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Radio from last night https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001025k

Here's a puzzling one for me. Recently had my credit card hacked (narrowed it down to an Amazon online purchase). Purchases by the fraudster were declined fortunately. The fraudster also did a debit/credit verification using my card details to open an account with Curve (some kind of debit...

Hatton Garden heist criminal can serve ten years and be out aged 69 if he coughs up his missing 6 million quid or keep schtum and serve an extra 7 years and be out at age 76 but considerably richer. Bit of a dilemma at that kind of age.

Be interesting to see the stats regarding any change In this. Do home crowds make a difference - we have an enforced experiment In which these variables could be teased out. Is it simply about the ground or the support? I’ve always wondered why a professional sportsman can’t perform to their...

Read something the other day re football nostalgia and it struck a chord - probably won’t mean anything to you whippersnappers - but leaving a match how there often used to be one bloke with a radio tuned into Sports Report. You had to scurry along to keep up with him to catch vital scores and...

Had my first game of football golf the other day. Great fun - highly recommended. There were five of us. Four of us had played football competitively - the youngest still does. The oldest one of us was not into football and had not really played since schooldays (he's a very fit 64). To our...

Read his book, 'How to be a Footballer' over the summer - fascinating and funny read. Just to say he confirms what we all knew about Craig Bellamy being a complete twat. Apparently often referred to himself in the third person (like the Donald) especially when bigging himself up. That's not...

Fascinating and sad series. Been following it since 7up. Amazing social history record. Made me think about my own experience of social mobility growing up in Cov. Pretty much all of my mates, family members, cousins etc had parents who had working class jobs (in factories mostly). Pretty much...

Some sports I never watch might be more exciting if the rules were changed. I reckon tennis would be bettter if they scrapped the second serve. F1 they should all have the same cars so we would only be judging driver ability. In darts the board should be slowly rotating. In snooker you should...

Following on from the Rubbish Managers thread, it reminded me that Strachan and Coleman went on to manage international sides. I wondered which league side had the most managers who had managed or went on to manage international sides. I reckon we've had six which seems quite high. Without...

For the hooligan nutters

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Still in the afterglow, made my weekend. Just making up headlines.....

Just got me wondering that if these child abuse accusations hold water whether we have to effectively delete his entire back catalogue as we did Gary Glitter. Can an artist's music ever override a crime? Not particularly a fan but we would lose maybe the Jackson 5 stuff, Thriller etc - his dance...

A love letter to the strikers: Roses are red My team is sky blue Banjos and barn doors Remind me of you ♥️

Anyone remember the joke shop which I think used to be somewhere near the Elastic Inn. When we were kids we used to buy all kinds of stuff in there. Stink bombs to let off in the lifts at Owen & Owen, fake turds, fake blood, smoking monkeys (no idea how a plastic figure could blow perfect smoke...

Most of the 12 Southend thugs who set on Cambridge fan, Simon Dobbin and left him severely brain damaged are already out of prison. His life sentence continues. Good on DIYSOS for helping his family.

I'm not into F1 at all but I'm wondering why this guy, who has exceeded all past Brits, does not seem to be well liked. We used to revere drivers like Jackie Stewart, James Hunt, Graham Hill etc but this bloke's success doesn't seem to elevate him to greatness. Might just because I'm not into it...

Annoys me when blokes don't wash their hands after peeing or even worse after shitting. I'm always concerned about touching the door handle to leave the public toilet. The other day I had to use the toilets in a department store (sign of getting old) before making my way to the cafeteria for a...

Please sign to get this Christmas advert reshown highlighting the plight of the orangutan caused by palm oil plantations. It's been banned for being 'political' but it's a message that needs urgent attention and should be beyond politics. Great advert for this cause. Nearly a million...