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Something that's always bothered me. I am a huge fan of J.G. Ballard. I think he's an endlessly provocative and inventive writer. He was also something of a seer. He mainly writes about dystopian futures that are not very far away, i.e. The Drowned World, or that are already on us. But he also...

Often thought about this. In the days before internet, google, where you can look up everything, and more simply, lyrics printed on sleeves, which I think started very, very slowly in the sixties and still didn't really catch on till way into the seventies (was Pepper in fact the first? Seems to...

I'm serious. I've been thinking about this. Probably jumping the gun somewhat, in that we could still come an almighty cropper in the CL, and the thought of losing to the rags on the huge stage that is Wembley is a downright grisly one. Now you cannot be knighted, or proposed for a knighthood...

I'm well aware that there is currently a thread discussing the housing development on the old site, but this has a somewhat different orientation. Mods, feel free to merge if appropriate. Since it is now a century this year since we left, it seems worth marking it in some way (if only on here...

Buzzed over to UTC (Uptheclarets) to see how they'd reacted to Pep's comment about Vin. There is a thread. The comments are uniformly gracious — and realistic, by the way. But I noticed that they had a thread for Wayne Shorter. Now if supposedly backward, six-fingered Burnley can have a thread...

Did my nut on them all, of course, but for me, it was the Rodri goal. First Gundo goal went in, and I thought great, but we‘ve still got to get two more. Of course, Liverpool weren’t leading at that point, but I assumed they would, as everybody did. I still didn’t fully believe. It was better...

Wonder whether anyone else is excited about the Endurance having been located – and in ridiculously fine nick! – 3000 metres down at the bottom of the Weddell Sea after more than a century? For me, it means more than the Titanic. I'm a bit of a polar exploration buff. It's one of my private...

Obviously, the Centurions season, as I say. But apart from that, I'm having difficulty. As I remember it, we were eight points adrift last season after the West Brom game. I wasn't honestly too worried, even then, because if I also remember correctly, Spurs were top at that point, briefly, and...

This obviously excludes anything to do with City. We all know that 99% of posters would choose something from City's history, most probably 93:20. The reason why I'm starting this is that, for the umpteenth time, I've just watched Red Rum win his third at Aintree. Now I'm not even a racing fan...

Ok, I don't want to flog a horse that's probably long dead about who has been the greatest footballer of all time. It's good to debate, but impossible to resolve. Pitches have changed. Radically. Football has changed, radically. There's also a question of perception. Just about every one of...

O.K. As it stands, and as it has been applied this season, it has been a disaster. I'm a balanced enough individual not to have enjoyed it when a rank injustice has been done to another team on the pitch in our favour (there have been precious little of that sort, I know, but there have in fact...

Now come on, don't brag. You're not allowed to nominate yourself.

Don't know if this really merits its own thread, but we'll see if it touches a nerve. I've been skipping around on Youtube looking at snippets from talk shows. More than usual, for the obvious reason. I don't own a tv and have never in my life owned one (this feels a bit like the formal...

My personal all-timer: We think we can get a result…

Seeing the prices of the Club Wembley tickets still available got me to thinking about this. Now I'm very lucky, through a contact I've got a ticket for £70. That of course skews my outlook. I look at that price (i.e. £250) and I think, “Nah, there's no way I'd pay that”. But actually, pushing...

Just wondering, because I've been reading in today's Equipe that there's this lad Sofiane Alakouch (only 18) who's been having a blistering season at right back for Nîmes Olympique. Apparently the bigger clubs in French Ligue 1 are already on to him and looking to prise him away. PSG, Marseille...

OK, here's the thing. I love travelling, and have done an awful lot of it over the last twelve years or so, all over the world. Two years or so off retirement, and I'm now planning The Big One to go out with a bang (because I really won't have the readies to envisage any such thing once I'm no...

Anybody else suffer from it? I woke up at five fucking thirty and I most definitely didn't want to. I find as I get older this is happening more and more frequently (a natural tendency, so I'm told) Apart from cranking up the computer and see what's happening on BM (very quiet), I'm curious to...

Watching that performance — or whatever you want to call it — yesterday got me to thinking who, in my opinion, will definitely survive of this squad, once Pep is in. Now I'm not saying the clear-out will be all at one fell swoop, this summer. But I believe that these players, and these only, are...

Watching that performance — or whatever you want to call it — yesterday got me to thinking who, in my opinion, will definitely survive of this squad, once Pep is in. Now I'm not saying the clear-out will be all at one fell swoop, this summer. But I believe that these players, and these only, are...