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The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 4

30 Dec 2009: 5: David Beckham curls in a free kick, a nation goes mental (2001) The time, the place …how can any team leave World Cup qualification to the 93rd minute and then do this? Like all of the top five here, a sporting moment when I can remember exactly where I was and who I was with …and which still brings shivers down the spine. 4: England win the greatest Ashes series ever (2005) Flintoff’s hand stretched out to Brett Lee, Gary Pratt running out Ricky Ponting …this series had enough great individual moments of its own to make up a sporting top 20. Some of the matches were almost beyond belief. Edgbaston was the best of the lot. 3: Germany [...]

The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 3

29 Dec 2009: 10: Europe win the Ryder Cup in Oakland Hills (2004) There was just something about his one. Watched it in a packed bar full of Dads who’d got away from their families for a joyous evening. 9: Usain Bolt saunters past the world 100m record (2008) It was the fastest anyone had ever run, and he was celebrating before the end. Still quite shocking, even if it was only a stepping stone for the man. 8: Liverpool win the Champions League in Istanbul (2005) On my birthday, went out with a few friends to watch this in town. Didn’t expect much. How wrong we were. 7: Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula One title at the last gasp (2008) On the [...]

The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 2

28 Dec 2009: 15: Michael Phelps wins eight gold medals in Beijing (2008) When a sport you’re not usually that interested in totally grabs you for a few hours or days, it can only be because something extraordinary is happening. And good grief, this guy was worth getting up early in the morning to watch at the Beijing Olympics. 14: Zidane bows out with a memorable head-butt (2006) Fantastic. A real “did that really just happen?” moment. Not just any old player, but Zidane. In his last match. The World Cup Final. Of course the media wittered on about it all being disgraceful and bringing the game into disrepute, while hundreds of millions of fans around the world thought: “brilliant!” 13: Steve Redgrave [...]

The Decade’s 20 Most Memorable Moments in Sport: Part 1

27 Dec 2009: I should point out, of course, that these are my twenty most memorable moments in sport from 2000-2009. They won’t be yours. But my goodness, there are some moments here that make those long winter nights in between worth persevering with. 20: David Beckham scores against Argentina from the penalty spot (2002) A nation holds its breath. Could there be anything more dramatic, after the history between the teams and the player, than a penalty, by David Beckham, against Argentina, in the World Cup? 19: Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final after five hours (2008) Has there ever been a better game of tennis? By the time this finished, past 9pm, it had become more than just [...]

A little bit of artistic magic

30 Oct 2009: The extremely talented Wayne at Adeptise has done a nice splash page for us to promote The Discount Sorcerer, our new online shopping venture. The problem with sites like these is that they go in and out of favour with Google, so for times when ours is out of favour, we hope this splash page will pop up in the Google results. Let us hope so. If you haven’t seen The Discount Sorcerer yet, it’s a site we’ve created which finds all the biggest discounts at Amazon UK through some IT magic, and presents them in a nice easy-to-use format for you to click straight through to. There’s also a really great weekly newsletter which summarises many of the great [...]

Another “Eureka Moment”. Can they do this?

4 Oct 2009: Curious news that The Times is about to launch a science magazine called Eureka. But hang on… there’s already a long-established, well-respected technology magazine called Eureka, published by Findlay Media. Whilst the subject matter may not be exactly the same, there sure as heck are many potential advertisers in common, so it could easily be argued that the two would be competitors. Eureka (the long-established one) has impressively survived a meltdown in the trade press over the past ten years, which saw the demise of long-established titles such as Design Engineering and relatively short-lived newcomers such as What’s new in Design. What I’m sure it doesn’t need is this sort of confusion in the market. Back in the early nineties, [...]

Stage 2 gets under way

30 Jul 2009: The Cambridge Folk Festival kicked off on Thursday with a terrific performance by Mumford & Sons. Blimey, if the rest of the weekend is this good it’ll be amazing. “Post Folk” at times, according to @fenlandgent

Jason Dozzell returns to Portman Road

14 Jun 2009: The story so far: Having just got myself one of those gadgets which shoehorns video signals into a USB port, I’m now going through hundreds of dusty old VHS tapes gradually expiring in the attic. So far, the oldest full-length, otherwise unobtainable Town recording I’ve found is a Sky Sports “Super Sunday” from September 1993, where Spurs came to Portman Road and drew 2-2, thanks to a late equaliser from Jason Dozzell, who we’d just sold to them. Personally, I found the shots of the old North and Churchmans stands as interesting as anything – some good close-ups as they empty out at the end (Sky didn’t seem as quick to cut to the ads or the studio in those [...]

