Archive for 'Fun and Games' Category
Consistent reporting?
4 June 2006“Whatever happened to consistency?” asks Joe Lovejoy in today’s Sunday Times, in his column on page 4 where he also opines that “the Owen-Gerrard combination up front is unsound and “[there is no] need to disorient the team by scrapping the 4-4-2 with which they have become familiar”. However, a writer in the World Cup […]
Football and a harmonious home
24 May 2006This will be my first World Cup as a married man. Which also means it will be the first World Cup where negotiating both access to the TV and time to watch the matches will be an issue. Now, there’s a well-publicised Internet meme called World Cup Rules For Girls, but somehow I don’t think […]
My thoughts on the England squad selection
21 May 2006I was a bit surprised that Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ledley King weren’t even in the standby list (although it’s subsequently turned out that King was injured anyway, and wouldn’t have made the squad even if provisionally picked). But the main list is a very risky selection by Sven’s standards, with a couple of out-and-out wingers […]
Football, fussball, voetbal
21 May 2006With the World Cup coming up, I’ve decided to add a blog category that’s mostly about football. This is partly in order to add a bit of sport-related interest to both my own blog and planet.uknot.org (where this one is aggregated), but also as a blatant attempt to generate a bit of traffic from footy […]
Buy stuff, make me happy!
8 May 2006I’ve set up a t-shirt shop using the excellent facilities of Spreadshirt.net, containing a variety of designs including some humorous ones of my own and some standard logos. You can see what’s on offer at http://direct.fridayfun.net - go on, check it out!
Shiny Head Mike
3 May 2006Another webcam image, this time one that makes Mike look like one of the aliens from “Cocoon”.
Daniel Bedingfield and Joe Cole - separated at birth?
26 March 2006Has anyone else noticed the resemblence between Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole and pop star Daniel Bedingfield?
The perils of a studio webcam
16 March 2006Rule number one of radio studios - don’t assume that because it’s radio, people can’t see you. Odd poses on the webcam are very likely to find their way onto the Internet. Just like this one…