The World Cup has started at last. I watched the pre-tournament concert on TV on Thursday night, which was a bit disappointing. Instead of showing it live, the BBC showed edited highlights, but their idea of a highlight is not necessarily mine. For example, Amadou & Mariam were on the bill but didn’t feature at […]
Entries Tagged as 'Football'
It’s all kicked off
June 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life
Tags: Football·TV·World Cup 2010·World music
It must be a World Cup year
May 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on It must be a World Cup year · Music
All the signs are there: feature-length adverts for Nike, a collective knot in the stomach, St George’s flags flying from every white van, tenuous football-related marketing for a range of diverse products… and a new Spizzenergi song! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video It’s a tradition or an old […]
Dream Team
May 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on Dream Team · Life
In all the excitement of the election I totally missed this event – Tony Carr’s testimonial. Joe Cole, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand all there in West Ham colours, Di Canio and Zola on the pitch together… it must have been a great night for the fans. A little depressing for the Hammers fans […]
Another classic Chris Kamara moment
April 4th, 2010 · Comments Off on Another classic Chris Kamara moment · Life
I stopped watching Gillette Soccer Saturday a while ago for some reason, and yesterday was out campaigning in Horsham anyway, but it looks like I missed a classic… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Good omen
April 10th, 2009 · Comments Off on Good omen · Life
West Ham are away to Spurs tomorrow. Mark Lawrenson reckons Spurs will win 2-0. Good. With Lawro’s appaling record in predicting results we should be OK.  Last week he thought Liverpool would draw with Fulham (they won), West Brom would beat Stoke (they lost), Chelsea would draw against Newcastle (they won), Spurs would draw (they […]
A good day
March 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Life, Music
Today ticks all the boxes for being a good day: West Ham didn’t lose Man Utd did lose – thus keeping the Premier League interesting for a while longer Crawley Town won – keeping them within touching distance of the play-offs Went shopping and came back with what I went out for (new trousers) Went […]
Hair today
February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
There was a vaguely amusing article/interview in the sport section of the Guardian today about Marouane Fallaini, Everton’s Belgian rising star.  For fairly obvious reasons, the writer kept coming back to that huge perm of of his. Apparently all the Harry Enfield ‘scouser’ wigs are being dusted off now and being worn as Fellaini wigs. […]
Tags: Football
Bye bye Bellamy
January 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
Just a week ago I could well have read this news with some degree of despair, but after a weekend that saw the Hammers win well without Bellamy even on the bench I am a bit more sanguine about our future prospects.
Cameron’s new plan
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
Having failed to excite anybody with his few, vague and contradictory policies, it appears that David Cameron now plans to rescue the country using a variation of the Pygmalion effect. What he seems to be saying is that he does not need any policies because he will achieve success merely by winning an election. His […]
Posponed?
January 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Looking at the Premier League fixtures for the next few weeks, I noticed that the game between Newcastle and Sunderland that was due to be played on Monday Feb 2nd has been postponed. It will now be played on Sunday 1st Feb and I am confused. Surely ‘postponed’ means to be put back until a […]
