4 up front from corners is the new 11 men in the box. New Chelsea manager does it too.

Trigg - was that John Galt?

Brilliant by Napoli to leave 4 players at half way when Arsenal got a corner. No pre-rehearsed routines would work for Arsenal

Yeah debt man comes running if he don’t get his money.

DO - maybe I should take the risk…

Just researching the rules on how much you can spend on players. Meta AI says player spend must not be more than 50% of turnover, down from 60% last season. Wasn"t aware of the change, but that should work in our favour by limiting losses incurred by our rivals.

Agreed Spit - if you’re lucky/rich enough to have a squad brimming with internationals then you can handle a game or two without them.

Or if either side has one, then it can be postponed perhaps?

Should be like cricket, carry on regardless, no postponement for call ups,especially at our low level

What will happen is that Cambridge will get no call-ups and we'll have Hippo and (now I've said he won't) Jonno called-up, but won't be able to get a postponement.

I would be surprised if Jonno gets a call given that he didn't even make the bench against Luxembourg last time round when he was in the squad

RK, Johnno might get called up by NI and Richards by Jamaica.

Looking at the Camb starting line up from last game; nine english, one irish and one albanian. Only checked the latter and his recent playing record doesn't show any international appearances. We have ten english plus the Hippo, so should be ok

A4e - not sure either Dons have enough internationals to postpone the match.

I hadn't realised I was deaf until Covid. Hadn't realised the extent to which I lip-read. Add to that having glasses because of cataracts which steamed up all the time because of the bloody mask! Bad times.

Trigg - at least one of us will be there…

Yeah that sucks. The mother in law is also pretty good at lip reading and at covering it up when she hasn’t heard or lip-read what someone’s said. It’s quite a skill she’s developed over twenty years or so.

Don't blame me if that song sounds crap. What do you expect from a deafy.

Ooh I hope you’re right A4e cos I can’t go to the Cambridge game but could if it’s a wet cold January Tuesday night game.

Red Kite is right. My mother in law is hearing-impaired and if I want her to hear me I have to talk in a very deep voice. It’s great fun on public transport.

I’m not buying a Cambridge ticket - as it’s an international weekend, there’s every chance it’ll get moved to a wet cold Tuesday in January….

Tell me about it, RK. Would you like to hear a song I wrote, about being deaf? You can say no if you like, but I'll post the link anyways :) [Link]

CW - starting a tennis match at 11pm is bonkers, there’s no way a player can adjust easily to that. I think Alcaraz is only just returning from injury, so that could explain the defeat in part - I’d imagine he will be back winning Wimbledon next summer, or at least making it to the final…

Hearing loss is more about being unable to detect sound at either end of the frequency range rather than volume per se. It's amazing that most people don't get this so end up shouting at the (perceived) deaf person, just making it worse !

That's a bluetooth enables aid which you can't get on the NHS. They cost in the region of £3,000 one-off, don't know what the ongoing costs are (insurance, etc)