Born Sleepy

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,10260,1653813,00.html

I like the quote about Stan Bowles:

“Bowles is a gambler (his mother once said that if he invested in a cemetery people would stop dying).”

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November 25, 2005
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November 25, 2005

At work, sadly, I’m working on a PC so don’t have access to MarsEdit, which is one reason why I haven’t been posting much recently.

Finally, today, I got round to looking for a bookmarklet which allows me to easily post a Drupal blog entry from Firefox. I found this one, which seems to work quite nicely (I used it for this post).

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November 24, 2005

Sigh.

This was bad. Apparently we have an injury crisis. We certainly have some sort of crisis, although I fear that it may be more to do with the players’ spirit.

My theory is that none of the players understand why George Santos is played for every game when he is fit, and that they are understandably pissed off about it. He started on the bench this time, but ended up on the pitch by the end, up front. Why oh why?

It must be an absolute kick in the teeth for the likes of Stefan Moore to see Santos picked before him up front, and then to be brought on and played out of position on the wing.

I really don’t mind watching us lose (although of course I’d rather watch us win), but I do mind when we look tactically inept, as if Holloway is just trying random throws of the dice to see what will happen.

The unrest in the terraces is rising, and I’ve a nasty feeling that Holloway’s job will be under pressure soon.

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Having had the (somewhat dubious) pleasure of seeing Blondie at the Royal Albert Hall, I have to add it to my list of venues that shall not be visited again (currently topped by Wembley Arena).

The sound might have been great down on the floor in front of the stage, but it was awful up in the gods - no top end at all, leaving everything sounding like it was being played underwater. The drums sounded particularly bad.

Oh dear. It really isn’t a rock venue - too big, no atmosphere, and outrageously priced food and drink, even by london venue standards.

Blondie themselves were patchy - although the aforementioned sound problems made it hard to give a fair assessment. Debbie Harry still has a fantastic voice, but there was far too much nostalgia wafting around, and most of the crowd looked like this was the first gig they’d been to since about 1985!

Supporting Blondie was Hugh Cornwall, he of the Stranglers fame. Again, I still like his voice, but overall he sounded like a bad pub covers-band version of himself!

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