AlanR77

In the song 'Every Time You Say Goodbye', during the line "...how strange the change from major to minor", the chord changes from minor to major. Cole Porter was trolling us.

03/081985. Exeter City v Tottenham Hotspur pre-season friendly. I wonder what Glenn Hoddle was thinking. Photo © grecianarchive.exeter.ac.uk

When DR Congo concede a free kick I really want one of their players to run out from the wall and hoof the ball away. Just for old-time's sake.

"You just knew it would be him". Well honestly I didn't think it would be anyone.

The @metoffice.gov.uk suggests it will be 38 degrees in Devon on Wednesday. To put that into context, another thing that is 38 degrees is the banking at the Monza oval. Looks like Wednesday will be quite steep, but should allow us to take great momentum into Thursday morning.

5live commentary team waxing about how good Spain are. This team isn't a patch on the 2012 team. Busquets, Alonso, Xavi, Iniesta, Silva... now that is a midfield!

In the past 30 years FIFA has doubled the chances of reaching the knockout stage of the World Cup. And Scotland are seemingly still going to fuck it up. Brilliant!

I just read that last week Bhutan officially recognised Croatia as a country. That leaves only Niger and Tonga yet to recognise Croatia. Now, I am pretty decent with geography and think I could recognise about 70% of countries. Croatia in particular is quite an easy one, I would say.

Looking forward to watching Switzerland. Ricardo Rodriguez seems to have been around forever. Pretty sure he was in the Swiss squad for the 1966 World Cup.

We are currently at 19 minutes into the first match of the tournament, and already logic has taken over from sentiment. I'm bored of this! Under what circumstances would I ever watch Mexico v South Africa?

My tiger bread bloomer looks like Hockenheimring

I did my first ever Sudoku puzzle yesterday. I had to read the instructions first as I had no idea what to do. Really feel like I am a modern man now.

I win!

I find North African food very Moorish. Probably the Sultan vinegar.

The term "The term legend gets banded about too easily these days" gets banded about too easily these days.

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]