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What Is David Moyes Up To These Days, And Why….?

This Is What It’s Come To, Again….   When we last checked in on David Moyes, he’d been appointed manager of Manchester United at the behest and recommendation on  of Sir (Lord) Alex Ferguson who was retiring after 26 years on the clock. Moyes was the former manager of Everton, and as I mentioned, was…

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The Championship Years 2017-18, part 2: All The Comforts Of Home

On The Ball City!

Norwich City 1      Sunderland 3   Last Sunday, the Black Cats of newly relegated Sunderland strode onto the pitch and from the off, they felt right at home. They played well….okay….they played well enough to win. Yes, they had only 35% possession, but….they made it count. They played the match with all the…

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The Championship Years 2017-18, part 1

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Coming Soon to a Premier League Near You…   I’m gripped by this feeling that the new football season in England is starting a week early. I might be imagining it, but I’m NOT imagining this huge rough hand gripping me by the scruff of the neck and hauling me sorry ass to my Adler…

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The Curious Return Of Captain Britain

Captain Britain

Wayne Rooney Goes Home To Roost   With far less fanfare than That Villan John Terry, Wayne leaves Man U and returns to his old home club, Everton from whence he sprang into Britain’s….well, England’s at least….football imagination so many years ago. There wasn’t the major salutations that surrounded Terry’s departure from Chelsea. Which does…

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Europa’s Day

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Our Nation’s 234th Typically Celebrated By Some   You maybe read the title correctly. But…most likely not. In these days of social media and other shortcuts that act as a simulacrum of communication, punctuation as well as spelling has been hoisted with the petards that will light up the skies of America later this evening.…

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There Will Always Be A Scotland

never trust a tory

Scotland 2     England 2   Scotland defeats England 2-2. So the headline should have, could have been. After all, when USA!USA!!USA!!! played England in the 2010 World Cup the New Your POST headline was USA beats England 1-1!! Scotland needed a win to have any shot of actually qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in…

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Le Rejouer En Partie

Arsene Wenger’s revenge…..   I am currently watching the replay of yesterday’s FA Cup final between ArseAnal and Chelsea. My thought was that today it would turn out different than it did yesterday when ArseAnal and Arsene Wenger strode jauntily off into the sunset with a 2-1 win. But at the 3 minutes and change…

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It’s Talladega, Baby!! The Indecisively Compelling Spring 2017 Edition

tits at talladega

“This doesn’t look at ALL like Alabama…”   It’s Talladega, Baby!! And if don’t know what THAT means, then you’ve been living a very sheltered life. It doesn’t mean a run for the roses, or chugging a quart of milk in Victory Lane. I’ll give you a clue: THIS!!  It’s Talladega, Baby!! So I won’t…

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Prolegomenon To Any Future Blog Post

Business As Usual??  I’m not so sure….   I’ve always resisted the typical end-of-year backward glances; top 23 lists of crap, movies, music that I hate; reminiscences; resolutions; and other typical forms of dull tedious shite. I have at other times engaged in some form of egregious introspection, but not at this time of the…

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The Apocryphal Symphonies, As Performed by Bongo Christ & Johnny Moustache

Bongo Christ (l) and (Not) Johnny Moustache (r)   The symphonies themselves are not all that apocryphal, but their performances by Bongo Christ and Johnny Moustache, like any or most of my stories, certainly are as apocryphal as they come. Whether or not their performances will resonate with the world any better than my stories,…

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Except For Beer, International EVERYTHING!!

International Football

International Biker Chicks   In case I haven’t already announced it, I hereby officially announce my retirement from International Football. That’s it. I’m done. I’m hanging up the boots. Jürgen Klinnsman can come begging all he wants. But sorry. I’m through. I want it understood, however, that while I’m retiring from international football, that does…

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The New Medieval Realm…

Brian France

Brian France with a Charter prepared for a lucky team owner, earlier…   NASCAR has crept up on me suddenly this year…like the shadow of a monster. Well, to be honest it was lurking there all along  But like everything this year, it has taken me by surprise. Yes, it really IS and has been…

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Abandonment

My blog, recently….   I’ve been on the verge of filing a petition with the Federal Railroad Administration for the abandonment of this blog. The property is in sad shape, needs extensive maintenance work, track and signal upgrades. Bridges need to be replaces, not to mention the new ones that need to be built. All…

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Sundry Liberties & Free Warren

Business as usual, then….   I never visited the borough of Plumstead when I was in London…and I’m not sure if it was still called Plumstead back in those brave and terrible days of Nixon’s decline…but I am quite sure I was never there. No, I’m absolutely certain. Just a I’m quite sure (absolutely certain)…