Best football journalism of all time:Asked for 100 words on Recreativo's crashingly dull 1-0 win over Real Sociedad, Marca's José Luis Hurtado wrote: "Maradona, Di Stéfano, Pelé, Cruyff, Van Basten, Gullit, Zidane, Gento, Puskas, Roberto Baggio, Torpedo Muller, Zico, Bergkamp, Eusebio, Futre, Blokhin, Breitner, Cabrini, Conti, Elkjaer, Laudrup, ( Read more... )

To celebrate the upcoming ban on all English teams in Europe, which will of course be in no way the fault of their good-natured and articulate fans, well anyway the Guardian has a thing on footballers who don't like football. So let's raise a glass to all those men who regarded it as just another day in the office. Espen Baardsen (Spurs and ( Read more... )

( 1980s nostalgia, pop videos, Simon Cowell, 'do you mean All Saints chick fight?', sexy nurses, denim fashion, and similar nonsense )

Is My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones the only pop song to mention University Challenge AND The Human League?

What I learnt from the internet today:

According to David McKie Uxbridge FC have a player called Dante Alighieri. Ideal if your defence is made up of the souls of dead babies; less good at getting past panthers, lions, and wolves ( Read more... )

Is it dangerous to store cooking oil on the worksurface next to the gas hob? I can't really imagine the oil's going to leap over and combust. Yet it still does seem a little of a fire hazard ( Read more... )

Today's sporting news. Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, broke his nose playing football yesterday. He is now doubtful for next weekend's fixture, when he is supposed to be playing with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. I suspect I'd be appalled if it was Tony Blair in the same situation, but you can't stop South ( Read more... )

( Probably only for fans of football, newspaper gaffes, and Scotland )

I saw the spider who lives in my car door mirror yesterday. He's fucking huge (not if you live in Australia or Brazil, but by the standards of little Britain). Obviously my car is a fertile neighbourhood bursting to the brim with insects. I never use my mirrors anyway. If this was Charlotte's Web I would be a pig ( Read more... )