Sir Leigh of Somerset

It's the lacking of self-awareness and the utter hypocrisy on Sinclair's part that makes me smile to myself. Sinclair is a self-confessed (pleaded guilty), convicted racist who, on such a very sad day for people of all nationalities, ethnicities and religions, feels the need to remind us all that racism is alive and well in the UK.

I find threads headed 'Annoying things people say in football chat on otib' very annoying....... ? (Especially when a responder to such a headed thread illuminates their oh so clever comments with an emoji or two !)

Love the irony........

That was the first thought that entered my head but you beat me to it. God, i feel old...........

Didn't go but saw some of it on TV. I'm with Marcus X in that i thought Jungblud was brilliant. And especially this track;

A better version;

LJ is going to have to learn this song;

True. Which, it seems, echoes society in general..............

So you do think that someone likes them.........?

Well, your 'hollowed sands' upset me..............

Well, you obviously haven't met him.........

Absolutely gorgeous. And the song isn't too bad either......

Or this?

Wow, the entertainment at football matches has certainly got very modern in recent years.......

Keith Fear......

Why wait almost a year to review the game?

And he's not doing too badly with next to no money at Shrewsbury.......

And, under Ashton/Johnson, we copied the Man U play book.......

Fair point. For them, i offer 'the fact that Tuesday 1st March 2022 was also 'National Fruit Compote Day'............

Happy National Peanut Butter Lovers's Day (Yep, really.......)

Mike Scott of The Waterboys is one of the finest songwriters around. The current awful situation in The Ukraine just reminded me of this song which is one of his best ones from the early days ('A Pagan Place' - 1984). Quite poignant lyrics really. The Red Army Blues The Waterboys Red Army blues :: Waterboys When I left my home and my family my mother said to me "Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts it's how many people you set free" So I packed my bags brushed my cap Walked out into the world seventeen years old Never kissed a girl Took the train to Voronezh that was as far as it would go Changed my sacks for a uniform bit my lip against the snow I prayed for mother Russia in the summer of '43 And as we drove the Germans back I really believed That God was listening to me We howled into Berlin tore the smoking buildings down Raised the red flag high burnt the reichstag brown I saw my first American and he looked a lot like me He had the same kinda farmer's face said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee Then the war was over my discharge papers came Me and twenty hundred others went to Stettiner for the train Kiev! said the commissar from there your own way home But I never got to Kiev we never came by home Train went north to the Taiga we were stripped and marched in file Up the great siberian road for miles and miles and miles and miles Dressed in stripes and tatters in a gulag left to die All because Comrade Stalin was scared that we'd become too westernized! Used to love my country used to be so young Used to believe that life was the best song ever sung I would have died for my country in 1945 But now only one thing remains but now only one thing remains But now only one thing remains but now only one thing remains The brute will to survive!

Oh, i don't know Major. He's certainly got the edge on you.....

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it the most never use it. (Anonymous)

Mike Scott of The Waterboys is one of the most under-rated but utterly brilliant lyricist around.

Now that's something (among the many things) i didn't know. Thanks for that. Apparently. Melville was Moby's great great great Uncle.