I’m glad to see the lionesses do well, but the standard of women’s football is still pretty dire imo.
No problem, as long as the UK female population is wholeheartedly supporting the team via their physical attendance at games ....
28,624 at Bramall Lane, apparently. Not that far off capacity, which is 32,050. 9.3m viewers too, which is a lot more than I expected.
1. I suspect the TV audiences may contain a significant number of males bored by the summer off-season. 2. The % female attendance of these games do not seem to translate to the domestic leagues, do they.
A lot of people seem to attend international games who would never go to a club match. Women's club football is very poorly attended, but the quality's not great, either. It's a bit of a vicious circle.
I wonder what the "break even" attendance is for WHL. You could do an experiment where Spurs women play home at WHL all season, and get any total losses that season due to low attendance to be paid out of their own pockets by the "usual suspects" gobsh*tes .
For some reason I missed the news that David Warner died. He was one of my favourite actors and never failed to give a brilliant performance. I think he was among a small group of actors that while not "top billed" managed to improve anything he was in just be being in it. And he'd been in a lot. The stand outs for me were as Jack the Ripper in Time After Time (a much underrated and little seen film, do see it if you can) and Captain Kiesel in Cross of Iron. But he crops up in all sorts of stuff you would have seen like Time Bandits, Tron and (shudder) Titanic. He is also well remembered for an excellent episode of Star Trek Next Generation where he tortures Picard. All in all, will be missed. RIP.
I saw that the other day. He was one of those cadre of competent actors who were never going to get star billing, but always gave a good supporting performance (The omen etc) . I haven't seen Time after time in about 40 odd years (will have to dig that out for this evening) . I also liked his performance in the "From beyond the grave" film (the story about the mirror) .
And now I hear Bernard Cribbins has passed away. That is also really sad. He must just one be of the most likeable people that has ever lived. The voice of the wombles, and an excellent turn in everything he's been in. He also really stood out in Doctor Who, in what was probably conceived as a minor character... until Bernard Cribbins. There was a particularly poignant bit of Doctor Who for me when he was chatting to the Doctor when they were on a spaceship talking about his characters military experience. But I really believe he was channeling his own experience.
And from those of a certain age ... For The railway children, Jackanory, The wombles : Bernard Cribbems : we salute you.
The standard of keeping has been poor over or slightly older but both favourites of me and the grandkids who regularly get an impromptu rendition if grand dad has had a few sherberts
****ing hell..... Not sure how the Met will manage to spin this! Not just an individual - this is a group of officers!
He was in the Carry Ons, many of those Ealing comedies, John Cleese was keen to have him for the part he played in Fawlty Towers, he had a hit record with the song “Right Said Fred”- as well as all the other things previously mentioned. Learned his trade at Oldham Rep like many film, TV and theatre actors.
My mate Yid Andy does a very fine Karaoke 'Right Said Fred'. It doesn't always get the best reception, but it is very good.
