Kubatans and West Bromwich Albion.
For my 500th post I shall look at the Kubatan controversy. Darren Day has been arrested for carrying one. I had a kubatan when I was on my University Karate squad a decade ago. Going through Heathrow on my way to deliver a conference paper in Scandinavia some mind dead cretin called over P.C.Plod as my martial arts "keyring" set off an alarm. It was the day before an England vs Denmark match. A briefcase full of academic papers assuaged the thick blue line that I was in fact who I claimed to be. Of course kubatans can be used for offensive (or defensive purposes) but it remains technically a keyring. Might I posit to Inspector Truscott that if the police did their job, that of catching criminals, real ones, (as opposed to merely arresting children for building snowmen, Maya Evans for reading lists of war dead, Walter Wolfgang for saying "Rubbish" to some third rate politician) then not only would Joe Public desist from carrying the bloody heavy awkward kubatan but Britain may resemble less of a de facto police state (regardless of Labour/Tory leadership) and that the corrupt mendacious donut eaters would acquire a scintilla of respect?
Now to the fascination of football teams. Newcastle and West Bromwich Albion are going back up to what in my youth was the First Division. Yo-yo teams that are too good for the Championship League but not good enough for Premiership? I lived near to Brentford, Millwall and Tottenham's grounds before. Of course, I could never support the same team as Rod Liddle.
Now to the fascination of football teams. Newcastle and West Bromwich Albion are going back up to what in my youth was the First Division. Yo-yo teams that are too good for the Championship League but not good enough for Premiership? I lived near to Brentford, Millwall and Tottenham's grounds before. Of course, I could never support the same team as Rod Liddle.