Tag: football
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I Can’t Make You Love me
“I think a lot of art and creative material is to remind us what is right under our noses and we forget or we lose touch with it” Mike Reid Mike Reid’s song ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ is stunning, most famously covered by Bonnie Raitt, Adele and George Michael – you’d know that…
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It’s coming h…. LOL
I have total schadenfreude about England crashing out of the World Cup, if I’d bet on it I would have gone for the traditional quarter finals penalties, surprised they made the semis, but really, what did you really expect? Had to put up with endless chants of ‘It’s Coming Home!’ over the last few weeks,…
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Bottom line not people at the bottom
Reflecting on the distasteful news that Nike is again cashing in on Pride month with their #BeTrue campaign, after their lack of any action over Sochi and the LGBTQ abuses in Russia. It’s one thing to flog rainbow gear made in coutnries where the locals aren’t free to express their seuxality and gender to people…
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Football watch it here for all time forever it never ends
Good comment on football generally, but I suspect like many people Mitchell and/or Webb will be wishing the World Cup would go somewhere else….like, Mars? (via Andrew Johns)
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Unofficial Anthems 8: It’s an odd boy who doesn’t like sport
Haven’t checked if Stephen Fry (for it is he, he who apparently cannot be questioned :-/) is involved with the Olympics, but if he is remind him his favourite Bonzos song is this one. He explained in interviews and Moab Is My Washpot about finding this song and as a public school boy instantly got…
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Idiosyncratic end of year post
Inspired by the likes of CultureBully’s Top 10 mashups of 2010 and Bootie’s Best of 2010 collections, and the fact I should have sent in my top 5 but was too busy organising the Milan-Venice trip, here are my thoughts about 2010, and best mashups of the year. With a lot less Van Halen 😉…