Alex

Doesn’t count as a goal for statistical purposes though.

Absolutely. BTW, you remember the press kicking off about nepotism, expenses, inaccurate CVs and so on the second Labour got into power? It got me thinking about Rupert McNeil, former government chief people officer, appointed under the Tory government in 2016. Who publicly acknowledged (I think it was in a private blog) that he not only went to school with, but also was good friends with and even went inter railing with Michael Cunting Gove. Not a sniff of media interest in that story afaik

Btw, the performance by the U21s last night didn’t exactly fill me with optimism in regards to the academy production line. I know Neave wasn’t in the squad because he was on the bench v West Ham and Kuol was rested too but I’d be surprised if many of them played much above Heaton Stan’s level (8th tier) let alone made it anyway near the first team. The goalkeeper looked decent and wasn’t at fault for any of the goals though. https://www.nufc.com

3-0 FTM

A pox on scousers

Aye. I’ve got those feelings about Severance too. Although I do like it and think it’s one of the more interesting things I’ve seen on TV for a long while. But yeah, I hope they don’t just let it drift due to a combination of its popularity and not knowing how to tie things up. Which I think will definitely happen if the third season isn’t the final one.

Also, the first ones are a little bit ropey in terms of audio etc. as they just started going it through Covid. I came to it late, as I was wading through the Talking Sopranos one but I’ve listened to them all, bar some added extras in Patreon, now and I only started less than a year ago. Going to listen to them all again at a more leisurely pace and watch all the playlists on YouTube too this time.

We had an away day a year or two back that was split between Manchester and London and it was significantly easier and quicker for me to get to Canary Wharf via train and the tube than it would’ve been to go to Manchester

The BBC arselicking him and granting him that interview is almost as unsavoury as he is

Gloomy! Cha! Cha! Cha! Gloomy! Cha! Cha! Cha! Gloomy! Cha! Cha! Cha! Gloomy! Cha! Cha! Cha!

Like shite am I

Looking forlornly at the real housewives of Cheshire like the dad off Motherland

The costs get out of hand for teams in the pyramid system like. That’s why they charge daft prices, to try to compete. To me it’s a bit daft because unless you have a rich backer (and even then, they always get bored, and unless they’re closely involved there’s the very real chance of greed and corruption)then you can’t keep going up and up. Fur someone like Heaton Stan, they’re financially worse off by some margin as a result of their success / promotion. In the Northern League they have loads more local derbies, which means bigger crowds, especially as it allows for Friday night games where you’re not competing against NUFC / PL matches. The away travel costs are substantially less and you might win the FA Vase / get to Wembley. At level 8 you’re in the trophy which there’s no realistic chance of winning. Then there’s ground improvements. But you have to go up now which changed a few years ago. If you don’t, instead of promotion you get relegated from the league you were in that season. The football isn’t even better. The teams are just more physically impressive on the whole

It’s £9 to watch Heaton Stan in the 8th tier. Was £8 in the Northern League last season so that’s probably not far off standard for that level. Especially in the SE

That’s mental. There will be national league teams charging more than that for standard home game tickets.

Btw, mate. That podcast is fucking sensational. The quality (or lack thereof) of the acts on the particular show they’re discussing doesn’t detract from it at all. It’s often better when it’s shit. They talk about loads of other stuff happening at the time of the original broadcast. Not to mention the presenters. Obviously you wouldn’t have the same cultural experience as those of us ‘lucky’ enough to have grown up in the 70s and 80s in the UK but you’d still get a lot out of it imo. And Taylor Parkes and Neil Kulkani (RIP) in particular are superb at just taking about music.

Which one am I?

Michael Brown on 5 Live just said that’s a big goal for Arsenal. I’m guessing that’s why he gets the big bucks

Not that I’ve ever been to Japan but for any number of reasons, though mainly lack of supply and harsh penalties, their rave and club scene was relatively drug free. At least back in the 90s it was. But they still went mental for hard, fast minimal techno as played by the likes of Robert Hood and Jeff Mills.

Nice one. Might give that a watch this evening. You might also remember them appearing on the soundtrack to Darren Aronofsky’s debut film Pi

I think they went from Mellor to Richard Littlecock too The amount of times the former mentioned being a season ticket holder at ‘the Bridge’ btw

Heaton Stannington play NUFC U23s in the semifinal of the Northumberland Senior Cup on Tuesday night. Would definitely get a ticket in advance if you fancy going as it’ll be a big crowd and it gets you in quicker. Kids are free but still need a ticket and need to be accompanied by an adult for this particular fixture: https://heatonstan.co.uk/countdown-4-days-to-go/

Obviously there’s a different type of mental engagement actually reading a book. Because an adaptation for audiobook has, at least, the influence of whoever is recording the voice parts. But it’s still ‘reading a book’ imo if you listen to one. I only read books the old fashioned way because I’m so fucking old fashioned. I’m currently reading this btw and it’s really good https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20509618-the-land-where-lemons-grow

You want to try living here, mate