Mark Albrighton

As it stands they have lost one more league game than Chelsea.

I listened to it. Didn’t hate it. I don’t think it’s easily the best song of 2023 (or 2022). Posted it in the new music last year but “Nothing Matters” by the last dinner party is a belter and would be my choice (but I hadn’t heard much, admittedly). So I’m not completely removed from new music. Although all that probably should be in the music thread/new music thread/getting older thread.

Third I think. Forest - Pool Spurs - Palace Luton - Villa Everton - WHU Saudis - Wolves Fulham - Brighton Brentford - Chelsea The funny thing is, the Forest game was about 30 seconds away from being last in the running (I would imagine). The Brentford game probably featured the best goal of the fixtures, fwiw. Not that that attribute should automatically bump it up, but it was a definite highlight of the show saved towards the end. You could make a case our game should be ahead of Spurs. Meh I really don’t care, although I do find the consistency in choices (or inconsistency, if you prefer) mildly interesting.

Probably worth acknowledging that VAR overturned the incorrect offside flag for Ollie’s second goal. You can still hate VAR and want it to be burned in the bin and then thrown in the sea. That’s all fine. But if you’re playing fair, it’s only right to note when it’s stopped a **** up.

Yeah at the very least, I think the ball has to be with Forest in a non dangerous area for them, minimal pressure from Liverpool. But no. Ultimately it proved to be a good defensive job by the ref. Stopped the attack dead, set Liverpool on their way. When I occasionally sound sympathetic to the accusation that the refs are biased towards certain clubs, it’s decisions like that. I genuinely don’t think that happens FOR Forest against Liverpool. Or if it does, it would happen once for them compared to half a dozen times for Liverpool. Because if it did happen against Liverpool, along with the national mourning over several days, they’d have Klopp screaming about replays and having to deal with that meltdown. It’s just not going to happen with Nuno. I will accept that perhaps the Forest owner isn’t beyond some unpleasantness in this regard

Yeah I’d be ****ing fuming if I was a Forest supporter tonight. Before I saw it the beeb say that Forest regained possession (kinda hinting that they had sufficient chance to prevent the goal). But I don’t know, having now seen it, they could have done better when they briefly had the ball, but they were under pressure around their box instead of having possession where they originally DID have it, on the attack at Liverpool’s end. Pretty poor.

Antiques Roadshow in our house. And my memory is that my folks would also watch The House of Eliott on a Sunday evening. This was made more tolerable for 9 year old me because of Louise Lombard.

It certainly went bad rather quickly. It’s an interesting read (both there and the fall out in other threads), in a car crash kinda way. Shame, because it would be nice if there were more women around here.

Funnily enough, my main reference point to the brits now is an ill fated thread on here (before my time but have looked through it).

Genuinely had no idea that the brits were on. I never watch them, but usually I’m at least aware that they’re on. Not seen any marketing whatsoever. I guess it’s once again an itv thing and I can’t think of anything they show I might consider watching. That’s been the case for years, but maybe it’s even more so now.

Blimey. sha lose Sheffield Wednesday, Stoke, Millwall, QPR all win. Huddersfield stop Leeds’ winning run. I’m going to try this again. Wish that Emma Watson would pop round next weekend, asking if I’m available to go out for a drink with her. And now I play the waiting game.

Yeah but it’s natural to take more glee in an opposition fanbase’s incorrect predictions of your team’s downfall than reflect on your own equally incorrect prediction.

I didn’t partake, so I’m in no position to critique those who submitted their predictions now. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if any Wolves supporters reading this thread would do so while having a quiet smile on their face. For the sake of transparency, they are doing better than I thought they would.

Funnily enough just seen this on the subject of belief and the universe. Puts forward a strong case.

I don’t particularly care if someone believes in a god or an afterlife. If they find solace in it, who am I to judge. I dislike religion more. I think some people who talk about believing in god or some sort of higher power but don’t follow any doctrine, sometimes I think they may as well be saying they love Mother Nature or some similar cosmic energy. They believe they are part of “something bigger than themselves”…well, yes I agree with that, the universe for a kick off. I’d like to believe in karma. And look, I ain’t researched it. Because obviously I haven’t. I’m talking My Name is Earl level entry karma. It sounds like a nice idea. I don’t think it bears out…but I appreciate the sentiment. Basically if someone believes in god, fine. But if someone whom you know doesn’t believe in a deity and has a child dying from cancer, please try and refrain from talking about “god’s plan” or similar.

I was there for Benteke v QPR. Frustrating but entertaining game. For some reason Collymore v Stromgodset always comes to my mind. Maybe it was another instance of “Ah, now it’s clicked, it will definitely work out from here on…” Dublin v Southampton. Could this run last? No. No it couldn’t. Tommy Johnson v Wimbledon (and Deano’s nearly hat trick in the same game…he scored an absolute screamer that day).

I believe I’ve said before that between 2005-2007 I was pretty confident that they would either be an utterly huge, world conquering band or that they’d be a sort of Jesus & Mary Chain kinda band…they’ve go on to have a retro cool quality about them (insert whatever band you think I mean…that sort of band). Of course, neither of these eventualities happened. Anyway, this belief I had was in part down to these early b sides. I was amazed at the time, just thinking “They’ve ****ing chucked this one away as a b side. AND this one, AND that one too. Christ, they must have loads of great stuff up their sleeves…”. They of course weren’t the first to be so flippant. But it really didn’t matter, at the time I really was enthused about it all.

Editors have some cracking b sides from the singles off their first album. Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home, Colours, Release. Some really good ones. Open Up, which was a b side off a single from their second album is lovely too and should have been on the album. I think I’ll listen to them now while The Fly is on (1958 version with Vincent Price).

Yeah I know, I referenced the pressing error - I still find that crazy, their first number one and it’s kinda down to a **** up. I wonder whether stations would have gone ahead and played Going Underground instead. Not to get all Oasis-y about the subject of b sides and them taking precedence over A sides, but I read years after the fact that stations would play the poppier b side “Stay Young” instead of the longer, weirder A side. I don’t know if that actually is true, but I’ve read it in an interview with the middle Gallagher brother who suggested that was indeed the case.

If it’s a double A side, do people count the lesser well known song as the b side? So with The Jam, Going Underground is the main A side and “Dreams of Children” is the b side. I am making the assumption that there wasn’t an actual b side in that instance. Or that DOC really was the b side but they decided to market it as a double A (I know about the pressing mix up).

I don’t, unfortunately. Hopefully it’s just a little break away from looking at his phone/computer screen.

Frasier: Us? We haven't done anything. Niles: Exactly. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Frasier: Edmund Burke. Niles: I have that quotation in a frame. I keep meaning to put it up in my office but I never seem to get around to it

Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.