An advert for the game.

Champions’ League Cornball Stuff

An advert for the game. Rollercoaster excitement. Competitive but not much for the referee to do. Little rolling around, few histrionics. Late goal for the side playing more attacking football but expending far more energy. Later equaliser for the team able to change their approach when needed. Extra time, penalty, saved, still one-all after two hours. Penalties.

The Gimp had a good night in goal. Some bloke De Matteo met down the Job Centre on Thursday did okay at right back. Much as it hurts to say it, Ca$hley Cole had a good game, as did Fat Frank and Predator. It’s also nice to see John McEnroe having a second career in football under the new name of Arjen Robben.

Skagboys is going back to the library

Cheerio (again) to the boys from Leith. Towards the end of the book Sick Boy asks: “Did they change the motto ay Leith fae ‘persevere’ tae ‘shite it’ when ah wisnae looking?”. I had a second bout of rhyming slang blindness with ‘Zorba’ until realising that ‘sick’ becomes ‘seek’, rhyming with ‘the Greek’.

Apparently it speaks volumes about a person when the one political issue they get motivated by is the threat to our libraries. That’ll be me, then. I’ve lived under them all, they all tax me to the hilt, make sure I can’t ever get ahead, they all fill the bloated, bureaucratic civil service with incompetent, overpaid buffoons, they all look after themselves, not just first and foremost, but exclusively and aggressively, because that’s the nature of politicians. So I’ve not voted for thirty years or so, why would I waste that time? But give me a petition about the libraries...

Hackney Marshes, heartwarming

Sky test match coverage has a grass roots club cricket slot broadcast during the lunch interval. Stoke Newington CC have a home now, as cricket comes to Hackney Marshes. While Westminster crows about the Olympics, the Stoke Newington CC story is one of a cricket club, local level support, and Middlesex cricket development working in isolation with no central support to get going. Sport isn’t optional, nor of secondary importance, it is a foundation of community, there’s nothing like it, there’s nothing more important.