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Will never forget Wilco bringing Bill Fay out to sing Be Not So Fearful in London. Felt like the absolute bullseye of my musical world. And then this beautiful reciprocal cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOLK...

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Have read over 800 pages of Clinton Heylin's double-biography of Bob Dylan and am still less than halfway through the man's life. Heroic commitment on my part to at some point gaining some insight into an impenetrable human

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When I first heard The Jam, I thought it was the greatest sound three people could possibly make, and it still is. RIP

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At least there is one more excruciating football experience this season than supporting Spurs

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If I didn’t support Spurs, then watching two teams full of expensive players all playing so badly would be pretty funny

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For longer than I'd care to admit, when I heard people say "parameters", I thought they were just mispronouncing "perimeters"

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Spent most of the Man City-Madrid game last night trying to think of a workable joke involving "Jude" and "done because we are Tchouameni". Sadly, no such joke exists

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Once, the clock stopped for 20 minutes, then started moving again, ticking quickly forward, but kept moving past the current time. We laughed, & the teacher joined in, but then, suddenly, ripped the clock off the wall, threw it in the bin, and shouted "Why don't you look at the clock in the bin?"

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Genuinely, I think if a football manager employed the cast iron unbreakable rule of never making unforced substitutions when winning, it would be a revolutionary success

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Has anyone ever been worse at sport than Jim Ratcliffe? Say what you like about all the other terrible billionaire owners, i don't remember anyone ever leaving such a trail of failure and ill will over quite so many different sports, so quickly. Staggering achievement

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Scathing…

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All the central defenders in park football in the early 2000s looked like 90s Marti Pellow

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Hang on, it's 'Temporary Like Achilles', not 'Temporarily Like Achilles'? I've been misreading it and saying it wrong for 30 years...

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I was interested to learn that traditional Wiener Schnitzel was banned in Austria for several years in the 1990s, and was only reintroduced for a state visit by Dame Vera Lynn ...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Singing "Love it if we beat them" in the voice of Kevin Keegan to the tune of 'Love It If We Made It'...

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He makes himself big

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This is a great song www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndse...

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Rashid should bat 7 in T20s. Number of collapses he’s had to stop, down the years

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When you look at the globally most streamed songs of all time, it's strangely heartening how many of them are slightly tepid British man singer-songwriter 'sounds like it was Number 9 for for a week in 2007' type stuff ...

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Aah, this band. pitchfork.com/news/rilo-ki...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Feel a bit sad about Postecoglou at Spurs. Thought it would work, in as much as it would be more fun. But he seems miserable, and they all seem miserable. And all these games are being lost by one goal. That can only be a massive failure of game management, whatever the injury or squad situation

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Why is there no one to support in men's tennis anymore? 15 years ago you could support everyone - Federer, Murray, Gasquet, Nishikori, Lopez, Tsonga, all the greats and all the also-rans ... they were all brilliant and fun. Now, it's just villainy and indifference ...

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Oh man, Garth Hudson. And all five of these magnificent musicians gone. The absolute band www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKu0...

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When I first heard about 'A Complete Unknown', I thought it had about 5% chance of avoiding the traps and tropes that would make it a bad film, but I'd say it managed to mainly avoid them, and I hardly shook my head and tutted at all ... so it's a thumbs up from me

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Starting to think Southampton won't make it this season ...

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Well, i've remembered it was 40 years to the day tomorrow, since, as a 6-year old, i was taken for a friend's birthday to see 'Dune' at a cinema - i think the parents must have thought it would be like Star Wars ... what a way to haunt 6 and 7 year olds for life!

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Well, I suppose some people are going to post the scene behind the diner in 'Mulholland Drive' and, well ... even just thinking about it ...

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"... and i'm just one too many Martins, and a thousand Niles behind."

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Fondly recalling 90s football at moment. Some wonderful wikipedia sentences: "Ferguson felt that his failure to secure the signing of Mick Harford from Luton Town had cost United the league" &

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

1997 - OK Computer, Blur, Radiator by SFA, When I was Born for the 7th Time, Champion Versions by The Beta Band, three B and S EPs, Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space, At the Club by Kenickie, Songs from Northern Britain, In It for the Money ... pretty good year for British guitar music

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Test cricket

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As Stephen Fretwell gets his occasion boost from Gavin & Stacey, let me say his 2021 album 'Busy Guy' is really great, for me, one of the loveliest British albums in years ...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16.

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Lovely stuff - one of the great all-time "oh yeah, that guy's clearly doping" doping athletes ... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13.

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