First game of the season for me, so looking forward to it.
Non-refundable train travel to Manchester all booked and already paid deposit + remaining balance for a suite at the Lowry hotel. Can't wait!
My 13-year old son and his school chums will be doing the same this summer, as a school trip. If you happen to be there at the same time I can only apologise in advance and suggest contacting Essex Education Authority for some form of compensation.
Greatly looking forward to the summer.
Will immerse myself in all things Olympics - especially the Track & Field. Plus its my daughter’s first season competing at Regional League level in the 800m and 1500m so weekends will be spent at her athletics matches, nervously messing about with her...
The Rosa Parks parallels are deeply unhelpful in this instance, not least because my experience of London on protest days is that it is virtually impossible to get a frigging bus anyway :rant:
Agree with a lot of these, albeit '3 points for a win' and 'goal nets' stand out as two that we haven't had occasion to make much use of over the past few weeks.
I don't buy all the cynicism about FPTP. It worked brilliantly in the eighteenth century when 7 Cornish landowners and a horse called Malcolm could elect the Honourable Captain Ross Vennor Poldark to be the Member of Parliament for Truro so he could travel up to Westminster for 6 weeks a year...
Blair was, in my view, an outstanding Opposition leader, regardless of whether you agree with his politics or his record in office.
He was dynamic, optimistic, compelling, looked like a 'winner' and surrounded himself with an excellent team that systematically rebuilt and re-branded the Party...
I’m neither happy nor unhappy. I’m indifferent. As a supporter of the club for over 40 years I’m not going to allow my mood to be defined by the inner emotional turmoil of the current manager.
If he wants to stay, great. And if he’d rather not? :shrug:
Watching 22 millionaires play football holds minimal appeal for me anymore.
I get far more fulfilment and am much more invested in local / regional sport these days.
Infraction points issued for this post. Not sure if they are enough to give you (another) short break from NSC; if you post once more in this manner I’ll forget the points stuff and just ban you. Thanks.