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raylor saylor Jackie Milburn, Emperor Hirohito, the Cerne Abbas Giant. This game is fun!

I realise many of you are stuck at work until whenever you can get away, but I'm raising a glass now and to hell with the consequences, and I'm sure you'll do the same later on. Bobby himself was such a selfless man that he wouldn't have wanted people to dwell on the sad side of his passing, so let's celebrate a life incredibly well lived and give him a hell of a send-off.

good one WBA Fulham Ipswich and us. I'd rather it was between Barca, Sporting, PSV and us, opposed to the teams we will play sometime in the next two seasons (and maybe last.) Still in shock, condolences to his family. If it's an annual thing, there's no reason it can't rotate between four of the teams he was involved with each year. Keeps it fresh too.

The upper tiers were shut but I got the impression there were a reasonable number of empty seats dotted about in the lower levels. Might just be people who bought and didn't show up though. I was in the posh seats on Sunday because the council had some visitors over from Gelsenkirchen (one of our many twin towns) and they needed someone to interpret for them as and when. Anyway, Sir Bobby wasn't far from us during the match, and even in his frail state he spent more time chatting away to people as they came up to him than he did actually watching the game. People kept bringing their kids up to him and he'd spend a few moments ruffling their hair and having a natter and a play around with them. The Germans were amazed, they knew he was a popular figure (and had some lovely words to say about him themselves) but I don't think they realised just quite how much reverence there was for him. Harper was the only current player I spotted around the place all day, for what it's worth - he had his lad with him.

RIP Sir Bobby. He did amazingly well to battle cancer the way he did, and with a smile on his face right to the end. The word "legend" is overused but we all know it couldn't be more apt in his case.

Another streaker? There was one during the Sir Bobby match too. Let me guess, we're cutting back on security costs?

Not sure he'd do much of a job for Ferrari.

They've brought back the Red Car/Blue Car ad but changed the words. At the risk of sounding like a bad stand-up, what's that all about?

Aaaand apparently we're both slightly off the mark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Form...rom_Switzerland

I always think Rosset was Swiss too. I blame Marc Rosset, the Olympian tennis player. Thinking back to my glory years as a racing nerd, I think Gregor Foitek was Swiss, but calling him an F1 driver might be pushing it a bit...

That's SloopJohn's album of the year you're talking about there.

I'd be worried too with a site called Crashmania.

Lauda isn't exactly mincing his words here: http://www.crash.net/f1/news/150448/1/laud...rs_useless.html I'd love it to be Badoer, I've an inexplicable soft spot for him after the various indignities he suffered during his F1 career, but I can't really see it - even if it is one of the test drivers, you'd assume Gené would get the nod. Particularly since the race is in Spain... Also, on a Senna-related tangent, I stumbled across this piece recently - might be of interest to some here: http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?p=994457

They were in the Song for Europe a few years back, with that "Brand New Day" song they did at half-time. Beaten by Javine and Katie Price, and now appearing at a football stadium near you. Classy.

Herzlichen Birthday!

I wish I'd discovered drinking at work earlier, it'd have made my first job in Mainz that bit more bearable. What's Mainz like? Nice enough actually (except at carnival time, where it descends into the very belly of hell). Not nice enough to justify living there for two and a half bloody years though.

I wish I'd discovered drinking at work earlier, it'd have made my first job in Mainz that bit more bearable.

That's still the most rubbish bit of Photoshopping ever committed to file.

I'd imagine he wouldn't be.

Give Stevie some credit, he's hooked an absolute knacker here. Is that not the definition of a decent Friday night out?

The "Country" station on Spotify. It just played the demo of Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust".

Hark, is that the sound of the joy being sucked out of everything I hear?

It's like the upper-class compartment on Incontinence Airways.