PaddockLad

I was brought up in a haunted house. My old man knew the ghost; her name was Kathy, she was jilted at the altar sometime around the early 1900s and by the time my old man was a boy in the 40s she was an eccentric old lady in a crimson shawl who lived alone in the house he bought as our family home in 1980. The most terrifying occurrence of the haunting was when a picture flew off the wall and smashed over the head of my sister one afternoon in the early 80s. Kathy was blatantly jealous of pretty young girls as things started up again in the 2000s when my sister’s daughters were there. Not as bad this time though, Kathy had obviously mellowed with age.. When Dad was an apprentice he worked for Kathy’s nephew and his widow was still alive throughout my teens and she’d regale us with tales of what a strange old bird Kathy was… she knew it was haunted before we moved in. Sometime after he retired dad once saw Kathy in the dressing table mirror of the bedroom when he was sat on the edge of the bed putting his shoes on.. he sensed something and looked up and saw her in the mirror just passing through the room in her red shawl…

The best outfield player for me was Kang-In (he was bang-in 😆) who I’d never heard of before. I don’t think you can compare accurately the two midfields because for an hour they were set up to perform in very different ways. The amount of chances PSG created suggests they played far better than ours did 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pope was by miles the best player on the pitch. The amount of chances PSG created suggests our play in general wasn’t great, but that doesn’t take the state of squad into consideration. How did PSG dominate the second half? We couldn’t make any changes and defended deeper and deeper. That’s the context the stats don’t show. Stats are simultaneously great and shit

Do you believe in coincidences?… my colleague (who I do like very much ) told me an hour ago about that triple death on Nov 22….he certainly doesn’t 😬

Never known a day like it since….

He’d have helped you too Kev ☺️

Very helpful to my brother when he was MP for Edinburgh West

Lumping someone of my background in with the soap dodgers is a bit like saying everyone north of the Trent/Mersey fault line are all the same

Technically that was Renton Am only adding colour…you’ll never be like me Gemma, you know, ethnically exotic, and it fuckin kills you every single day…

I’d left school and was being musically radicalised at Gala Tech..was talking about this in Paris actually..Rum Sodomy and the Lash came out just before I started going there in 1985. There were dozens of semi goths wandering around listening to the pogues, marychain, birthday party, killing joke, the cult etc etc. I was far too much of a footy lad to dress like the cunts (although some of lasses were stunning 😍) but the music stayed with me…Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker died the other day too 😕

Written by a man from Salford whose parents were Scottish. This is his daughter…

All the Pogues were English by birth . RIP Shane 😞

Loved Brooky RIP Jimmy…

You say that but at the Cardiff semi final in 2005 one of our party had his daughter with him. A very well known premier league referee gained carnal knowledge of this young lady on the Saturday night before the game. I couldn’t possibly name this ref but his initials are Mark Clattenburg

Miley might just save the club 100 mill In other news..

https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulations-of-the-UEFA-Champions-League-2023/24/Article-17-Equality-of-points-group-stage-Online Looking at this, after H2H its goal difference and we’re 4 ahead of Milan. Basically a draw guarantees Europa football in February. Although there is some sort of play off round, not sure if we have to go into that?

That’s my fault and I do it regularly Some kind soul will maybe move this nonsense…

Agreed Using it in this context is bullshit though. It suggests that the only possible tactic is all out attack. You can be defensive and win. Xg won’t tell you that 🤷🏻‍♂️

Early fight 😴

I’ll have to chuck a sickie for Milan, and am on call for Chelsea and Luton. But fear not, I’ll get something worked out Didn’t see any bother at all tonight, thank fuck. Great city and we’ve had a really good day but some of the locals are sketchy as fuck 😬

If it’s a draw in Dortmund and we beat Milan we’re through on the old heed to heed

Any admins still got Chez Given’s email tell him I’ll meet him in the champagne bar at the Gare du Nord ☺️