Holmes_and_Watson

Madonna

Study

Rangers get a 1-0 win over Ross County. From the Beeb report... "The precarious nature of the lead had Rangers hearts in mouths as Kazeem Olaigbe burst clear only for the on-loan Southampton midfielder to find the side-netting, while Rabbi Matondo was denied one-on-one by Laidlaw late on."

Promising youngster, Neil McCann, 48 ... 🙂 I remember him being linked with moves for years before finally leaving Scottish football for Saints. While he had injuries, he might have done better with an earlier move to help him improve.

My understanding is that everyone went into the meeting room, only to be ejected by stewards five minutes later. 🙂

My first thought was that it was going to be a spin off from the What is happening to our country thread, where Soggy had identified culprits and we'd get to vote on their punishment. Quite a let down in the end. 🙂

Stream

I popped in to see if LCQF was a group whose rights I should have been supporting. But it's only City in the Cup. They're no Lincoln. We'll be fine. 🙂

Interesting article on the number of ACL injuries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64032536

Any dragons in it? 🙂

Sirocco

Bloomin' met office. The way they've used their influence to slowly take over Britain's energy infrastructure over the last 40 years has been shocking. Worse, we still have no clear near term implementation of fossil, renewable or nuclear. Because once the Met office took over, they then spent their time on forecasting cloud movements and giving travel updates. It's appalling and I feel for decades of clear sighted, selfless governments who would have otherwise never let any of this happen. 🙂

If the once every 2 year idea didn't get very far, who knows about one every three. But it's not about sport, player safety or common sense. It's just about how much money everyone can share around. So with enough support from some FIFA regions, and possibly bailing out super League clubs through an also expanded club cup, it could end up being anything. Looking forward to a world cup every 4 years plus during specified planetary alignments.

Track

Starts off with him talking about two of the world's best players going head to head. I'm just going to keep watching for the dates they're joining us... ... oh... 🙂

He'll age a decade in the next few months. 🙂

Shooting

Great. Now we'll never know if that happened in it, as no one will admit to having watched it. 🙂 Me? ... lowers voice to gravelly, non virgin geek tone... never seen it in me life...

Sing

My tea making with the radio today had a person being interviewed by Nicky Campbell. She said that Clarkson's tirade (that I've not read) was racially motivated. That not only was he a misogynist, but was clearly a racist. When challenged she said that whatever Clarkson said had clear parallels with the slave trade. He would know this, and therefore it was a racist attack. Campbell challenged again, and the person interviewed seemed taken aback that anyone would challenge this narrative. Campbell asked where was the racist element to the comments, highlighted that whatever it was was a general form of punishment, and with more recent links to a TV programme. The person back peddled to misogyny, but snuck in another "clearly" relating to the real hatred Clarkson had, before I turned it off. Right at the end Markle was mentioned. So based on that snippet, Clarkson may be:- A racist A misogynist Have views on crime and punishment that are from another century. Be a very staunch monarchist, who will attack any of their critics. Watch so much of a TV programme that it bleeds into his normal life. Be a bit of a bellend. Leave himself open to people looking to peddle their own unsupportable agendas. Keen to say anything to shift some newspapers/clicks. Leave himself open to people who worry about him wandering around in their community. None, some, most or all of the above.

And not long after Mead's own ACL injury. Can only hope a swift and full recovery for them both as the WSL is a poorer place without them.

Jump

I caught a few, tea making, mins just before half time on BBC radio. The commentator was about to tell us what a lovely stadium it was. But made sure to trot out that "there had been some problems with the construction" first. So glad the Beeb hordes are there to preface the odd sentence or two. Then it was a couple mins on how France were woeful and "had lost their identity." Not a jot on how the game had gone tactically. Why were Argentina better? Why had France had to make subs? What had happened? No idea. They're not capable of moving on from winners= all good things; losers=all bad things. They were more interested in their bubble world where another commentator was blocking their view. Tea made, and the rubbish was switched off. Caught the last couple of mins and pens on ITV.

Harassment

Surely we all want the spirit of knock out competition to be captured by It's a Knockout elimination? The players dress up in country mascot outfits and multiple giant inflatable balls are used. A fun filled goal fest!