Love/Hate Football

There is a slightly well-known sketch from the Mitchell & Webb show that features David Mitchell pacing around the outside of a football pitch, talking over-excitedly about upcoming matches in the caricatured style of a SkySports trailer. It invariably makes Mrs F laugh as it effortlessly takes the mickey out of my second favourite sport [...]

Clash Of The Ashes

The News in Haiku #27…. “England fight back well, and Aussies look vulnerable As first test match drawn” A 22-year old woman in Massachusetts had a twitter account called @theashes – can’t really blame the girl for not knowing about the world’s greatest sporting rivalry but I do like the way that this story developed. [...]

They Think It’s All Over

The News in Haiku #22…. “Spurs back in action, Champions League qualifyer. Will we win again?” Many of you will have noticed that in the busiest of weekends I failed to mention the football. Apparently some north London club beat another north London club. I’m off to the pub momentarily to watch the mighty Spurs [...]

Real And Unreal Football

The News in Haiku #6…. “Dear News of the World, How’d you bloody like it if Coulson hacked your phone?” Back down to earth with a bump this afternoon after the glories of midweek for the Spurs’ fans among my readership, still, it was nice while it lasted but wasn’t it ever thus. One moment [...]

Bale, The Master

Okay, so no-one was expecting a second blog entry for the day but just sometimes, needs must. Spurs 3 v 1 FC Internazionale Love the way the word “Master” frames Bale’s delivery in this screencap.

Supporting Spurs: A Day In The Life

“But the footballer’s wife tells her troubles and strife, I just don’t care in the end, Who is she to pretend, That she’s one of them, I don’t think so.” Amy MacDonald, “Footballer’s Wife”, 2008 That was quite the game of football last night. I arrived at the pub two minutes after kick-off and we [...]

Small Spender

“The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction, a real big spender, Good lookin’ ,so refined” Shirley Bassey, “Big Spender”, 1984 I am tempted to spout forth with another outpouring of political angst. News that the government’s much-hyped Comprehensive Spending Review has begun to lead to some [...]

Do The Twitterbug

“You put the boom boom into my heart, You send my soul sky high when your loving starts, Jitterbug into my brain, Goes a bang bang bang till my feet do the same.” Wham!, “Wake Me Up”, 1984 Ooh, a lunchtime blog. This evening after work, I shall mostly be driving to the historic city [...]

Don’t Look Back In Anger

“So I start a revolution from my bed, ‘Coz you said the brains I had went to my head” Oasis, “Don’t Look Back In Anger”, 1996 We are down to the penultimate entry in the Top 100 songs list and number two sees Oasis turn up. For two or three albums back then in the [...]

Day Twenty-Six – Scarlet Secret

There is some activity taking place chez Fazzinhchi that I am under strict instructions to reveal absolutely nothing about. Well, don’t tell Mrs F, but today’s photo of the day is a mysterious picture of a very significant red “thing”. The thing in question, along with other smaller yet more important things forms part of [...]