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He's cooking for a family of 9. (There aren't 9 of them, but he's cooking for them anyway.)

Definitely, O'Neill was probably my first proper hero in black and white. Doesn't matter that it didn't last or that even the Mighty Embryo couldn't stop him from being humiliated in Luxembourg.

In unconnected news, I just called someone a "fucking dolt" on Facebook for making a sub-Leazes lazy comment about them Islams. Counting down the minutes till the police arrive at the door. #socialmediamartyr #innit

"You mean I can.... order a half-time pie on my smartphone? "

I was going to say, isn't that nice? And I was all for the NUFC-inflicting until "and Barcelona about 2 hours down the road". Defining what constitutes a deal-breaker when it comes to your kids and their allegiance is a personal business and all, but that's got to come pretty close. (As for thinking about being a daddy, only very recently, really - and realistically it almost certainly won't happen, but still. I thought I'd told my brain what's what, but apparently even it can't override the tick-tock-tick-tock of the mid-30s. )

Innit? It's enough to make a man a little broody...

Aye, we're petrified of having an argument with Stevie like. Having arguments is the whole point of Stevie. For what it's worth I do think you get disproportionate stick when you come up with an offbeat view on something, but then you do have a bit of a history of that kind of thing...

As if I'm judging her on that kind of thing man. I mean I'm reasonably sure she's pretty and all, but she can hold her own in a conversation about Carrie Underwood album tracks and that's what *really* matters.

By some quirk of fortune or coercion, the Fish's lass is really lovely. I hope to God she realises the error of her ways before it reaches the marriage stage.

Aye, true enough

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba butter, oh I could eat all night and I probably will But I'd sooner smear some lard right on to a slice of Hovis Yeah yeah yeah

David Edgar, there's one.

Wey he's certainly not mine.

Do Canio? I wouldn't do him with yours.

...make her inspect the dusty old relics?

I was going to say Paul Robinson (despite Gullit using him as a pawn) but apparently we had him from the ages of 19 to 21, which isn't exactly "youngster" territory. James Coppinger maybe? Huntington was quite hot in a scally kind of way. Still not entirely sure why we turfed him while holding on to Ramage.

It was an equaliser on the night, putting France ahead on aggregate. Without it, the only thing the Irish were guaranteed was the lottery of penalties™. Of course that was the year FIFA made a late change to introduce seeding to the play-offs after their precious France and Portugal failed to get through automatically. Now that's something Ireland, Bosnia and co. should still be angry about.

I love the way that myth has established itself.

Can't believe you thought this was a good enough reason to ruin your tantalising record of 50,001 posts with a final contribution of "I was thinking that like. About cooking a curry from a classic Italian cook book I mean. I've already had a wank."

They could have saved themselves all those words by just writing "Pop music still exists".

Oh christ

Why risk diluting the Bulleit?