Most embarrassing Labour result of the day

6 Jun 2009: I feel no comment is necessary. (Official Result page)

A Decimal Point

23 May 2009: This just struck me as a curiosity, spotted in a display of football memorabilia in our village men’s hairdressers. For an FA Cup match in January 1971, Portsmouth were charging 90p for a ticket in the “Main Stand” (oh, the nostalgia for pre-sponsorship days, eh?). Presumably the match was a draw, because nine days later we have a replay at Highbury …for which Arsenal were asking 12s 6d for entry. Now, was decimal currency introduced slowly from the south coast northwards or something? PS: I tried to find the “Decimal Five” programmes on YouTube, but no luck. Remember the jingle? I still have it in my head 38 years later. Apparently it was written and performed by The Scaffold. Anyway, [...]

All Aboard the MisGuided Bus at last!

17 Apr 2009: Well, the expensive potential white elephant which is the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is running at least six months late (and with additional contractors being called in, that may be optimistic), so this week must have been a great relief to the Council. At last they were able to get a section open to demonstrate the system to overexcited councillors and then – today – a few busloads of members of the public. I was amongst those lucky competition winners, and here are some of the photos I took of the new buses, as well as a video shot from the back seat on the upper deck (as there was already one out of the front available on YouTube). The buses [...]

Tweeting from Portman Road

21 Mar 2009: Well, four or five of us twittered from this afternoon’s riveting nil-nil thriller at Portman Road; the whole project is a little primitive at the moment, but I honestly believe that one day this sort of thing will be taken for granted. Over forty fans had signed up to follow the Twitter feed (presumably largely those not at the game!) and I’m sure that a few more kept an eye on the http://twitter.com/ITFC_live page. Anyway, if you followed the Tweets, how was it for you? Useful? Not really adding much to information you could get elsewhere, such as the Ipswich World commentary, the BBC text updates or the TWTD messageboard? Or a lifeline? Do let us know below, because it’ll [...]

Champion Larch Ditherers

1 Mar 2009: 110% Larch Dithering! Champion! I’ve always loved anagrams, although my admiration for their possibilities reached its peak many years ago when my flatmate and I realised the best ever anagram of his name was “Bob Ganjashit”. In those days, you either did anagrams with Scrabble letters, a big piece of paper, or a program you could download for the BBC Micro which took ages and never came up with much. Now you can go online and get thousands of anagrams of anything in seconds. So after all these years, it’s time to generate a new list of anagrams of my own name, and choose a top 25, which are presented here in alphabetical order …although I so want to be [...]

Compilation of 2008

8 Jan 2009: And so we wheel out the picture of the best album of 2008 for one last time, as I bring you my Compilation of 2008 – a CD of (mostly) sheer joy which I have imposed on some of my less fortunate friends over Christmas. The order was chosen to mix them all nicely into one another (seriously) although the best is saved until last. Ghosts by Laura Marling from Alas I Cannot Swim (03:01) Perfect Symmetry by Keane from Perfect Symmetry (05:12) Nylon Smile by Portishead from Third (03:20) Le Temps Perdu by Carla Bruni from Comme Si De Rien N’Etait (02:46) Tiger Mountain Peasant Song by Fleet Foxes from Fleet Foxes (03:29) Human by The Killers from Day [...]

Say it with Tommy. Or Ben.

10 Dec 2008: The more I think about this, the more I think it’s a great idea. Say It is a excellently-designed (technically and aesthetically) site with a really fun product too – what’s not to like? The site allows you to send a professionally-recorded poem or song to someone, and to have their name inserted into it as appropriate too. Sounds corny? Yep. Does it work? Oh yes. I sent a song to the missus and watched as she played it – and her expression went from “huh?” slowly to “aaaahhh…” (in a good way) in 20 seconds. It’s brilliant, and compared to the money people readily burn on ringtones, not bad value either. The next best thing to sending Tommy Blaize [...]

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