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Ritchie Manic provided my favourite ever live music moment.....surveying the timeless Vale of Avalon sunset on the Friday night at Glastonbury 1993(?) he uttered " aah they should build a couple of by-passes over this fuckin shithole"

Bog standard pre season fare, barely a challenge in sight. Not a lot to go on, Mainz could've mudered us on the break a few times though.

I can explain that...it all started here.... ❤️ This was before Imran Khan got inside her (head?! ) and she converted. To Islam.

An empty husk of a club. They may never recover from Short's regime. Regardless of our two relegations in a lot iof ways he makes Ashley look competent. Only Short selling the club at a massive personal loss can save them, at the moment they appear to be drifting to divi 3...again...

They had a man over on either the left or right for most of the game, the players either didn't spot it and correct it or didn't give enough of a shit to. The ground was in a hay field. There was a sort of family day going on pre match with a dj and a little stage set up. Afterwards there was a lad and his very fit missus singing Lionel Ritchie songs, then the whole Mainz squad came out on to the stage where another very fit lass interviewed them and made the new lads in the squad shout " ICH BIN EIN MEENZER!!" into the mic. I'd forgotten how sexy German girls sound when they speak English. I drank my own body weight in Bitburger. The end.

I now now know what Meenzer means

At security Heathrow T5 en route to Mainz, Martin Keown and his tiny blonde wife, he's been pulled for having a 50p bottle of water, tight fucker necked it on the spot rather than chuck it away

I saw the at Southampton Guildhall on the same tour, Siamese Dream? After Kurt did himself in they were the biggest band on the planet, mostly on the back of the for me inferior follow up Melon Collie and the infinite sadness. The first album Gish is a belter too

That new new track is all over the radio like before 6 music was the only one that would touch them. Don't mind the track tbh, but they've mostly passed me by in general anyway

Maybe aye....maybe no..... SportTV: Benfica have accepted a €15m offer from Newcastle for Greek midfielder Andreas Samaris. #NUFC

Yowsayowsayowsa http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/control-intelligence-mikel-merinos-arrival-13396858

Ashley plainly refusing to pay Delphs wages

Northern echo reporting Mbemba available for transfer

Are you implying that you can my good sir?...

Saw Dunkirk yesterday too, difficult to say that I "enjoyed" it, probably due to the fact that it's a fairly truthful account of what actually happened. Agree with Tooj, not many films have moved me in the way this did., a stunning piece of cinema. Mark Rylance is probably one of history's greatest character actors, he's brilliant as the skipper of one of the "little ships". Didn't know till this morning that Harry Styles was in it, he was very good too and could have a big future as an actor ahead of him.

Us being in for Hagi under KK rings a bell.... I liked Batty but imagine signing Hagi instead

The current Mrs PL is in floods...her favourite band. I only listened to LP after meeting her, he had an awful early life apparently. Strangely I've been working with a lad who plays Radio X, which I'm not that familiar with, all day. They played "doesn't really matter" about 3pm today. RIP Chester. Hope you find peace ✌️

Is it fair to say that there was, back in the heady days of May, a school of journalistic thought that stated Rafa wouldn't be happy to be an also ran in the Premier League?..... am thinking that the window so far has pretty much blown that out of the water. The level of player we're recruiting is for stability and consolidation rather than an assault on 5/6/7. I don't have a problem with that, any club owned by Ashley will be subject to major financial constraints compared with our competitors. I think I'm a tiny bit surprised that the manager has settled for this level tbh, that for me suggests a couple of conflicting things though; one is that Rafa is here for the long term and can put up with Ashley's shenanigans in return for being able to mould the club into precisely what he wants, however long the process takes due to the owner's well documented "thriftyness". The other is simple, he's one fraught phone call away from telling fatty to shove it. His comments from Dublin strike the same realistic tone as earlier statements but seeing the pond in which we are fishing it's him who's taking them most literally. Just hope he can carry the more histerical elements of our support with him.

Fun Ulster fact of the day I used to work with a lad who played in goal for Ards, and Linfield iirc, Andy Macdonald. He held the distinction of being coached by two ex NUFC players, Willie McFaul and Tommy Wringht

Went to a silver wedding anniversary bash yesterday...we had the couple round for dinner in March, the girl has apparently lost 3 stone to fit into her wedding dress which she wore for the whole day yesterday, complete with tiara, she also wore the same shoes from 1992 as well. Sit down meal at 4, evening guests at 7pm, live band. Staggered home, witnessed a lad being chased on to the railway track which runs along the back of our house. The current Mrs PL phoned the police. Got home and someone had left a can of San Miguel on the doorstep. The police didn't call back.Am currently still feeling a bit pissed due to spending 8 hours drinking Kronenbourg 1664, something I've not done since around the time this couple got married. Am thinking yesterday was quite bizarre

I hadn't clicked on it to check. Agree with your sentiments. Might go sit in the garden