Alex

Still on Channel4+1 @Howmanheyman if you want to catch the last half hour

Even wears a Panama hat

Tells it like it is

In the Fulham match I’m going for 8 mins injury time (that actually lasts 10)

I think there’s only a handful of championship players that have ever commanded that sort of fee. Excluding players who’ve just been relegated from the PL, obviously. Also get the feeling he hung around seeing if the club was going places and the owners seem to have confirmed they’re a selling club for now, at the very least. The only teams quoted as being interested are lower half PL sides and they’ve only had one actual bid for him, as you allude to. £25m is ridiculously optimistic for someone unproven at that level. They also all seem to regard him as some sort of wonder kid despite his being 23.

Holt, the bloke who visited Saudi for sporting events long before they bought us, has long been one of the faux moral outrage lot

I caught about 10 mins of Aquaman last night. How do people sit through hours of that shite, man? Absolutely fucking rancid

Similar to me. I’m going to get pissed and give it a miss

I passed the acid test with flying colours

If those players show any more naivety they’ll be believing Twitter ITKs next

Not as embarrassing as owning up to listening

Yep, 100% this

Apparently he lost his blob because Vorderman and the ex-Marine / Labour candidate who is going to beat him at the next election questioned his record. He said earlier this year that he would eradicate involuntary veteran homelessness. It’s gone up 14%. His response to being called out was to say the bloke had served 5mins (actually 7 years and became a captain in that time).

Not sure re: his own form since he went there. But the (Steven Gerrard coached) side he’s playing for over there are on a nine match / two month winless streak

Definitely happening, given the source

He’s a cross between an 8 and a 10. A false 9

Half of a double pivot at that

The Spanish language original ‘Open Your Eyes’ (with Penelope Cruz in the same role) is good too

The Gooch too iirc

In America standard for a bottle of spirits is, iirc, 750mls. Here / the EU it’s 700mls. But the bottles are the same size. You just get two shots less in the ones here. It would be funny as fuck if they just did the same, obviously much more noticeably in the case of it only containing a pint of wine. The other thing it’s only going to apply to British wine-makers English wine is actually very good. But it’s low yield and expensive due to the conditions here. It makes up less than 1% of the UK market. Despite it being low yield they can’t even sell all the stuff they produce. Because it’s not well known so why would your average punter pay £20+ for a bottle of Chapel Down sparkling wine when they can get supermarket champagne cheaper? So, all in all, it’s not really something the DBT should be crowing about

That figure seems a bit high

BBC iPlayer. I think all 3 parts are available. But I’ve only watched the first one and that definitely is. They are all about an hour long. I knew quite a bit about him as I love the Sherlock Holmes stories, especially the four novels. But there was quite a lot I didn’t know too

If you’re into that sort of thing, which I suspect most of you aren’t, the Lucy Worsley Arthur Conan-Doyle thing is good.

Quite fond of Xmas cake like. Possibly for nostalgic reasons. My granny’s older sister used to post one up from Northwood, where she’d moved after the war. It arrived in the post in a tin about mid-September and it had been fed about a quart of Sherry and brandy by Xmas time