Contrary to popular belief I am still alive. Many thanks to surprisingly many of you that checked in on my health and wellbeing, it is nice to be loved even though I haven't seen a lot of you for some time or in fact some of you I have never met. It is appreciated.
I will be briefly back in England next week but only at The Valley and in Eastbourne I'm afraid. I will plan a proper stay towards the end of the season when we will all go out and 'ave it.' Also by then I expect to have some news of a career change too.
The last four weeks has been bloody busy with work, I have done tons of travelling - London, Bermuda, Iowa, Cleveland, Detroit, Canada, Florida (twice), Charleston and Bahamas (the last two purely pleasure mind) - and with Chicago suffering it's 6th largest snowfall in history, then as you can imagine I have spent far too many hours stuck at airports.
I should be able to concentrate on the world's best fantasy league now, but we are a few weeks behind. So thanks for your patience and remember keep the If You's coming.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
If You - Megan McLeod
Brave Megan was first up with the If You questionnaire, thanks to lady from Mt Vernon, the home of the oldest theatre in the United States, don't you know?
Megan a closet gladiator who has some crazy dreams, and by the way have you any photographs of Jessica? More from Megan here:
Name: Megan McLeod
Nickname: Megan
I Support: Man U
Birthplace: Mount Vernon Ohio, USA, Planet Earth
1) If you weren’t in insurance, what would you do for a living?
Sell my artwork.
2) If you could be someone else for the day, who would you be?
Either Crush or Fury (all new season of American Gladiators has begun. Mondays 8, 7 central).
3) If you could be a fly on the wall anywhere, where would it be?
A black wall. I’d want to be camouflaged. People hate flies.
4) If you could have those x-ray eyes that could see through clothing, who would you look at first?
If I couldn’t turn it off, I’d probably end up seeing my co-worker Jessica first since she’s the only person visible from my desk . If I have a choice… I’d go with Barack Obama. For political reasons.
5) If you could be any footballer past or present, who would it be?
Ronaldo’s foot skills would be pretty fun.
6) If you could change the team you support, who would you change it to?
I could and wouldn’t.
7) If you worked at airport security, who would you like to search knowing that you can be as obnoxious as you like?
George W. Bush. I would be very obnoxious. The obnoxiousest, as he might say.
8) If you were the Prime Minister or President, what would be the first thing you did?
Put on a suit.
9) If you won the lottery, what would be the first thing you bought?
Am I still president? Probably a nicer suit.
10) If you could invent anything, what would it be?
Instantaneous Transporter. Goodbye commute. Hello Hawaii.
11) If you could have starred in a movie, which one would it be?
Dead Alive. I’m all about attacking zombies with a lawnmower.
12) If you could have been at any football game, which one would it have been?
One in which nobody was killed or injured.
13) If you could make one of your dreams real, which one would it be?
Not the one where I was chased by aliens, robots and the government. I had that one earlier this month. I do like the flying dreams, though.
14) If you could live the life of any person in history, who would it be?
Mileva Marić. She was married to Einstein. I mean, come on.
15) If you were born again, would you want to come back as the opposite sex?
Only if I could remember my past life and compare the two. If not, then I’d like to remain female. No offense, lads.
Megan a closet gladiator who has some crazy dreams, and by the way have you any photographs of Jessica? More from Megan here:
Name: Megan McLeod
Nickname: Megan
I Support: Man U
Birthplace: Mount Vernon Ohio, USA, Planet Earth
1) If you weren’t in insurance, what would you do for a living?
Sell my artwork.
2) If you could be someone else for the day, who would you be?
Either Crush or Fury (all new season of American Gladiators has begun. Mondays 8, 7 central).
3) If you could be a fly on the wall anywhere, where would it be?
A black wall. I’d want to be camouflaged. People hate flies.
4) If you could have those x-ray eyes that could see through clothing, who would you look at first?
If I couldn’t turn it off, I’d probably end up seeing my co-worker Jessica first since she’s the only person visible from my desk . If I have a choice… I’d go with Barack Obama. For political reasons.
5) If you could be any footballer past or present, who would it be?
Ronaldo’s foot skills would be pretty fun.
6) If you could change the team you support, who would you change it to?
I could and wouldn’t.
7) If you worked at airport security, who would you like to search knowing that you can be as obnoxious as you like?
George W. Bush. I would be very obnoxious. The obnoxiousest, as he might say.
8) If you were the Prime Minister or President, what would be the first thing you did?
Put on a suit.
9) If you won the lottery, what would be the first thing you bought?
Am I still president? Probably a nicer suit.
10) If you could invent anything, what would it be?
Instantaneous Transporter. Goodbye commute. Hello Hawaii.
11) If you could have starred in a movie, which one would it be?
Dead Alive. I’m all about attacking zombies with a lawnmower.
12) If you could have been at any football game, which one would it have been?
One in which nobody was killed or injured.
13) If you could make one of your dreams real, which one would it be?
Not the one where I was chased by aliens, robots and the government. I had that one earlier this month. I do like the flying dreams, though.
14) If you could live the life of any person in history, who would it be?
Mileva Marić. She was married to Einstein. I mean, come on.
15) If you were born again, would you want to come back as the opposite sex?
Only if I could remember my past life and compare the two. If not, then I’d like to remain female. No offense, lads.
