George A Cooper was cast as the Sergeant in Zulu, only to withdraw when his wife got pregnant. Years before Trevor Francis got the idea of wife over work. Perhaps the Torygraph were right to label this all-time classic as woke! 😄

A truly magnificent battling #lufc performance. Tenacious, spirited, bollocks out until the end. Justin and Bornauw both way beyond expectation, Farke has developed a high performing squad not just a side. Ampadu out for Man U but Gruev has earned a further start

Sound analysis from my Liverpool supporting mate who was at the game

Last night…. Channel Four and 5 weren’t taking the BBC’s award winning drama masterpiece lying down. Blowing back with their own big hitters

BBC4 with an evening of Le Carre & Tinker Tailor. Includes the episode ‘Tarr Tells His Story’. Impressively, the Radio Times forget to list who plays Tarr. It’s Hywel Bennett. Bennett delivers the worst Aussie accent in broadcasting history, so bad the Beeb were right to fcuk him out of the credits

Hope you’re all having a Rotten festive season

Lydon, with Lu Edmonds behind. Didn’t get to a panto this year but PiL in Kentish Town is the next best thing

Yugoslavia v Wales on Big Match Revisited just now. First time I’ve ever seen a player appeal for off side while standing on his own goal line! Well done Yorath, it was you playing him on by about five yards

Carse coming out to bat at three? 🫣 They’ve got three and a half days to knock these off 🤔. Any #lufc fans in the MCG must be about to bring up the chant ‘you don’t know what you’re doing!’ #Ashes2025 🏏

Thoughts and prayers with @brynlaw.bsky.social Still time to pull it around

This piece describes how John Robertson wasn’t fully recognised in Scotland, no surprise then that Don Revie tried to call him up for England in 1974 😂

Could be another two day Test. All those thousands of people who’ve spent a small fortune travelling over from England 😩 …. I made that trip in 2002, game ended on day five then went on to Sydney and saw England win on day five. Game’s changed #Ashes2025 🏏

19 wickets on day one of an Ashes Test…. for the second time in the series. That can’t have happened before, can it? #Ashes2025 🏏 #Ashes

152 seems a long way off all of a sudden. From 7-0 to 8-3. #Ashes 🏏

John Robertson RIP Forest’s greatest ever player? And hard to think of a better inverted winger anywhere, from any era. Awful for his family at this time of year, condolences to them

Highlight of tonight’s #universitychallenge - Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the screen writer of 24 Hour Party People, describing UB40 as “a covers band” 😄

… he did much better with man of the moment Antoine Semenyo

While Hockaday might not be feeling upbeat after his first day managing on #universitychallenge

Franz Beckenbauer’s wiki here. Please scroll to ‘Financial Controversies’. Can anybody think of a sports person with a bigger track record of corruption? Lester Piggott did time for tax fraud & still only gets 1 para in his wiki. The Kaiser racks up 8 #lufc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_B...

Missed #totp Christmas 1978 tonight but am still using my top trivia on Boney M’s hit Rasputin…. 1916: Rasputin was assassinated in St Petersburg on 30 December 2010: Bobby Farrell of Boney M was found dead in his hotel room in St Petersburg on 30 December

Highlight, Durham’s Professor of Art History getting nought out of the three bonus questions seeking the identity of the painters of 19th century illustrations #universitychallenge

Chris Barker’s Sgt Pepper with famous faces who’ve died this year

November: 0/12 points December: 8/12 points 📈 Six points off relegation zone Six points off top half #lufc

@rnrbook-club.bsky.social @simoncardwell.bsky.social Just enjoying the Paul Morley interview, excellent stuff as always, thanks for the shout out! 😂

Great to see #lufc old boy Terry Cooper in the Big Match Revisited this morning, playing for Boro in 1976. And for commentator Brian Moore reminding us how back in the 70s Greame Souness’s name was often pronounced ‘Souness’ and not ‘Souness’ as it is today

180 Studios at 180 Strand is an expansive subterranean bunker with many interconnected rooms radiating a block buster Blake’s 7 set, perfect for large art installations seeking an outsider feel. Currently showing a retrospective on how eccentric Video Art has grown from the 70s. Trust me, it’s good

RIP Rob Reiner.

Hurrah night club ad displaying the cancellation of Joy Division’s gig in May 1980. This show was rescheduled to September for a three piece New Order set, filmed by Merrill Aldighieri. Can’t say I’ve heard of any other band in this ad!

Just the 45 years then, for this debut screening of A Certain Ratio live at Hurrah in NYC (1980). The recording is through a single lens which zooms and pans the viewer into a previous life. The life of a fledgling band who through their own admission were still learning their instruments.

The instruments belonging to the late Florian Schneider of #Kraftwerk went up for auction recently. Fancy a vocoder? Here you go, yours for a reasonable $256k.

A young Alan Carr and family, including his Dad Graham, then manager of Northampton Town

Footy quiz question A gaffer here proudly receiving the old 4th division manager of the year award, but who’s his famous son?

#lufc What has always fascinated me about Salonica 73 is the referee Christos Michas’ involvement with the early stage of the tournament. In October 1972 Michas took charge of a 2nd round tie in Poland, the game between Legia Warsaw and….. you guessed it, AC Milan

#lufc #AFCON

#lufc Harvey Marcus, Director of Paris75 has now created a 30 minute doco on the Cup Winners Cup Final from 1973. Out soon, trailer below, available to everyone who subscribes to the Paris75 YouTube channel youtu.be/GwMC24LGlrc?...

Tracie, 1983

Home and away league tables before today #lufc

Brentford have won four of their last five home games, only City took anything. Scored three in all those wins. Only Chelsea, City and now #lufc have come away with a result this season. Villa, Liverpool, Newcastle and Man U all lost here.

Deft touch by Bijol to turn that home #lufc

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Legend goes that the Lotus Eaters stole the chorus of this song to form the basis of the sublime ‘Last Picture of You’. So says the guy who wrote it, Paul Simpson. And yes, you can hear it. youtube.com/watch?v=nLj1...

Barton…. the gift that keeps on giving

@andrewmale.bsky.social Paula Ann Bland who played Claire Scott in Grange Hill attended Coloma Convent School in the mid 80s, so not on your LP sadly, but still

#lufc Not sure I like the sound of this but will buy it just to read about Don calling up John Robertson in 1974…. “sorry I’m Scottish” Out March 2026.

Derby v Leeds in the Cup? What a fine finish by David Nish #lufc youtu.be/OHAhzgGhYcg?...