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Gerry Francis is the man to blame. Back in the days when the Home International England v Scotland was the biggest game of the year (and one of very few that was shown live on the telly) I watched this match with my Grandpa.
Gerry scored 2 goals and I decided to support the team he played for.
Fiona's gone rogue. She's clearly a bit put out that Amanda shared her secret with Rachel & not with her, but I think she genuinely believes that Rachel has fabricated Amanda's secret.
But even so, challenging her on it so publicly rather than waiting until they get in the turret is a hell of a gamble. And I think it will result in Fiona getting voted out next.
Rachel has got a lot of Faithfuls around her that will trust her more than they trust Fiona. And if Fiona gets voted out & tells everyone she's a traitor then that will cement their opinion of Rachel as a faitfhful even more.
Wish someone would murder James, he's got a victim complex, he's quite annoying and he adds nothing to the show.
Claims to hate a TV programme & yet you still clicked into a thread that's clearly about said programme. Very suspicious Myke. I will be voting for yourself.
Fiona quite right to not trust Rachel & vice versa.
I actually felt a little bit sorry for Turkey Teeth Sam when he was in that cage.
Jessie saying here they all come chatting a load of bollocks was my favourite bit of this episode.
But most of all How da fukk is Reece not putting 2 and 2 together?!?! Those red dots appearing on the family tree right where Rachel & Stephen told him they needed to be left alone the night before. He deserves to be left in a cage overnight for that!!
It was very different when Gary Lineker played. He would definitely have got several yellows if he played today, particularly in his Tottenham days. He loved to backchat at the ref and that was at a time when it was nowhere near as rife as it is these days. Nobody's a bigger Venables fan than me, but let's not pretend his teams were strangers to the dark arts. His Spurs team were the best in the country (or should that be worst?) at gaining every possible advantage. And Lineker was a key part of that. He was constantly in the ref's ear. Spurs were a team of dirty gits under Venables. Van Den Hauwe, Fenwick, Durie, Howells, Gascoigne, Edinburgh, Samways and yes Lineker were all partial to an off the ball shove, kick or shirt pull when the ref wasn't looking. Anyone that was there will remember the match where Gurnham Singh was the ref but there were several earlier games between us & Spurs that were similar and where their gameplan seemed to be foul / injure poor old Andy Sinton and blindside the ref. Fergie's Man United watched & learned from Venables' Spurs & then took all that cheating / surrounding the ref to another level in the 90s. The only reason Lineker never got booked was because it became such a well-known thing that no ref wanted to be the first to book him.
One of the bands I was in as a teenager used to rehearse every Monday night in Camelsdale village hall. Drums, bass, 2 guitarists (I was one of those). We kept auditioning singers but never found a good one. We only ever learnt to play 1 song which was Marquee Moon. We had all 10 minutes of it absolutely nailed but we never found a singer and never played a gig.
the Italy team that lost in the other semi-final were the best team in the tournament. Baresi, Bergomi, Maldini, Donadoni, Schillachi. The young Baggio (along with Gazza) the breakout player of the tournament. I wonder how an Italy v Germany or Italy v England final would've turned out.
The current top 3 Coventry Boro & Ipswich are way waaaaaaaaybetter than everyone else in the Championship. Despite their awful start I still think Sheffield Utd are a very good team and will end up in the top 6. Apart from that I don’t think there’s anyone else in the division who is significantly better than us and a whole load of teams who are roughly the same standard as us. So then it just comes down to us finding an edge to pick up more points than all those other similar teams. Be more organised than them, work harder than them, fight harder than them. We can nteiyl get a playoff spot if we can do those things consistently in the 2nd half of the season (and I happen to think we probably can’t even though we’ve done very well at that in the last half dozen or so games)
Yep. A new ground to visit & genuinely welcoming locals. That was a really fun day out until the football match started.
I hope we get drawn away at a ground where I've never seen QPR play before. Any of Macclesfield, Shrewsbury, Bristol Rovers, Carlisle, Accrington Stanley, Newport County, Barrow would be good.
one that sticks in my mind is Notts County away on Boxing Day. It was the same season we got promoted at Hillsborough. We went 1 up, Paul Heffernan equalised. We went 2 1 up, Paul bloody Heffernan equalised again. Then with about 10 minutes to go they get a penalty and bloody Paul bloody Heffernan scores it to put them 3 2 up. 🥺🥺🥺 But then in injury time QPR get a throw in. Long throw, Gallen gets his head to it. It’s 3 3. Cue bedlam in the away end. We needed that point for the promotion in the end. Plus we needed it that day to warm us up, man it was cold behind that goal!!!
Indeed. I remember when it was closed for a few weeks because they were making a film called "Some Voices" there. Tough times. I had to go to Adelaide Cafe instead or that one on the Green (Joe's??)
In the film, Daniel Craig's brother worked in the Harp cafe. They also filmed some of that on the road I lived on (Ormiston Grove) and I watched out of the window from my flat as they filmed him wandering around a few times. I'd never heard of Daniel Craig at that time so he was not James Bond, just some actor with peroxide hair to me. Disappointingly I never saw the delectable Kelly McDonald who played the love interest in that film.
back when I lived in the Bush, the Damas Gate shop (Uxbridge Road, opposite Loftus Road) was munchies central for their Lebanese bakery. Load of sweet stuff, no idea what any of it was called. I'd just go to the counter and point at stuff. It's still there but not been in for years.
mention of Mark Thomas just reminded me of a shameful incident in my younger days.
In the 90s, I earnt a few extra quid doing sound & lights at quite a few comedy clubs. Kings Head (Acton) The Viaduct (Hanwell) Cosmic Comedy Club (Hammersmith) Red Rose Club (Finsbury Park) Rowans Cafe Bar (Chiswick) and a few others. Loads of great memories of seeing upcoming people e.g. Harry Hill, Bill Bailey when he was in a double act called the Rubber Bishops, Sean Hughes, Alan Davies, Sean Lock, Al Murray when he was just starting to do the Pub Landlord character, Hattie Hayridge, Ricky Grover, Mark Lamarr, Julian Barratt before he did Mighty Boosh, Rob Brydon, Ardal O'Hanlon, Graham Norton etc etc. I had a few other favourites that never became big names like Clayton & Gordillo, Ian Stone, the late great Ian Cognito, Phil Kay.
Anyway I crossed paths with Mark Thomas quite a few times back then. Not a particular favourite of mine but if you saw his name on the bill you knew he'd be good & get the crowd laughing.
One time I'd been working somewhere on the Saturday where he'd been on, then on the Sunday (night off) I went over to Brixton to meet some mates in a pub, didn't realise it was another comedy night & oh look it's Mark Thomas on again.
For some reason (too many pints I suspect) I decided to shout out one of his punchlines just before he said it. He was fücking livid & tried to get the other punters to point out who'd ruined his joke. But thankfully it wasn't a seated gig, nobody knew who it was & I got away with it.
Next time I saw him was at Ha Bloody Ha at the Viaduct very soon after. For some reason, I brought up the fact that I'd been at the Brixton gig and I said "what about that person who ruined your joke?" & he proper went off on one using the c word very liberally & saying how if he'd found the culprit he would've smashed their face in. I just nodded along.
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