Wally If you want to read a cracking book about a Russian double agent, read Ben Macintyre’s ‘The Spy and The Traitor’ about Oleg Gordievsky. Amazing stuff (and all true)
jonattonyeah Millsy Hasn’t Ed previously said he doesn’t watch movies as he has a short attention span? No, he said he can’t eat cheese.
Amps https://variety.com/2020/music/obituaries-people-news/michael-alig-party-monster-club-kid-dead-1234875002/
jonattonyeah SM001 WHAT!!!!! Absolute legend. This is one of my favs from the past decade or so… EDIT 2009 so off a bit there.
Amps The ‘people posting on social media about someone who has died, and yet manage to make it all about themselves’ vibe is through the roof on this one. Not quite Tanaglia / Maradona, but still grim reading.
Mad_Cyril Tommy Docherty died yesterday 🙁 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/31/talented-charismatic-volatile-the-legend-tommy-docherty-manchester-united-scotland Great anecdote / quote; Legend says Docherty was raised in Glasgow’s tough Gorbals district. In fact, he hailed from Shettleston Road in the city’s east end. From where, in the 1930s, you also had to be as hard as a coffin nail to survive. Docherty would later joke about his mother’s visits to charity shops. “You want to try walking to school wearing a third-hand Japanese admiral’s outfit.” Such humour was typical of “the Doc”: self-effacing and sharp
