As an aside to this, when Arteta started to rotate goalkeepers there was someone on the radio, I can't remember who, but they said goalkeepers never like each other when they are at the same club, and the competition for places means there's often barely hidden animosity and almost wishing each...
It was Darren England who reffed our game at home against Fulham last season which I think was a fairly universally criticised performance from him. RDZ got sent off for saying to his face what the majority of the crowd and pundits and commentators were saying too.
I did the free paper for a few roads in the town where I grew up in the 80s. I still remember the smell of the fresh print and the bright yellow plastic delivery bag when they were dropped off after school every Thursday afternoon with a little brown envelope with £3.53 in it. I had to get them...
Why just London? The most risky demographic to be in for knife crime in the UK is to be a young white male in Glasgow, where you're twice as likely to be knifed by another white male than any other demographic anywhere in the country. I'm not sure stopping and searching everyone white and under...
Us tomorrow, Fulham at the weekend - both games the Chelsea fans of my acquaintance see as defining for whether Poch stays or goes. Lose them both and they'll be screaming for his head. Insanely fickle!
I have an inexplicable, but genuine, physical response to tomato ketchup and can't eat it - even smelling it makes me gag. It's the only food this happens with and somehow tomatoes in any other form are fine and dandy. I'm normally OK seeing it at a non-smelling distance but a pie absolutely...
I don't have many possessions of my own, possibly an extreme opposing reaction to the fact Mrs Exile and Mini-Exile are almost hoarders and find it impossible to throw anything out but taking the "if there was a fire what would you rescue after family" approach...I've got a half finished...
I agree. I regularly work in Manchester and it's often almost as quick for me to travel 160 miles by train from the south as it is for my colleague who lives just 45 miles to the north of Manchester. Madness.
Broadband infrastructure, vital for the economy and access to services these days also...
Travelling back to Sussex from working in London and there's a good smattering of Brighton tops and scarves around Clapham and East Croydon. Certainly more than I've seen for other midweek games. Exciting.
Yesterday was my first visit to Old Trafford and it's made me reflect a bit about Man United as a club. They seem utterly dragged down by their past. I don't mean that in a disrespectful way - if you had the legacy and history and success they had you'd celebrate it, but it seems to be an...