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I assume you've seen them back in the day but your description of a sweet spot between cheerful and dark with good clues immediately made me think of Inspector Morse. All available on ITVX and well worth revisiting.

Posting too late to do Sid any good but in case someone in a similar situation finds this thread in future... my usual hangout when waiting for trains is the Halfway House on Fleshmarket Close (pub #4 in the video Mackenzie posted) because it's very cosy and about 30 seconds from the station...

Only if Palace got relegated before us. The thought of dropping back down to the Championship while they still cling on in the Premier League still makes me feel slightly queasy.

Amateur Night? I'll leave it to the amateurs, once I'm back from the match.

I like the options to hide . If everyone could use those in the match threads for their posts about goals when I'm following a minute behind on a stream, that would be much appreciated.

Growing up in Scotland in the 80s I never felt the need to pick an English team, although a lot of my friends chose Liverpool, and not just the Celtic supporters. Football didn't interest me much: the live variety on offer in Galashiels was... poor and there wasn't a lot on TV. I was aware that...

My impression from the two Scotland games so far is that he causes problems for defenders but not for goalkeepers. That could be useful but we'd still need to pair him with a striker who can score goals. Although they do it in different ways, we already have Maupay for the Dykes role.

It's reassuring that in our 23-year absence we haven't forgotten how to completely bollix up an appearance at a major tournament. This is exactly the kind of Scotland performance I remember from my youth: hard working, low on quality, even lower on goal threat.

I would have let him go. If you can't win the ball fairly you don't deserve to win it: it's kind of the point of sport to determine that. But that sort of honesty would no doubt have seen us relegated and is one reason why nobody would let me near a Premier League squad (along with being 45...

Would love to see a highlights reel of Dunk's red card offences.

Since reopening everywhere that takes bookings has been booked weeks in advance. On the seafront, Murmur and Riddle & Finns are not taking bookings, so you just need to be there promptly when they open. They may be a bit too grown-up for the kids but I thought I'd mention it for the benefit of...

I'm 45 (only by a few days, right enough) and it says that I'm not eligible to book. Maybe they've set the validation so that it only works for people who were 45 before some random date earlier in the year. Frustrating.

I'll be disappointed with anything less than nine goals today. Get a couple early and a couple more before half time when their heads drop... then come out for the second half completely uninterested and lose 5-4.

And yet she got that Truffle Oils / Lust For Life question which is the hardest anagram I can remember in that round by quite some distance, and I'm sure there was another difficult question where it almost looked like she waited until the other guests were visibly stumped then languidly buzzed...

Mrs Lately and I spent a week there in 2019; we don't usually revisit places that we've been on holiday but we liked it so much that we'd booked to go back in 2020, although the pandemic scuppered that. There's not a huge amount to do other than eat well and relax (which is part of the appeal)...

I haven't tried to dig out the stats to back this up but it felt like there were more goals per game than normal in the first quarter of this season, maybe because of the curtailed summer break / pre-season or the players readjusting to the absence of crowds. Certainly we seemed to go several...

Thanks for the heads-up. I got my virtual ticket just in time and thoroughly enjoyed it. It managed the trick of never appearing "cheap" despite the constraints of the budget. (I wrote some more stuff that was basically giving the film credit for avoiding a bunch of pitfalls that bedevil...

I'm not taking lessons on pronunciation from any insects.

I don't remember the bit about picking opponents up and shouting "British Bulldog 1-2-3" but I couldn't say whether that's because it's a detail that didn't make it to my corner of Scotland in the mid 80s or if too many knocks to the head have made me forget it. In general I don't remember much...

Thinking about it. It's been such a long time since our last match at the Amex and I'm not sure how many I'll be able to get to this season even if the government does allow sporting events again. Watching all those post-lockdown matches between mid-table teams in empty stadia has educated me in...