[theo_luddite]

Michael Duff has been given a one match touchline ban so will watch this one from the stands.

If you think we've a pair of coaches who've been naughty boys, just spotted this one in The Graun.

"As much as I enjoyed the weekend’s international action, nothing eclipsed the Italian lower-leagues match between Pontassieve and Subbiano, who escaped with a 0-0 draw after their coach came on the pitch and took out the opposition’s striker as he led a counterattack. Impressively, Subbiano followed this up with a statement, declaring: ‘Certain incidents should never happen, and we surely are the first ones to be upset.’ It doesn’t always pan out so well when this kind of thing happens”

Good luck with the glamping. The coldest and possibly wettest week of our, er, so called summer is forecast. Still, with a bit of luck the mud will only be walking boots ankle deep and not full blown over the top of your wellies deep. Half a month's worth of rain in Shrewsbury yesterday. Thank f@%k they copped for it all. We only got persistently falling heavy drizzle as a result. In two widely seperate hours when the sun shone I managed to paint the front of my shed and then later BBQ my tea. My washing on the other hand had just been nicely pegged out when ...... . At least the glamping pods don't leak (much) or get blown down in a strong breeze. Unlike what happened to my gazebo the other week.

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3 mins in and Wales are 0-2 up. It can't be raining as much where you are as it is where Wales are Snoots. Then again - the Welsh are used to it. I think it's unfair on the home side to be expected to play in these conditions.

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In other news, it's been raining underwear in China.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/articl...ud-seeding

Pronounced ChongChing in case you are wondering. When I was over there on business a few years back we spent two days in what I already knew was a big city (I was told around the the size of Shanghai/Bejing, actually it's bigger). On the 3rd morning we went on a 2 hour drive through the mountains to what I assumed was another Town/City. After two meetings and in the car for another long drive I looked properly at the business cards that I'd been handed so I could write up my notes. We were still in Chongquing. My Chinese hosts couldn't believe that I didn't understand they had cities damn near the size of about the upper third of our country.

https://www.google.com/search?q=largest+...e&ie=UTF-8

Other Wiki references say it's about the size of Austria