Time for change in Football world?

I'm not a Chelsea fan, far from it, but after watching the appalling decisions made by the referee last night in the Champion's League semi-final against Barcelona, I did feel a bit sorry for them.

These glaring errors can not go on. I do feel sorry for referees a lot of the time, who have to make a difficult call in a split second, sometimes with limited viewpoint. The problem is, with big screens in stadiums and the watching TV audience it is now very obvious, very quickly when a major mistake has been made. This damages confidence in the referees and in the bigger picture harming football.

So why not put some level of TV review in place, but limit it as they do in the NFL. GIve each team the right to 2 or 3 reviews only per game - so it is te mangers decision if he thinks there has been a major error to call for the 4th official to review the TV coverage. A limited number of reviews will not slow the gamne down too much and I believe will result in fairer results and more confidence in the referees.

So come on FA, UEFA and FIFA, time to act

Saw at Thorpe Park

This is why we are here :)

Waiting to go on Saw at Thorpe Park with Maria and Sam. Only another 90 minutes to go.

At Thorpe Park today for Hannah's birthday and decided to queue for the big new side Saw.

Last stupid picture me the year

I spotted these today in a cookshop, "Onion glasses" How sad is that?

Amazon starting early for Next Christmas?

I've heard of starting early shopping for Christmas but this is ridiculous! An email received this morning with gift ideas and stocking fillers...

Classic Road sign error - the problems of dual languages

I heard about this story on BBC radio 4, then found a picture of it on BBC News website

I sometimes need translations at work and we always struggle with agencies getting it mostly right. But in this example, the welsh on the sign reads:

"I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated"

Lesson to be learnt - always get translations double-checked

New addition to the family

We've been talking about it for a while, but last Sunday Theresa and I met Harold, a Border Collie cross. we thought long and hard about it and have decided to give him a new home from next week.

M4 stationary between Junction 6 and 5 Eastbound

Not the usual view of the motorway at night obviously been a oilor incident somewhere ahead and we have been stationary for about an hour so far