I tried that in October 2022 but failed - or rather I was rescued. Quite an amusing tale, with a big dollop of irony. Before I moved out to Thailand I used to fish on the Grand Union Canal around the Leighton Buzzard area, and for a long time, I had my eye on one particular length near Pitstone but never got around to fishing there. On my return to the UK, priority 1 was to plan a fishing trip on that canal and on that particular stretch - which I did and had a bloody heart attack while I was there! Someone on a canal boat found me (luckily) and called 999. Paramedics then rushed me to High Wycombe Hospital, arriving about 2 hours after the attack began to have a stent shoved in me. TBH - had I not made it I think I would have been quite satisfied that I had passed away in exactly the place I would want to be, and as happy as one could be under the circumstances.
Did you have a massive health kick after the near miss ? Glad you didn't die mate we are dropping like flies on here & without you we wouldn't have discovered Fawanews. I'm in my 40s & lived a pretty hard life boozing drugs & night work, getting a bit fat now & aware that I'm not Peter Pan . Early nights on school days & trying to only drink on Sunday with my roast . I'm a single father to an 8 year old with not much family so I can't die for at least another 13 years or there's nobody to look after my daughter. Took out pretty good life insurance that goes to my 18 year old son but he's too young for that responsibility yet . Can everyone stay alive please
Not a health kick as such as I was unable to do a great deal of anything that was physically demanding but a slight change in diet. I mean slightly, there are some things one can not live without I did suffer some lung damage during the attack too so anything that involves a spell of bending down is difficult and you can feel how difficult it is to breathe, so even things like a gentle jog are out of the question. That said, the body has regained some strength in the last year but it is a really slow process.
Cycling is good & gets the heart pumping , I have never wanted to lift weights or run but I do enjoy getting out on the bike . Take care of yourself mate
Our xG was 1.6, theirs 1.7. As Corberan said after the game, it boiled down to who made the most of their "moments". Same has been true in the case of all our recent "successes" (Ipswich, Southampton, Hull, and now West Brom). Indeed, it is really the story of our season; snaffling points in games in which we have been, for the most part, outplayed -- at home against Hull, away at Coventry are other examples. On my reckoning, at least 40% of our matches to date fall into this category. As Daniel Farke frequently complained, teams often get what they don't deserve. But they don't get lasting success from it. By the same token, there have been only two games where we most certainly deserved more than we got. Rotherham away and Blackburn at Carrow Road.
For those who like to see the game as something more than two tactical systems opposing one another this ACN article makes a refreshing read: https://www.alongcomenorwich.com/articles/the-acn-match-review-west-bromwich-albion-h-2/
Crikey the first paragraph on Kenny looks like he’d read my essay earlier and thought he would say the same thing in far fewer words
"McClean plays every week - for the last four managers with varying approaches, beliefs and styles - because he has one of the best overall plusvalenza equations. He can do everything quite well. He has a will to win. Leadership qualities. He offers some attacking impetus via vertical passing, drive, heading ability, desire to get involved, whilst also being diligent defensively, having a sense of danger, being physical, a hard runner, someone not injured much, spiky but controlled, a good influence on his teammates, likeable…. You don’t lose anything by playing McClean. He is not Buendia. But he doesn’t really cost you anything either. Every week. And he does have some good qualities." That seems to me to sum Kenny up pretty accurately. He can do everything quite well and has some good qualities; but he's not Buendia. That's what I've always said about him: a decent Championship player, but not good enough for the EPL. The only thing I don't agree with is saying there's no cost to playing him. There is now a definite cost, at least when he plays in midfield; he keeps Núñez out of the side. And please don't ask me what "he has one of the best overall plusvalenza equations" means. I haven't a clue, though it may provide a clue to who the assessment of McClean comes from
The original quote had "MacClean" .......... ! I guess doing half a job is better than doing nothing -- bit like Kenny ......
Dean Smith is the best manager we ever had & if we weren't so stupid as to sack him, both Handley & Maccleen would of been let go as they are not Premier league class. Same old broken record
You lot are like a bunch of ground squirrels sticking your heads out of your burrows, emboldened by two wins against injury- and AFCON-weakened sides above us in the table. After all the noise about how uniquely badly our injuries have affected us this season (and last season, and the season before, and the season before that, and on and on), I haven't seen one acknowledgement of the fact that both Hull and West Brom were missing important players. Hull were without Philogene and Delap, plus their attacking midfielder Traore, and then had their leading scorer Connolly taken out of the game early on. Having three of your top four goal scorers out of the game is something of a handicap -- it's apparently enough of an excuse in our own case to have just one missing. West Brom's big miss from the starting eleven was Diangana. But they also lost Yokuslu in the first half, and the barely fit Reach at half time. The result of which was that their main avenue of attack, i.e. wide left, was severely compromised. Meanwhile, they have been deprived of Dike through injury for all but two games this season; you could see how rusty he was when he came on for the final 20 minutes.
