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I had a long exchange on this subject with a Bury fan this week. I had a good old foul-mouthed rant about the evils of Blattini, Sky, EPL and the fact that modern football is just a mechanism for scooping up small amounts of money from a huge number of people in order to put huge amounts of...

Me too. (ha ha) The worrying thing is that Chomsky, David Crystal and Anthony Burgess are all old hat these days. Can't be arsed to get my head around the latest theories. God bless Foucault and Tony Bloom.

Forgive me ... thought I was saying just that. But I also thought I had sneered at traditional grammar by recklessly splitting an infinitive. And I continue to play fast and loose by shamelessly starting sentences with conjunctions. Although we don't need to genuflect in Chomsky's direction to...

It could reasonably be argued that 'less' is an adverb in this context. That is, the team has gone about its scoring activities with less proficiency this year which would make "we have scored less" correct. I appreciate there is a counter argument that [goals] is elided in Biscuit's sentence...