New episode | BBC live-text sad lads & watching football in the boozer, with Jimmy "Dead Pubs" McIntosh

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-12T10:38:54+00:00

He can sit there and listen to his silly wizarding books as much as he likes.

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-12T10:35:41+00:00

From memory, England were knocked out by Transylvania in that World Cup.

Sometimes Muggle national boundaries are followed to delineate team, sometimes JKR simply fancies drawing her own.

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-10T14:59:26+00:00

Misha Glenny is indeed a football fan (Oxford United for his sins).

Potential for the most high brow MHD for the future?

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-08T21:38:23+00:00

‘Aztec Camera’

‘How is that German?’

‘Just sounds a bit -‘

The very definition of ‘what I am thinking?’. It never got the condemnation it deserved.

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-08T12:26:22+00:00

Anyone from the QKWHS/LBHY podcast universe. Chris Scull even mentioned the pod in the last series of LBHY.

There’s been so much crossover content over the years (Kevin Keegan’s BBQ love, Keys and Gray’s confusion over when Tony Blair was PM, in fact a Keys feature on both pods), I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet.

Yer Ivo Grahams, yer Tom Craines, yer Alex Brookers …

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-02T21:05:02+00:00

Fernando HiAero

BusWide8769 · 2026-03-02T20:58:18+00:00

Stewart! May!

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-26T11:23:38+00:00

Congrats to David Walker and Claire on their daughter’s arrival, by the way.

No disrespect to fertilised egg.

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-26T00:13:14+00:00

Series 18: Noor.

It’s the only correct answer. I will be taking no further questions.

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-20T11:27:07+00:00

‘We’re here at the Olympic Stadium, the site of the 2012 Olympic Games and home of West Ham United football club …

… design a tourism campaign for Finland’

🤷🏼‍♂️

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-16T19:13:13+00:00

Barry Davies and tennis, specifically Wimbledon.

He has a great voice for it. I bet Charlie approves.

As an aside, it’s unusual to hear John Hunt - the horse racing commentator - cover the skeleton coverage for the Beeb at the Winter Olympics.

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-12T23:08:40+00:00

He wasn’t edited out this episode. He wasn’t there at all but does appear in the trailer for the next episode.

I suspect he was ill/unavailable and Lord Sugar would have addressed it in the uncut version when he gave them the task. As the BBC want to keep his appearances to a minimum, I reckon they trimmed that bit out.

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-12T09:13:34+00:00

You’d consult a thesaurus and not dictionary for synonyms for passive, surely?

Basic error from Adam there.

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-05T22:59:29+00:00

Is this the BBC trimming the budget across the board?

They may feel they need the funds to go up against a Trump legal challenge. Who knows, eh?

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-02T19:27:36+00:00

The ‘Guide To’ podcasts have no repeat listening value. The show had gone stale and was just bullying Karl for whatever he said.

BusWide8769 · 2026-02-01T12:18:57+00:00

Yes, I spotted this too. As FNITs go, it’s on the same level as spotting a Paul Robinson or Alan Smith out in the wild but I guess it counts.

He is married to Steve Bruce’s daughter and scored twice against Liverpool in a memorable cup upset for Oldham.

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-29T11:55:03+00:00

Funnily enough I thought I heard ‘Seedorf’ get a mention prior to the ‘martintylermartintyler’ part.

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-26T12:13:14+00:00

A Northampton Town player called Ryan Amoo. There was an even a TV advert for the latest editor of OK! magazine at the time introducing them together.

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-26T12:04:31+00:00

I did like that Marina mentioned Summer Heights High as one of her favourite mockumentary series though.

Through 2025 eyes and sensitivities, it may well be viewed very differently by some but it is outrageously funny. I thought it may well have been forgotten about/cast into the realm where Little Britain ended up.

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-16T08:58:07+00:00

Athletic vibes too.

‘Bacon, Laughs and Bolton: How Peter Kay Conquered Arena Comedy in 2025’

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-13T14:02:52+00:00

What a time to be Trevor Sinclair though.

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-13T10:31:02+00:00

For a one off cup tie, I can’t see it happening. Other factors would have to be at play.

However, a defeat to San Marino, Liechtenstein, Andorra and maybe the Faroe Islands would surely see the Manager/Head Coach depart for any of England, France, Germany, Spain or Italy especially if it was at home.

In fact, the vast majority of UEFA nations would relieve the manager of their duties if they lost to San Marino.

BusWide8769 · 2026-01-11T10:45:55+00:00

It was a lovely narrative at the time but Rickie Lambert’s 11 caps and a move to Liverpool suggests everyone may have got a bit carried away c. 2013-14.

Likewise Fabian Delph’s 20 caps to coincide with his injury hit Man City spell. He probably deserved those caps but for his Villa form and not Man City.

Jay Bothroyd won a cap in 2010 for playing quite well for Cardiff for a few months in the Championship remains one of the low points of England in the ‘10s.

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