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Have to say I don’t know a lot about John Lodge but to all music makers RIP
I love the 1975 playlists. I’d add Lou Reed ‘Kicks’, Be Bop De Luxe ‘Maid in Heaven’ and the game changer. Listening to my uncle’s vinyl’s. Deemed as a novelty song back then along with the Goodies but even as a 9 year old I was nah this ain’t no novelty this is the future
And best album art in ‘75 was Budgie … spent hours sipping Tizer gazing at that shit
Didn’t John Gregory play for England in an either a draw or a loss to Denmark around 83/84? This was when that kind of result was a shock. Before the Scandinavians got big with the likes of AHA, Bjork, and all those Finnish death metal bands.
Work will probably get the better of me this weekend but the tie that tempts me most is Wealdstone v Whitstable Town. The Oystermen of Kent are the only 9th tier team left in the competition. Wealdstone (4 levels above) should see them off but the Bivalve Boys shouldn’t be underestimated. Last year they narrowly missed promotion in the Southern Counties East Premier League play-off and they’re already looking strong this year. And of course the Mollusc Men have a great cup pedigree having won the FA Vase at Wembley last May.
Interesting times at Wealdstone too. Ex-Orient board member, American businessman, Nick Semaca, is due to take over at the end of the month. It’s not confirmed if he’s promising Champions League football in 10 years but nevertheless there’s a buzz of anticipation going around the club. It’s set be an intriguing afternoon at Grosvenor Vale and with the Shellfish Ultras likely to bring a fair few down there should be a decent atmosphere too.
I heard a rumour about someone coming back for Christmas but we don’t like rumours on this board so I’m not gonna say who.
ps: just to add every time I see Matteo Salamon in the Dev squad he looks better each time. Loads of confidence. Good shot stopper. One problem was he was giving the passing out from the back a go but needs more work on it - or just hoof it. Too early for him for the first team yet but he looks very promising looking further ahead.
Kolli always struggled as a lone striker because he’s not a lone striker. He only ever played there because the strikers at the time were either unfit or crap. He’s definitely more of an inside-forward. Dare I say it a No.10.
What’s the tune of the one Fulham used to sing. Something Italian maybe.
Al-Fayed! Oh wee-oh. Al-Fayed! Oh we-oh. He wants to be a Brit And QPR are shit
They don’t sing that anymore. All Al-Fayed references now expunged. Much in the manner they got rid of the Michael Jackson statue. Next they’ll be trying to tell us next Fred West never played for them in the mid-sixties.
On the Jubilee line one summer early afternoon. A bunch of Mancunians got on. One of those seasons the Charity Shield takes you by surprise. I later discovered it was a Manc derby. I’m still not sure if they were City or United but they hollered at the top of their voices to a carriage full of bemused tourists and me (look away now if you’re a serial offendee)
Ji-Sung wherever you may be You eat dogs in your own country It could be worse You could be Scouse Eating rats in your council house
The air is from Lord of the Dance, a hymn written in the 1960s, based on a 19th American Shaker song. The Shakers were the Quakers who have Bury origins. A moment of living Lancashire history at is surrealist.
The Young One’s was not Fry’s first appearance on UC.
Fry wouldn’t have got away with that hesitation these days. Rajan would have passed it over to the other team (and no conferring). Bambi was great but a bit of a pushover.
The more I think about this the more spookier (albeit in a poetic way) it is. The final question on University Challenge last night was about Jilly Cooper. The question was left unfinished (and therefore unanswered) as the question master, Amol Rajan, was interrupted and halted by the stentorian chime of the ‘that’s your lot, game-over gong’ Unlike Mastermind there is no “I’ve started so I’ll finish” in UC it’s “that’s your lot game-over” Jilly Cooper’s death was announced earlier in the day. I’m assuming the show is actually filmed days if not weeks before. The questions compiled months before. An amazing co-incidence. This is the only TV programme I watch every week so I don’t know, did every TV show last night end with a Jilly Cooper tribute?
Ps: I’m not expecting a thread on University Challenge clairvoyance or Jilly Cooper (who I’ve never read) to compete with Charlie Kelman so consider it a starter for ten.
We all dream of a team of Gary Breens, to the tune of Yellow Submarine is both genius and random. I’m sure Breen is on record as saying such a team wouldn’t actually win much.
Pedant alert. Ledesma is from a place approximately 6,000 miles South-West of Portugal known as Argentina. And also, as said, it was Carlisle not Exeter. Knew who you meant tho.
A mate has postulated this theory. The songs are born on away trips on coaches and trains. Given their first airings at away grounds. And if they catch on will soon be sung at home.
Here’s one I heard 100 years or so ago, sung by Arsenal about us - it made me laugh. Can’t think of any other uses for it so could be a one-off. Haven’t heard it for a while.
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