Pretty certain I went to a Friday FA Cup game back in 2009. Felt really weird coming home and not having any other ties or shocks to chat about. Sure it was Wigan and when Harry Redknapp tried to sub Ghaly on with 5 mins to go the crowd really turned on him.
FA cup ties should always be 3.00 Saturday, semi finals both KO at the same time ,next round draw heard on a cheap radio on the Monday following the previous round and the Final on a Sat 3.00 at Wembley but TV coverage to start at 10.00am with a visit to the teams hotels and camera crew travelling on the team bus to Wembley Fans should have knitted scarves, rosettes, wooden rattles and cardboard cutout of the cup covered in silver foil Pre match entertainment will be a police dog display and marching bands followed with a rousing rendition of Abide with me . Edit : just realised that this was how I remember the Cup final day the last time we won it , we used to be known as a cup winning side , oh how times have changed
Also it shouldn't be sponsored by somebody who also sponsors the stadium of one of the teams in the draw...
Mrs Conn just caught me putting Baileys in my coffee and on my granola , she will not accept my excuses that we had run out of milk and that the bottle had been opened since her mum had half a glass of it at Christmas and could go off , am I wrong
Baileys on your cereal Am out for the first time in a week after covid. Had a 20 minute slow walk and am knackered so sitting in a cafe as Mrs rcl get me a coffee...laughing at this post...sitting at a table on my own...laughing my ass of...looking like a care in ghe community case
Last time I was in the states I saw a bumper sticker that said " live long enough to become an embarrassment to your adult children " I'm winning that one
I tormented my kids during their childhood by refusing to look or act like the other dads. Now that they're both adults, it's completely altered and they'd be really quite upset if I did.
But at £4.75 a ltr in Aldi its nearly as cheap as milk and the way this Gov are pushing things a man must small pleasures
In Mexico I brought what I thought was an orange flavoured beer , barman gave me the you know best look and served a fishy clam juice beer mixture from hell, to save face I chugged it down and left only to chuck it up 50 yards down the road
Warning: long and incoherent ramblings relating unconnected events below: For the second time in four years, the neighborhood I grew up in made national headlines last week. The latest news was much more benign than the Rodef Shalom murders. The bridge nearest to my old home collapsed the day before Biden planned to deliver a speech about funding for decaying infrastructure, in more or less the exact spot where he planned to give the speech. I am shocked I have not (yet) heard any conspiracy theories. No one was killed or badly hurt, though three people had the bus ride of their lives. It occurs to me my former home lies within two triangles. 1. The Squirrel Hill national news triangle, formed by the collapsed bridge, Rodef Shalom and another spot where a Yeshiva student was murdered 20 years ago. So Squirrel Hill is the place in the Western Hemisphere where people kill Jews and bridges fail. This triangle has legs about a mile long. 2. The local NFL related triangle, with legs about 2 miles long. The three points are the childhood homes of a. The NFL's all-time former leading passer. (He's my age and I remember him coming to my high school prom with the captain of the girl's tennis team when I was captain of the boy's tennis team). b. The NFL's sixth leading rusher. (He was after my time.) c. The latest head coach of the most valuable sports franchise in the world, the perennially flopping Dallas Cowboys. (He's my age but I don't remember him.) My in-laws, who are native Texans, have a relationship with the Cowboys not too wildly dissimilar to the one my wife and I have with Spurs and with the Cubs. Teams wearing white and blue have provided us plenty of disappointment over the years. To add one more layer of meaningless coincidence: Pittsburgh is the queen city of Appalachia, the region of the world which put the hill in hillbilly. Appalachia used to be the land of the Cherokee, the one Iroquoian nation whose borders are defined by land, not water. The Cherokee suffered what may be the worst and most outrageous of the many, many acts of genocide in US history, when Andrew Jackson defied a Supreme Court order to send them on the Trail of Tears. It was so outrageous that Davy Crockett ended his Tennessee political career by voting against it. With the perhaps apocryphal words, "You can go to hell. I'm going to Texas," he then got himself killed fighting for slavery at the Alamo. The Trail of Tears was such an outrageous example of genocide, in other words, that even a notorious advocate of genocide ruined his political career by opposing it. It may be the Cherokee saying goodbye to their trees touched people. I'm looking for some kind of generalization about how Appalachians treat out groups but I'm not sure there's anything in it.
RWAEB you have packed a lot of info into that post. All local histories are complex and in the end you have to make selections because it's impossible to study them all. I moved to Scotland around 16 years ago and of course growing up in England you learn little about Scotland. I now have a bookshelf full of books about Scottish history which turns out to be extremely complex with so many changes of rulers and of course constant interference from England, but then much of the world suffered from constant interference from England, now replaced with interference from the USA.
Our fixture list coming up is Citeh ,Burnley, Leeds and middlesborough all away in 11/12 days ,Levy could save a shed load of cash with a block booking at the Welcome Break - Charnock Richard Northbound M6
