Recent content by Fatsuma

Sad news. He played for Burnley in the first match I ever went to. The above match in 1972.

Chic

No Pistols without the New York Dolls and Ramones. But hey, my offering is Robyn Hitchcock (with or without the Egyptians) / The Soft Boys. Huge influence on the 80s paisley guitar revival in the States, inc REM. And….. and….. AND…… you can’t tell me that the song Oceanside from 1991...

Blink and you miss it!

Ahem… Sounds familiar!

Oh, and yeah, it is definitely a Boro badge.

Shaolin Soccer is a great film! I have watched it several times and I find it hilarious, bonkers and innocently wonderful! It has echoes of early Jackie Chan comedies; before Hollywood. Golden Leg Fung is a tremendous character, a pathetic loser, who was a brilliant footballer in his youth...

Twenty years ago, I worked in the Cotswolds and when the conversation on a night out burned to beer (which it always does) I used to complain about Greene King, the dominant brewery in my neck of the woods. Nobody could understand why, until they started buying up landmark pubs in their area...

Million

If (IF!) Boro win all (ALL!) of their remaining matches, we will have what is still only a slim chance of getting 6th place; and even then it would depend on other results going our way, and a significant change in the goal difference of some of the clubs that are also challenging for 6th place...

It was my first ever Boro away game. Living an hour away, my Dad and Mum told me that we were going shopping in Bedford. Then at lunchtime my dad told me that we were going to the the match, and we left my young brother and mum in Bedford with an arrangement to pick them up after the game. TBH I...

So nearly correct in every detail. But wrong on all counts!! 🤣 They play “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts” And only after the game, if they’ve won. Rather than being a little tipsy, I suspect you were bladdered! 😉

“Rally round the flag boys, rally round the flag!” Non-issue really! It’s a design element. When it was launched, I was ambivalent about Stella McCartney’s reworking of the Union flag on the TeamGB kit for London 2012. Then people started complaining, and that made me love it. TBH I get...

Trevor Senior!

I found myself feeling quite emotional about this news. Laura Kenny is a genuine sporting great. And one of the most natural and down to earth people to hold the title that I’ve bestowed upon her! For me, she and Jason Kenny are up there with Dame Kelly Holmes, Tony Mowbray and Joss Naylor in...