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siftasam

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  1. And go back 10 years more to 1956! I don't need booze to work out that this England squad would beat Southgate's: Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor, Tom Finney, Stanley Matthews, Billy Wright, Johnny Haynes, Jackie Milburn, Bert Williams, Ronnie Clayton, Roger Byrne, Jimmy Dickinson, Nat Lofthouse, Don Revie, Dennis Wilshaw, Ray Wood........1956 was also the year that Bobby Charlton aged 18 scored twice in his debut for ManU and Denis Law aged 16 made his debut for Huddersfield Town) Harry Maguire and Eric Dier? Duncan Edwards would have trampled all over them!
  2. I'm prone (often!) and get over nostalgic when I drink booze. Even without it, is this England team better than the 1966 Cup winning one? (Add the ones who did NOT play in the Final: Jimmy Greaves, Peter Bonetti, Jimmy Armfield, Norman Hunter, George Eastham, Ian Callaghan, John Connelly, Terry Paine Ron Springett, Ron Flowers? And who's going to 'struggle' off in Qatar with 'heat exhaustion' or a foot/ankle injury - wear some proper bloody boots, then! - when Gerry Byrne of the 1966 squad suffered a broken collarbone in the third minute of the 1965 FA Cup Final and played on throughout the rest of the game and the whole of extra time, crossing the ball perfectly for Roger Hunt to score, and helping Liverpool winning the Cup for the first time)
  3. 1.4 billion baht to watch Maguire and Dier? Cheap at the price!
  4. For the sake of my sanity, can they please not show the England games? Watching Maguire and Dier, I'd think the picture was frozen. My TV remote doesn't have a fast forward.
  5. So funny! I am very happy to stand corrected, Appletons! (p.s. if Southgate plays a back four in Qatar, who is the central defender?) And thanks, Major Tom! You've reassured me that I'll be 'sitting in my tin can far above the world'. (p.p.s. My Thai driving licence has my full name on it. You think that might impress Security in Zurich should they query my name?)
  6. Thanks for all the replies. Thanks for the phone number mark5335. I will call them. The same thing I see has now happened with my booking on Swissair. I checked that very thoroughly before submitting it but again the email confirmation has omitted my two middle names. I will call them too. I'm developing a phobia about being refused boarding on flights! - but you guys have done your best to reassure me, thanks! But I'm having an 'Identity Crisis'(!) I'm confused. My Halifax Bank VISA card has my first Christian name and then 'S' for the first letter of my second Christian name - then the surname. My SCB card has no name on it all. Doesn't it all matter any more? Don 't I matter any more?
  7. Thanks 'eddie'. I'll do that and post their reply.
  8. I've just booked two flights on Bangkok Airways. One was Chiang Mai to BKK and on the online application I foolishly did not write my FULL correct name as it appears on my UK Passport. I omitted my two middle names. I just provided my first Christian name and my surname. Bangkok Airways did clearly state that the name must be the same as on my passport and that I could not modify the name later when the booking was reserved. What do you think please? 1. Will I be refused a Boarding Pass at the check-in counter? 2. Or will I be 'blocked' later at Security? (or wherever else I have to show the Passport and the Boarding Pass)? 3. If I Self-check in by machine and choose to scan my Passport will my correct full name be printed on my Boarding Pass? 4. Is it safer just to buy another ticket in my correct full name? Thanks for any advice.
  9. I won't mention the hospital that I attend quite regularly. It is I think very good, but it is private and expensive. I am 76 years old. After a usual thorough examination of my lower abdomen I was told that everything was OK except my gallbladder. Doctors recommended that I have it removed although there is no cancer (thank God). This was a year ago and I agreed to the operation - but Co-Vid and associated concussion from a fall prevented it. I honestly don't know whether to bother with this operation at my age. I feel no stomach or abdomen pain. The hospital told me that the cost of the operation and 2/3 nights in a good private room with food would be around 300,000 baht. I'm obviously not asking for expert medical opinion, but any thoughts and experiences would be welcome. Thank you.
  10. I have some UK stocks and shares, including Aviva and Standard Life - small holdings. Dividends paid into my UK bank. I am 76 years old. My Will leaves everything to my Thai partner. I'm presuming (?) that transferring to her (and hoping that she might understand about them) would be very difficult - if not impossible. Is it even UK legal to do so? Better for me to sell them? Oops! nearly forgot. What do you think I should do with my Bradford and Bingley shares?
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