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Honest to God I checked before I decided to post that but by the time I'd finished googling and failing to find if the bloody story was true you'd snuck in there.
(Once heard a radio programme about a Canadian woman who in the 30s became famous for allegedly being the illegitimate daughter of an exiled French duke called, I'm pretty sure, Henry, and who died in London in the 70s in poverty after, I think, several stays in mental hospitals. Instantly made me wonder of she was the inspiration for the Duch of the Terrace who says she's Henry's kid.)
Uncle Fred is probably my favourite Wodehouse too, though I have a soft spot for some of his earlier books where little hints of realism creep in.
I've just worked out that I first encountered Wodehouse and Milligan's war memoirs 50 odd years ago, Hitchkikers' Guide a couple of years later, and Pratchett about 40 years ago. Fortunately Wodehouse and Pratchett wrote so much that although they both dropped off towards the end I can keep reading them even though I know the jokes just for the comfort of going into their worlds.
Last guy I came across that made me laugh until it hurts (some years ago now) was Robert Rankin (trigger warning: Brentford references) but I'm not sure they will bear a second reading.
I really like Kolli, he seemed a bright spark in a very dark time when he first came through. I also think a mistake was made in not playing him alongside Kone when Burrell was rested/unavailable.
But with Chair coming back to fitness, Poku getting the same way, and not many other injury problems opportunities for Kolli are going to be limited and a loan I think is the way to go (so long as its to the right club.)
My memory was that he wasn't a fan but his son wanted to go to football and he thought it better for the lad to go to a "proper" club rather than a Premiership side.
Might all be bollocks but if true it's pretty sound thinking IMO.
I've no time for the bloke's politics, but it's possible for people you disagree with to still be decent fathers.
Our tendency to go on long losing (and occasionally winning) streaks makes me nervous after every defeat and I hate international breaks precisely because they break up our rhythm when we're playing well, so after Millwall I'm just bloody glad to get an away win.
Throw in the continued goal-scoring ability of our 1st choice strikers, Madsen looking like an all-round championship midfield lynchpin, and Chair's ability to make the team tick and there's bags of potential for us.
Clean sheet for Nardi and a slightly makeshift defence also positives for me.
Really want to see much better from Varane, Dembele, maybe Smyth (cutting him a bit of slack in recognition of past service) but that's partly because there's evidence they've got it in them. A fit Poku would be lovely too.
Not a match to tell the grandkids about but lots of signs we're on the right track IMO. Starting to get excited about this team, and I bloody wasn't in August.
I used to work with a dyed-in-the-wool, family had been going for generations, Everton fan and he was very explicit about the rampant racism in both Merseyside clubs. Blamed the refusal of Everton to recruit youth players from postcodes with high ethnic minority populations for a lot of the decline of the club (of course, Les Ferdinand can tell a story for two about that sort of thing, too.)
For a scouser, he was unusually critical of the whole city - called it "self-pity city" and said that the whole 80s depression thing was skating over the extent to which the city had largely grown up through doing very nicely in importing stuff made by slaves (even after they stopped exporting slaves) and when prosperous had looked down on Manchester for actually making stuff.
I think both the OP by TeddeRs and Robith have got it right - in England football is largely apolitical.
Some clubs are very embedded in their local communities, which I suppose is consistent with left-wing ideas, but you have to be one of those "everything is political" people to infer that makes them left-wing.
In England we don't have the sectarian Rangers v Celtic thing or the Northern Ireland variants, we don't have anything like the thing in Spain where Real were Franco's lot or in Italy where Lazio were/are pretty much Fascist.
I think it's why Millwall look slightly pathetic IMO trying to make a big deal out of it.
Postcodes are all Surrey, though - it's all SM-something or other, not London SW.
(Also, no tube, so by definition Not Proper London in my biased opinion - at least that was the line I took when I was doing missionary work among the benighted heathens of Mitcham, all too many of them North Battersea fans. The Palace fans were mainly human, though.)
"Two trucks, overtaking, A1 past Scotch corner, forever and ever, and ever and ever, and ever and ever more. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Gear change. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"
I'm always worried after International Breaks - we seem to be poor at picking up after them. And Millwall would not have been the side I'd have chosen to play right now given a choice.
I still don't know how to assess that result. We have form for going on slides and there are tough matches ahead. On the other hand, there was some good stuff on display.
Going to find out a lot about this side and the boss over the next month IMO.
I've given up complaining about lack of warm-up matches, but it doesn't make it any less true.
(I also think it'd be a great way to support 1st Class cricket in the host country.)
On the England batting: I really feel Root has a point to prove in Oz and, given his form over the last year or two, this could be his time - which could be decisive.
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