Gary Naylor

I've voted Labour all my life (I even voted "Dobbo for Mayor"!) but, if they retain this, I feel like I've reached a dead end, 42 years on. How it is even being debated is completely beyond me.

Ironically, Michael Keane is Man of the Match!

On the other hand, Jordan Pickford has played 331 times for Everton and no teammate has slapped him even once!

YouTube video by Bundesliga Franz Beckenbauer - Top 5 Goals

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Okay, so a Bale, a Beckham or a Buendia, but nobody does a Beckenbauer...

A ★★★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025) Very much a part two rather than a sequel, we pick up again in a fascist Oz with animals fleeing or in work camps, Elphaba ocassionally flying in as the King of the North (there's more than one Game o...

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A ★★★★★ review of Wicked (2024) Firstly, a warning. To understand fully John M. Chu’s dazzling movie, you have to understand musicals - or, at least, buy into the genre for a couple of hours. Characters sing and dance, the Id is ext...

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Guilty as charged your Honour.

Thanks for being a long term listener. it's been a lot of fun.

Yes, I think it does and I'm sure it's his intention to 9at least in part) explain the rise of Nazism.

But I felt it more explained how a society, a psychology, created the conditions for Nazism to grow, rather than its nuts and bolts ascent from street to Empire.

Semantics probably.

A ★★★★½ review of The White Ribbon (2009) Bleak and austere, Michael Haneke's film carries a little Herzog and a lot of Tarkovsky in its cinematography, pacing and acting. The shots of village life in Germany on the brink of World War become ...

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A ★★★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025) Very much a part two rather than a sequel, we pick up again in a fascist Oz with animals fleeing or in work camps, Elphaba ocassionally flying in as the King of the North (there's more than one Game o...

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Well, the day is finally here. After all that waiting and anticipation, all the speculation in the media and the hideous hype machine in full flow every day. Of course, I'm braced for disappointment, but I'm also full of hope.

I'm seeing Wicked Part Two tonight!

And The Ashes, yes, The Ashes too.

A ★★★★ review of The Choral (2025) Alan Bennett writing, Nick Hytner directing and any number of British thesps giving stagey performances in WW1 Saltaire - could anything be more British? To its credit, this (oh yes, forgot) BBC Film ...

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James McFadden & Steven Thompson go daft for Scotland goals BBC Scotland pundits James McFadden and Steven Thompson, as well as commentator Liam McLeod, go wild as Scotland claim their first men's World Cup place since 1998.

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If first impressions count - What about first balls of an Ashes series? - Guerilla Cricket The first ball of an Ashes series brings to an end all the outside noise, the months of anticipation, the verbal back and forth between former players and the controversial newspaper front pages.

Ahead of the first ball of this Ashes William met former England team psychologist Dr. Steve Bull to look at pressure and impact of first ball moments. Read here and don’t miss tonight’s first ball with us!
#Ashes2025 #Ashes @tonybishop1.bsky.social

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The Pitch Reader’s Art At all levels of cricket, from Sunday beer matches to Ashes Tests, men (and women) stare at a patch of rolled turf, sometimes lay a flat hand on it, sometimes even poke at it with a finger or (heav…

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A ★★★★ review of Nuremberg (2025) It's rare for a film to justify an almost 150 minutes runtime, but James Vanderbilt can be excused. That's because he has to wedge a lot (I mean, a lot!) of exposition in early and then facilitate a s...

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Review: DRIFTING, Southwark Playhouse Ardent Theatre Company focuses on Britain's forgotten twentysomethings - and not just for the plot

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In defence of the 48-team World Cup The World Cup is for the whole world, so why not invite more guests to the party?

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Of course. Will do.

I was. Yes, it was all a little bloodless, The hand of the preview audiences I expect.

I always think it's the mark of a film star to pick their movies.

A ★★★½ review of The Running Man (2025) Going in, you think, "This'll never top Arnie." Coming out, you think, "Well, it didn't top Arnie." in between, you think, "Well, this is kinda okay for this kinda hokum." And it is - not great, but n...

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Hard not to say Emma Stone is a film star.

Not if he just had that towel round his waist...

I found him rather flat in The Running Man which was too long, too mechanical and too serious-minded to get much more than a passing grade from me.

A ★★★ review of Love and Death (1975) More of an extended SNL skit than a fully realised film, it's the guy in the glasses and the beautiful broad, two fish out of water again. You can tick off the references to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in ...

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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds

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I agree.

Interview: 'We Don’t Treat Class With The Attention It Deserves': Ardent Theatre's Mark Sands and Andrew Muir on Bringing Underrepresented Groups to The London Stage It’s easy to forget that, while we all know that theatres have four walls, they also have two doors. The one we all know has bright lights, glossy playbills, a welcoming foyer and, sometimes, a queue ...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR?

It will be if you purchase the superb @wsc.co.uk 2026 calendar, featuring #football #photography by myself, Simon Gill and Paul Thompson - and designed by Doug Cheeseman.

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A ★★★★★ review of Annie Hall (1977) It's dated of course, but perhaps not in the way one might expect. Diane Keaton's look is both of its time and also timeless and she is impossibly charismatic. Obviously (even more so after you've rea...

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Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.