"H&P, The EUROs final narrative will be about 'star players' - Mbappe v Kane, Mbappe v Bellingham, Yamal v Bellingham etc. Do you think they want a Mbappe v Gakpo final? Asian, African & American markets would struggle to name half a dozen Dutch players. As long as the England fans don't burn down D...

"I'd expect that most refs appointed by FIFA, UEFA etc for these tournaments are susceptible to suggestions by the tournament organisers to deliver a desired result. That applies equally if not more so to the English refs utilised. Clattenburg was openly corrupt when he officiated. Webb was dodgy. M...

"Don't like wine. On the other hand Mrs. Trent Reznor does like red wine & has pretty fantastic breasts. But that's another story. We stayed at Cliff at Lyons several yrs ago & the Maitre d recommended a douro with the steak. BTW, the Maitre d' looked remarkably similar to Rafael Benitez. I got a ph...

@Gary Strodders Shank Bookmakers are like that. Couple of weekends ago WHill had Cork @ 66/1 to win the All-Ireland hurling championship. I placed €25 e/w on Cork on-line. Got that dreaded 'spinning wheel' logo as it was referred to a trader for approval. Bet was approved but WH cut the odds on Co...

"Maverick, Interesting point re Macari. I saw an interview recently of a WHU 'great' (think it was Julian Dicks) & he said that the players would ignore Macari on match days. Macari would practice playing a certain way & then tell them play a certain way but on match days he said they had players li...

I think Chemical Energy has a better chance than his odds would indicate. Past form would indicate he should finish in front of Mahler Mission who is 14/1.

Don't know if she is still in the climate activist camp or nor but it would be pretty disingenuous if Ms. Swift was calling for the mere mortals to cut back on their carbon emissions while she is consuming energy at an astonishing level. Joe Royal said she has up to 120 trucks on this tour. They're ...

"Daughter had her on the car when she was going to college earlier this evening. It's pretty bland, emotionless & insipid fare. If she was an ice-cream she'd be vanilla. There was always this teeny-bopper type artist that appealed to young girls. There was the NKOTB, Take That, Westlife, NSync, Spic...

Problem with a course of antibiotics is it takes circa 2wks to get over the effects of the medication CH will not be at 100% for the Champion Hdl. No matter how good he is & how much better he might be than the opposition he'll be hard pressed to win not being at 100%. The issue with Shishkin is he ...

Was chatting with David Casey at Gowran on Red Mills day. I have socialised with him in the past. After talking about Liverpool & Waterford hurling I asked him had he any tips for Cheltenham. He said Ballyburn & Lossiemouth. I asked him about Mystical Power as I had a small boosted odds bet on him f...

I'm aware of one of her songs - 'Shake it off'. The Rocks' character lip synced it in a car in the TV comedy/drama 'Ballers'. Her tight-end 'beau' Travis Kelce receives more money to promote vaccines from Pfizer than he gets from playing football or all his other endorsements combined. Kelce also ca...

I'm aware of one of her songs - 'Shake it off'. The Rocks' character lip synced it in a car in the TV comedy/drama 'Ballers'. Her tight-end 'beau' Travis Kelce receives more money to promote vaccines from Pfizer than he gets from playing football or all his other endorsements combined. Kelce also ca...

"In rural Ireland you had to love either U2 or Bruce Springsteen. I believe it's in the Irish Constitution. I never got into either. To me both seemed preachy & pretentious. I loved the thrash metal scene but didn't dress like one. Some of the bands @dm derided - Metallica & Megadeth as well as Slay...

Whoopi Goldberg & The Predator Robert de Niro & my penis

Me as a baby & Hitler as a baby.

Oh great. Five weekends of rugby commentators imploring us to 'Listen to the crowd roar!!!!' If the action is so exciting why do the commentators feel the need to convince us it is exciting by pointing out how excited the crowd is?

I read somewhere that the Rocky movie montages of his previous wins didn't show the Apollo Creed fights because Carl Weathers didn't sign a release form to include his scenes from Rocky & Rocky 2 in subsequent movies.

"Had 2 mates that went to Belfast for a Bruce Springsteen concert. They were in a pub having a pint when they asked the barman where could they get accommodation. The bar man was friendly & was helpful but then was summoned to another part of the bar. The barman returned & told them because of their...

"I found Belfast weird. All the restaurants closed at 6pm on Saturday evening. Someone else that was there subsequently said the same thing - found it difficult to get food in the evening. On our visit it was the 12th August & the main thoroughfare was cordoned off by the police to allow a bunch of ...

Vincent Lima - Orpheus

The journalist Whitney Webb has said on a few occasions that Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump. I haven't seen that reported elsewhere but I guess it is feasible.

My mother (bit of a religious type) went to 'The Holy Land' decades ago & bought a sheep skin gilet as a present for me. It was hideous. I refused it. Last night my mother rang my 18 year old daughter & offered her the same sheep skin gilet as a Christmas present. It's something like 35 years & she ...

"""Rainy night in Soho"" is one of my favourite songs."

I think the main reason Ings was signed was to prevent other teams that were similarly 'relegation threatened' at the time from signing him. It was probably felt that Ings could score 4-6 goals in the remaining games of the season. Taking those potential goals (& resultant pts) from another club was...

Why do Americans pronounce the word 'pundit' as 'pun-dint'?