We wuz Robbed
Breaking News 88888 Manager of week 25
in a low scoring week Rob Munden collected his 3rd MoW fiver with 52 points. Just pipped for the cash was Huw Thomas by a point and Mark Simmons by two.
Other good scoring weeks were had by John McGowan, Soozie, Barry Plummer and Chris Wright.
Last but not least was Emma Wylie with 6.
in a low scoring week Rob Munden collected his 3rd MoW fiver with 52 points. Just pipped for the cash was Huw Thomas by a point and Mark Simmons by two.
Other good scoring weeks were had by John McGowan, Soozie, Barry Plummer and Chris Wright.
Last but not least was Emma Wylie with 6.
Back Inter the race
Breaking news 8888 Division 1 - week 25 news
A quiet week in 25. Not much change at the top of Div 1 back in week 25. Pk's Tally.Wacker.co.uk still lead with Egg & (Stevie) Bacon in 2nd. Inter Thepub moved back into 7th, replacing OldhamTightly.
Soozie's Sausages rolled into 9th and at the bottom Rooney & Ronaldo's Revenge escaped the relegation zone for 7 days anyway.
A quiet week in 25. Not much change at the top of Div 1 back in week 25. Pk's Tally.Wacker.co.uk still lead with Egg & (Stevie) Bacon in 2nd. Inter Thepub moved back into 7th, replacing OldhamTightly.
Soozie's Sausages rolled into 9th and at the bottom Rooney & Ronaldo's Revenge escaped the relegation zone for 7 days anyway.
No sweat
Breaking news 8888 Division 2 - week 25 newsThe top 6 remained unchanged in week 25 but it was PLG is a Fud that made the headlines skipping into the promotion race. Sweaty has been on quite a run and fully deserves his moment of glory. Can he push on?
Megan & Hannah's Bears, top after week 1 and in the top 8 all season fell out of the race after a week low of 10 points. What the hell moved up to 9th.
Meanwhile at the (rather attractive) rump end of the table we now have Emma's Wylie Coyote's in the penultimate place, taking over from Megan's Nancy Lollygaggers.
Put the rates up
"People from across large parts of England have reported an earth tremor. The BBC has received calls from people in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Manchester, Berkshire and the West Midlands about a earthquake."
More from the BBC.
More from the BBC.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Rant over
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were young. Sharing a bed, black and white televison, jumpers for goalposts blah, blah, blah....
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm an old geezer, I am getting more like my old man everyday, the hairy ears included. Kids today have it fucking easy don't they?
1. When I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves or look at one of those crappy encyclopedia books that Auntie Nellie used to buy for my birthday.
2. There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter....with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the postbox and it would take a week to get there, maybe two.
3. There were no MP3's or Ipods. If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and the end.
4. We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
5. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID on the phone. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, your paperboy boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a bird you last saw whilst you crept out of her bedroom window last night, you just didn't know. You had to pick it up and take your chances!
6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari With games like Space Invaders and Asteroids, You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like life.
7. When you went to the cinema, there were no fancy spancy seats on different levels, all the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
8. And there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait all week for cartoons!
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire in the park.
10. And finally, yoof. When we were on the phone with our friends or a bird and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 2 foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone - so we had our parents listen to it all, whilst our Dads tapped their imaginary watches on their wrists.
Pah, kids of today.
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm an old geezer, I am getting more like my old man everyday, the hairy ears included. Kids today have it fucking easy don't they?
1. When I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves or look at one of those crappy encyclopedia books that Auntie Nellie used to buy for my birthday.
2. There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter....with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the postbox and it would take a week to get there, maybe two.
3. There were no MP3's or Ipods. If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and the end.
4. We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
5. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID on the phone. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, your paperboy boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a bird you last saw whilst you crept out of her bedroom window last night, you just didn't know. You had to pick it up and take your chances!
6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari With games like Space Invaders and Asteroids, You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like life.
7. When you went to the cinema, there were no fancy spancy seats on different levels, all the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
8. And there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait all week for cartoons!
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire in the park.
10. And finally, yoof. When we were on the phone with our friends or a bird and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 2 foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone - so we had our parents listen to it all, whilst our Dads tapped their imaginary watches on their wrists.
Pah, kids of today.
The Brits
No excuse for me being away from Britain too long but was last night's Brit's Awards a repeat of an old one? Take That, Kylie and Paul McCartney. Really? What happened to that up and coming band Dire Straits or REO Speedwagon for best International Band? And how about Alison Moyet for best Female Artist? Oh and surely the Spice Girls should have won something, oh that's next year is it....
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Busby Babes
3.04PM, FEBRUARY 6 1958Services marking the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster were held today in England and Germany to remember the 23 people, including eight Manchester United players, who died in the crash. The services were timed to coincide with the exact anniversary of the tragedy - 3.04pm on February 6 1958.
Eight Manchester United players - part of the team known as the Busby Babes - died after a refuelling stop in Germany on the way back from a win in a European tie against Red Star Belgrade. The players who died as a result of the crash were Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor and Liam Whelan.
On Sunday, there will be another minute's silence prior to United's home Premier League game against Manchester City. United players will wear a 1950s-style kit, free from sponsorship and numbered one to 11, while City will also wear a special strip. Lets hope that people offer their respects not their ignorance.
Monday, February 04, 2008
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