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| Mick Harper wrote: | | Hugh Grant caught cottaging. One is not surprised after that business on Hollywood Boulevard and anyway what can one expect from the cloth cap brigade? We have asked for his credits to be removed from Notting Hill. |
I have heard of Neasden FC, but I never knew there was a Notting Hill football team. Was Hugh Grant their ashed-faced manager?
Is it the one mentioned in the National Archives?
| Donor was a prominent member of Notting Hill Jewish Boys Club till 1925. He believes the club was founded by Waley-Cohen Esq. |
HHH
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Mick Harper
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Blimey. Waley-Cohen. A name that has been pursuing me all my life. What I found unforgivable was Hugh Grant being a Fulham fan. Doesn't he know Chelsea were invented for his kind? Unless he was going for authenticity. Like me pretending to be a Millwall fan when I was actually Charlton-till-I-die.
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | What I found unforgivable was Hugh Grant being a Fulham fan. |
Is Craven Cottage where he did his cottaging?
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Mick Harper
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Yes, Borry, he was featured majorly on Match of the Day Two. Sometimes I wonder if we did right appointing you football and military correspondent and TV critic.
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | Sometimes I wonder if we did right appointing you football and military correspondent and TV critic. |
I won't settle for anything less than expanding the Sports channel to cover athletics, golf and sailing. And a Food & Drinks topic as well. And a five-year deal. Oh, hang on, already been here longer than that. Make it a contribution to the AEL Pension Fund and we're cushty.
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And now we return to the studio for news of a new Plucky Brit.
| Getting through groundhog day - how Draper became Masters champion |
Come on Tim!
Hang on, this one's called Jack.
But will he be the next Emma Raducanu?
A one-win wonder.
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Mick Harper
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Sometimes I wonder if we did right appointing Borry. He is as opaque as our previous one, a Mr W Coyote, was sometimes wont to be. These people never understand that their own passions are not necessarily everyone else's. Neither I nor Priscilla (I haven't canvassed wider) know
* which Masters' is being referred to
* who either Tim or Jack is
* why a Romanian lady has entered the picture.
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| Boreades wrote: | | Come on Tim! |
Urban dictionary:
A phrase used to express support for someone who, having started out well, is inevitably losing at a game/activity.
Originally used by forlorn British supporters of Tim Henman, a notorious tennis semi-finalist. | |
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A few words of explanation to our viewers.
Mr Harper's sporting passions are mostly confined to the inner city game of "Association Football", and then the even narrower sub-species known as the "English Premier League".
Other European football teams may be permitted a mention, but only in so far of their interactions with the teams in the "English Premier League".
Please be vigilant and carefully explicit about any other sports outside of this narrow band of experience.
We will endeavour to carefully expand Mr Harper's exposure to other sports.
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It will be advantageous to mention sports that were invented by the British.
But please do so in the awareness that if non-British teams are mentioned, and they have dared to perform better than British teams, the reaction may be ... challenging.
As explained by Captain Paul Waggett:
| They're so unsporting. They don't do things for the sake of doing them like the English. We play the game for the sake of the game. Other nations play the game for the sake of winning it. | |
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Emma Raducanu should, by AEL standards, be of great interest, as she fails in many ways to comply with the "normal" standards for British sport players.
| Her family moved to England when she was two years old, and she holds both British and Canadian citizenship. She is fluent in English, Mandarin and Romanian. |
Multi-lingual skills are unusual.
| Raducanu started playing tennis at the age of five, while also participating in various other sports and activities as a child, such as basketball, golf, karting, motocross, skiing, horse riding, and ballet. |
Multi-sports skills are unusual.
| She attended Bickley Primary School, followed by Newstead Wood School, a selective grammar school in Orpington, where she obtained an A* in mathematics and an A in economics in her A-Levels. |
Academic achievement is unusual.
| On 19 December 2021, Raducanu was named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, becoming the first female tennis player to win the trophy since Virginia Wade in 1977 |
Being a BBC Sports Personality of the Year is unusual.
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A "Premier League" fixation can lead to strange opaqueness in other sports as well. But there's worse. If you are a Welsh Rugby supporter, look away now.
'Wales v Georgia Six Nations play-off is only logical'.
Georgia head coach Richard Cockerill believes his side have "earned the right" to face Wales in a play-off to decide which nation should be in the 2026 Six Nations. |
Yer what? Georgia plays rugby?
| The former England hooker says Georgia are good enough to play at Europe's highest level after clinching an eighth successive second-tier Rugby Europe Championship title. |
Rugby Europe Championship? Wossat then?
| The 2025 Rugby Europe Championship, which doubles as the qualifying process for the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup and World Rugby Nations Championship's second division for Europe, is the ongoing, ninth Rugby Europe Championship, the annual rugby union competition for the top European national teams outside the Six Nations Championship, |
Oh, so it's like a League Division Two then? (in old money). Who's playing?
| Eight teams took part in the 2024 championship. The championship was contested by Belgium, Georgia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Poland. Georgia won the previous championship after defeating Portugal in the final, claiming their 16th title. Poland were relegated. |
Poland got relegated?
Does that mean there's a Division Three?
And how do we watch these Rugby Europe games?
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Mick Harper
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Scattergunning is clearly an AE sport.
A word from on high, Borry. When selecting who and what to discuss all you have to do is decide who and what your audience knows about and, armed with this knowledge, proceed. You can then use their ignorance to your advantage without creating perplexity that you didn't intend. But only with considerable malice aforethought. That last word is the last word.
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| Mick Harper wrote: | | You can then use their ignorance to your advantage |
"their ignorance" or "your ignorance"?
| Mick Harper wrote: | | That last word is the last word. |
I always get the "last word" in discussions with M'Lady. Usually it is "Yes Dear".
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Mick Harper
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| "their ignorance" or "your ignorance"? |
If you can let me have an example of when I haven't known the difference I'd be much obliged so I can up my game.
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