The FT Appeal: THE GRECIAN EARN*
Regular readers of the Trigger will have noticed a certain bias in favour of Exeter City Football Club on here. Two of our regulars are badge-wearing, card-carrying Grecians, and several more have come along to City g[…]

Strangest football story of the week.[…]

Battle Of The Books
I’d not seen this BBC4 show before I stumbled across it last night, and missing the first few minutes I was interested to see what happened to the book that lost. The format, not a million miles from the old Freakytrigger fe[…]

I have just given You Whores a cursory glance for the first time and I was amused soon enough. The idea’s seeming unoriginality quickly dissolves once you recognise the quality of craft and content (simple but stylish and effective design, very[…]

It seems clear to me that the animal and fantasy characters in the Shrek films are much more emotive than the human ones. It seems odd that this was not clear to the film-makers, especially as the crux of Shrek 2 turn Shrek himself into a human for a[…]

Crunchy Pig Goodness
Pete’s post reminded me that I ate some great porky bits last night. They were proper Pig Back, not crunchy corn snack with pig flavour sprayed on them. Nice and crunchy, with good fatty greasy bits. No gnarled bits that I[…]

‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ left me outraged. Through some convoluted process I can’t myself divine, Michael Moore was able in mid-2004 to release — as in show in multiplexes worldwide — a film criticizing the entire course of US […]

If the great god Poseidon made a record it could not be wetter than the puddly emanations of Irish good-for-nothing Damien Rice, a member of that lowest of all pop castes the singer-songwriter. Singer-songwriters need a gimmick, the simple truth bein[…]

What fre(nc)sh madness is this. I was in my local the other night The Haringey Arms, and I heard someone asking for a pint of BombARDeeAY. The bar monkey was as confused as I was. He question the order. The fella repeated his order BombARDeeAY, and p[…]

In this month’s Four Four Two (a good read tho not enough coverage given to Euro 2004 review I thought – then again I guess we don’t need yet more pages and pages devoted to THAT disallowed goal) magazine Jurgen Klinsmann re-affirms[…]