Changing subject, all WC playoffs tonight are live on Amazon Prime exc Sweden v Poland which is on ITV X ko 7:45pm

Kinda on theme, dosed up with meds having had an infection after my tonsils were removed, I thought the 9/11 coverage was a fantastic movie, until my wife pointed out that I was watching the news.

I was once on a flight back to London from Australia and in the lounge there was a TV just before we boarded saying an Air France plane had gone missing over Brazil

FCA have said average payout on the car financing "scandal" will be £829 with total payout from lenders £7.5bn, most of which, i guess has already been provided for in their accounts ...

This World Cup, as things stand, is completely sullied in my eyes I really the football on the pitch delivers above and beyond all the off-pitch madness going on. I also get the sense, given these recent friendlies, that England are going to go out like a damp squib because our players are fatigued.

I was watching Alive on my iPad on a flight once and during the crash scene the lady sat behind me across the aisle asked if I would turn it off.

Should we allow FIFA to run a World Cup if they awarded Trump their Fifa Peace prize

I suspect most of us have known people who were killed or had relatives killed in air crashes or near misses. Someone who I knew lost their father in the 1972 Heathrow crash. I flew to Munich two days later and the cabin crew were making sure nobody had a newspaper with pictures of the crash out before we took off.

RK-someone I went to school with’s mum was on that flight

Talking to a guy in the pub last night who I've known for some time and he says he was bumped off this flight in 1974 [Link]

Never offside… :)

Maybe not Leigh, as there's always the "butterfly effect" to take into considerstion ..

Having watched the footage of the home playoff match, Neufville might have been a tad offside. Harbottle in the first leg wasn't so we went through anyway.

CW- it wasn’t.

Lacking Wolfpack merch could be argued another way.

There hasn't been any wolfpack merchandise has there? I'd draw the line at that but a bunch of players can call themselves whatever they like.

Can understand your reticence KT2 but personally I don’t compare or consider the “Wolfpack” nomenclature with the Crazy Gang. To such extent that I don’t think that’s what anyone there at the time or at the club now is trying to do

Recently I keep hearing references to the previous AFCW side to achieve promotion to L1 being known as the 'Wolf Pack'. Is it me or is that an unbearably pony attempt at a crazy gang throwback. Sorry just can't get behind it. Feels like something that would have happened if Mark Robinson got a job at LA Galaxy. Go Wolfpack.

Josh Neufville was in the away end at Stockport apparently, my mate Jim pointed out his classic goal in the Notts County play off semi was offside

Could well be that, CW as I seem to remember Nobby Stiles being in the same photo? Long time ago though so memories are warped.

Did you ever get an opinion from him on the Cup Final penalty though Trigger?

Nicholls, who was a Football League referee from 1966 to 1973, was also involved in another memorable occasion at Home Park. He was one of the linesmen when a Football League representative side beat their Irish League counterparts 12-0 in September 1966. Seven members of England's 1966 World Cup winning team were involved in that match, which attracted a crowd of more than 35,000

Could have been that. Could have been lost in translation. Could have been he lied but I have a watch!

Looking back at Real Madrid European games to that time the only one reffed by an English ref(with presumably English linos)was the March 1968 quarter final against Sparta Prague, Real lost to Man U in the semis

Would it have been neutral venues back in them there days?