Bon Scott lives about 15 mins down the road from me, in Fremantle cemetery!!

Looks like Donald's making the world a safer place this morning.

Lynyrd Skynyrd gave the WHO a problem as support on the 1974 US tour because they were too good to be a support band. They also blew the crowd away in 76 at Knebworth when they came on before the stones and dared to head out onto Jagger’s exclusive “lips” stage despite repeated warnings. The Stones had a hard time following the band that closed with a thirteen minute version of Freebird.

John Lewis on Purley Way closed down years ago.

Keefy, you're 76? And I'm almost 63. If taking the knee was still a thing, I'd fully support it. Black lives still matter.

I've never liked Tuchel and I think he is the wrong choice. Having said that, I'm not too sure who would've been the correct choice, but I just don't think it is him.

Southgate at least gave us hope. Our penalty takers in 2021 struggled and the social media flak they took was appalling. A very dark day when every racist piled on. Finalists again last year. Tuchel doesn't give me much hope despite a relatively good record with Chelsea.

Does a cleaned up England culture still include taking the knee ?

Conditions for club World Cup sound dreadful for players and supporters. Doesn’t bode well for next years World Cup. [Link]

I know it’s generally agreed that Southgate wasn’t a good game manager but I think that he should have been kept on for his work on the off the pitch culture of England FC. What he achieved off the pitch was astounding given the repeated failure over decades of supposedly superior players to gel into teams. He cleaned up the culture and made it about the football not the ego. He had a lot of positives just wasn’t good enough at actual football management and we kept missing out as a result. But by losing his off the pitch skills it seems as though things have gone quickly backwards in terms of player motivation and team cohesiveness.

Agree about Tuchel being a bad appointment, I hope I'm wrong) but we will qualify for WC 2026 and then flop badly imo. Expensive mistake very poor

England beat pre-tournament favourites España 3-1 with a last minute penalty and some agro after the final whistle that included a red card for one of the Spanish players.

Move over Harry & Co — these Young Lions are so exciting!

Trigger 😊

Has John Lewis Purley Way closed down?

England Spain on ch4 now

doubt - that’s right, yes it was his first one - having seen The Who at Charlton a couple of years before with Moon, I wasn’t sure how they’d be, but they were still good, despite the huge amount of fighting among the crowd in front of the stage… 🤪🤷🏻‍♂️

[Link] relevant to the recent Madri conversation

a4, I was at that show too. A great day. Kenny Jones on drums for the first time for The Who I think following Moon the Loon’s death earlier that year.

Marc J (10:23:57), agreed superb album albeit Weller regretted adding his cover of Heatwave as the last track. Saw the band on that tour at the Rainbow. They were really at their peak then I think. We were down near the front of the stalls and I remember the crowd destroying about the first 6 rows of seats and chucking them all in the orchestra pit during the first 5 minutes of the gig. Result ? A ready made mosh pit for the rest of the set ! Great days.

That’s a great one nick - they played the Corn Exchange in Cambridge several times 1976-78, and even though I was there all through that time, for some reason I didn’t go to see them there…. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

I saw AC/DC at Wimbledon theatre in 1976 with Marc Bolan on the same bill.

No ferry - just this - [Link] - which is very nice but not really suitable. A couple of train rides would have worked - Walchwil to Arth-Goldau and then change to Kussnacht-am-Rigi.

Is there a ferry across the lake that you could take Moth?. Como & Maggiore have good ferry systems that we used for cycling and other stuff

Or was - given that I've just noticed the time ...