What Shall We Do With Rangers?
They’re talking this morning on the BBC Radio 5 phone-in about Rangers.
What right to Rangers have to exist, let alone go into their division of choice.
Just imagine, what would happen if say Chelsea or any of the big London clubs went bust. Every fan north of Watford, would want them to be kicked out completely, for all the arrogance they’ve shown over the years.
So fans of other clubs in Scotland are only acting how their English counterparts would.
But let’s face it, no team in Scotland, would beat the best two teams in Wales.
We certainly don’t want Rangers or Celtic with their sectarianism in the English leagues.
Rangers too, should pay their debs to HMRC.
Was The Torch A Day Late?
Yesterday was July the Fourth or Darrell’s Day in Suffolk, when the Dutch tried to invade in 1667.
So surely the torch should have visited Felixstowe yesterday, rather than today.
England Give Australia A Good Polishing
As if Friday’s pasting with a lot of help from an Irish dwarf wasn’t enough, they got supremely polished by England on Sunday. Sadly, England will have to shuffle the pack as two of their team, have got to go to a funeral.
Apparently, Australia are doing special deals on the trains to Edgbaston. If the match finishes early, you can take any train home.
It Was A Friend of Flying Rats What Did It!
That is the theory about who nicked Rufus the Hawk in the Evening Standard tonight.
I also think, that the Flying Squad are looking for a thief, with some large cuts in his fingers.
Reasons To Go To Liverpool
I’m always being asked by people, why they should go to Liverpool.
Here’s a few reasons.
- St. George’s Hall, which Nikolaus Pevsner described as one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world.
- Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, which is a superb neo-Gothic creation by Giles Gilbert Scott, an architect, who also created Britain’s red telephone box.
- The Victoria Building of Liverpool University, which gives red-brick university its name and has some good art in its gallery and museum, including some by Freud, Turner, Frink and Epstein. I saw an excellent special exhibition there of art by Stuart Sutcliffe, the so-called “fifth Beatle”
- St.. Luke’s Church or as Liverpudlian’s call it the bombed-out church, which has been left as a memorial to the Second World War. This church was my late wife’s, C’s, favourite building in the city.
- Oriel Chambers, which is the first modern building in the world.
- The Walker Art Gallery or the National Gallery of the North. It is administered by central government, although many of the paintings came from local sources. It also has one of the largest collections of pre-Raphaelite painting in the UK and the Liverpool School of the movement is well-represented.
- Liverpool has more street statuary than any city in England with the exception of London. I particularly like Eleanor Rigby by Tommy Steele.
- Superlambananas are fairly numerous.
- The Pier Head, the Three Graces and the Mersey Ferries. Do remember that when a lady walks in front of the Liver Birds on the Royal Liver Building, and they flap their wings, she’s a virgin. They also flap their wings for honest men.
- The Albert Dock, the Tate Liverpool and the other museums in that area.
- Goodison Park. The home of Everton along with Craven Cottage in London, is one of the most complete works of Archibald Leitch, the architect of many sports grounds in the UK.
- Hope Street that connects the two cathedrals and also contains the most amazing pub in the world, the Philhamonic Dining Rooms.
I could add a few more, but I won’t.
Never Pick A Fight With Small Irishmen
It’s an old maxim amongst experienced police officers, but the smaller the guy you’re trying to arrest, the more backup you need.
Australia forgot this yesterday and Eoin Morgan and England put another team from down-under on the barbie,
So Australia mpve on the Oval one match down to England, and a man short too, as Cummins is going home.
They’ll Nick Anything These Days
If you watched BBC Breakfast last week, you might have seen the harris hawk, used to frighten pigeons from the courts. So now someone has nicked it. It’s here in the Mail. It appears to have been a family pet as well, so I suspect that they may have stolen something they can’t handle. I hope so, because most birds have a strong homing instinct.
They could always borrow the eagle from Crystal Palace.
Why Does He Do It?
I gave up on Andy Murray, as I could see his stop-start performance getting him out of Wimbledon last night. So I went to bed. But at least he pulled the match out of the fire!
He seems to make so many mental mistakes.
At least with Tim Henman and Greg Rusedjski, you got what it said on the tin, even if they were inferior tennis players. Rarely did they not play to their level.
The Good Luck Runs Out
What else is there to say!
England Against Ukraine at Cricket
Radio 5 has announced this morning that an English touring cricket club is in Ukraine. Apparently there are eight cricket clubs in Kiev.
I can’t help being reminded of the very funny Michael Bentine sketch, where he was taking cricket to the natives, in some unnamed country. The last line as he held up a box, was.
And this is 27s. and 6d.
Classic humour from the only Peruvian born in Watford.
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