Alex

Maybe you should read it rather than just buying it, mate

For the pop-crazed youngsters out there, BBC iPlayer has a series (search top of the pops) of Big Hits 1983, 1990, etc. These are a compilation of the year’s in studio TOTP performances, rather the end of year Xmas shows. The 1990 one and the 1999 one was on BBC4 at the weekend. The former was really good but in the latter, the slow lingering death of TOTP was very much in evidence.

Arguably they’re neither

I watched the Mike Tyson one. I got what I deserved

Balvenie do sone really nice whiskies. William Grants own them. Who do the Grants blends. They also own Glenfiddich. The Monkey Shoulder ‘blended malt’ has both Glenfiddich and Balvenie in it. Despite the popularity of Grants and Glenfiddich the company is still owned by the Grant family. It’s significant because something like 90% (might be more tbh) are owned by massive multinational corporations.

KSI is apparently going to fight Wayne Bridge. Yes, that Wayne Bridge

Bloody lovely stuff. Orval is another favourite of mine. I must get myself back to Belgium someday

Amazon quite often has 1 litre bottles of Black Bush on offer. The trouble is, if I buy a litre on offer, I don’t save any money because I just drink more.

@wykikitoon So, I like smokey peated whiskies and I like unpeated ones. But the former is an acquired taste and I didn’t actually like it when I first tried it. My mate brought a bottle of Laphroaig or maybe Ardbeg round what must’ve been 20 years ago and I thought it tasted like seawater. Im terms of single malts I’ve never had a bad one but some are a bit dull imo. And as the popularity of single malts increases world wide, some are not aged all that long. Legally it has to be 3 years but sometimes you’ll get malts all from the same distillery but of varying ages. With those they often don’t carry an age statement (because the age statement has to be the youngest whisky in the bottle, if you put an age statement on). And a single malt looks a bit shit / cheap with (for example) 4 years on it. Not having an age statement doesn’t make it poor quality. But it’s something to be aware of. Btw Bushmills is made exactly like a single malt from Scotland, rather than most other Irish Whiskies. That’s the 10 year old or older Bushmills. Black Bush and ‘standard’ Bushmills are like blended scotch. Black Bush is lovely btw. As to your mate, Wyki: I would probably recommend an entry level whisky like Aberlour 10 or 12, Glenmorangie 10 or 12. Or good old Glenfiddich. If he likes those then maybe experiment a bit more. And if he fancies trying something different, some sites sell miniatures (5 cl samples)*. A Scottish malt that’s very similar in style to Bushmills 10 is the Auchentoshan. For the ones I’ve mention see which ones are on offer online. Or at the supermarket. Most supermarkets have a decent selection of single malts. Read the label / tasting notes though to avoid peaty ones. *Master of malt and the whisky exchange both do this.

I think that’s probably over now

I think he’d probably get in a Britain and Ireland all time XI and at the very least he’d be on the bench. About 5ft8 and 10 stone at his peak and hard as fucking nails. I once saw him in Benidorm when I was about 10 where he appeared to be reluctantly buying his wife a 3/4 length leather coat from an expensive boutique and I remember my dad and his brother (two of the least impressed by famous people you could meet) being a bit awestruck at seeing him. Absolutely fucking world class footballer

Aye but it’s meant to depict the north. Ridley Scott directed that and the music is played by the then Ashington Colliery Band

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That would be them to a tee. Pretending to be one of the famous ‘mag haters’ they’re always supposedly speaking to on their travels.

I also don’t understand what pride you’d take from a player you’d previously had on loan doing well back at their proper club. It’s not exactly David Beckham at Preston North End considering how MASSIVE Sunderland are. And is Diallo a superstar in the making or just the latest in a long line of overrated Man Utd youngsters? (He’s not even that young).

I see they’ve ditched their policy of only trying to sign young players by putting a bid in for Tommy Cannon. I think he’s passed it and was never any good in first place.

Farken hell

That game away to Spurs when we won when Butt scored and Martins scored a screamer. It was like playing with 10 men having Pattison in the side. He was fucking miles out of his depth

You’d be forgiven for forgetting about him though. Even (perhaps especially) if you were watching him play

There was a game Geremi played at wingback under Allardyce where he was hung out to dry as it was clear he didn’t have the legs to play there anymore. But he looked good in KK’s first half season in his 2nd spell here as manager. When KK settled on a 4-3-3 and played Butt and Barton in there too

Dumas counts as a midfielder because that’s where he played. He was a continental style sweeper in France but Gullit played him instead of Rob Lee. He also looked like a bin man. Almost as much as Neville Southall

I’ve heard that reported before too. It was when they failed to qualify the year we did / directly after he’d bought them I think