Never mind @dai. Here’s a good one to cheer you up.. What’s the link between the Wales rugby team, and the sad death of the renowned pioneer of printing, Johannes Gutenberg? 14 – 68.

You truly had no understanding, Eddie Waring did the rugby league on Grandstand.

That said, it has to be pointed out that those grown adults who wear football shirts as leisure wear, and there are many, many more of those, need to be regarded with pity.

Precisely. Rugby League is a great athletic spectacle and considerably more entertaining (and easier to grasp for newbies) than Union, but because of the lack of money it remains entrenched in a comparatively […]

Bamber Gascoigne or Derek Hatton? And in what circumstances?

He’s getting on a bit now. If you were unkind, you might even call him Doddery.

You know that feeling when you spot a new thread and you’re about to discuss a pair of very smart brogues that you bought 15 years ago, but suddenly realise you’ve got the wrong end of the stick?

Haven’t heard that in long, long time. It’s superb. Her singing is so precise and measured. Cool and soulful but never showy.

Discovered today that Roberta Flack was John and Yoko’s next door neighbour at the Dakota building for many years, and she even babysat Sean occasionally.

Ian Dury was also born in Harrow. His dad, a bus driver at the time, was based at LT’s Harrow Weald bus garage.

New Malden, a comfortable if dull part of suburban south west London, was where I spent the first 13 years of life. Not just me, but it also gave the world John Martyn. I went to school in Wimbledon. Now, there […]

Nah. Can’t agree. When he wasn’t having to shoehorn his rather chunky self into the regulation tight suit…which he never looked particularly comfortable in, especially compared to Weller who annoyingly looked […]

Haven’t you heard? Apparently there are no real Canadians, only people who yearn to be American. Those who don’t are all fentanyl pushers.

Manga. Infantilism with frankly creepy sexual aspects in comic form. Besides which, It’s just bad over-stylised art. I am no fan of comics anyway, at least not since I was 14, and manga was unknown in the UK way […]

Another cricket lover, but I have never understood why anyone would actively hate it. Not understand it, yes I get that because it’s a comparatively complex sport that is initially difficult for new comers to […]

With the full backing of my streaky C at French O level, would the female announcers of whom you speak not be mignonne rather than mignon?

May I be the first to point out that you also bore a strong resemblance to Rowland Rivron.

Did the mock George offer you outside for a fight?

Unity, Nancy & Diana.. that’s The Supremes isn’t it? Or was it TLC ? Ah, there was also Jessica, Deborah and Pamela. So, Girls Aloud then.

I can confirm that whilst the clouds are indeed interesting in Sweden, it is, contrary to The Stranglers’ contention, not the only country where that is the case.