should all of us, and not just Catholics, be thankful for his presence among us.
Cyprus gone. Who next?
To all intents and real world purposes, Cyprus is no longer in the Euro. It uses the Euro as it's note of currency, but it's citizens can't draw their money out of the bank when they wish, even out of the healthy banks, and they cannot move their money to another Eurozone country if they wish.
They have a disconnected Euro, a second class Euro, a Euro which will put them in permanent thrall to Germany . They will be better off in the long run, (and not that long either) if they had no Euro at all.
But who is next? It won't stop there we can all be sure of that. The Euro is wobbling badly and faces an existential crisis of just the kind that was being denied a couple of months ago. " The threat to the Euro is over" it was being said.
Slovenia, a small state recently admitted to the EU and forced to take on the Euro, could be next up for the kind of help it could really do without.
For a good view on the Euro it's worth having a look at this article from a back on form Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
They have a disconnected Euro, a second class Euro, a Euro which will put them in permanent thrall to Germany . They will be better off in the long run, (and not that long either) if they had no Euro at all.
But who is next? It won't stop there we can all be sure of that. The Euro is wobbling badly and faces an existential crisis of just the kind that was being denied a couple of months ago. " The threat to the Euro is over" it was being said.
Slovenia, a small state recently admitted to the EU and forced to take on the Euro, could be next up for the kind of help it could really do without.
For a good view on the Euro it's worth having a look at this article from a back on form Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
BBC on strike.
What a relief!
Last night on my way home I switched on the radio in the car . It was just after 5pm and the radio was tuned into Radio Four, not a station I normally listen to theses days. I was about to change it when I realised that I was NOT being subject to the normal diet of propoganda and self serving "news" output from the BBC. It turns out that the journalists were on strike for 12 hours. They were not missed, and I hope they feel free to repeat the excercise daily into eternity, although I imagine they have all clocked back in today to collect their double time and expenses.
They are complaining about jobs and pensions. Aren't we all. But if they want to try and generate a pension outside the public sector feather bed, and they think they will be better off , no one is stopping them as far as I know.
Somebody, somehow should convince these people that there really is no magic money tree to be plucked from whenever they need just a "little bit more".
Last night on my way home I switched on the radio in the car . It was just after 5pm and the radio was tuned into Radio Four, not a station I normally listen to theses days. I was about to change it when I realised that I was NOT being subject to the normal diet of propoganda and self serving "news" output from the BBC. It turns out that the journalists were on strike for 12 hours. They were not missed, and I hope they feel free to repeat the excercise daily into eternity, although I imagine they have all clocked back in today to collect their double time and expenses.
They are complaining about jobs and pensions. Aren't we all. But if they want to try and generate a pension outside the public sector feather bed, and they think they will be better off , no one is stopping them as far as I know.
Somebody, somehow should convince these people that there really is no magic money tree to be plucked from whenever they need just a "little bit more".
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