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I’m becoming the thing that I used to most hate.

I used to rant on incessantly about Canadians I would meet who would say things like "quid" and "mate" and even "taking the piss out of" after only living in England for a few years. Sad Anglophiles who actually say they like England. Last week I said "Blimey". BLIMEY! I can’t really believe it ( Read more... )

Can you believe I’ve been in Manchester now for nine months?! God damn time flies.

Quite a lot has happened in that time, but I haven’t done a lot in the city itself as I’ve been away on and off for most of it. The Manchester Festival was in town and apparently it was cool, but I went to France and missed the whole thing. Luckily I was back just ( Read more... )

Right, so I have finally figured out how to:

1. Get video and audio files off my phone and;
2. Upload said video files to youtube.

I can't wait to start getting some youtube style comments like "sO FAKE!!11 UR so gay LOLZZZZZ!!!!!111

Before I get into that though, let me give you a quick update as I have not put an update in here in ages.

Yes, I have got ( Read more... )

The following article was written for The Bleacher Report, an online sports website. After reading a few of their columns, I'm not sure they'll enjoy the dumb foreigner Man U fan, most of their articles are objective and serious. Oh well, we'll see, I'll post a link to it here if they go for it.

Enjoy

EDIT:-- Hey, turns out they did like it. Here it ( Read more... )

The first one is a test piece to apply for a casino web site's role as their football columnist. The only guidance was that it was to be 200 words, on recent football related events and be full of "passion, character and the guts to say what you really think!" I don't know if smarmy is what they're looking for... we'll see.
The second one is a ( Read more... )

Good week not to be English.

Last week English teams choked not once, not twice, but three times. The football team lost to Russia so now it looks like they won’t qualify for Euro 2008, Lewis Hamilton threw away the F1 Championship by choking on the last two races and the English rugby team lost to South Africa in the World Cup final.

I had my ( Read more... )

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am getting slightly obsessed with football (soccer). I finally caved and bought Sky Sports so I could watch premiership matches this weekend, and of course it’s the one weekend of the year where there aren’t any. Watching Sky Sports when there is no footy on is a sad state of affairs ( Read more... )

Are you interested in learning more about English football? An expat with English footie fans as friends? A housewife who wants to make her husband look foolish? If so, here are a few tips on winning fantasy football when you know exactly two things about football... jack and shit.

For those of you who didn’t read the Canadian guide to Fantasy ( Read more... )