Emile Zola’s favourite hockey player, Jack Hughes has just won an Olympic gold medal.

😃

Just spat out my Kia-Ora….

While I have never worked in a Fish & Chip shop, word has come down to me from those who have, that there are undoubtedly bigger fish to fry…. #CFC

ITV treating us to Ian Wright AND Lee Dixon, the GB News approach to balance.

Bloke on the left is channeling Leonard Rossiter in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Looked like that.

But I’m going to use that phrase regardless in any upcoming football related discourse.

Bloody hell it’s only Jan 4th and my imagined world has already shrunk significantly. But thank you. Best not let me wander on deluded. (or more deluded might be more accurate).

I haven’t checked the OED but is this the first recorded use of the term “football land life”?

A magical and poetic place it seems.

IBut does it refer only to professional football?

Are Sunday mornings on Hackney Marshes situated in “football land”?

Important questions.

#CFC #MCICHE #ENZO

MSM includes casualties in headlines as soon as they’re available. Yet the majority of news, commentary and official responses to whatever took place in Caracas seems to be devoid of recognition that civilians may have been injured or killed. Not a smooth operation if you’re killing innocents.

Spiralling negativity leavened with regular bouts of chaotic change is a drug. Been that way for a long, long time.

In the Book of Revelation one of the horseman of the Apocalypse is described thus: “The third, a food merchant, rides a black horse symbolizing famine and carries the strawberry & mint flavoured After Eights”. It’s the end of days I’m afraid.

They didn’t show the other Barnes penalty shout where he should have been booked for diving. Went down far too easily on both occasions, which I’m sure was in the official’s minds.

It is now theoretically possible to be the Man Who Shopped for a Liberty Valance.

The band Cast on stage at the Liverpool Olympia

Great homecoming from Cast at the Liverpool Olympia. #Cast #AllChange

Brings his career there to a shuttering halt..

Was that when they were trialling the new Schrödinger ball? There were a lot of problems with it if I remember rightly. The refs kept seeing it both in the net and missing the goal at the same time. So back they went back to Adidas or Nike or whatever.

“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Ciarraí anymore. “

Brendon Gleeson in The Guard

Happy 40th birthday to Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain - released as a single on this day in 1985

#Levy

While the fashion world is still reeling from the death of Giorgio Armani they now have to contemplate the son of the founder of Mr Byrite leaving Spurs after 25 years. Tough day. #whenitrainsitpours

I remember my mother pointing out at various points through the seventies how he was reported as British when he was winning and a Hungarian immigrant when he was losing.

Van Morrison - Hard Nose The Highway album cover.

'Teetering on the brink of ridiculousness, this 4-and-a-half-minute pocket prog symphony manages to maintain its balance through the sheer bloody-minded commitment to the material from all of its players'

Snow In San Anselmo, Hard Nose The Highway The Strange World Of #VanMorrison

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The one on the left looks a bit comfortable and satisfied with itself. Not unlike Leeds of that era.

Worse than that, the Owl was the badge on “dirty” Leeds shirts in the 60’s and early 70’s. They only had to look at the ‘70 cup final. So not a wise move….

The tfl journey planner gives you that info.

Football yes, but If you’re at all interested in going into midwifery in a small way, this is the place for you…. Your essential pitch is the updated Jesus experience (stable=garage)

Apparently they’re looking to establish whether the world’s most powerful microscope can see the thread by which our CL hopes are hanging……ah it may just be a bit of dust on the lens.