Outfield Goalies
You don’t see them much these days, what with three subs being drawn from five named replacements. I have to confess it’s my favourite thing in football.
I like seeing an amateur goalie at the top level, the mixture of t[…]

The trailer for Oscar nominated German film Downfall is very disappointing. At no point does the very starry (vor a German film) cast shake off the grimness fo a end of WWII Nazi flick and settle down to the Milton Bradley game of the title.
Of cour[…]

JUDGE JOHN ROCKIST: apologies for neglecting my Dub Dob Deed blogging duties one and all, I blame my rotten old sodden alcoholic lifestyle, I’ve been dead in a bin for the past few days and have only just managed to drag my disgusting semi-cada[…]

WHILST WE’RE ON AN OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN TIP, you really all need to listen to PWL Radio which is bloody fookin’ awesome. I have known this ever since a drunken Friday two weeks ago. I returned to the office a couple of bottles of Merlot to […]

ULTIMATE POP STAR last night on Channel Four is just the type of Lists Programming I like – based solely on COLD HARD SALES FIGURES instead of the general poll of the Kate Thorntons of this world. Along with the sheer JOY that comes with the fa[…]

Last week I was slightly concerned that Channel 4’s lovely Popworld* was “on the turn” (as Simon’s parents might have put it). They started out by apologising for their title sequence containing Busted, Mystiq and S-Club, befo[…]

Batman in Love
So, I’m reading Pop Out: Queer Warhol, edited by Jennifer Doyle e al, –is a mostly useless academic wank job about Andy loving other men–there was a line here or a line there that might be useful, but I was disappoint[…]

FDNL
Oh Cristiano, how we mocked thee. Let me count the ways. How your endless cheeky flicks and attractive stepovers wowed the world and disgusted the TMFD staff. How we smugly nodded along with Alan and Gordon every time the words ‘end produc[…]

Views
Minor excitement today as I realised that my new desk has a great view right over the wall into the back garden of Buck1ngham P@lace! I will naturally be keeping an eye open for monarchs, courtiers, individuals in Nazi costumes, etc etc.[…]

Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land!!
England football teams have won twice in two days!! On Wednesday night the National Game XI (made up of players under 23 from non-league football) put three past Holland and last night the Women’s team p[…]