HawkMan

If results stay the same, Slovakia.

Just to point out, you're cheering Georgia, but don't like the format. Without this format Georgia winning wouldn't mean anything if Turkey win. This format does encourage more excitement in last group games. It does also encourage boring draws, last night for example, but I'd rather keep the format.

Hahaha.....I'm now switching over to Portugal Georgia, game ruined with sending off. If Portugal equalise I'll switch back.

Sticking with Czechia game for now, they showed Georgia goal , so while there's double jeopardy here, I'll stick with it. If Czechia score Turkey are out if Georgia win. Re- assess at half time.

Okay decision time again, what to watch? Portugal are through as group winners, it's unlikely Georgia will win, so I'll start with Czechia and Turkey. If I hear Georgia are winning I'll switch over.

Don't think you can look at other groups like that. Switzerland in qualifiers got 17 pts, Finland and Kazakhstan got 18 and didn't make it. You just have to do what you have to in your own group.

Alternatively, 24 teams, 6 groups of 4, top 2 through to round 2. Second round, 4 groups of 3 , winners through to semis.

Slovakia 1 Romania 1 From what I can gather I made the right choice of game. Plenty of endeavour, Slovakia better team, and possibly England's next opponent depending on group F tonight. Tottenham' s Dragusin had good game, and yes partly why I chose to watch this game.

Thunderstorm hits Slovakia Romania game, torrential rain. One mistake on the pitch and loser will be out, Slovakia on top.

BBC do predictably put the " big" teams on BBC 1 , but I've enjoyed the other games. Austria v Netherlands was great, and Slovakia v Romania I'm really enjoying so far. The only downer is Dion Dublin on commentary.

Slovakia 1-0, well deserved lead, now expect fireworks from Romania, good start to game.

Toughest decision for me, which game to watch from Group E. Been lucky with my choices so far, but this one is tricky. Think I'll start with Slovakia/ Romania and see what transpires.

Haven't checked if this is true,but apparently this is the first time since simultaneous final group games were introduced that both games finished 0-0. Last time it happened in a major tournament was WC 1962, and England were involved! Hungary 0 Argentina 0 England 0 Bulgaria 0

New football season will see the introduction of new EFL tv deal , it seems too good to be true. If you have skysports the it's all free on sky sports plus. IMG are the broadcast partners, and the operation is massive, giving a bit of perspective to the RL operation. Which IMO means IMG will persevere with RL whatever happens, its not something that'll make or break IMG either way. This does show what IMG can do for RL given the chance. The 1,059 matches will be split across the branded Sky Linear Channel (main channel) and the new Sky Sports+ offer More than 193 matches will be available on Sky Sports main channel: 118 Sky Bet Championship matches 19 Sky Bet League One matches 19 Sky Bet League Two matches 15 Sky Bet EFL Play-Off matches 19 Carabao Cup matches 3 Bristol Street Motors Trophy matches A further 866 fixtures will be available on Sky Sports+, including: 210 Sky Bet Championship matches 229 Sky Bet League One matches 229 Sky Bet League Two matches 74 Carabao Cup matches 124 Bristol Street Motors Trophy matches All other fixtures are protected by Article 48 and are not broadcast into the UK Announced in April, EFL production partner IMG will produce 866 matches per season for Sky Sports’ streaming service with the remaining balance produced by Sky for their main channel output IMG will produce a further 832 matches (1,698 in total) which will be utilised outside of the UK by EFL rights holders Pitch International and Relevent Sports, who will distribute the premium broadcast feed across the world Fans will see increased camera setups across every division with six cameras in the Championship, four cameras in League One and two cameras in League Two – up from four, one and one cameras respectively. Carabao Cup matches will feature a minimum of two cameras plus an up-scaled four-camera set-up for later rounds of the competition. All Bristol Street Motors Trophy matches will remain available to view with a one camera setup until the semi-finals

Slovenia through in 3rd because of Hungary and Croatia's worse 3rd place record. But why are Denmark ahead of Slovenia in group, both identical records, three draws, two 1-1s and a 0-0, and head to head 1-1

I worked nights for 8 years, it was really weird working in darkness at the start of the shift and end up in daylight. Much preferred winter, even though except 2pm to about 4.30pm ( slept 8 to 2), spent six months living in darkness.

Solstice is June 21 , today, nights start to "draw in" from Saturday 22nd tomorrow.

Watched every game so far, all enjoyable, except two games. Yep, the England ones, that says something. Genuinely loved it all except England games, slow and boring. There's only a limited number of reasons for England's poor performances. Either, 1) Southgate's tactics are all wrong and he's incompetent, 2) the other teams tactics are masterful and have negated England's tactics, or 3) the players are not as good as we think. Kane has performed brilliantly at Spurs and now Munich, he is class, Bellingham has been great at Dortmund and now Madrid, class, the others I don't know, they've only performed in the EPL, surrounded by class overseas players. Foden for example is great at Man City, with top players around him, creating space for him with clever runs so he can weave his magic. IMO the players are not as good as we supposed, except the above mentioned Kane , Bellingham and Pickford I think is good, he seriously helped Everton stay up. Eze and Palmer definitely ones for the future, Saka and Foden , good with right players around them. So is it 1, 2,or 3? Perhaps all 3 , Southgate tactically isn't a genius and responds far too slowly to reverses on the pitch, the other coaches know England's predictability and counter it and the players aren't world beaters despite what the media may think.

