one of the great political songs. nobody's ever getting close to the original, but it feels spiritually right that these boys would cover it...
youtu.be/Czmy33Dqmv0?...
no televised game of football is enhanced by the occasional input of a former referee or linesman. if they had anything interesting to say they'd have never become officials.
think there's a fair chance that city are funneling the revenue from these places through the club.
the headline makes out that it would've been some sort of hastily arranged meeting specific to one side scoring a few corners. in reality it would've been a very brief, quite boring chat amongst dozens of other things that may or may not impact revenues. a piece designed to get reactions, i'd say.
road had a really good side around those years. could probably still name most of the squad - hall, jay, cheetham, moran, gresty, mason, mini mason, brocklehurst, chappell, struminsky, breslin, rothel, mack, bailey. few of them have played for west since.
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
surely the answer to this is that the top brass of the uae did when they signed up to trump's shameless 'board of peace' whilst laughing and joking just weeks ago? let's not pretend that trump, mansour and al mubarak aren't cheeks of the same arse. they're all in it together. scumbags.
the people who run these big clubs are all sub-human scum and need firing into the sea.
i think there's an argument they'd be the biggest club to be relegated since united in '74. it's so weird to me choosing to go through this sort of ongoing football grief in public. have a bit of self-respect and sit in the shed smoking a dooby and crying it out, man.
they definitely look tired, and the manager's left as well. suspect you're right and the padiham and ramsbottom games might prove too much, but you never know. would be weird, and a little sad in a way, if both chorlton clubs exited the counties leagues in the same season.
strange one at west didsbury and chorlton last night. second best against a side from a league below, but scored a late equaliser and won on pens thanks to loanee goalkeeper dougie blight. some season-defining league games upcoming. feels a bit...in flux at the minute.
still laughing at jonathan pearce, full of a cold by the sounds of it, accidentally saying "tottenham are in tubble" just after the spurs v palace game on 5live. don't know why it's so funny to me but there we are.
given the extent of the spurs hex over city, don't think a scenario whereby they finish eighteenth and we get a points deduction and go down in their place should be completely dismissed.
has a manager's position ever been so untenable after two games? appointing tudor was clearly a mad shout based on his style, personality and previous jobs. guess they were thinking short sharp shock represented a good chance of a few points, but fuck me.
turn a blind eye to all types of creative accounting and just crack on.
big developments in the business end of the season title predos spready...
whatever happens is as much about setting the tone for next season and beyond. we're more than likely not going to win the big trophies, but whether we go out on our shield in them or exit with a whimper will have a big bearing on whether this squad has the right mentality beyond may, i feel.
newcastle could be extremely feisty when you see the atmosphere last night and factor in the ticketing and all-day boozing. the season could quite feasibly fizzle out quickly as so few of the match-winners are in form, but at the same time we shouldn't forget that we're ten unbeaten.
surely it's based on cumulative history and not something which resets every august? it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy for arsenal because they've been there and not got over the line so many times, whereas i don't think city have let a title slip since, idk, the seventies.
there's this neverending ideological argument about the state of play. the league has rarely been more competitive and the mid-table is much deeper, but at the same time the football has become too direct, stale and less technical. these aren't contradictory statements. both things can be true.
this arsenal side won't be remembered alongside their other modern title-winning teams, but why would you care about that if you were a supporter? it's a bit joyless, sure, but lots of champions have been and the record books don't remember the aesthetics. getting over the line is all that matters.
slightly deflated about dropping points at home, but both liverpool and united getting a late tickling makes up for it to some degree.
some of the penalty appeals tonight were utterly, utterly embarrassing.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.
for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick
ground fourteen - the butchers arms for droylsden v west didsbury and chorlton in the rearranged manchester premier cup quarter-final. £7, attendance 390. very one-sided despite there being a level between the two sides. plenty of gallows humour in the away end as it threatens to go a bit tits. 4-0.
donnarumma, khusanov, dias, guehi, ait-nouri, rodri, bernardo, cherki, foden, marmoush, semenyo.
can we just have a solid twenty minutes from jjb on villa?
must've been stood right by us.
at droylsden. don't like giving dave pace money because he's one of the biggest cunts in the non-leagues but it's only around the corner. easily the loudest p.a in football. did my usual circling of the ground beforehand, 'if you don't know me by now' by simply red blaring out across the whole town.
duncan jenkins would've never.
