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Reply | Most OVER/UNDER RATED Band/Solo Artist /Football Team
at 15:34 7 Sep 2026
For under-rated I would nominate the rock/blues singer PAUL RODGERS. The honey-and-gravel voice of Free and Bad Company, he spent many decades playing with, and being courted by, rock royalty. He finally succumbed to Queen, but sensibly insisted on being billed separately (lest people think he was trying to replace Freddy Mercury). He's durable too, having survived two strokes. |
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Reply | Old Oak Common
at 15:48 17 Aug 2026
Before we beat ourselves up too severely, remember those fine and thrifty engineers the Scots, who built the Parliament Building and Edinburgh Tram, both many times over budget and vastly late. Even the efficient Germans were nine years late and three times over budget with the new Berlin airport, and the centre of Stuttgart has been a construction site since 2010 while they build a new transport hub now estimated to open in 2031! |
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Reply | The premiership w@nkfest
at 12:02 14 Aug 2026
I was in Edinburgh on Wednesday and saw loads of Toon shirts. Turns out they were playing Everton in a friendly at Murrayfield. What does that say about the standard of the local product? |
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Reply | More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football
at 10:35 30 Jul 2026
Infantino may have the morals of Joffrey Baratheon but he's not stupid. He has offered a bribe (he calls it a "consultation") to the 211 members of FIFA to support his proposals. $20 mill now and another $20 mill when the proposals go through. To the majority of the 211 members this represents more than their annual budget. To a European club it might pay for an average midfielder. Infantino will win that round, and he knows it.
If UEFA makes a stand, they HAVE to follow through. That means breaking away from FIFA if they say they will. I personally doubt they have the resolve to do it. Hope I'm wrong.
In any case I'd prefer to continue supporting a team whose ground I can walk to, playing in a halfway honest competition, to a periodic bloated cash-fuelled dissipation designed to enrich a tiny group of oligarchs and their families. |
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Reply | Kevin keegan rip
at 17:54 20 Jul 2026
Met him once at Dublin Airport. He was on his way back from a race meeting where one of his horses was running. I asked him for an autograph and we chatted while waiting for the flight to be called. A modest and decent man. Also he was responsible for the unexpected popularity of the name "Kevin" in 1980s Germany. |
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Reply | Fine in Bloemfontein road
at 17:23 7 Jul 2026
That's a bugger Eric. The problem is not Bloemfontein Road but Sawley Road, which is restricted to H&F residents or holders of other exemptions. The council says 80% of cars making that turn are rat running from the A40 to the Uxbridge Road and the local residents (the council claims) want less traffic. |
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Reply | The ultimate World Cup thread
at 17:08 7 Jul 2026
I'm with Numpty on this. Half my family hail from the USA and I have nothing but good memories of youthful holidays there - the culture and the people and the music. But it HAS changed. DJT is a malevolent and vengeful man who has wilfully changed public administration, government, the judiciary and the media to impose his own monochrome uniformity, which it is dangerous to question.
Dylan foresaw this polarisation In "Desolation Row" when he wrote:
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
“Which Side Are You On?”.
We all know decent, fair-minded Americans, but they are now in the minority. The majority elected Trump. Twice. |
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Reply | Best footballer's name
at 17:53 23 Jun 2026
Ever since I first heard of the Leicester midfielder Ndidi I hoped his first name might be "Yes". It isn't. |
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Reply | Count Binface interview on Sky News. 😂😂
at 11:56 22 Jun 2026
I too felt sad watching Starmer's speech. An honourable man who got pushed out for being too beige. Beige is good in a prime minister. But in this media-dominated age you have to be Mr Toad, Billy Bunter or Arthur Daly to "cut through". |
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Reply | Sterling
at 12:35 31 May 2026
This.
How many vastly talented but terminally stupid sports people has this happened to? Tiger Woods is the perfect example. |
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Reply | Summer transfer rumours 2026
at 15:19 29 May 2026
The American Forces radio station in Germany used to broadcast a mid-day programme they called (with complete disregard for their hosts) "Luncheon in Muncheon" [Post edited 29 May 17:53]
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Reply | MY ENGLAND - The Southgate Drama Serialisation
at 14:21 25 May 2026
It worked on stage and based on last night's part 1, will do so again on TV. They have found actors with a remarkable resemblance to Harry Maguire, Eric Dier and Harry Kane. (Incidentally how about Kane finishing a double-winning season by scoring a hat trick in the DFB-Pokal. That man is a hero in Bavaria). |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 11:05 15 May 2026
Legends is excellent. Dealers vs Importers vs Customs. Actually Scousers vs Turks vs Tom Burke (Cormoran Strike) who tells everyone else he doesn't give a fúck. Just the final episode left and I'm worried about what's likely to happen to him. |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 11:32 2 Jan 2026
It's always a worry when you see arguments break out between our own players on the pitch. Hands thrown in the air, exasperation, accusatory pointing, angry shouts. Everyone looked tired, it was New Years Day (you think they don't celebrate NYE in Norwich?), but we are a team and for our survival we need to play like one.
That is JS's problem and he needs to deal with that first. |
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Reply | FA Cup Draw Monday Evening
at 12:57 9 Dec 2025
Within minutes of the draw I heard this fixture being referred to as the "Westfield Derby"  |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 12:49 11 Nov 2025
Saw the first episode of Pluribus on Apple TV last night. A stunning sci-fi thriller created by Vince Gilligan and starring the peerless Rhea Seehorn. The Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul pedigree is irresistable. [Post edited 11 Nov 2025 13:07]
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