S9 E4 CTRL/ ALT/ ESC A family of four visit an escape room for a bit of adventure and family bonding. The guide tells them this room is the cellar of a house belonging to Dr Death, the fictional psycho the family need to outwit to escape. As usual in escape rooms clues are to be found within, and to add to the drama the guide informs them that Dr Death might return. The father Jason gets chained to the bed and first up the two daughters and wife Lynne have to look for clues to get him released. A filing cabinet is revealed to be a secret entrance to a passageway the girls and wife crawl through to get to a room where a key is found but is padlocked. Without going over every clue suffice to say the key is recovered. Now a possible twist in the tale could be Dr Death is real and the escape room is actually a trap. So when the girls start screaming and a masked figure enters carrying a large hammer it certainly seems this is indeed the twist. But the real twist is revealed when we discover something else entirely , Jason certainly is trapped but not in an escape room. S9 E5 CURSE OF THE NINTH Set in Edwardian times, piano tuner Jonah Quigley arrives at a large mansion for a job. He discovers the piano he is to tune belonged to now deceased composer Nathaniel Burnham, a hero of his, someone whose music Quigley much admires. In the house is the widow Lillian, lawyer friend Dickie and maid Devonshire. Lillian reveals why her husband died, it was because of a curse. The completion of the 9th symphony is supposed to be unlucky in the extreme and brings about death. Beethoven and Mahler both died after completing their 9th symphonies, and Lillian recalls how her husband, afraid to complete his 9th , went insane and shot himself. While tuning the piano Quigley discovers a hidden sheet of music in the piano, part of Burnham's unfinished 9th. Lillian reveals her husband requested if he died before finishing his 9th that the unfinished work be buried with him, and this was carried out. However scheming maid Devonshire persuades Quigley to dig up the grave and retrieve the manuscript. Quigley does this, desperate for the unfinished work, and meets Devonshire at the grave. An argument ensues regarding how to monetize their find, and Quigley kills her and throws her in the grave. But Lillian and Dickie the family lawyer foresaw this and are prepared to blackmail Quigley, unless he himself completes the work, and risks the Curse Of The Ninth. S9 E6 THE FINAL EVER EPISODE " PLODDING ON" Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton went to great lengths to keep this finale a secret until it was transmitted, and in that spirit I'll not reveal the plot to this last episode of Inside No. 9.

COMPLETING MY REVIEW OF INSIDE NUMBER 9 (FINAL SERIES) S9 E1 BOO TO A GOOSE Passengers are stuck on a subway train in a tunnel. Revelations of the passengers come to the fore as they wait for the train to start up again. Power is lost for a moment and in the darkness someone steals a nurse's purse. A geography teacher takes charge and becomes a bit of a bully as he tries to search the bags of a apparently mentally distressed passenger who has a paranoid personality and believes the government are spying on him. A beggar trapped here also comes under suspicion...obviously. The rest of the passengers split into two groups, defending the suspects or siding with the teacher. When the train eventually restarts and arrives at the next station, the replacement service is ready, a very unexpected replacement service, an unexpected twist. S9 E2 THE TROLLEY PROBLEM Difficult to go too much into this without massive spoilers. Drew is a troubled guy standing on a bridge preparing to jump. Therapist Blake rescues him and takes him home. This turns out to be a bad move as Drew slips pills into Blake's tea and Blake falls asleep while listening to Drew's problems. Blake wakes to find himself tied up and Drew reveals exactly who he is and the revenge he is after. A previous therapy session comes back to haunt Blake. Drew's revenge is his twisted version of The Trolley Problem. (The Trolley Problem ; a runaway railway Trolley is heading towards 6 people trapped on the track, you are trackside and can divert the trolley to another track where it will kill just one person. What do you do? Kill 1 or 6 ? Choose to divert the train and you make a decision to kill someone or do nothing and 6 die, although it's not your fault this problem arose). S9 E3 MULBERRY CLOSE An episode viewed entirely through a doorbell cam. Nosey neighbours trying to find out what's up with the new people at 9 Mulberry Close. New residents Damon and Val seem strange, devil worshippers perhaps, they certainly seem to indulge big time in Halloween. Val goes missing, has Damon killed her after neighbours spot him dragging heavy suitcases to his car. Has he cut her body up ? And what's happened to Popcorn, the neighbour's dog that has gone missing.

Bearing in mind the VAR controversies if we had a separate timekeeper, with the clock in full view of everyone I suspect they'd be more arguing about the difference in how time is added on from one match to the next. Football is such a fluid game with subjective decisions as part of the laws , they'll never be uniformity in how referees manage the game. This generates talking points that are part of its popularity.

That's the difference between competition rules and laws of the game. There's an amount of leeway for difference comps to play with how time is added on. PL and EFL add on a lot more than UEFA do for their comps. As for a stop the clock function, there is one, the clock is on the referee's wrist, it just isn't connected to the off the field stuff.

Episode guide to Inside Number 9 on my Cult TV thread. Pages 14 and 15 of thread.

Here is an index of this thread and which page you can find each series covered. Doomwatch-page 1 1990- page 1 UFO - pages 2-3 The Prisoner- pages 3-4 Star Cops- page 4 Moonbase 3- page 4 Space 1999- pages 5-6 The Sandbaggers- pages 6-8 Blake's 7- pages 8-9 Who Pays The Ferryman- page 10 The Avengers/New Avengers- pages 10- 13 Inside No. 9 - pages 14-15 Randall and Hopkirk- pages 15-16 The Persuaders- page 16 The Invaders- page 16-17 Red Dwarf - pages 17- 19 Return Of The Saint - pages 19- 20 The Mighty Boosh - page 20 Doctor Who- pages 20- 23 Survivors- pages 23-24 LATEST- Seinfeld - page 24 The Crezz- pages 24- 25 The Guardians- page 25 Thread for Brian Clemens Thriller 1973-76 All episodes covered Classic Children's TV Thread.