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Tony, you’re quite good: The autobiography of an amateur footballer
5 The wrong horse Thinking back one meets loads of different people during their first year at university. During my first week I met two Michaels, friends of mine to this day, who I bonded with whilst relentlessly sharing Alan … Continue reading
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Tagged amateur football, autobiography, DUAFC, dundee, football biography, scotland, University of Dundee
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an image to look at
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Tagged 2003, 9/11, afghanistan, america, art, david cameron, edward gibbon, george bush, george w bush, great britain, iraq war, new labour, pacifism, protest, republicans, september 11, special relationahip, the decline and fall of the roman empire, tony blair, uk, vanity
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The Tony Awards 2011
I watch shit load of movies. Hence my opinion on tonight’s Academy Awards is worth more than that schmuck you sit next to in the office who thought Inception was “dead boring” – you know the one I’m talking about, … Continue reading
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Tagged 127 hours, art, arts, cinema, cineworld, films, hollywood, james franco, mark kermode, movies, oscars, tony awards, true grit
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How I lost my hat
I got an email today from Cineworld. Within the PDF attachment I was being informed the price of my Unlimited card was going up by £1.49 a month. Reading this I cried out in horror “bullshit”. I didn’t really. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 38 bus, bad luck, cinema, cineworld, destiny, fate, films, glasgow, hat, hollywood, jason bateman, movies, paul, scotland, simon pegg, sliding doors, teenagers, unlucky
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Fear and Loathing in Glasgow
I’m not a man who entertains much emotion. I’m rarely that happy and rarely that sad. I drift through life being nice to whoever I cross. I’m lazy I admit, I don’t go out of my way to help the … Continue reading
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Tagged dobs, glasgow, hate, hatred, huns, intolerance, ireland, king billy, king william, militant protestantism, northern ireland, orange order, orangism, police, rangers football club, the queen, unionism
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Just another Manc Monday
Still numbed by just how boring Match of the Day was on Saturday night without any of the big clubs playing, I decided to take in a rare Monday night Premier League match assuming “the best league in the world” … Continue reading
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Tagged alex ferguson, arsenal, arsene wenger, ji-sung park, man utd, manchester united, nani, soccer, wayne rooney
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