From the players' tunnel, we filed out onto the pitch and then along the centre line. The first pair were to walk to the marked spot about a third of the way onto the pitch. The next pair followed along the centre line and then turned ninety degrees to line up parallel to the touchlines. In short, we did exactly what you've seen hundreds of times before an international sporting fixture.
I remember liking things that I knew were popular before Kenny Everett but I think it’s fair to say that his show was among the first things I liked because I knew it was ‘cool’. I also can’t think of anything before Ken that I loved specifically because it was subversive. You knew it often skated along the ragged edge of what humour could get away with - which made it all the more appealing.
I didn’t think much more about it, expecting to end up ‘on the cutting room floor’. A day later, I happened to have Sky Sports News on and heard the introduction to a piece about touch rugby. Surely, it couldn’t be last night’s footage, could it? And then there we were - and, if you look really carefully, there I was. The few seconds’ footage of our game against OSJ Ladies came from a time when I was on interchange, which is why I’m at the top of the screen, off the pitch.
"It all adds up to a warning to all those who’ve defined themselves by their involvement in the oil industry that the heady days personified by the Clampetts and the Ewings are starting to seem as dated as the width of JR’s lapels."
Ch 2, 3 and 4, there are the usual crappy soap operas that all seem exactly the same; flicking through them, you see an identical man/woman scene with a sort of strained silence, with slightly different variations in the room and in the faces.
Originally published as a FB Note, on 20 May 2008 at 22:12 Every so often, a story arises that supports my own adage that 'common sense isn't that common'. Here's this week's new entry: As you may know, last Saturday was a wall-to-wall Six Nations day on BBC1. Having expensively acquired the rights to cover …
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