Henning Wehn
I usually listen to Fighting Talk on Saturday and today was no exception. It is hosted by one of the Colin Murray identical twins. There must be twins as they pop up everywhere.
One of the panelists is the German comedian Henning Wehn, who often plays to British stereotypes about his country. Today he came up with this joke.
Q. Why did my grandfather cross the road?
A. To invade France.
It’s funny! But I wonder what his fellow Germans would think.
How to do Service?
Some years ago, my late wife bought a large double bed from And So To Bed. Unfortunately, the decorators broke a support when they moved it recently.
So I phone the firm and asked if I could buy a new support. A pleasant guy found the order and said that the bed was now discontinued. But he would try to find one and get it sent to me.
I can’t ask for more. Especially as if necessary, I can make one of my own.
But at least I’m only small and I suspect that the bed won’t collapse with my sixty kilos in it!
Do Dogs Work on a 23 Hour Day?
My housekeeper feeds the dogs at about mid-day.
So if I go anywhere near the kitchen from about eleven in the morning at the weekend, they are there staring wistfully at me, as if they haven’t eaten for months.
Roy Keane on Ireland-France
Roy Keane was very blunt about Ireland on the BBC yesterday. There’s a video on the link, but here’s some of what he said.
France were there for the taking and Ireland didn’t do it. Same old story.
If I’d been there in the dressing room after the game, I wouldn’t be talking about the handball. I’d focus on why the defenders didn’t clear it. They should’ve cleared it.
I’d be more annoyed with my defenders and my goalkeeper than Thierry Henry. How can you let the ball bounce in your six-yard box? How can you let Thierry Henry get goal-side of you? If the ball goes into the six-yard box, where the hell is my goalkeeper?
He has a point, but there is one point that no-one has made in the media.
I play real tennis a lot and like anybody who plays these sort of games, you play to where the ball lands. So if you know if an opponent’s serve is going out, you never run for it. It’s the same in football. Does a goalkeeper jump if the ball is going two metres over the bar? Of course not!
I have not seen a shot of the face of Shay Given, but did he think that Thierry Henry’s handball was so blatant that the referee would blow his whistle? So he didn’t go for the ball as it came back across the goal.
So perhaps the real fault of the Irish team was that they didn’t play to the whistle.
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