At least Hearts don't roll over and die like Celtic.
Alistair Burns 🏴🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦
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Bristolian, lover of good music, decent nosh, cats and dogs. Often seen on a bicycle. Squash partner of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Dolly truly was a legend. She never forgot her roots and I bought all of her bluegrass albums. She also didn't keep her money to herself but used it for educational purposes. Sleep well Dolly.
I have to confess I would approve of hydration breaks in football matches when I'm cooking fish pie.
Coventry City suffering a hard lamping so far.
Liverpool seem to be very keen on Minteh. I feel he dropped a level when he moved from EastEnders to Call The Midwife.
If you are the person who created the instructions for attaching straps to the Pixel Watch 5 then consider yourself lucky I do not have a horse whip to hand.
No hydration break, no half time show, no Infantino, proper football.
Upcoming announcement from NASA. My suspicion is the Kennedy Space Center will be renamed The Trump-Kennedy Space Center.
Love seeing Seb Coe on TV. Remember him from around 74-75 racing my mate Gary in a 3,000 metres race somewhere in The Midlands, likely Warley. Astonishingly exciting watching 2 schoolboys battling it out. Gary ended up serving 7 years at medical school. Seb, like Brandreth, an acceptable Tory.
I hope the BBC pay Steve Backley good money. Javelin, discus, shot maybe within his purview. But add in long jump. triple jump, high jump, much of the decathlon and pentathlon, a legend. Meanwhile Andrew Cotter bypassed by Steve Cram for sprints, scandalous!
This amused me last night at the Arsenal v Como game. Pre-orders for the Google Pixel 11 opened four and a half hours before kick off! I tried to point it out to the club on their MySpace account.
European 100M final commentators Steve Cram and Colin Jackson. Sadly the BBC have the greatest ever sprint commentator Mr Andrew Cotter twiddling his thumbs.
So pleased for Jakob Ingebrigtsen after the year he had letting the world know his father made his life and his brothers' lives a misery.
I got thrown into a Senior Boys 400M hurdles when I was 13 and was leading before I crashed and burned on the 8th hurdle. But hurdling the steeplechase, thanks but no thanks. Kudos to the gym master who bought me a pint on the way home in a pub opposite Silbury Hill.
Watching the European Athletics Championships with Spar's sponsorship of the athletes' numbers reminds me of my brother who disappeared 51 years ago. The trend at his school was to ask "How are you Spar?" and reply "I am Fine Fare". Echoes of Genesis' Aisle Of Plenty but Bishop's Road got in first!
I wonder if Tyson Fury has gone to Dublin to greet his old mate Daniel Kinahan for his next Netflix series?
Infantino and Beckham won't win any friends by not attending the Arsenal game.
Arsenal, as ever, keeping the start of their live match coverage very quiet. Ideally before 2pm.
BBC2 tells me how lucky I was to see The Beautiful South on the Glastonbury Acoustic Stage in 2005 as they split up due to musical similarities the following year. Blackbird On The Wire in my all time top 5 with Hong Kong by Gorillaz and Simon And Garfunkel Dangling Conversation.
Almost 10 months after redundancy at the company I worked for for 10 years I have and interview. I am told they are more than keen to get me back. At least I got to see House Of The Dragon and other stuff in the interim.
I may be late to the party but this guy on Newsnight appears to be remarkably blue. Hope his away strip is more measured.
The behaviour of the asylum seeker protesters inclines me towards accepting the asylum seekers and sending the protesters to Rwanda.
So Trump's latest executive order denied himself US citizenship if applied retrospectively, good work!
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/b... Unfcukingbelievable! Rid football of this scumbag immediately if not sooner.
FIFA Executives Were Given Ultimatum to Approve World Cup Privatization Plan
The day before the World Cup final, key FIFA figures faced a stunning demand to sign off on a multibillion-dollar privatization project.
nytimes.com
Good to see the Todd Blanche nomination struggle has had a positive effect on Mitch McConnell's health.