Tojan Records
June 27th, 2006 — 9:01pm
Good documentary on BBC this week and next on Trojan Records here. First part up till this Saturday, next part for the week after.
Archive for June 2006
TOTP RIP
June 20th, 2006 — 9:52pm
Do you think the BBC slipped this news out tonight, just before a fairly siginificant football match thinking nobody would notice?
We’re ready
June 8th, 2006 — 8:40am
Not sure wallcharts are such a big thing in the US – (unless you’re bettng on the NFL season or something like that). But they are a tradition in the UK for things like the World Cup. Every four years we would get one from the paper and meticulously fill out the results of each game and build the tables for the end of the first round etc (I suspect that’s more of a boy thing!)
With that in mind we searched around and printed out a few and M chose this one from The Guardian:
He would have worn his England shirt, but it was in the laundry as he wants to wear it the minute it gets clean (might have to get him a US shirt as they’re pretty nice).
He’s also got map of the world and some flags to cut out and this morning he picked out Angola and Ecuador from the list of flags, noting that they’re “in the World Cup.” How’s that for educational side effects of watching some blokes kick a ball around a pitch.
64 matches in one month? – we can’t wait, that’s for sure.
A sensible undertaking
June 6th, 2006 — 3:19pm
People fiddling with computers in the mid-1990s – well perhaps only men in their 20s/30s and then probably only those in northern Europe, anyway – may have been familar with the strangely-named PC game Sensible Soccer, a veritable classic of the genre.
While the various ‘official’ FIFA games saw the player sprout realistic heads and limbs, Sensible stuck with stick men, but highly controllable stick men. So controllable in fact that while watching lowly Fulham in the early 1990s (admittedly an activity given to being easily distracted) I found myself comparing one wayward pass after another with Sensi, as us aficionado’s called it. 
Now I see this in the Guardian and my interest in PC games is suddenly revived, as it says, “….Sensible Soccer is the greatest comeback of 2006.” Can’t wait to see just how great.