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Appreciate you taking the time to post thank, thank you. Sorry for your loss too, hope you’re doing well.

Thanks for the thoughts and advice people, appreciate it. Have dropped him a text for l now; I don’t expect a response any time soon. I will pick up the phone too, but suspect things may be somewhat raw at this moment.

I think it was Baz Luhrmann who once said: Don't worry about the future Or worry, but know that worrying Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum The real troubles in your life Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind The kind that...

The misleading bit is that the end of her sentence has been chopped off. She’s discussing anaemia; her first point being that the primary cause of which is a heavy period. She then goes on to say that, if you’re a man, or a woman whose periods have stopped (ergo in both cases a period is not...

Motor neurone disease. How grim. Is this disease somehow more common in this day age, or is it just more reported? RIP.

I suspect regardless of the sentiment there would be too much legal red tape to untie for Beckham to pull out at this stage. It always struck me as pretty tone deaf and wholly unnecessary from Beckham, who between him and his wife have a combined net worth of something like half-a-billion. Why...

I enjoyed it. It’s funny in places, tragic in others and occasionally cringe inducing too. An emotional story well told.

Is it still Southern Water’s business? My understanding is that utility companies etc effectively “sold” bad debt to collection agencies (say for 50% of the total value of the debt) with the collection agency taking on both the risk and any proceeds from debts recovered.

On the phone they said “ok, that’s fine”, which is likely the end of it. However, it’s hard to read whether they’ve genuinely accepted what I’ve told them or not and just want to make sure that if there’s any further steps I need to take, that I do it now. I’m not overly bothered, just want to...

If it’s surprising that Ronaldo himself thought this interview was a good idea, it’s even more baffling that the no doubt countless PR people in his entourage agreed with him. I think I sort of understand (though I don’t mean that to read as “empathise with”) his perspective. He has, without...

Long story short, we have received a couple of letters to our address chasing a debt of nearly 5 grand owed to Southern Water. The person named on the letter has my wife’s first name and maiden name (by which she hasn’t been known by for a decade), but wrong middle name. It is, of course, not...

Wow, very sad. I think I must have watched every episode of ever series of APITS during the Covid lockdown as I longed to travel once more. Seems a great guy, and as a father of two young kids myself it must be heartbreaking and terrifying in equal measure to have to think of leaving them...

El Tel lost on pens at Wembley, in the semis of the Euros. Southgate did the same, only in the final. Surely that’s closer? He even managed to beat the Germans. Don’t get me wrong, Euro 96 was a brilliant, iconic tournament. My old man took me to the opening game against Switzerland for my 11th...

I was working on the assumption that results trump performances. That’s not to say that performances don’t matter, but it’s results that usually define success and whether a manager remains in a job. Hoddle never won a knockout game. Venables and Sven won one apiece. Christ, even Boby Robson...

Ok then, let’s look at it another way. Which of our managers in the last 30 years do you think did a better job than Southgate has thus far? Sam Allardyce Roy Hodgson Fabio Capello Steve McLaren Sven-Göran Eriksson Kevin Keegan Glen Hoddle Terry Venables Graham Taylor

I’m clearly in the minority here so I respect the collective opinion, but I do find it a little hard to fathom the dismay and animosity towards a manager with far and away the best tournament record since sir Alf left his post 48 years ago. Yes, we got somewhat lucky with the way the draw fell...

Calling the good people of NSC, the place I go to when Google fails to come up with sufficient answers. Cutting to the chase, it’s my lad’s 9th birthday in a couple of weeks. My good lady wife wants to get him a hoverboard, one of those self-balancing, two-wheeled things that I’ve seen kids...

Currently reading Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, by Matthew Perry (of Chandler from Friends fame). I’m not one for reading ‘celebrity’ memoirs, save for the odd football autobiography, but having experienced some of the challenges Perry has faced (albeit on a lesser scale, and...

You have to consider the consequences of selling your soul. I posted previously that I had little interest in the World Cup in Russia four and a half years ago due to the nature of its venue, only to cave and find it an enjoyable tournament. At what cost though? We can’t continue to placate...

Some 13 years before I was born but Radford’s goal is one I must have seen hundreds of times over the years. Truly iconic. RIP Ronnie.