Peckhamgatecrasher

Remake 'Escape to Victory'? Can't believe noone else has picked up on this travesty. Who will be Pele?

A little aside (with reference to Cote D'Ivoire, Holland, etc): If Scotland win their independence, will we be known as the Disunited Kingdom?

Cricket really is too heart attack-inducing. Great finish to Sri Lanka.

Wow. Thought their keeper was excellent. Cahill was pretty dammned good. Curse Suarez, bless Rooney.

Run, ASP, run for the hills.

"I'm tempted by anything with Clemence Posey in it." Didn't have you down as a Harry Potter fan, D_C. I loved The Returned. Seriously creepy, which I don't do but was hooked before I realised it was seriously creepy.

Well that was a little bit exciting. My heart says don't bowl bouncers at tail enders, it's not fair. My head says annihilate them.

That was a bloody stupid foul, right at the end too.

Blimey, I'm moving countries. Viva L'Espana!

I predict [scientifcally based on my very large English breakfast this morning versus an espresso (which is all that Montalbano has in the morning)] that England will win. Even if you allow a full milk cappuccino and a rusk, we still top Italy. If you analyse last night's match (Sp v Holl) you will see that coffee and biscuit is trumped by coffee and bread with ham and cheese. Told you it was scientific.

I want to know if it's junk, why not junk it?

So is drinking to excess - I like being conventional.

I'm not entirely comfortable with mankading, but the lad was warned apparently. Jonathan Agnew article on it was interesting, he reckons the umpire should apply a five run fine rather than the bowler being allowed to run batsman out. He also said: "What I will say in balance is that Joe Root stood his ground when he knew full well he had been caught behind by Kumar Sangakkara off a huge glove. He decided to stand there and hope he got away with it, eventually being given out following a successful Sri Lanka review. It's difficult to take the moral high-ground on a spirit of the game issue when your team has done that just a couple of hours earlier." edited for split infinitive (grammar not good with a hangover)

Just had a bus ride back from the city. Met a chap draped in the Spanish flag (game wasn't over). His father was Iranian, his mother Dutch, and his wife Spanish. He left the game early because his wife was in labour. Sierra Leonean on his left just wanted to be in Brazil. Danish lady opposite claimed they were shit at football but great at lager. Isn't the World Cup wonderful?

Seagrave, Campbell, Noble ... Great chaps. Bit like Everest - it was there. (I did work for the RAC at one time, so these men are gods.)

I love cricket. Great to see Sri Lankan players shaking Joe Root's hand after his 200. Proper gents.

@Mick: There's a rather sweet documentary on Jock Stein on BBC Alba that you may enjoy.

I'd whisper that very quietly if you're near Dogan Arif, Quidsy. Don't be silly, Alan: by virtue of the jam factory workers, Glasgow and Millwall are inextricably linked. What I say about one goes for the other.

I read that Hodgson used to teach at Alleyns. The World Cup just became local!

Oh for a like button!

You should probably read Danny Baker's autobiography - Bermondsey wasn't all doom and gloom (and it has the finest football team in Christendom).

Bet he's got a sore head this morning. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/10/somerset-sussex-county-championship-match-report

Thanks James, will do.

According to on-line Oxford Dictionaries, it is both formal and familiar. But since we're all intimates on this forum, I think it will be fine to use it. As for those people who begin a sentence with 'but' ...

Just finished watching "Happy Valley". Rather good I thought.