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Post by daz on May 18, 2024 6:45:34 GMT
VAR or as it is known north of the border. Video Assists Rangers.
We thought it would be good up here to cancel out the outrageous decisions given against teams playing Rangers or Celtic, but made it worse. Especially against the blue half of the @rse cheeks.
Of course our referees are corrupt up here, they don't even hide it now, but VAR has made it worse. Worse is that the clubs pay for it.
VAR was never going to work up here due to the corrupt nature of our game and so it has proven to be. Will they do anything about it? Of course not.
VAR can get to flock and when it reaches their it can flock right off again.
The nature of the game was for football fans to become embittered about decisions given against them over the years that cost them dearly and was how grudges were formed against teams, players or refs.
You stand next to someone at a game that may hold a grudge against a team since before I was born, because a ref chalked off a perfectly good goal in a title decider or a cup game. For me that is what fitba is about.
Sadly there is so much American money in the game now that VAR is here to stay.
They TV fans also don't have to stand in a stadium on a cold Wednesday night for an extra 10-20 minutes due to VAR taking so long to make decisions.
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Post by daz on May 18, 2024 6:24:18 GMT
Aye, Gudrun had a good run at 98.
Super Gran was magic on Sunday afternoons.
I've never seen an episode since OT and wouldn't want to, but a happy memory of childhood and what a theme tune.
RIP
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Post by daz on May 11, 2024 4:41:31 GMT
If he had never acted again after BFTBS, we would have still have celebrated him for Yosser Hughes. Such was the power of the acting that brought the character to life.
Easily one of the most important pieces of TV to have ever been made.
Of course he did lots more acting after BFTBS and usually shone in everything.
RIP
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Post by daz on Apr 27, 2024 12:36:54 GMT
I watched a TOTP episode from 1976 last night and Eric popped up for a very brief chat with Noel Edmunds to plug his new single, All by Myself. Which was currently the American No1.
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Post by daz on Apr 19, 2024 20:05:39 GMT
Gambon did a bit on his Radio 2 show about Carmen last week.
He had quite a career, but all I remember him for was Hungry Eyes and hadn't realised he wrote and did the original of All by Myself.
He made his breakthrough in a band called The Raspberries in the early 70s.
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Post by daz on Apr 6, 2024 7:07:20 GMT
Love Ultravox and saddened by this news.
Love both versions of the band, but the 80s version was always my favourite and didn't get into the Foxx led era until later.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 30, 2024 7:41:44 GMT
I loved that era of Forest and sad to hear when one of them passes.
You think of hardmen defensive pairings and Burns and Lloyd have to be near the top.
Signed and played for both Shankly and Clough, so more than just a hard man. You wouldn't have played for either manager if you weren't good.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 30, 2024 7:34:44 GMT
Bri. Excellent post.
After he passed, I saw a TOTP video of Make me Smile where Harley was looking resplendent in Purple Coat and Bowler hat for the performance. Still looked amazing after nearly 50 years.
Judy Teen is an underrated tune. I had it as an earworm a few weeks before he passed and played it around 10 times on the bounce.
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Post by daz on Mar 23, 2024 8:54:53 GMT
The Cockney Rebel albums from the 70s are an excellent addition to any collection and are sadly overlooked 50 years later.
Like I have written countless times on this forum, if you are going to be best remembered for one song, then make sure it's a good one and Make Me Smile is certainly one of the greats.
You need to get a doctor to check you aren't dead if that song doesn't float your boat.
His career never really recovered from Make Me Smile, in terms of chart success. Possibly not helped by his long running fued with the music press.
Steve Wright mentioned Harley was ill on his last POTP the Saturday before he died and now a few weeks later they are both gone. 😔
RIP Steve
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Post by daz on Mar 16, 2024 8:42:36 GMT
Yes, was shocked to read of his passing.
He had a brain aneurysm around 20 years ago, which he pretty much made a full recovery from.
A talented musician and songwriter.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 16, 2024 8:02:22 GMT
I came across this news yesterday, when I was looking something up in IMDB.
A very good character actor, who is best known to me for his role in the excellent Secret Army.
He is also a member of the illuminati who appeared across the holy trinity of TV shows that we are mainly on here for and a load of ITC shows for good measure.
I was very impressed to read about his activism too, whilst reading through various obituaries of him.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 9, 2024 3:00:48 GMT
Remember him from the darts, but like most others, best remembered for Bullseye on Sunday afternoons.
Iiiiiin one...
I actually caught an old episode of Bullseye on TV last Sunday and was thinking how much a part of our Sundays it was back then and it was such a simple, but well executed show.
Jim and Tony played their parts so well that we all remember the phrases decades later and remember them fondly upon their passing.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 2, 2024 0:57:00 GMT
Proper mannies fitba player, as we say around these parts.
An old boss of mine knew him and was at a game at Wembley with him, a play off final if I remember correctly. They both had links to Brentford at the time, pre EPL days.
Paul's abiding memory of the day was the way Bowles navigate them to the bar so quickly at half time.
RIP
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Post by daz on Mar 2, 2024 0:50:33 GMT
Dave and his pal Si were a good double act who came across as being sincere when on the Telly and not smarmy like many other TV chefs.
