One-legged dog at the Super Bowl?

There’s an interesting thread on the Word Magazine blog – predicting what set list Mr Springsteen will pick for the Super Bowl’s half-time show on Sunday. Twelve minutes is not a lot of time! I can safely say Jungleland is probably out of the equation. Maybe some songs on a sporting theme – Glory Days, or [...]

Get Obama’d

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Yes We Can!!

A new campaign has been launched on the Ards Football Club website.
A whole generation of support has potentially been lost through the club being forced to play outside the town for the worst part of ten years. I’m delighted that this campaign is being mounted to get the issue back on the local agenda.
Times are hard [...]

New record Monday!!

While it’s tempting to save a couple of quid and wait for the small padded envelope to drop through the letterbox instead, I still get excited about physically buying a new album on the day of release, and today it was Springsteen’s Working on a Dream.
I illegally downloaded it a couple of weeks back as [...]

My sister’s inauguration video diary

Judith is in Washington for a year on a volunteer programme. She was asked by the BBC to submit a video diary on her experience of President Obama’s inauguration. It looks cold.
Here’s another contribution from the BBC site: 
JUDE CURRIE, 22, COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, COUNTY DOWN

Jude Currie is working in DC for a year

I am going to the inauguration because [...]

Following Tottenham – not dull

Spurs’ rollercoaster season continued yesterday with a tight 1-1 draw against Portsmouth. I attended the corresponding fixture last season and the stakes couldn’t have been more different.
Last March Spurs had won the Carling Cup and started coasting (ie. declining) for the rest of the season. Pompey has just reached FA Cup final and were happy [...]

Obama concert – maybe Americans are cool sometimes

What an image from the “We are One” inauguration concert for President Obama. Springsteen, U2, Shakira, Stevie Wonder etc, even Pete Seeger. Credit to the US they know how to put on a show. It all looked quite dignified too.
Got me thinking about Britain’s Jubilee celebrations back in 2002, which had Brian May playing God [...]

David James tells fans to “give stick”

Ahead of the potentially heated match against Tottenham on Sunday, Portsmouth ‘keeper David James has urged fans to “give stick” as long as it is “not racist or homophobic.”
So on Sunday Spurs supporters feel free to be as sexist, bigoted, and otherwise threatening as you like while dishing out the abuse.
David James says it’s okay, and he reads [...]

Four Zavvi stores to go in NI

According to the BBC  four Zavvi stores, including the Castle Court flagship, are to close.
What a short-lived, inglorious reign Zavvi has had on the high street. When it took over from Virgin, the decision to relegate CDs to one quarter of the floor space reflected the sad decline in physical music sales. Yet go into anyone of [...]

The Bromley Boys – Dave Roberts

 I got this book at Christmas and devoured it in about a day. if you’ve ever followed a useless football team you’ll relate to this book. The author documents one season at the end of the 1960s following his local team Bromley FC. While his other friends in school support top flight teams like Arsenal [...]