One catalogue number up from “Paint It, Black” by The Rolling Stones, and released on the same day (Friday, 13th May 1966), is the quite brilliant “Till You Say You’ll Be Mine” by Olivia.

Find a copy, sell it, […]

I pity the football (indeed, any) historian in 50 years time.
How on earth are they going to find out about a football team that doesn’t issue a physical programme?

Twitter/Facebook? – will not exist and […]

“Prioritising the Premier League over the lower leagues…”

Why? We don’t know what’s going to happen in the lower leagues.

Fromage doesn’t reckon it = lump on.

I think the timing could have been better – surely June would have been a better month to stage it as already we’re slap bang in the R.E.A.L.L.Y. exciting chase for fourth […]

Reading:
Old newspapers –
Increasingly difficult to access because someone in the dire 1980s thought it a good idea to put them on Microfiche – an incorrect call, a f****** shite idea, as I would have (along with […]

They are responsible for the only shock in 30 years of the Premier League.

Did you know that only two man-made things on the Earth are visible from the Moon?
(1) The Chinese Wall.
(2) The egg on the faces of […]

Got put up a class in school, got hit by a cricket bat, best footballer in London was Laurie Cunningham, the second best team won the Football League, the best team finishing second.

Climbed trees and rode on […]

If the Times They Are A-Changin’ flavour was “Essence of Dog-Shite” I’d be more likely to start munching on them rather than the Under the Red Sky option.

I think so. That would have been their football.
Not sure when the words “Rugby League” first appeared – must have been because unlike Union, Swinton etc. competed in actual League tables going back to the 1890s. […]

I like that Fast Show sketch.

One problem – the word “Soccer” was often, indeed usually, used, for the best part of fifty years in Britain, to differentiate between the two codes (Association and Rugby […]

Brilliant – the polar opposite of the Euro final in 2021, and I’m not thinking about the result, I’m thinking about the vibe.

Would have liked to have been at today’s one, wouldn’t have been seen dead at the one […]

A cursory glance at 45cat shows that Bernard Cribbins recorded on Decca (on a Tommy Steele EP track alongside Sid James no less) and Parlophone and Pye, and so did the Sainted Dave.

Bit of a strange decision to put Back Seat of My Car/Heart of the Country on a 45 so long after the album had come out, and seeing that Uncle Albert had been a U.S. No. 1, I wonder why that wasn’t chosen to be the […]

Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – oh yes – wonderful, words fail me.
Irene Handl was in it, was she ever in anything that wasn’t great?

Not entirely.

In 1983 I wasn’t buying much that wasn’t from the 60s obvs but – hey! Corbiere won the Grand National (heard in real time at a QPR-Leicester game with a few hundred others leaning in), game on! – so […]

If you don’t want smug McCartney don’t ever watch the promo films for Paperback Writer or Hey Jude – he “knows” what he is about to impart to the world is sensational and… erm… it is!
I adore Paul for […]

Even the no-hits clash?
Must have gone a long way to paying for all those Public School fees.
Pleased for them.

Don’t do dodgers – just did.

The clue is – when is the best time to be a teenager?

John and Ringo (born 1940), Paul (born 1942), George (born 1943).
Am I the only one good at Maths!

Of course, goes without saying.