I have never understood the disdain many people appear to have for Djokovic. I’m aware of his anti-vaccine statements, and he is frequently blunt and to-the-point in his interviews, which some might conceivably […]

The AW forum appears to have been bought out by Esquire magazine. Next month: The 5 best manly toenail clippers you MUST own before you die!

Yup, his pre-solo stuff is also fab.

“red meat” is worryingly vague.

I know several AW regulars are already fans of Robyn Hitchcock, but I think he can reasonably fit the ‘relatively unheralded’ criteria. The whole point about cult artists is that most people are unfamiliar with […]

Not having that. Golden Wonder crisps were small, nasty (occasionally green!), sharp bits of potato shrapnel and unpleasantly over-flavoured. Their c&o was all cheese and no onion. Their s&v always tasted like a […]

Oh Moose, where are you when we need you?

I don’t actually recall seeing smokey bacon flavour crisps available anywhere for a long time. Decades, possibly. I’m sure I read something about the flavouring chemical mix being found to be potentially […]

Oh god, Smith’s. Long gone in Blighty, I think Walkers absorbed them, but always my favourite brand of crisps as a kid. They did easily the best generic salt n’ vinegar and, briefly, an adventurous (for the early […]

Whilst UK crisp fans, myself among them, have long shunned the bland and uninteresting paprika flavour that seems to rule supreme in most of Europe, I was recently introduced to Walkers Max crisps.. widely […]

Yup, nerve inducing to be sure, and a very fine song. Although ‘chart flop’ and EC singles are common bedfellows. Other than Oliver’s Army, his big UK singles chart hits can be counted on one finger, and in the […]

The most ominous aspect of England’s heavy defeat is that this was an India team without their best bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who was dropped to allow him a rest. Bumrah is currently the most effective bowler in the […]

That seems like a set list to keep the fans very happy, and also those of us who merely think Oasis are ok but certainly wouldn’t fork out north of £100 to see them.

Me too. Struggled with maths at school, never liked it, and have relied on God’s gift to humanity, the calculator, ever since. As a kid, my elder brother, who is the sort of annoying person who actually enjoys […]

I’m Too Sexy in particular doesn’t belong in that company. Too clever and self- consciously arch to be considered a mere crap novelty song.

On a more encouraging note, no massive cheeseburger binges either. He must surely have lost a fair bit of that timber he was carrying by now.

I suspect his enormous, gargantuan, stratospheric level of global fame is what actually impresses them. For the under 20s, he is the most famous person in music in their lifetime, everyone knows him and everyone […]

Arf (although conceivably true knowing the history of NI football)

Giuseppe Meazza? (after whom the San Siro stadium is officially named) , Luigi Riva? Roberto Boninsegna? Luca Toni ? Francesco Totti? Alessandro Del Piero? Certainly no shortage of prolific Italian goalscorers, […]

Argentina? Messi must surely make the list, possibly Batistuta, possibly Aguero. Don’t think Maradona scored bundles for Argentina .