I accept that was actually the right decision… now.
However, watching the game at home it wasn’t clear that a pen was the decision taken at the time and certainly the commentators had no idea a pen had been given either. It’s just screaming for officials to be mic’d up - surely it’s just a...
Personally I think it’s highly likely that LHO was involved, but that it’s even more likely that he carried it out under instruction and therefore acted with others.
As a 15 year old in 1991 I saw the movie JFK and (regardless of people’s views about the accuracy of the movie) it triggered a life long interest in me, and certainly accounts for my most studied moment in history. I’ve lost count of the amount of books I’ve read / documentaries I’ve seen...
I always used to be interested in the Christmas chart in particular, but when the Simon Cowell machine started taking over 20 or so years so, it became a bit of a farce.
Streaming gives the chart a more realistic view of popularity to a point, but it’s daft when an act releases an album, and the...
I also wrote a retro diary 15 years ago for every year of my life that I thought might be of interest to my future descendants. Boring though it may be, I quite enjoyed doing it and knocked up 120,000 words covering 35 years
My recall memory from 30-40 years ago is surprisingly good. So much so, my mates ask me to be recall things that happened to THEM at school in the 80s/90s as they are very sketchy about the details.
But since having COVID, my short term memory is shot. It’s a long COVID symptom apparently...
We went into Wetherspoons before the match and honest to God the Guinness was £3.31 a pint.
My Guinness, my brother’s Leffe, and our mate’s Neck Oil was £11.60
I thought I’d gone back to the 90s.
Would be a good idea to ‘retreat’ Free as a Bird and Real Love from those sessions now, as those songs would benefit from Lennon’s voice being cleaned up with the new technology.
The song is nowhere near as bad as some think, and equally not as brilliant as others think.
Just try and enjoy it for what it is. The sentiment and the poignancy of it being the final statement.
After a few listens, I think it’s actually quite catchy. Love the video by the way.
And if you...
First time to Goodison for me tomorrow. Three of us staying at an Airbnb near the stadium and taking in the resident Beatles tribute band at the (not actually the real) Cavern in the evening 👍🏼