Recent content by Happy Exile

Very sorry to read this. My father in law had a stroke a couple of years ago that exacerbated memory loss and slow onset dementia we were already aware of. He was enormously paranoid for a long time and seemed to conflate childhood trauma memories with his current situation, giving us glimpses...

I'd very much like to put myself forward on the basis that Mark Hughes made about £18m from being sacked, and I'm pretty certain I could equal or better his performance in most of his jobs (L =181, D = 127, W = 158) just by telling the current Albion squad to go out and enjoy themselves. After...

I play a couple of times a month with a mate when the weather isn't good enough for tennis which we play otherwise (love the artificial clay courts in Hove). Portslade leisure centre set up a table in a squash court if you ask them, King Alfred have a few tables too. I'm not very good but it's...

I was told a few years ago that the other figure who gets a spike in viewing figures is Caroline Lucas. The difference is Farage keeps the show in the news for a couple of days after. Lucas gets people watching, but doesn't get the newspapers talking.

UKIP and Farage got exposure way beyond their popularity for years - it's an objective, evidence-based statement of fact that the coverage they had on the BBC, compared to the Greens who were electorally the same or more popular, was greater by several orders of magnitude. Imagine what the...

The North Stand is going to need a new big flag whoever is appointed. For Potter perhaps it could be all beige, with the inspiring "it is what it is" slogan

Does Graham Potter like milk? Anyone know?

I didn't go to school round here but have a fond memory of a psycho headteacher at my school pulling off his belt to whip and violently assault some boys, looping it, raising it over his head...and catching and ripping down the light fitting. When of course he then took out his increased rage on...

81 days until the season starts

Remembering the Leeds fans in among the home fans at the Amex last time and how disgusting and aggressive and homophobic they were I hate to think of them celebrating anything. So Saints for me.

Ten Hag should now engineer a loss with some obviously irrational substitutions just to get one back on all the United fans who have spent months calling for him to be sacked.

This scene is a five minute, single take tracking shot. An incredible bit of planning and choreography and acting with a cast of hundreds to make it work, and all with only one chance to get it right because of the position of the sun. All the little stories that play out in each moment - best...

One concern I've got with the suggestions made of splitting the away fans is that in future it'll diminish the visual impact of all the Palace fans abandoning their support for their team and going home at half time.

I don't think is such a bad idea from that motivational point of view. He'll be wanting to show them the error of their ways by beating the massive financial fair play cheating talent-hoovering false success story blood-money immoral scum best team in the world in a cup final, and the...

It makes me feel a bit nauseous. Not so much the Lib Dem bit, but because I'm forced into the same voting universe as the worst Trumpist/B****t/UKIP voting person voting not for someone who necessarily stands for the same things as them, but instead voting for someone who is against the same...