That version of ‘exile’….sooooo intense.

It’s wonderful, isn’t it?

Kind of…the junta-repression background was horrible, but that team was pretty great – Kempes, Luque, Passarella et al. The ’78 Dutch team were a long way short of the ’74 masters (SWIDT?). Now, that defeat to […]

Duff

I have absolutely no problem with the ‘Hand of God’ thing – it was cheeky, spur of the moment and I doubt that he ever thought he would get away with it. It was the responsibility of the officials to discount it […]

Don’t mention the war!

I’ll get me coat.

As any fule kno, it was a pagan Winter festival (Saturnalia etc) mainly created to literally lighten up the long dark days of the season; this was precisely why the Christians and Coca-Cola co-opted the […]

He actually went ahead and said “It’s the season to be jolly. But more importantly, it’s the season to be jolly careful”. I bet he’s really proud of that one.

I remember reading in his autobiography that he arrived home depressed after a meeting at the record company to discuss the disappointing reception to ‘Dave’, which had hit him hard as he really rated it as a good […]

“Clean the wor-ld
Let them know they need a bath…”

Wow! You have an Uncle Osterberg!

A good tip is to follow Taylor’s suggested grouping of songs into alternative themed ‘Chapters’, of six songs each (Exile is used twice). This offers a level of brevity in place of listening to the full album, or […]

Or Don Revie’s Leeds United.

I reckon it’s the other way round… she’s definitely a closet dominatrix.

Mickey Blue Eyes…yes, really!

Airplane…by an airmile, Shirley?

INPO is bloody hilarious! 😏

Pleased that I only paid just slightly over that amount via Amazon.it, otherwise I’d have been ROYALLY pissed off.