Ways to tell you’re watching the game alone #1
Musing that the words ‘GNEVILLE’ and ‘PNEVILLE’ would both be pronounced ‘Neville’. Then desperately trying to find something interesting about this ‘fact[…]

How to be part of your national squad for euro 2004.
Visit the Panini website.
View their exciting selection of e-cards
Crudely photoshop (or even better, paint) a picture of your head onto a sticker.
Voila! Instant immortality.
“Hold on a seco[…]

the Sporting class war
So I happened to be walking past a sports shop in Leafy Uxbridge and noticed the new England football shirts were 25 quid, then I saw the other nation’s were a steep but usual 40 quid. Then though, I saw the England rugb[…]

Idiot Alan Watches Time Shift TV
I (sigh) found myself watching E4+1 “live” feed of that house, and my brain was going “OMG, it’s not E4+1 it’s E4–1, this was an hour ago”. Then while subconsciously flipping […]

tell us the korrekt jargon plz!!??
While helping my friends T&G unpack yesterday after hurriedly moving house to lovely walthamstow, we discovered a JAR OF CLOVES in a BAG OF CLOTHES!!! We tried to work out what kind of literary device/joke thi[…]

A Question of Sport
OK two questions actually abt C4’s Dream Team extravanganza last night (f.my auld professional contrarian pals D.Kelly and S.Cosgrove).
i. What wz the TERRIFIC music being used behind Alan ‘Dirty’ Shearer? andi[…]

HA! (see parenthesis middle of 4th sentence for clear evidence of agnes martin’s genius)[…]

The Top 100 is pretty light on adaptations of books. This is interesting due to the heritage film industry that does crank them out as the classier side of film culture. Well you will be pleased to hear that Time Regained is indeed an adaptation. Of […]

Hundreds protest at TV ‘seance’ 2 BBC news stories (again, sorry)
“Although Channel 4 received 487 telephone calls and e-mails complaining about the show, it said only 30 came after transmission”. One-time Christian Derren ups[…]

TANYA’S MAILBOX
Just a quick delve here, ignoring self confessed Bowiephile and dead Labour Party leader John Smith’s rant about the title of THAT Bowie alubm “And for fuck’s sake, it’s TRAFOZSATSFM, not TFAR…&#822[…]