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There's only one Paddy Kenny
Posted Aug 26, 2003
Oh my God, what a game 
I've just made it back from watching THE MIGHTY BLADES stuff Crystal Palace two-one in one of the best games I ever seen. We spent forty minutes of the first half in total control of the match - Ndlovu scored a lovely goal and the wonderful Paddy Kenny saved a penalty.
Then the fun began 
On 40 minutes Paddy has to dive at the feet of an incoming Palace player and as result of his brave save is badly injured and eventually has to be stretchered off. As company policy the BLADES do not include a goalkeeper as one of their five substitutes 
So, along comes Phil Jagielka to fill in for the injured Paddy. All well and good until you remember that Jags is not a goalkeeper, he's a central defender.
Slight panic stations here?
Not a bit of it. In the last moments of the first half The Chief (that's Wayne Allison to you) steps up and nicks a headed goal to put the BLADES two nil up 
Second half - Palace as you can imagine come storming out to try to take advantage of our weakness in goal. In response we manage to both defend in depth and attack hard on the break, and got a few chances through the course of the half. But it was always going to be Palace who were going to come forward the most. Sadly in the course of one of these Palace attacks Brown manages to get himself sent off for a dodgy tackle. Then a few minutes later the BLADES concede penalty which Palace duly slot away - come on it *is* asking a bit much to expect Jags to have saved it, and none of us blame him for letting it in 
Then the game turns again, and it turns on a decision by the BLADES fans. A little chant of "Sheffield United" with the accompanying hand claps starts, and after about a minute of this we decide that we aren't going to stop! So for the whole of the last 15 minutes of the match, plus a couple of minutes injury time, you've got about 800 BLADES standing up, chanting, clapping their hands in time and making as much noise as possible.
Net result?
We *completely* silence 15,000 Palace fans. We lift our team, and we put a dampener on theirs. Palace do not score another goal, not indeed come anywhere close to doing so for the rest of the match - Three points to the BLADES 
Oh, and before you ask. Yes, the referee was a w*nker
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Belgian Fags
Posted Aug 14, 2003
A couple of weeks ago I recieved a letter from HM Customs & Excise saying that under section 139 of the Customs & Excise Management Act of 1979, the tobacco that I had ordered from a company based in Portugal had been seized. Furthermore it would be liable to fortiture under Section yadda yadda yadda of some other Act, so yahboo sucks to you nah-nah-na-nah-nah 
Oh, and if you try to import any tobacco products again, they too will get seized and we might decide to prosecute you. We've got your number now sonny-boy.
So I thought, sod it that's £74 just gone down the Swannee 
Then I thought, sod it again, let's go to Belgium and buy some tobacco wholly legally and totally legitimately and bring it back home. Well that is exactly what I've done today. And here is how the butcher's bill stacks up...
- A day return ticket on the Eurotunnel: £45.00
- All in one car, travel & accident insurance: £12.00
- Petrol for c.300 miles of driving: £25.00
- 3 kilogrammes of 'Drum Milde Shag': £136.80
- TOTAL COST = £218.80
The price for the same quantity of that brand of tobacco at my local branch of Sainsbury's, some 10 minutes walk up the road - an eyewatering £495.60
...then I stopped off in Calais and filled that car with 
and saved even more money on the day 
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Rockets!
Posted Jul 26, 2003
There is a little problem with having a firework distributor based a couple of hundred yards up the road from your house...
They distribute fireworks to people.
So I'm now getting a little impromptu pyrotechnic display happening just outside. Rockets are going whizzing off into the night's sky, and exploding with a whopping bang and showers of pretty sparks.
Is that something to be concerned about. Well generally no, though it could be seen as being a touch anti-social to do it at half past midnight 
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Biggles rides again
Posted Jul 22, 2003
Biggles is at it again
I was getting ready to set off for the office this morning, when we were visited by Biggles and his big blue and yellow helicopter. There he was circling all around my local area at a height of about 100 feet or less with his cameras and lights going full tilt. And creating one hell of a racket -- fortunately it wasn't the night time, which is his usual time for showing off.
Even so as I left the house I gave him my usual cheery one fingered wave.
Then on the drive into the office I came across what ever it was that he'd been chasing / filming. At a junction about 400 yards from my house I discovered a beat up old Ford Escort smashed into the back of a Renault 5. The accident happened as the Escort had rounded the corner and gone straight into the parked car. There were about 4 police cars of both the panda and the chase variety hanging around looking self important. Plus a whole heap of onlookers gawping at the mess.
Now I can't think that they would have called all that lot out for just a shunt - well at least I hope they didn't! I don't object paying for the local Police services, but I do object to paying for all the self important running around in high tech toys that get up to.
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Deja vu all over again...
Posted Jun 15, 2003
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