mattypenny

Went out for one of my usual slow trots around Salisbury last night, but speeded up towards the end as I realized I was late for the football

Aching all over this morning

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Impressive

I have been in Johannesburg for 3 days and I am proud to say I’ve eaten at Nando’s 4 times.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

“The joy of watching a Lionel Messi will always outweigh the cringe of listening to an Infantino”

Finished reading Blue was the Colour. It’s a book about my favourite football team, by one of my favourite comics….so of course I like it. Marvellous, if slightly gloomy, book. ⚽📖

I’m sorry if they aren’t available outside the UK, but Hugh Bonneville reading Sherlock Holmes is good fun

BBC Sounds - Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

The best thing about AI chat sites is that they allow you to ask stupid questions in a stupid way.

15th of January, here in the Shire, is halfway through winter, by some calculations….I’m looking forward to Spring

Another thought from last night ⚽

I really, really, really want this car

Thoughts on Chelsea - Bournemouth

• lovely to see Reece score

• the first goal was sublime.

• Not entirely sure how Jackson wriggled free of three of their players for that goal

• our confidence is so fragile…it felt like it evaporated in the half a minute after that Sanchez’s misplaced pass

• Maresca could probably have made the changes earlier

• all 11 of our players seemed to be making mistakes…whether that was Bournemouth playing well or us playing badly I don’t know

• I really need to nail down the best way of getting back to Waterloo

• I’m far too old to be running up escalators to make the 22.50

Nice story about Brian Clough in the Telegraph today, from the Liverpool player Phil Thompson

Thompson views that rivalry as one of mutual respect rather than among the most hostile in English football. “I knew how much the Forest lads loved Cloughie from the England get-togethers and experienced a little of his man-management myself,” he says.

“There was a game at the City Ground when I had a bad ankle injury and it needed stitching up. I was on the treatment table and in a bad way with the doctor working on me, pulling the skin over my ankle. Cloughie popped his head in and could see what was going on, so started talking to me and telling me what a great player he thinks I am.

“He just kept talking away and it dawned on me later how he was taking my mind off the injury. Не went up in my estimation after that.

Reasons I’d like to be famous

• to be one of the VIPs on a half-marathon (because they get very well looked after)
• so I could get the people on the Who Do You Think You Are show to do my family tree (because I can’t really be bothered )

Currently reading: Blue was the colour by andy hamilton 📚

Wise words can come from various sources

Really enjoyed ‘Better Man’. Worth seeing at the cinema, if you get the chance, if only for the Rock DJ bit

youtu.be/KVeH5T4wx…

The final, rather grown-up, joy of Christmas is when the binmen take all the rubbish away