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I enjoyed Scott Minto talking about Cole Palmer at half time
He danced around making the comparison, but eventually uttered what he’d previously referred to as ‘the M-word’ - Messi
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Listening on the Chelsea app, and getting slightly worried for Jason Cindy
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The Wicker Man soundtrack is on Spotify now
I think it’s got some extra bits compared to my CD, too
Lovely to see empty seats towards the end of a Chelsea away match
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The Bible tells us that i is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
I feel that Levi Colwill could pass a camel-sized football through the eye of a needle
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“in a way that has no analogue in the world of conventional commercial transactions, customers continue to give their custom whilst vociferously criticising the product”
David Horspools on football in More than a Game, quoted here: The fixtures that forged a nation
I google-ized ‘England fixtures’…and as well as tonight’s fixture it gave me a little summary about our national team.
All good…except for ‘Fight Songs’, for which it lists both Three Lions and the Take That song ‘Greatest Day’
Neither of these seems much like a ‘Fight Song’….and what’s that anyway?
Disappointed to discover that my favourite ever sports commentator, Barry Davies, is Spurs….but impressed that I never twigged
It’s not Barca and Bayern on the way to winning the Champions League, but it’s a start
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Chelsea’s new signing Kieran Dewsbury-Hall has followed the new manager from Leicester
The other players are therefore calling him “the teacher’s pet”
I’m delighted to learn that they are just as childish as the rest of us ⚽
Im not sure if this counts as a metaphor but i like it ⚽
“Southgate has seemed a little more drained than usual at this tournament, adopting during most of his public interactions the expression of a disappointed antelope being asked to explain calculus to a remedial group of angry toddlers.”
I’m enjoying Alan Carr’s Changing Ends auto-bio-pic on ITV
I think I’m right in saying that as well as having a dad who was a football manager he was also related to Willie Carr, who was famous for the immediately banned donkey kick
I’d never seen the donkey kick until I looked it up this morning, but it was explained and diagrammed in the Golden Goals sticker book, which as a kid I studied with almost religious intensity ⚽
The video of the kick is here - youtu.be/DOS8T8Ypn…
The origin truth of football is that outstanding individuals doing outrageous things is no basis for a team. The origin truth of international tournaments is that, every once in a while, it doesn’t matter.
Jonathan Liew at the Düsseldorf Arena ⚽💬
England lose control and embrace the chaos to rise from the canvas again - www.theguardian.com/football/…
As a wise man once said, “Football. Bloody hell.”
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Here’s a cheery thought ⚽
If England don’t win the Euro’s this time, then, by the time if the next World Cup it will be 30 Years of Hurt since they first sang about the 30 Years of Hurt 🎵
Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home) by Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds - songwhip.com/baddiel-s…
I didn’t enjoy the football, but I did enjoy the Guardian’s headline ⚽
Woe de Cologne
I may be a 1970s throwback……but the idea that there could be any debate about that being offside seems crazy to me ⚽
I’m listening to Rolling Stone’s The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History. It’s good fun
Coincidentally I was scrolling through Wikipedia’s list of Chelsea managers, as you do, and it struck me that binning Anceolotti and recruiting AVB might be one of the Worst Decisions in Football History
As Dickens almost said, of all the good old days in the good old year, fixture list day is one of my favourites
Chelsea’s 2024/25 Premier League fixtures announced - www.chelseafc.com/en/news/a…