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Mind you, he was telling the same press last Thursday that PSV were 'definitely' going through in the Europa League...

Phillip Cocu seems to think it's done and dusted. He's already been talking to the local press about the need to sign a replacement to strengthen his team.

Obviously I'd be delighted with a hard-fought draw or a sneaky snatched win, but I'd take anything better than 0-4, as it will represent progress over our last debut in the top flight.

Unnecessary pedantry alert: that's not from the ED (Eindhovens Dagblad). The ED is my local paper, a slightly more intelligent version of the Argus. The AD (Algemeen Dagblad) is a Dutch national rag.

Slapjanus means 'wimp' or 'weakling'. Probably not... :thumbsup:

I went for a routine check-up in the autumn of 2010. Just blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, not much. I got passed with an "excellent shape for my age" (then 48). Striding home congratulating myself on being such a fine specimen of a man, I managed to do a classic 'banana skin' slip on the...

There goes another independent. Anchor Brewing, America's (and according to your definition, possibly the world's) original craft brewer, has just been sold to Japanese giant Sapporo: http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-s-Anchor-Brewing-acquired-by-11729608.php

I've not tried that one yet, but I have had a hoppy Swedish craft ale infused with the perfumed notes of beaver musk. It was effing disgusting...

Well, someone must have sent out an S.O.S.

Is that similar to The Who system they use in Ireland? B-A-B-A O'Riley

I was there in 1993. There was no internet then (or at least, none that normal folk had access to), let alone Google. On the plus side, I know how to say 'aubergine' in Chinese ("Chee-air-zurr" or something similar)...

Chongqing and Chengdu are both nearby to Leshan. I went via the latter and never made it to Chongqing - doesn't sound like I missed much. Chengdu was a nightmare to leave. Spent 8 nights in the legendary Black Coffee Hotel* just trying to buy a train ticket to anywhere else as the black market...

Crossing Vietnamese roads is way more stressful than crossing Chinese roads. If you could handle them, China will be a doddle.

I've just looked and see Lijiang has an airport now. That would explain it. There were no tour groups back in 93 as it was bloody hard to reach (about 15 hours in by bus from the nearest railway station, and 10 hours by bus out to Dali). I guess the roads have probably improved too.

Interesting how times change. In 1993 when I was there, I would have said it was the other way around. Lijiang was an authentic friendly untouched local town. Dali was full of 'traveller shops' selling those ridiculous multicoloured baggy trousers ('Abnormalehosen' we used to call them as they...

You can say it, but you would be wrong. The people are Flemish, but they speak Dutch with a funny accent.

Not a cathedral, it's the Lakenhalle, a former cloth trading hall (originally medieval, but it had to be rebuilt from rubble after WW1). Significantly, however, today it houses the very poignant and excellent In Flanders Fields Museum, which is worth half a day of your time if you do visit. On...

Besides the National Palace Museum and the Chiang-Kai Shek memorial, downtown Taipei appeared to consist of almost nothing but cake shops and wedding outfitters when I was there.

It was back in 1993, so I can't speak about any modern stuff, but I spent 3 months backpacking around China. Four months if you count Hong Kong and Macau, which were still British and Portuguese then. Five months if you include Taiwan, Loved Shanghai (albeit back then, the whole skyscraper area...

Agreed. Toroko Gorge is spectacular, especially if you stay overnight after the day-tripping hordes have gone home. Alishan is beautiful as well.