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Ipswich Town FC: the unofficial season review

8 May 2007: Quite a confusing season, really. A transformation of the management and first team, but disappointingly few signs of progress. I think everyone has a better feeling about the current setup than a year ago, but the facts are that at 14th, we finished just one place higher than last year, with six more points, a performance which had rightly led to Royle’s exit.

The Ipswich Town website: cost effectively maximising income and reach, of course

20 Apr 2007: Fans on our mailing list were discussing the awfulness of our own (and most other football clubs’) websites. But “Premium TV provides proprietary ‘end to end’ solutions that enable content owners to cost effectively maximise income and reach through the creation and distribution of multi-platform digital products”, it says here. And who can argue with that?

Blimey. A Letter Bomber.

19 Feb 2007: Hey, it’s not as if Cherry Hinton isn’t in the news all the time. Already in 2007 we’ve popped up loads of times on Google News: Police act on residents’ crime concerns (16 Feb 2007) Liability claims trip up council’s budget (12 Feb 2007) and the fantastic OAP, 84 found ill on street (5 Feb 2007) …and these are just from this month. OK, I’ll admit the headline count did increase a bit once Google News had decided the Cambridge Evening News was a reliable news source (shurely shome mishtake? – Ed). But today it’s all gone off! Yes, we have a national news story on our hands. Blimey. They arrested one of our esteemed local residents on suspicion of [...]

It’d never happen in Milton Keynes

9 Dec 2006: A few years ago, just before the UEFA Cup draw, a fellow Ipswich supporter said “you do know we could get Dukla Prague, don’t you?”. I couldn’t see them in the list of remaining teams, which is how I found out that the former Czech army side, immortalised by Half Man Half Biscuit, had long since disappeared off the scene and been merged into another club. Years later, Biscuit gigs are still full of fans in Dukla Prague away shirts, and there’s a roaring trade in them from replica kit manufacturers. But it looks like Dukla Prague are returning. The whole thing turns out to be a bit of a Wimbledon/Franchise FC situation, with Dukla Prague having been bought, moved [...]

Cherry Hinton at War: brilliant!

31 Oct 2006: This is fantastic. Apparently the greatest war of prehistory, the Trojan War, didn’t take place in Turkey, but in Cherry Hinton. No, really. According to Where Troy Once Stood, it all happened on the hills over by the golf club (it must have spoiled the greens a bit). Then apparently, the survivors drifted away and ended up in Turkey, and the memory of their original home (although not the War) was lost over time. When the Greeks who documented the events came along, they just assumed it all happened locally. Brilliant.

Wow. A quote from my publication by Charlotte Green.

11 Oct 2006: I can probably go to heaven happily now. Anyway, thanks to “Steve Yates” (whoever he is) for sending in one our stories to BBC Radio 4′s The News Quiz because of its innuendo-laden content, and if you’ve got your speakers on, off you go and listen to Charlotte Green reading out words from Engineeringtalk (above). Sorry about the low-quality, B3ta-styleee video wot I made for it, but the pizza was coming out of the oven in 15 minutes. I’d also like to thank my agent, the blokes who developed iMovie, the BBC’s “listen again” feature, Roger from Adept who dropped his bacon sarnie when hearing this clip on air, God, anyone else who knows me (continues until closedown…)

Healthy Start

25 Sep 2006: Our new health service equipment news web site has launched, edited by Paul Buckley. It’s been most of the year in preparation, and it deserves to do really well.

MisGuided Bus: a sad day for democracy

7 Sep 2006: The commencement of buying up of land between Cambridge and St.Ives for the ridiculous “Guided Bus” scheme has brought home the fact that, incredibly, this absurd creation really is going ahead. Powered by the unstoppable combination of governmental ignorance and county councillors’ vanity, the “misGuided Bus” is set to plonk the most enormous concrete white elephant on our county, and cause irreparable damage to our local transport infrastructure at the same time. The most progressive way of taking traffic off the A14 would have been to have rebuilt the railway line to Huntingdon and connect it up fully to the East Coast Main Line there. But proponents of that option didn’t dare campaign for such a scheme, because the estimated [...]

JCB Dieselmax: a landmark for new media

25 Aug 2006: Firstly, the breaking of the diesel-powered land speed record this week by the JCB team: brilliant. But something interesting occurred to me yesterday, whilst I listened to a caller on Five Live berating the BBC and other mass media for neglecting what for many people has been the only noteworthy thing in a quiet news week. Whilst an avid web surfer, I’m usually someone who doesn’t consider something to be a genuine event unless it’s been on the BBC Six O’Clock News, front page of the dailies, etc. So I was surprised to hear from the caller that the coverage of the JCB Dieselmax had been so low-key. Hang on a minute: I hadn’t even realised that the coverage had [...]

Andy Green: Sports Personality of the Year!

25 Aug 2006: Which one of these looks more like the Sports Personality of the Year to you? OK, probably neither. In a conventional, sane world, Nicole Cooke or Monty Panesar would be shoo-ins for their achievements and entertainment. Proper sports, proper accomplishments on and off the field or track. But in this celebrity-obsessed world, it’s being suggested that comedian David Walliams should get’s this year’s BBC-organised gong, for his – admittedly impressive – feat of swimming the Channel for charity. That’s not a sport. It’s an achievement …but it’s not a sport. If we’re going to open it up to achievements which are vaguely related to real sports, then forget David Walliams; it’s the RAF’s Andy Green for me. The driver of [...]

Put yourself on a plinth yeah?

14 Aug 2006: Unquestionably the thing on TV at the moment which makes me laugh the most is Modern Toss. Indeed it’s the only TV for a long time which has made me giggle out loud, so much so that Mrs R came down to find out what it was all about. And it just got better, because she denounced it as “simply not that funny” and “just a load of swearing. That’s all. Just a load of swearing”. Which just made it funnier. “It’s the stink of excellence in a world gone tits up”, as Doon Mackichan (for it is she) says every programme. Help Desk and Drive-By Abuser are the highlights. No question. It’s on for about one more week on [...]
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