quad's off, kids are crying, thanks.

honestly doesn't feel like arsenal and city are playing by the same set of rules sometimes.

pleased to report that loads of stuff is on fire in the new peaky blinders film for no reason at all.

have west didsbury and chorlton got a hydroponic lettuce farm in their clubhouse, have they fuck. #massive

maine road 4 nelson 5. what a game. first half-hour in particular maine road were brilliant on the counter, and went two up, but nelson had too much in the end, and this win takes them top. relegation beckons, sadly.

the western press is truly, truly ill.

i'm an absolute mark for this.

ZAPPA vibes from Canaries Keeper.

sorry to report that i'm going to have to start logging films i've been watching again. last night were the first i've watched since christmas, and i've not been to the pictures once, after doing 122 films last year. target this year is fifty *new* films...

never heard an autechre record in my life, but even without the knowledge and context of the original versions of these songs this is still a fine record... youtu.be/-7szwGqn4Pg?...

not looking great for maine road, now seven points adrift at the foot of the table. lost late at home against holker old boys and a couple of rivals won. defent enough performance, wasted some good chances first half, and pushed after the break, but not enough. relegation now feels sadly inevitable.

there's a lot to like on this album if you're of a folky persuasion... youtu.be/p3-iqh-1MZQ?...

one of the great political songs. nobody's ever getting close to the original, but it feels spiritually right that these boys would cover it... youtu.be/Czmy33Dqmv0?...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

strange one at west didsbury and chorlton last night. second best against a side from a league below, but scored a late equaliser and won on pens thanks to loanee goalkeeper dougie blight. some season-defining league games upcoming. feels a bit...in flux at the minute.

given the extent of the spurs hex over city, don't think a scenario whereby they finish eighteenth and we get a points deduction and go down in their place should be completely dismissed.

has a manager's position ever been so untenable after two games? appointing tudor was clearly a mad shout based on his style, personality and previous jobs. guess they were thinking short sharp shock represented a good chance of a few points, but fuck me.

big developments in the business end of the season title predos spready...

slightly deflated about dropping points at home, but both liverpool and united getting a late tickling makes up for it to some degree.

some of the penalty appeals tonight were utterly, utterly embarrassing.

for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick

ground fourteen - the butchers arms for droylsden v west didsbury and chorlton in the rearranged manchester premier cup quarter-final. £7, attendance 390. very one-sided despite there being a level between the two sides. plenty of gallows humour in the away end as it threatens to go a bit tits. 4-0.

at droylsden. don't like giving dave pace money because he's one of the biggest cunts in the non-leagues but it's only around the corner. easily the loudest p.a in football. did my usual circling of the ground beforehand, 'if you don't know me by now' by simply red blaring out across the whole town.

i don't think people should be too judgemental about this statement until they've spent some time living in wigan.

we should beat this real madrid side over two legs. lost to getafe, albacete, osasuna and a very average benfica now since mid january, quite a few injuries, very angsty and ill-disciplined even by their standards. they can always do you on vibes, and they've still got individual quality, but...

only two football clubs would ever get this sort of treatment after playing well for five weeks...

out of morbid curiosity i listened to the new moby record. haven't heard anything of him since he was a bit weird in his book. it's really good. bit of play-era type material early doors, but second half of it's just very decent largely piano-based modern classical stuff. youtu.be/SFbLQmJBk6g?...

they're doing a british version of saturday night live? has the world not had enough bad news, fuck me.

Dublin airport will be like the film Heat.

the far right are petrified because they know that if elections are fought based on anything other than the culture war nonsense that fuels their base they'll lose.

never seen this pasta before. should be called bigatoni. absolutely rubbish.

almost every week, man. sick joke.

heh.

there are certain clubs you don't bank on giving you a hand in a title race, and chelsea are one of them. unless something really out of the ordinary happens, expect arsenal to win today. there's only one way for city to win the title, that's by winning, realistically, nine of the last ten games.

spurs have still got to go to liverpool, villa, chelsea, and a sunderland who are very strong at home, plus they host an everton team who are surprisingly strong on the road (only arsenal better away), and two six-pointers against relegation rivals. they absolutely can go down.

probably a pen, having watched it back. continues into the area and he does have a hand on him. reminds me of the one on rodri there a couple of seasons ago, which almost to a man they bizarrely claimed was a dive. wish people would be a bit more consistent, whoever they support.

tried giving this john martyn project album a spin this morning. find it very tough getting into tribute records by other artists. not really for me, but it did lead me to this excellent blog piece about martyn by a fan. well worth a few minutes of your time. agentcoop.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/l...

whenever i go to wythenshawe i'm struck by these weird sort of art deco buildings in the middle of non-descript industrial estates. curious to know whether they were common, all i can find is stuff about them being renovated. get real fifties bbc vibes from the entrances.

Just seen this, love it, and from where else but Bromley, the spiritual home of English Punk! Well played people, well played.

quite a cheeky day of football for the true armchair sickos...

the new posho judge on masterchef's even more annoying than all the other posho judges on masterchef.

who's took nick harris to the game and let him have a shandy?

city may end up with a foden problem given his deal is running down. never got the impression he's anything less than happy to be getting paid big money to play for his boyhood club, but where does he get back into this side as first choice? does a move become tempting, or re-signing less likely?

a young lad called benarbia scored a hat-trick for new mills today, born in france, algerian middle name. could it be?

ground thirteen of the season. ericstan park, wythenshawe town 0 stalybridge celtic 4 in the npl west. a new stand and some seating removed since my last visit. very one-sided, think town have lost players since their financial issues, and staly are going for promotion. good atmosphere. att 302.

noticable numbers of leeds supporters booing pausing a game of football for thirty seconds so a couple of people who haven't eaten for eleven hours can have a date and a sip of water. what a silly little country we've become.

back on it - wythy town v stalybridge. looking forward to watching wealth dasilva. big jon macken managing the visitors.

just done a beef pad thai in the size of my head. incredible. rabbie's in wythenshawe.

really good read. fascinating man. didn't know about his position on vietnam, or that this film had been made.

yet another example of very complex geopolitics being reduced to that waffles/pancakes tweet. simultaneously infuriating and deeply tiring that so many can't look at multiple things and see they're also bad. social media has accelerated opinion on even the biggest issues to binary partisanism.