Three Lions, four goals

Englan did well, just finishing their game against Greece, with a 4-0 victory. Greece were all over the place in the first half, but came out for the second like European Champions, albeit of the Greek variety. England took their foot off the accelerator for the last 45 minutes, but McClaren will be happy enough as will his new assistant Terry Venables. At the start of the second half, the cameras showed us Venable running along the touchline to the dugout while glancing over his shoulder - maybe he saw a bunch of Palace fans. One of the commentators, Jonathan Greening, kept saying "no cricket" and for a while I thought he was referring to high-minded ideas regarding fair play (it's just not cricket), but I gained access into his accent shortly and he was actually saying "no free-kick." Wonderful things, dialects.
John Reid continues to be a pilchard in his tenure as Home Secretary. It's all very well for a minister who gets taken around in private jets and chauffeur-driven cars to say airline passengers must put up with extra endurance, but when was the last time he had to wait around for hours or had his flight cancelled. Saying that delays and cancellations are preferable to death is correct but glib, offering no insight into if the government even cares about anything else over than covering it's own back. Death is not preferable, but that doesn't deal with passenger concerns here and now, considering the latest incident seems now to have been blown open. It sums up the entire government attitude to transport. So, "the terrorist threat is evolving"; does that mean passengers have to evolve too to cope with new levels of endurance? Highly likely. There has been a whole raft of new measures that have been introduced gradually to forestall passenger revolt. It seems there will be a whole load more. Apart from for ministers, that is.