What a weird day that was. A load of us ended up in a picture of the scrap in the carpark in The Sun.
Loads of legendary Albion fans at that game, all of 'em still go now, I think. I remember getting a train back across Ireland and trying to describe it in a believable way to my pals.
I remember feeling this kind of excitement when we signed Paul Rogers, simply because we had a powderpuff squad and my source described him as "tall" when he visited the offices to seal the deal.
The Eredivisie is pretty terrible but it's clear that means nothing if you know about football as...
It's better than travelling with mates. The dream is having a mate where you're going who you can mooch around with for a bit. Several months at a time going round NL, Scandinavia and eastern Europe with a wireless. Marvellous.
If you do it regularly, don't forget to change your profile...
Right on, sir.
I worry more, as others much more intelligent than me have said, about him enabling this horrible version of masculinity and hard-headedness that is less needed than ever in a broadly divided and aggressively argumentative world right now.
From a nerdy point of view, glad that...
Stuck my fiver on an own-goal at 20/1. Even an outright moron gets it right occasionally. Plus the usual quid on each team to miss and score a penalty (I owe CHAPPERS for this one). Decent arvo for my previously quicksanding account so far.
The ostensible impression you might get from his lectures (£60 at the O2 last night, ker-ching) - that he's an angry rich white guy preaching to angry poor white guys (possibly with bad tattoos and a collection of swords somewhere in their house or an interest in Warhammer/memorabilia, possibly...
10k race in 45 on the seafront this morning. Got spannered yesterday, and the last 4k today were the toughest I've ever waddled through. As a perennial loser of pathetic mental resilience, I was surprised I made it round. Well done everyone who was out there this weekend :)
Monumentally flattened that I didn't go. Russia looks like a really interesting country. That said, as much as I'd love to follow England everywhere, I dunno how people do it
Couple of magnificent Weakest Link photos:
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That professional foul reminded me a bit of Rodney Thomas's handball. Or someone like Nogan or Small bursting through in front of the North Stand, hapless lower div keeper comes rushing out, hauls 'em down, huge roar, possibly a sending off depending on the ref's ineptitude
It's been almost completely empty most days, although there always seems to be a steady stream of people walking off after being told it's a fiver to get in. Don't need to be a Premier League Ready CEO to see it ain't a great business model