THE BRITISH THREAD II

Straightforward header, my grannie could have scored that.

I see from the papers that Mr Rooney is on the rack again.

Yes it is. What a delight. That's what home-team sport should be like. Remember when Swansea came up four divisions under John Toshak?
And when Celtic won the European Cup with eleven Glaswegians. Never-t0-be repeated.

And Manchester City millionaires can't go to Newcastle and get a result.

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I do remember that, and Swansea deserve all the praise they get, but they do seem to be struggling with the extra demands of European football. They could do with a bigger squad.

Well done ... Scotland! (Norway 0, Scotland 1)

Thank goodness!!!

It was because they were disgruntled at having to visit the back of beyond and put up with the crude facilities.

Some reactions at social media:

Sour grapes, yet again, Spendius?

Well vonny--I was only having you on but when Roy Keane was the manager of Sunderland he said that the clubs in the north-east were hamstrung by the fact that the wives of top footballers were unwilling to re-locate there.

So girl-power is the reason for the area's under-performance.

Didn't you leave?

Physically, only physically.

Emily Bronte couldn't have put up with that for very long.

I only left for a period when I was recruited into H.M. Forces to help in getting the oil cheaply. Look what has happened since we allowed them to decide what to charge.

If there were not some buildings in the way I could see the house where I was born. Driving around within a few miles of here is a trip down memory lane. I often pass the disused and locked gatehouse of a country estate, where I lost my virginity to the sweetest little doxie there ever was in the front seat of a Standard Vanguard. A motor with a bench seat and the gear stick on the dash.

These bucket seat "improvements" are useless. You need to be a couple of contortionists to get it off in those sophisticated arrangements. And everybody knows what a killjoy bedrooms are unless a great deal of effort and expense is put into them.

People in the pub often jibe at me saying I would need a guide dog if I got five miles from here. It's an exaggeration of course but there's a kernal of truth in it as there is in every myth.

Native soil - native town -

“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”
― Ovid, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

I love Ovid. I have a copy of Arthur Golding's translation. And a biography. Maybe two.

This is very touching. Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land?

I thought that the theme of Titanic is the doom of leaving Wisconsin to find fame in Paris.

Hey Spendy, are you watching Last Tango in Halifax?

"It was me birthday. I felt sorry for 'im".

Sir Walter Scott nailed it with My Native Land!

Plagiarise. Let no-one else's work evade your eyes.

(Only be sure always to call it please, "research")

I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk
With friend in Omsk with friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.....