Football historian by profession, father by passion. Pinpoint analysis, VAR, hindsight, metrics & optic data, with critical commentary on context. Visiting Prof
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We free marketists don’t like to admit it but Willy Wonka committed some severe improprieties when munchkins were in his employ. HMRC and regulators looked the other way as long as his choc kept change dancing on the shop counter but when the music stopped so did the rebates.
Rough connection to wi-fi (@virginmedia), couldn’t connect on Skype to my exasperated solicitor. My feckless son was hogging for broadband, hosting an online webinar ‘Reading Iraq in Geonosis: Star Wars and Coalition Tours in a Forlorn 2001-2003’. Any help, @richardbranson?
As a distant relative of Captain Tom myself, I can confirm wholeheartedly that he would not have minded any of his descendants or those claiming familial connection voicing opinions on his behalf and in his name.
Longtime Corneficiados will know what I wax lyrical about our innate British right to free speech. It was the soothsayer J-K Rowling that once mused ‘I don’t agree with what you’ve said but I’ll die for your right to say it’.
It seems as an appropriate a time as ever to finally put my feet up, pour a warm foamy one and watch a documentary about the young Thai boys who got stuck in that cave.
The England Germany match? I’d love to have caught it, but I was attending to my son Chris’s bad salvia trip. My ears and common sense are throbbing after listening to his crackpot theory about the interconnection between Infinite Jest and Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’ picture.
Thanks to all who have messaged privately some small way of condolence. Chris doesn’t deserve your sympathy, nor does he really merit it. Suffering from a dissociative episode, he is currently in his room rewatching Breaking Bad.
I refuse to make or acknowledge any jokes or so called ‘quips’ about the passing of Prince Philip. I always strive to be the bigger man, something he always struggled with.
Sparing a thought today for @rabcaine, who seems to have inherited all of Will Self’s grotesque or comedic features, with none of his appealing physical traits or stately wit. An interesting ersatz caricature.
If you put a gun to my head and asked me if I'd rather be @piersmorgan or @PierceBrosnan, I'd ask for me to be made a man with the opinions and haughtyness of Morgan, but with the sophisticated good looks and superior bowel movements and digestion of Brosnan.