Todays Games

Scottish fans are sound when it comes to rowdiness and local police. It’ll be the sunburn that’s the problem. These are people that struggle standing by the hot roast chickens in Asda.

 

Brilliant headline

 

Going through more tennents than Fred and Rose last night...

 

Scotland weren't the only surprise qualifiers last night, in the Caribbean the tiny island of Curacao coached by 78 year old Dick Advocaat drew 0-0 in Jamaica to become the smallest country ever to qualify. Isaac Hayden playing for Jamaica coached by Steve McClaren was involved in a last minute penalty decision which was reversed by VAR.

I was in Curacao eight years ago stopping off on a cruise, it was like going back in time. Willemstad was very quaint with colourful old fashioned houses along the waterfront. It was also the only time I have seen flying fish which you might have said were their chances of ever qualifying for the World Cup...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c14p3dmdld1o

 

finally
a team nz might beat at a world cup

 

I wouldn't get your hopes up Kiwi

 

Trump would be in good company with other perverts, the Hand of God.

 

When I was involved in geophysical (seismic) survey oil exploration work in the early 1970's based out of Aberdeen and the Shetlands our Tettents lager cans looked like this. Does that can design format still exist? After our continuous operation 6 or 8 hour shifts we went through lots of these playing bridge, when we really should have been getting our beauty sleep for our next 6 or 8 hour shift.

 

"Playing bridge"....never heard it called that before

 

I remember those cans, but they aren't used anymore

 

Blackburn win their local derby against Preston, finding form just before we visit...

 

That's what the Captain and First Mate of our Norwegian crewed survey vessel decided to do once on New Year's Eve in a big storm off the west coast of Scotland. Such was the strength of the storm that we had to leave our 2.5 mile long seismic cable out rather than reeling it back onto the cable drum. The First Mate decided to celebrate on the bridge by firing off distress flares, the Captain told him to stop and the pair came to blows, both sporting bruised and cut faces the next day. Nice to know that our scientific crew was in in such safe hands. We called our Norwegian compatriots "the Scalies" and soon learnt they could not hold their liquor, especially the blond ones from the northern parts.