My previous boss in London had a Catholic friend who was a dedicated Crystal Palace fan. He used to take his kids along to every match. During a particularly bad patch in their modest history he used to joke that when he was getting one of his sons ready for the game one Saturday the […]
Read MoreFrom Friday’s Telegraph: “The head teacher of a girls’ secondary school has suspended 40 pupils after what she described as an ‘absolutely frightening’ case of bullying. “Pamela Orchard took the action after viewing CCTV footage of the incident of ‘mass intimidation’ in which the large group of girls formed a circle around one 15-year-old pupil […]
Read MoreFOX Sports has a story about racist chanting by the Spanish crowd during the England-Spain Under-21s friendly yesterday. This relevant snippet is appended: “The 66-year-old Spain coach admits he made the comment about Henry. He says it was not meant as a racist remark but was to motivate Jose Antonio Reyes, Henry’s Arsenal colleague, who […]
Read MoreIt’s time for me to join the “writing about cricket while Fallujah burns” tendency—if I’m quick enough, that is. My dad never misses an opportunity to bang on about the glories of the Lancashire League, but I forgot to link him to the latest post about it over at Harry’s Place, a ‘Blog where other […]
Read MoreCatastrophic irony failure: yesterday’s You And Yours on Radio 4 juxtaposed an item about Eliot Spitzer’s deliciously successful strike against price fixing in the US insurance industry with one about how a local authority in the Taunton area wants pubs and bars in the area to introduce a “minimum drink price” scheme to reduce binge […]
Read MoreAs predicted, Ruud is getting his comeuppance and, also following that post and the associated commentary, Football365 has a round-up of the varied press on the Biggest Game of The Season So Far. In response to the commenter who complained that Arsenal had been doing so well because “premiership teams oil themselves up and bend […]
Read MoreThey certainly weren’t irresistible today, but Arsenal, at their best, still astonished. There were times when they made Man Utd look like an infants school team in midfield; shame they couldn’t finish anything. The simple truth is you can’t afford to make a mistake like Sol Campbell did at Old Trafford. Man U’s talent and […]
Read MoreA poster going by the name of “YellowFeather” over at The Motley Fool has a theory why David Beckham thought it was okay to have the last “word” in his on-the-pitch feud with Thatcher [that’s the footballer, not the former UK Prime Minister or any of her relatives] during the England vs Wales World Cup […]
Read MoreOf course, if I did own a TV in this year of 2004, I could watch the alleged ex-lover of a waning international football star masturbate a pig. [Er, thanks, Laban.]
Read MoreAt my sister’s I also took advantage of access to Sky Sports to watch Villa draw entertainingly away at Blackburn. These are two Premiership teams so ordinary their shirts are sponsored by firms you’ve never heard of, yet the speed and quality of the play was so much better than, say, ten years ago, that […]
Read MoreSomeone on a Gillingham FC discussion board is claiming to be me. He/she linked to this site. Presumably because PooterGeek is less popular than Gillingham I am recording a spike in visitors. For the benefit of puzzled newcomers, I have no idea who “bomber_007” is and no interest in the Gills—and I bet most of […]
Read MoreNorm rightly links to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s report on Kofi Annan’s speech to the UN. He might have been prompted to do so by Annan’s elegant rhetoric; he might have been prompted to do so by Annan’s breathtaking hypocrisy. Either way, Norm, doesn’t link to another ABC Website story from that page, headlined “Australia […]
Read MoreSven, call the Metaphor Police and have this man arrested.
Read MoreNorman Geras: he supports Manchester United in domestic football, supports Australia in test cricket, and supports military intervention in Iraq; yet lots of people like him. It’s probably a Jedi mind trick.
Read MoreThere are two kinds of wasted young talents: those who seek the guidance they need, but aren’t given it; those who are offered all the guidance they need, but reject it.
Read MoreAs the World’s feeblest Aston Villa supporter it’s always some kind of comfort that my dad’s football team—although it also has an illustrious history—somehow manages to do consistently worse. Admittedly, given the relative smallness of the hometown population, Preston North End have more of an excuse for being footballing under-achievers.
Read MoreThe BBC interviews the woman who made Britain’s silver-medal-winning boxer’s gumshield.
Read MoreNorm beat me to ‘Blogging new ‘Blogger Eric the Unread’s brilliant attack on linguistic determinism this morning. I have looked over Eric’s first post and his third post and they both made me laugh, but I don’t want to read anything about The Village until I’ve seen the film, so, as far as I’m concerned, […]
Read MoreSurely a candidate event for the next Olympic games. [It’s a slideshow, by the way, so keep clicking “Next”.]
Read MoreWhite Russian wins 100m; Black Americans demand recount. South Korean feels similarly as World notes gymnastics judges can’t do sums. To balance the pictures of attractive women around here lately, here’s a link to the BBC’s gallery of Britain’s “oarsome” gold-medal winning rowing crew. And, for all persuasions, there’s always Yahoo’s slideshow of toned, tanned […]
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago Italy beat the USA Olympic basketball team 95–78 in an exhibition match. On Sunday the USA lost 92–73 to Puerto Rico. Click here for an image of seven-foot beige people trying to make sense of the scoreboard [free New York Times registration]. Harry, of Chase Me Ladies, claimed that he […]
Read MoreGolan Cipel, the man at the centre of the sex scandal engulfing former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey declared to the press today, “I am a straight Israeli.” He continued, “Many people in the World today believe that there is something unnatural about my nationality; some even refuse to believe that citizens like me […]
Read MorePeople—especially Adam, Claire and Jon—have been sending me lots of fascinating material and I haven’t had the time to read, comment on, or link to it. I slipped behind on PooterGeek during my ‘Net-less weekend just gone and I haven’t caught up since. Here‘s one from Adam on possibly the nerdiest gathering since the Albert […]
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, Ed Moses was the coolest man on the running track. He dominated World 400m hurdling. Now he is 48, has a dodgy knee, and is planning his comeback.
Read MoreLA Scrabble™ champion adopts Aussie rules.
Read MoreTalking of my dad, he'll be interested in this. It's a shame Harry's Place's comments are currently disabled because I wouldn't be surprised if he'd got one or two things to say about it as well.
Read MoreI like watching Right-wingers flip between saluting Singapore as an “Asian tiger” and squirming at its cramping nannyism. Lately, as this week's Economist reported, the city-state has been doing its best to persuade the rest of the World that the country that banned oral sex between consenting adults and the sale of the magazine Cosmopolitan […]
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