Archive for May, 2007
A New Low?
Erstwhile feminist critic and sometime Warwick lecturer Germaine Greer has been busy praising the NME this week. But why? Nobody else ever does. Well apparently she likes the cover. Follow the link below to decide for yourself if this week’s cover picture is a step forward for the feminist cause or just another victory for [...]
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Tags: feminism, germaine greer, nme
Where’s the Logic Jim?
Today’s big Ipswich rumour is that striker Alan Lee is on his way to Coventry for £400k. If true the level of ignorance of the people in control at my football club has hit a new high. Lee was our top scorer this season with 16 goals in the league. Our next most dangerous player [...]
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Tags: alan lee, coventry, football, football championship, ipswich, jim magilton
A Day Out at Wembley
Rather like a small child, I had been very excited about the prospect of visiting the new Wembley stadium. Unfortunately with my team Ipswich never looking likely to reach the final of any sort this season, I had been looking for alternative opportunities to take a trip to the new national stadium for quite some [...]
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Tags: blackpool, football, football association, marcus stewart, wembley, yeovil town
I have a message for the many BBC execs who regularly read my blog. Make Alexander Armstrong the new permanent host of Have I Got News For You. He’s by far the best person to ever host the show (aside from Angus of course) . There is no need to make us suffer Kirsty Young [...]
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Tags: alexander armstrong, bbc, have i got news for you, tv
Happy Birthday Star Wars
Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Star Wars. I’m a big fan ofStar Wars even though I’m not usually into science-fiction – in fact I cannot think of another sci-fi I like – but then I suppose this film was/is so much more than that. Anyway, to celebrate I’ve dug out some [...]
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Tags: c-3po, r2-d2, star wars
Death of the DJ
Last week XFM announced that they have decided to drop presenters from their daytime output. Obviously as an aspiring radio broadcastor this is not the sort of story I want to be reading, however increasingly there seems to be a trend on music based commerical radio stations to ditch presenter input in favour of more [...]
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Tags: jo whiley, radio, xfm
Alternative to the FA Cup Final
Given the slight anti-climax that was Saturday’s FA Cup final it seemed like a good idea to write a report of the other big match I saw this weekend. Away from the glamour of Wembley I went to experience the highs and lows of Warwick University KPMG League football for a feature to be broadcast [...]
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Tags: football, warwick university
Football Look-a-Likes No.298
It suddenly struck me whilst watching the West Brom v Wolves game earlier that former Ireland and current Wolves boss Mick McCarthy bears a striking resemblance to Sam the Eagle from the Muppets.
Sam the Eagle
Mick McCarthy
Ever seen them in the same room? I haven’t.
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Tags: football, look-a-likes, mick mccarthy, muppets
Premiership Review 2006-2007
Barclays Premiership final table (My predictions in brackets):
01 – Manchester United, (3rd)
02 – Chelsea (1st)
03 – Liverpool (2nd)
04 – Arsenal (4th)
05 – Tottenham Hotspur (5th)
06 – Everton (6th)
07 – Bolton Wanderers (11th)
08 – Reading (14th)
09 – Portsmouth (13th)
10 – Blackburn Rovers (10th)
11 – Aston Villa (9th)
12 – Middlesbrough (16th)
13 – Newcastle United (8th)
14 – Manchester [...]
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Tags: football, premiership
Eurovision
It beats me as to why so many people are seemingly upset by this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Does it really matter that UK effort Scooch were well over 200 hundred points off winning? Former Radio One presenter Mike Read has been moaning this week that Flying the Flag was not a good enough song. [...]
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Tags: eurovision song contest