As said, gone to son which is usually the way if the good ones.
RIP
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Post by daz on Feb 24, 2024 4:55:15 GMT
Fred Elliot is one of the best characters to have appeared in a soap opera.
The guy gave him a life of his own. Nothing like the character in real life either, which makes it top, top acting.
So sorry, but have to say he is best known to me as Fred Elliot off Corrie, than any other of his many roles.
RIP
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Post by daz on Feb 17, 2024 6:15:31 GMT
Was never a fan of his shows, just never got the posse thing and liked slow songs too much for my liking, but...
I was taking to him doing Pick if the Pops, I even chuckled at some of his jokes. I listened to last weekend shows on Sounds on Monday and was very shocked to read of his untimely death on Tuesday.
He mentioned Keith Chegwin during one show and how he was no longer with us but was such a nice guy. He also mentioned Steve Harley was keeping poorly and wished him a speedy recovery. Apparently they were at school in London around the same time.
I know when people die there are loads of posts from celebrities on social media about them, but the posts about Wright were on another level.
Everyone with a story and all about how good a host/colleague he was. DJs both young and old were gutted, as they genuinely seemed to love the guy and each one spoke about how professional and dedicated to radio he was.
RIP
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Post by daz on Feb 10, 2024 8:00:46 GMT
Not many actors hit the jackpot at 22 years old with such an iconic role.
Even on TV in his later years, you still think of him as young Pike.
RIP
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Post by daz on Feb 10, 2024 7:57:04 GMT
Sad to read.
A face that turned up in a lot of TV.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 27, 2024 7:13:08 GMT
Was sad to read this.
I actually thought he had died years ago.
I love The Professionals theme, but he did so much other top theme tunes too.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 19, 2024 23:52:31 GMT
I used to listen to Anne's Sunday evening request show quite regularly in the 80s, where I recall hearing e.g., such as Half Man Half Biscuit and Guns N' Roses for the first time. I didn't really follow her career closely after this, but like John Peel she rode through the Matthew Bannister changes at Radio One - these did bring about the end of her Sunday evening show in 1994, but she gained a weekend overnight show instead. R.I.P. Anne Nightingale - I never got used to her being called 'Annie'. On Gambos show last Sunday night, he spoke very fondly of her and referred to her as Anne.
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Post by daz on Jan 13, 2024 1:16:20 GMT
Played half a game with his arm in a sling due to having a break in it.
As we say around these parts 'a proper mannies fitba player'.
(No offence meant ladies).
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 13, 2024 1:11:58 GMT
Very much deserving of the title of Legend.
To make it in a male dominated industry when she did and in her own terms, was unique. I've read her biography and she took no sh*t in a time when it wasn't easy to do so. It cost her at times too.
To still love new music in her 80s and still be part of arguably the countries biggest radio station for the nations youth is a measure of what she stood for.
Definitely one of the one off brigade. The likes of which will never be seen again.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 13, 2024 1:04:49 GMT
Really hits when stars of iconic shows/films from our youth pass.
I always think of them being on screen in their pomp and bypassing the ageing process, which us lesser mortals are prone. It's worse now than ever when you can easily find them on screen somewhere in their younger years and forget for a time that they have passed.
As much as I liked him as an actor I've never been convinced on his singing.
RIP
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Post by daz on Jan 13, 2024 0:57:58 GMT
I only found out about her passing after coming on here.
A very good actress. Always played her parts with both distiction and originality.
RIP
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Post by daz on Dec 16, 2023 7:10:56 GMT
Brookside was ace back in the day and Dean Sullivan as Jimmy Corkhill more than played his part.
Brookside is being released onto the STV/ITV players this year from the beginning. Watched a good few of the early years, which I was too young for first time round. I've even seen the original Alan Partridge!
RIP
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Post by daz on Dec 2, 2023 8:25:06 GMT
Has to be Slade but both great songs.
I think the "It's Chriiiiiistmaaaas" line probably gives it the edge.
Noddy Holders Wife posted on Twitter recently that he wasn't very well, he has had prostate cancer for a number of years and sounds as though he may be in the last stages of his fight.
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Post by daz on Dec 2, 2023 8:12:38 GMT
Sad news. I hadn't known she was Scottish until a couple of years ago.
Brilliant as Thelma, but did so much more.
RIP
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Post by daz on Dec 2, 2023 8:11:14 GMT
It was an achievement in itself he actually made it to 65.
An original, who did it on his own terms. Not many of those in the music industry and sadly the likes will never be seen again.
RIP
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Post by daz on Nov 25, 2023 7:16:54 GMT
Some career.
A face you would see popping up in all sorts of roles in TV and film.
RIP
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Post by daz on Nov 18, 2023 6:39:01 GMT
Pork thingys are totally unheard of here. We get the Bacon Fries though, which are ace. Crisps - If you've never had Tayto cheese & onion then you haven't lived. jno will know, as he visits here often. An Irish guy I know in Aberdeen, buys Tayto crisps in bulk in Ireland and sells them in an Irish pub here. We can buy the Tayto crisps produced in the NI in the UK, but not the ones in the South.
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