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Alumni and friends! Please pass this along to your networks. It's our first show for the new MAs and we would love to reunite our communities at the PV...
Embarrassment for Liverpool as Everton crowned first league champions at Anfield.
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member @efclyndon.bsky.social after moving on from Toffeeweb. The site has curated contemporary and historical EFC-related content.
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Just finished this account of the Munich tragedy and it’s aftermath, as the dead are buried, the survivors inch towards recovery and a club begins to be rebuilt. David Peace again delivers to his own high standard embroidering what is known with sensitively imagined fictionalisation #DavidPeace
👊 We’ll fight, fight, fight with all our might👊
A brave novel (2020) centring on two bright Glasgow lads. O’Hagan presents the preoccupations and Indy soundtrack of an early 1980s youth with a rite of passage weekend. The second part picks up this enduring friendship as the end of a life rushes in. Profound, well-crafted and much to reflect on.
Grabbed this from the library last week as I I like Coe and wasn’t sure if I read it. I was half right- I’d listened to it on audible. There’s a great chapter midway, when his characters are described watching and interacting with the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony as it goes out live. #jonathancoe
Last week, my local pub, The Pelton Arms in East Greenwich was painted black and briefly renamed The Extinction Arms as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the possibility that, the way things are going, pubs like this will not exist by 2035. The cleaner’s cat stars x.com/simplybusine...
‘The Illuminations’ explores big issues to do with memory, the loss of it and war zone trauma as they are imagined to affect two main and a small number of other characters. A tale told, with great skill by Andrew O’Hagan, which could make an interesting small film.
My next read. Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Illuminations’ (2015). I was attracted to it when I read that one of the protagonists was a documentary photographer. Once again, I’ll report back here about whether I liked and would recommend it.
Listening to a bit of northern soul tonight…
Wet day at Goodison. The Blues were unable to overcome a Brentford side down to 10 men after a red card. EFC’s fixture list suggests ‘Winter is coming’ and Sean Dyche in no ‘King of the North’. On the plus side I made it to Lime Street for the 5.43pm train to London #EFC #Everton
Cracking opportunity.
Wow- a great deep soul B side that has just joined my collection. I don’t think they make them like this any more!
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Very pleased to have picked this up at my local library. It tells of @ledbydonkeys.org in words and some brilliant pictures. Guerrilla agitprop at it’s very best- all power to them! Add it to your Xmas list perhaps? #ledbydonkeys
I’m currently joint top of the ‘back of the net’ football prediction league (100+ participants) under the name of Gwladys Blue #EFC
Rank Player Matches Correct
Scores Correct
Results Incorrect
Results Points
1 Gwladys Blue 110 24 32 54 104
2 MikeEdwards 110 20 44 46 104
3 Ascott 109 21 38 50 101etc
No restricted views at our new home unless fans bring their own blinkers- and, of course, that is unheard of amongst our fanbase (sic).
Is it a similar location to where you currently sit, or are you going for a different ‘spec’?
I am confident that ‘Caledonian Road’ will be adapted for TV screens very soon. Andrew O’Hagan’s confection of events involving unpleasant metropolitans and aristos is a readable excursion into a plausible fictional world centred on London N1, flavoured with contemporary references. #caledonianroad
Heading homeward via London Bridge #friday
I’ve booked a ticket for the Northern Soul at The Rivoli Ballroom on 13 Dec. I’m not 100% sure I will be able to get to it- but they sell out so fast and at least I have the option- I’d quite like to listen and dance to the set played by the legendary Kev Roberts. #northernsoul #rivoli
Currently reading this. Do I think it is any good? I’m 137/641 into it and still engaged with what seems to be a satire about contemporary metropolitan concerns and manners. Hit or miss verdict here when I complete it.
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