Bill Wilkinson

My highlight. 6D:
Cooling unit starts to effectively send breezes through (4)

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Or Nuno Espírito Santo. He’s the new Big Sam.

Fair play, Italy. Pretty pleased for them tbh. They absolutely deserve it.

May I recommend if you’re not already familiar with Cory Doctorow’s book ‘Enshittification’.

(shouted from the back): "Because you're dying?"

Donald on Iran: "When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen."

There he goes projecting again.

The rubber ones on the 28k ZX spectrum. 😍

3. And I can hear that logo.

“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in.” — Carl Sagan

Tentacles

Why don’t you take war seriously, says Disco-A-Joe-Joe

Well if that doesn’t put America firmly back on Ukraine’s side we know the Kompromat is truly extraordinary.

Ooops, missed that wasn’t the band too. Thought I’d missed a recent Idlewild album. 🤣

Idlewild or the folkies?

I did put it 5th of 5 on my underrate scale. It’s well loved, but in my opinion it’s top ten of all time level.

Thanks for reminding me of 3. They were superb touring that record too.

It’s also impeccable, start to finish. No filler.

Everyone seems to prefer Holy Bible and Generation Terrorist. Or maybe they just pretend to prefer the Richie stuff.

And Tom Cruise’s Project Thunder cameo as balding, fat and totally insane film exec Les Grossman.

Zoomers going after the Millennial vote with Cake mic drops

#fridayfive underrated albums. In order of degree of underrate.

1. Kill it Kid, Kill It Kid
2. Steeple, Wolf People
3. This Is Hardcore, Pulp
4. Scott 4, Scott Walker
5. Everything Must Go, Manic Street Preachers

All hail king Roddy!

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Friday 6th March Happy Birthday to former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal who turns 54 today. ‘Shaq’ was born in New Jersey and his father was sent to prison when he was very young and he was estranged from him for many years, though he had a good relationship with his stepfather, though his stepfather’s army career moved him to Europe and Texas as a teen. Shaq was already 6’6” aged 13 and when he returned from Europe to Texas aged 16, he was 6’10” and led his high-school basketball team to the state championship. He then played in college and was top pick in the 1992 NBA draft. He was now fully grown at 7’1”. His size belied his speed and athleticism (best plays) on the court and he led LA Lakers to three consecutive NBA Championships and won a 4th in 2006 with Miami Heat. Off the court he was one of the first athletes to lean into their celebrity and he released four rap albums between 1993 and 1998. Widely regarded as one of the best basketball players of all time, in retirement his opinions are highly respected in his role as a basketball analyst on TV. He set the blueprint for the modern “athlete brand” which has been followed by top athletes in many sports since. How do you think very tall people feel? How do they stop it being their whole identity? Is it ok for athletes to be more than athletes? Who’s ‘athlete brand’ is strongest today?

Friday 6th March Happy Birthday to former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal. ‘Shaq’ was born in New Jersey and his father was sent to prison when he was very young. With his high school he won the state championship then played in college and was top draft pick in 1992. He was 20 years old and 7’1” His size belied his speed and athleticism on the court (best plays) and he led LA Lakers to three consecutive NBA Championships and won a 4th in 2006 with Miami Heat. Off the court he was one of the first athletes to lean into their celebrity and create a brand ‘Shaq’. This included making four rap albums between 1993 and 1998. Is it ok for athletes to be more than athletes? Who’s ‘athlete brand’ is strongest today?

Friday's TGT wishes 4-time NBA Championship winner Shaquille O'Neal a Happy Birthday. Discuss basketball, athletes as a brand or what it must be like to be very tall indeed.
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Ironically, keeper was probably the worst player tonight.

Headline: Tottenham lacking in attack, midfield, defence and 'brain', says Igor Tudor

Incredible to think this public criticism didn’t get the best out of his team.

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Championship play-offs: EFL clubs vote in favour of six-team play-off EFL clubs approve plans to expand the Championship play-offs from four to six teams for the 2026-27 season onwards.

Finally some good news for Spurs fans.
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Big Sam is waiting on tenterhooks

I am surprised that publicly criticising the whole team at the weekend didn’t pay off.