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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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A Gloriously Useless Schematic Of Random Information

Nobby Stiles

Sebastian Vettel WINS the Australian Gran Prix   There is, as there always is I suppose, a horrifying backlog of various sports music cultural political and artistic information, just to name a few, that if I captured them in bare hands and crushed their life blood onto these pages more frequently, perhaps it would seem…

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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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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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Hearts Of Stone

jose mourinho fired

Stoke City 1      Chelsea 1 Chelsea 1     Liverpool 3 Stoke City 1      Chelsea 0 Chelsea 1      Norwich City 0 Tootenham 0      Chelsea 0 Chelsea 0      Bournemouth 1 Leicester City 2      Chelsea 1   I was going to stand in the rain, in an empty stadium, or my front yard, whichever is closer, and rant about…

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Johnny Unitas Is Bewildered

Chelsea 1     Southampton 3   I was planning to write a long-form essay on the various perils and turmoils of two cities in England….that would be Dallas and Fort Worth for those of you keeping score down at The Firehouse in Mount Horeb WI where I dropped by yesterday to have a beer or three…

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Nothing Odd About It

Chelsea 1      Crystal Palace 2   Well….I was merely/only going to write about the Europa League again, but then THIS ugly mess reared it’s ugly focking head and I simply have to choice but pen some sort of take on it. I suppose I should just say CONGRATS Alan Pardew for becoming the ONLY Premier…

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Is There A Doctor In The House??

Jose Mourinho meme

Manchester City 3      Chelsea o   There is always more to everything than meets the eye. But sometimes, what meets the eye is all you need to know. For example: SCOREBOARD! ! Manchester City roasted Chelsea. Tore the blue flag from their hands as if they were stealing candy from sweet little children and burned…

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The TCP/IP Stack Wars, Cont.

I do not know, nor do I care, how the Internet works.   If you don’t know a TCP/IP stack from a stack of pancakes, don’t feel too bad there. Even Steve Ballmer (current owner of the LA Clippers and one time right-hand man to none other than Bill Gates (who also wasn’t all that…

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First and 10

jose mourinho

“One of the easiest things in football is to win 1-0.”   Ipswich Town 0      Norwich City 1 Lewis Grabben smacked home the opener at 24 minutes off a Tettey header from Hoolihan’s corner, and….as Jose Mourinho might say, the rest was easy. It didn’t look easy at times, but Norwich was the…

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Søren Kierkegaard’s Football Bible

jose mourinho

Chelsea 1      Atlético Madrid 3   “The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense for the comic”   After Chelsea parked two buses in the back of Liverpool’s net this past weekend, Jose Mourinho came in for a bit of criticism regarding his defensive football philosophy that toppled Liverpool…

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Formula 2

Plan B Ryan Giggs

Chelsea 1     Sunderland 2   The only way I can grasp and comprehend the aforementioned scoreline is this: If Plan A doesn’t work, you go to Plan B. If Plan B doesn’t work, try Formula 2. I mean, really now, what the FOCK anyway?!! It was freaking SUNDERLAND one time there now!! SUNDERLAND!!…

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5 Essential Things You NEED To Know About (*redacted*), But Can Live Without

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Picture Not (*redacted*)   It seems like to me, and possibly (*redacted*) that I’ve bit off more than I can chew. You might think otherwise, after all, it’s ONLY 5 things, yes? Or, you might be thankful for my certain fate, yes, thrilled even that I won’t (might not) go into 5 long diatribes about…

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F1 vs. NASCAR, part 1 Version 2.0.23

This, again….   Where do I start. First there’s Eddie Gossage, the aforementioned President of the Texas Motor Speedway, barking out of his ass about Formula 1. Then, there’s Tony Stewart’s partner in Insanity, Gene Haas, who’s fixin’ to club his way ((pun somewhat, but not really, intended)) into Formula 1 with a brave new…