@shaymantim.bsky.social
Sports business and marketing advisor. Currently writing the first-ever biography of Clive Rice.
Still miss Sportsweek on 5Live.
In the same time slot we now have the radio equivalent of The One Show. News lite, sports lite, IQ lite.
One of the Beeb’s poorest programming decisions.
Some thoughts for The Athletic on the FIFA Club World Cup’s biggest contest - the battle to win over new fans.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...
A tournament and a match that re-invented modern cricket. Only 16 ODIs had previously been played. With Kerry Packer as an accelerant two years later, the game was never the same again.
21.06.2025 10:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The only possible choice for the turntable tonight.
He was 23. 23!
Vale, maestro.
First the record now this. More genius from @mickpuck.bsky.social. youtu.be/4mM0RngKHIs
18.05.2025 05:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vale, Cogs.
10.05.2025 05:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Album of the year, maybe the decade. Absolute monster.
23.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just heard about Jamie Muir. This is going straight onto the turntable. Very loud. RIP maestro.
18.02.2025 22:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My thoughts for the BBC on Sam Kerr. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
12.02.2025 19:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never played on it but had more than a few Rum and Cokes in the WIBC box with Steve Camacho!
30.01.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Along with Clive Rice.
28.01.2025 08:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Always been one of my favourite cricket photographs, taken at one of my favourite cricket grounds, the much-missed Antigua Rec. ‘…cuts Colin Croft for six…’ An extraordinary shot in every sense which evokes what it was like to face the West Indies bowlers at that time. Willey was hard as nails.
28.01.2025 08:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A good read, albeit there are way too many distinctly average London record shops listed. www.ft.com/content/e1dc...
18.01.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Late posting this, mea culpa. A thousand thanks to @whisperingbob.bsky.social for featuring my tribute to the late, great Pete Sinfield on your show last Sunday.
Here it is, from 1:29:39.
Glad you liked ‘a poet’s soul’, Bob.
Perudo next time you’re in Glastonbury!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
And not content with that, as Pete Sinfield wrote, here’s Rick with ‘Catherine Howard’ live at the Beeb. Come for the cape, stay for the Moog solo at 2:05
youtu.be/tV80cbqt-zo
First here’s Keith belting out ‘Hoedown’ live in Milan. An absolute monster.
youtu.be/S45ToDvW8UQ
Inspired by my old mate @brianmoore666.bsky.social’s excellent Keith Emerson or Rick Wakeman? question last night - a debate I recall us having at school - here are two clips of the maestros at their peak, in ‘73
20.11.2024 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I once had that discussion with Emo - will tell you what he said next time I see you.
19.11.2024 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vale, old friend. I will miss you more than I can say. www.dgmlive.com/news/peter-s...
15.11.2024 22:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Transcribing an interview using new AI software. Interviewee talks about Ricey getting a five-for. AI renders ‘five-for’ as ‘Pfeiffer’.
First time I heard a cricketer refer to a ‘Michelle’ was mid 80s. My old mate Derek Pringle, from memory.
Cricketers 1, Machines 0.
Very much enjoyed speaking to Notts Cricket Lovers Society last Thursday night about my forthcoming biography of Clive Rice, a hallowed name for the Trent Bridge faithful. Great people, great night.
13.11.2024 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OK let’s give this a go. Music to start with. Something I wrote a couple of years back…https://eightalbums.co.uk/tim-crow.html
12.11.2024 20:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
