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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Ahhh....the days when MOTD showed 2 games in sufficient depth to be worthwhile and a 1 hour chat show had a maximum of 3 guests and usually no more than two.

Proper legends got the whole hour to themselves.

I miss that level of detail and intelligence in what passes for television these days...and when someone like Billy Connolly made his first appearance EVERYBODY was talking about it. It was a shared experience that was the talk of Monday mornings.
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Todays average celebrity couldn't possibly be expected to speak for 30 minutes with just the occasional prompting from Parky, other than comedians and scientists no one really has anything interesting to say anymore.
 
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10 Music DVDS

Complete Jam
The Kids Are Alright - The Who
On Screen On Stage - The Stranglers
Weller at the BBC
The Who Live at Isle of Wight Festival
The Best of Later
Rattus At The Roundhouse
The Style Council on Film
Small Faces all or nothing
Cool Brittania - later with Jools
 
The Changing Man said:
Todays average celebrity couldn't possibly be expected to speak for 30 minutes with just the occasional prompting from Parky, other than comedians and scientists no one really has anything interesting to say anymore.
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You can sort of tell this by watching QI. Some of the regular panellists - David Mitchell, Rich Hall, Dara O'Brien, Bill Bailey, Phill Jupitus - all bounce off one another, but some of the others seem be be immune to the concept of a conversation
 
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The Changing Man said:
Todays average celebrity couldn't possibly be expected to speak for 30 minutes with just the occasional prompting from Parky, other than comedians and scientists no one really has anything interesting to say anymore.
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I think it’s also just because people are unwilling to stick their heads above the parapet. A long conversation increases the chance of an interviewee saying something they shouldn’t if they’re asked about a sensitive topic, which often they are. Back in the days before social media and the accompanying internet firestorms that so often greet someone in the public eye who says something even mildly controversial, you’d get away with it (and also I think people cared less, frankly), but now you’re ****ed if something gathers enough momentum.

These people make money off their personal brands and it’s generally not worth their time to put themselves through a free form, long form interview where they could get blindsided and say something that comes back to bite them. Far easier to do 10 mins and namecheck their latest book/album/Instagram endorsement.
 
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10 German Footballers who would have walked into our national team

Jurgen Klinsmann
Franz Beckenbauer
Gerd Muller
Karl Heinz Rummenigge
Lothar Mattheus
Manny Kaltz
Pierre Littbarski
Rainer Bonhof
Phillip Lahm
Manuel Neuer
 
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10 music films
Woodstock
Blues Brothers
The commitments
Stop making sense
Concert for Bangladesh
The Last Waltz
Northern Soul
Walk the line
American Graffiti
Do the right thing
 
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10 songs that other people probably won't know

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Favourite Non-Spurs players:
Ronaldinho, Ronaldo (R9), Messi, Cristiano, Kaka, Zidane, Figo, Iniesta, Xavi, Sergio Ramos.

Players I wish I were alive to have seen play:
Pele, Maradona, George Best, Jimmy Greaves, Johan Cryuff, Dave Mackay, Danny Blanchflower, Steve Perryman, Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles.
 
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Top ten favourite World Cup semi finals

1. Italy vs Germany, 2006
2. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
3. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
4. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
5. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
6. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
7. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
8. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
9. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
10. Germany vs Brazil, 2014
 
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Proudest achievements on my PSN gamercard

1. Humanity's Saviour - XCOM: Enemy Unknown
2. I Chose The Impossible - BioShock
3. Against All Odds - Mass Effect 2
4. Amon Defeated - Yakuza 4
5. Legendary - Rayman Legends
6. Dreams Come True - Catherine
7. These Are My Guns - Hotline Miami
8. A Unique Rebel - Persona 5
9. Cleanup Grand Slam - Persona 4: Arena Ultimax
10. Chapter 4 Speedrun - Mirror's Edge

...let me guess, none of these mean anything to anyone else?
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Gunther Netzer......

I was at that game at Wembley. He took a very decent England team to school.
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1972 wasn't it they beat us 3-1 and the return was goalless? I did watch it, but I was 7 i remember his goal the only goal in the game that I do recall. Can't even recall who scored ours. I recall their side from 1974 much better was Netzer injured for that?
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
Proudest achievements on my PSN gamercard

1. Humanity's Saviour - XCOM: Enemy Unknown
2. I Chose The Impossible - BioShock
3. Against All Odds - Mass Effect 2
4. Amon Defeated - Yakuza 4
5. Legendary - Rayman Legends
6. Dreams Come True - Catherine
7. These Are My Guns - Hotline Miami
8. A Unique Rebel - Persona 5
9. Cleanup Grand Slam - Persona 4: Arena Ultimax
10. Chapter 4 Speedrun - Mirror's Edge

...let me guess, none of these mean anything to anyone else?
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Correct
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
Proudest achievements on my PSN gamercard

1. Humanity's Saviour - XCOM: Enemy Unknown
2. I Chose The Impossible - BioShock
3. Against All Odds - Mass Effect 2
4. Amon Defeated - Yakuza 4
5. Legendary - Rayman Legends
6. Dreams Come True - Catherine
7. These Are My Guns - Hotline Miami
8. A Unique Rebel - Persona 5
9. Cleanup Grand Slam - Persona 4: Arena Ultimax
10. Chapter 4 Speedrun - Mirror's Edge

...let me guess, none of these mean anything to anyone else?
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6 Dreams come true -Catherine.... I found her card in a kings cross phone box once
 
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The 10 best spurs games I have been to

1. Spurs 3 Wolves 0 1981 fa cup semi
2. Spurs 5 Arsenal 0 1983 league
3. Spurs 5 Arsenal 1 2008 league cup
4. Spurs 9 Wigan 1 2009 prem
5. Spurs 4 Villa 4 2007 125 match
6. Spurs 3 Real Madrid 1 2018 CL
7. Spurs 4 Wycombe 3 2017 FA Cup
8. Spurs 2 United 1 2017 Finale
9. Spurs 4 Chelsea 4 2008 prem
10. Spurs 2 Sheffield United 0 2006
(The first game I took both my girls to)
 
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The 10 best spurs games I haven't been to (in my memory) ... not cup finals

1. Spurs 9 Bristol Rovers 0 division 2
2. Man Utd 0 Spurs 1 fa cup 1980
3. Spurs 6 Wolves 0 1982 league
4. Southampton 2 Spurs 6 fa cup 1995
5. Hull 1 Spurs 7 prem 2017
6. West Ham 3 Spurs 4 prem 2007
7. Ajax 2 Spurs 3 CL semi 2019
8. Spurs 6 Reading 4
9. Man City 4 Spurs 3 Cl 2019
10. Spurs 4 Liverpool 1 2017
 
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The Changing Man said:
1972 wasn't it they beat us 3-1 and the return was goalless? I did watch it, but I was 7 i remember his goal the only goal in the game that I do recall. Can't even recall who scored ours. I recall their side from 1974 much better was Netzer injured for that?
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Francis Lee scored our goal, for what it was worth. We were well beaten.

Netzer left BMG for Madrid in '73 and that wasn't well received in Germany. I think that the move affected his form and the Germans weren't short of decent players, so his international career tailed off dramatically.

Shame, as he was some player.
 
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10 Grounds In London where I have watched football

White Hart Lane
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Wembley
Stamford Bridge
Selhurst Park
Loftus Road
The Valley
Craven Cottage
Griffin Park
Brisbane Road
 
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