very enjoyable feature on 6music today about what's apparently that last analogue film shop in britain. probably quite famous, but i'd not heard of it. real labour of love stuff. the two guys involved were great. very wholesome. from 1:07:12...
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worse than that.
it may not have resulted in many shots on target, but burnley have got through us regularly, which is a bit worrying. we've been excellent going forward generally, but very wasteful. second halves have been better of late, so here's hoping, but we can't take risks.
know he's an all-time bellend, but portillo's railway programmes are some of the best telly ever made.
there will be little sympathy for chelsea fans who rode the wave of success under abramovich, but it still saddens me seeing the ego with which these grifters are running that club. because nation state ownership exists we sometimes forget how toxic u.s private equity investment is as well. grim.
hypothetically, if villa can sell a warehouse to themselves, and chelsea can sell a hotel to themselves, what's to stop city selling the biggest indoor music venue in britain, built on club land, to themselves for a billion quid? feels like the league are always a year or two behind the accountants.
it isn't right. it will be midweek, evening kick-off. last week or penultimate week, depending on other competitions.
got reminded of this when doomscrolling earlier. still massive. used to love van dyk back in the day. mcfarlane's an incredible vocalist.
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wouldn't mind a little bag of whatever keith hackett's been smoking. bloke's head is on mars.
always enjoy these pods. wondered if sanny and george could each give us a player from each of the three leagues to watch out for in the future? good luck to cambridge, oxford and bury in their big upcoming games.
hope something comes up soon. clicked on a link to your radio show via this. really excellent. lots of stuff on there that's right up my street. all the best.
Breaking my silence round these parts to say I'm currently at a loose end for work. If anyone knows of any (paid) writing or editing gigs they think I might be a decent fit for, I would appreciate being kept in mind
there isn't a like-for-like by any stretch, but there are players technical enough to play there temporarily surely, like zubimendi or eze. if not, you have to be brave enough to tweak the system.
we've got all the best players again and absolutely nobody has been spending the last twelve months saying arsenal have the strongest starting eleven and a very deep squad.
it's a fair point. arsenal have incredible depth but at the same time the squad still feels unbalanced. however, i also think that if you put a real top coach in that same situation, even without the benefit of a transfer window, they would mould someone else into a playmaker.
gabriel is pulling his shirt prior to the pull back. most of the country thinks you'd have to be a lunatic to cite officiating decisions when the same player didn't get sent off for a headbutt...
figured you'd be a good person to ask, but do you know of any local cup finals outside of the north-west counties leagues and npl - women's, youth level, local county level, etc? my calendar is looking bare next few weeks bar saturdays.
what's the local cup final, out of interest?
i don't think there have been many better or more consistent across the league over the season. he's two players in one. i can't remember many who have had that blend of technique, physique and technical smarts so young. i wonder if - should pep stay - he's the bernardo replacement.
i believe he plays for the love of the club. they offered him hundreds of thousands of pounds a week, but he said no, getting to beswick, donning the famous blue shirt, and retracing the footsteps of fitzroy simpson and peter beagrie will be reward in itself.
big fan of the pod, but hopefully we won't get another shameless about-turn into "isn't all this crushing inevitable?" from the very same people who've been spending all season telling us arsenal would win it.
thought it was quite interesting that the best players on the pitch were a local academy graduate, someone city signed a decade ago, and a young playmaker who any big club in europe could've got for £30m but opted against.
stuart maconie's on the telly again, remembering things. any idea where he's from?
ha, please disregard my previous post, i've completely misread what you were saying.
i thought arteta got both his teams and tactics right. on another day one of those chances goes in and the landscape looks completely different. city have lost very few of those type of games in recent years, especially at home. if they're as brave as today, they've still got a decent chance.
we have the trickier fixtures (especially nervous about everton and bournemouth away), but they're going to have a potentially gruelling pair of games against atletico madrid and local derbies after each leg. the data nerds disagree, but i think we're slight favourites, but it just takes one slip.
we're a few wins off a domestic treble.
please stop smoking spice.
chuffed for him. commanding after the break, made one huge save and his quick-thinking getting us out led to the winner. he's a huge character, no doubt, can't catch a cross and his feet don't always move quickly enough, but people saying he shouldn't be playing are space cadets, frankly.
paying £20m for a centre-half is cheating now.