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  1. 14 hours ago, Marten said:

    In Scotland I started watching random games when I moved here. I wasn't really planning to pick one team but I eventually got drawn to my local side, Lochee United. Should Lochee United go bust, I'd just go back to random games. Whether or not I end up sticking with one team in particular, time will tell.

    In The Netherlands I grew up with Excelsior Rotterdam. Like various Dutch clubs, we also have a non-league side that is separate from the club, playing in the 10th tier. A bankruptcy for Excelsior wouldn't affect the non-league side, so I'd simply support them. In terms of professional football, I wouldn't pick a new favourite. 

     

    When I first moved to The Netherlands in 2001 I was living in Haarlem and would regularly go and watch HFC Haarlem, even when I eventually moved to Amsterdam I'd go through on a Friday night to see them, they went bust in 2010, interestingly their last game in paid football was a 3-0 away defeat against....yup you guessed it Excelsior.

  2. On 16/12/2023 at 15:24, Le Tout P'ti FC said:

    It’s Merksworth Park for Dalry Thistle v Lesmahagow. West of Scotland Third Division.

    Had a grand day out. Away early to Irvine Beach for a wee stroll in the Force 10 gale, nice bit of lunch and then a game of football.

    Two closely matched teams. Some decent football being played. 2-1 to Dalry at HT.

    Finished 4-4. Dalry went 3-1 up, then 3-4 down, and finally equalised in the last couple of minutes with a “squiggler”, or like one of those shots you used to hit with a flyaway.

    Thoroughly entertaining game. 

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    My home town, my parents live not far from there, really like what they've done to the little covered seating area outside the ground  spent many an evening hanging about there as a teenager in the 80s.

  3. It's really grown on me I wasn't sure on first listen, for me it's 100% a Beatles record the fact that the line Now and then I miss you were the last words John said to Paul when they met at the Dakota building ties it all together, I'll admit I'm rather obsessed with The Beatles so my opinion is definitely biased.

    It's sentimental and melancholic, from a person perspective the chorus has really resonated with me - the last year has been rather difficult and it's taken it's toll ( Mrs Stevie ktid has been really ill she's slowly getting better but it's been difficult and a lot has changed plus my mother's dementia has gotten worse, she's slowly becoming different person ) after a few listens the chorus really hit me and I found myself getting quite emotional ( I'm a sentimental fool at times 😁

    I was listening to I am the eggpod, I'd highly recommend this podcast to any fans of The Beatles, the host mentioned a quote by Paul Simon about songwriting "the listener completes the song" and that summed it up for me.

    Right I'm off to my favourite record store to purchase the reissue of the blue album on vinyl.

     

  4. 8 minutes ago, mathematics said:

    Minutes applause on third minute to mark the untimely death of Killie fan Craig Benson.

    Craig was a trust board member at one point early in its life, moderator on the Killie forum, and regular poster of “on this day” Killie videos on Twitter. Very much a “go to guy” for all things Killie (including women and youth teams), and a genuinely nice individual.

    I didn't know him personally but he always came across on the Killie forum as a really positive and knowledgeable guy.

  5. On 27/10/2023 at 23:18, J_Stewart said:

    I honestly think the gang go bowling and Dennis takes a mental health day (especially) are as good as anything they’ve done. Huge pop for the Mcpoyles returning, Frank’s bowling technique, Dennis and the punching machine, and basically the entirety of his mental health day. The untethered rage was an absolute joy. Keep it going ‘til De Vito can’t go no more, IMO. Hope that’s a long time away.

    I watched The gang misses the boat last night,  peak untethered rage from Dennis and Frank with his new gang is brilliant, man cheetah had me in stitches..

  6. Brian Eno and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic Orchestra @ Tivoli Vredenburg grote zaal in Utrecht.

    I'm a big fan of Eno's work so I was really excited for this one, when we arrived our tickets wouldn't scan the guy told us they messed up some of the seating arrangement and that our seats would have a restricted view so they moved us to the section for wheelchair users which worked out great we were really close to the stage.

    The bulk of the performance was from Eno's 2016 album The Ship, the rest was a handful of older stuff, interestingly some backing vocals and the spoken word parts were provided by Peter Serafinowicz quite funny looking across and seeing him standing there, he had a big grin on his face throughout.

    A great night and an amazing concert.

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  7. Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has come out with a rather bizarre statement, she's not the most popular mayor the city has had in recent years, her predecessor Eberhard Van Der Laan was really popular but unfortunately died of cancer in 2017, her husband and son were involved in some dodgy stuff at the start of her tenure and she was criticized for some of her actions during the pandemic.

    Anyway yesterday she announced that if Ajax win the title this season ( lol ) they can have their celebration on Museumplein, this is where they usually have their huldiging ( winning celebration) but it's been held at their stadium in recent times due to the financial cost and impact on the city centre, she's clearly trolling probably not the smartest move politically and the timing of the announcement is strange.

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