Thursday's random reads (it is Thursday, yes?)

[wringhim]

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,

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who's got the crack?

[sleepy_bird]

Before I go to London, I have to ask - is it a place where crackheads usually hang around school fairs cheering on their little children? Here in America crackheads hang around subway stops and yell and twitch while wearing urine-fouled clothing. Could a bastion of journalism like the Daily Telegraph be wrong about these things?

I eagerly await a world of Whitney Houstons!

Re: who's got the crack?

[wringhim]

I think the writer is probably confusing crackheads with working class and/or black people. I find it hard to believe that any reader of the Daily Telegraph (still less the "city types" mentioned) would send their child to the same school as a crack-head's offspring. Even though crack-heads are doubtless really good at the parents' race on sports day, as well as handicrafts involving modelling animals in aluminium foil.

But if you dream of socialising with London's crack-heads, I'm sure my friend in London's gun-crime capital of Peckham would be happy to direct you. Or if you're after the more famous crack-heads, chubby-faced songsmith Pete Doherty can usually be found around the bars of Camden or Islington in the north of London. Though as yet he has never been sighted at a school fete or sports day.