Well done Spain - despite playing against 12….

Not bothered about the World Cup final as I fully expect it to be a niggly tactical snooze fest.

RIP the great Freddy Cannon. youtu.be/_G7TYPEawX0?...

Homemade tteokbokki for Sunday dinner. It’s a Stoke on Trent tradition (in my house).

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Crazy game - but entertaining.

This reminds me of the Vale v QPR game several years back. England have inherited the spirit of Jermaine Holwyn.

Agent Kim Reactivated - best current K-Drama.

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6.50am MRI scan was quite surreal. Had to open and close my jaw at 25/50/75 and 100% while otherwise keeping stock still. Was out and on the way home by 7.30.

I rated The East Palace (2026– ) 6/10 #IMDb A Korean Joseon era Stranger Things with a pretty thin plot. Would have been better as a two hour movie.

My Anglo-German friend Jane is in this. Love this place… Das%20Gl%C3%BCck%20im%20Dahner%20Felsenland%0A{link} www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...?

The East Palace on Netflix is making Stranger Things look rather dated.

I hate my sinuses. MRI scan at 6.50am tomorrow to work out what’s going on. Yes, 6.50am…on a Saturday…

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Here's the non-music photos from Hamburg, Köln, Karlsruhe, Dahn and Oberhausen. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCYpnb

Catching up with photos from the last three weeks - here are my photos of Sierra Ferrell in Manchester, Glasgow and Hamburg on her Heavy Petal Tour - flic.kr/s/aHBqjCZm48

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Oh well … the only victory I really want begins with a “C” … … and ends with “ount Binface”

Ah well. Much more important teams to bother about now, like the Vale.

The Argies are a horrible football team. I use the term “football” loosely. Bunch of thugs.

I’m old enough to just about remember 1966. That was before supporting crap football teams ruined my life.

Even Posh Spice got out of her seat.

This is almost as tasty as Vale vs Swindon

Been home 24 hours and I already want to go away again.

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4.30am left bed-bug ridden Amsterdam hotel. 6.40 Eurostar to London. Yomp to Euston. 10.53 to Stoke. Uber home from the station, through the door at 12.50.

Now passing through northern France and pleasingly it’s raining.

Currently- Belgium

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Struck out on Wordle today after beating my previous best streak by a single day…

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Just explained something in German - to a German - who didn’t understand what another German had said. The baffled German understood my explanation!!

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I‘m on a train from Karlsruhe to Düsseldorf and there’s a woman two seats in front who’s singing out of tune to tinny headphones playing Europap. Fortunately there’s only 23 minutes to go…

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Now can we please rejoin the EU? #Rejoin

AT LAST. FUCK OFF NIGEL.

Germany so far - flic.kr/s/aHBqjCYpnb

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It’s still sticky hot here in Germany.

Just bumped into a German chap here in Rheinland-Pfalz, who upon me being introduced as English congratulated me on the football. Who'd have thought it?!

Hope Pochettino does the right thing and doesn’t pick Balogun - but I doubt it.

England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?

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Wordle 1,842 6/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Never heard of this one.

At a 70th Geburtstagsparty.

Can confirm that Rheinland-Pfalz is stupidly hot.