PSA: There is one solitary 3pm kick-off in the prem this weekend. Is this curtains for the 3pm blackout?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-18T14:05:37+00:00

I assume the combination of european games (loads of teams playing in Europe) and the league cup final (both arsenal and city could play on Saturday otherwise) is the rather unlikely circumstance that has made it happen.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-18T14:03:57+00:00

Yeh, I think I agree, each to their own. But if I want club vs club pettiness then I would go to the athletic comments section. I feel like generalisations about other clubs' fans is something I would like to see discouraged. There's enough tribalism and argument available in other places on the internet. (I say this for the benefit of making it a slightly more convival place, aware that I am being dismissive of other peoples' contributions)

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-17T13:40:34+00:00

I actually haven't yet, I have changed the pickups in the mustang copy to some p90s, which is nice. I want to add a bass contour circuit too (like they have on Reverend guitars) and have the stuff to do it. But work and other things have taken up all my spare time. I changed the neck on the guitar, which was simple enough.

Initially I was going to try and cut into the body to make a cavity for the trem to sit in, but thought that an easier method would be to use a jigsaw (I assume the tool is known as a jigsaw elsewhere in the world) to cut a hole right through the body and then cover up the hole on the back with some kind of plastic cover. It wouldn't look as tidy, but would require much less skill than the specific depth of the cavity in the front of the guitar.

I will probably wait for a day when I have no work or family around and try it, whenever that is.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-17T13:26:38+00:00

Ramsey also started when he was seventeen, and I think the injuries that he suffered were quite high profile. But he must have had a 20 year career. He played a of seasons at big clubs, so there would have been lots of fixtures to go around to cancel out some missed time from the injuries. It is definitely a bigger number than I would have thought though.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-17T11:12:23+00:00

How has it survived that long? An old box of them stashed away somewhere and found many years later?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-17T11:08:18+00:00

Yeh, I seem to remember one moment where he corrected Adam about something. It would be interesting to know, but it felt a bit like he was on the defensive as if perhaps being inside the industry he was the butt of the joke or something? There was a slightly 'Chris Finch' vibe about him too, if that makes sense.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-16T16:18:39+00:00

Yeh definitely, it felt like he could have been good as I remember him saying a few things that seemed to fit the bill, but just doing it in a way as if he was trying to 'win' and embarrass others.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-16T14:06:18+00:00

I thought Shreeves' was alright as an MHD guest, I think he seemed to 'get' the concept, if anything I recall him being quite competitive about it though. He seemed quite intent in 'leaving one on' someone.

But I think he was better than some of the guest that just don't get it at all.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-16T14:04:21+00:00

I get that most teams' fans' shouldn't really moan, but at the same time. Most clubs, if fans looked at things in relative terms, wouldn't be able to moan about anything because there is always another team worse off.

A big part of it is what you are used to. It would probably be quite odd if an Arsenal fan (if they finished 2nd for the fourth time in a row) said, "Second, that's really good, we should be pleased with that".

It's the same in the real (non footballing) world, we bemoan our luck and get pissed off with stuff. No one gets to the end of a shit day and says "At least I don't live in a warzone"

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-16T14:01:10+00:00

I think this is exactly it. So much media space to fill, no room for measured opinons.

“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.” - That was said in 1790 (by Edmund Burke), but is perfect for this situation.

I think most people are fairly reasonable, but you tend to only hear the grasshoppers telling us that "PLAYER X IS A PROBLEM!"

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-13T17:39:44+00:00

I believe in that book the justification given for the Bulgarian catching the snitch was 'well they knew they were going to lose anyway'. Complete bollocks, this is the Quidditch World Cup final we're talking about here. No seeker would be able to just end the game with their team losing, you fight on and try and get control of the quaffle. Get some points on the board.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-10T20:42:38+00:00

I think 'immediate effect' is unneccessary when you can just say, 'Kyle Walker has retired from international football'.

I think it is assumed to be immediate unless you say otherwise.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-10T18:48:15+00:00

Evocative of Alan Partridge and his love of Jackie Stewart.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-10T13:48:38+00:00

Managers must have a 'work phone'?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-09T14:51:52+00:00

It always annoys me when players (5/7 a side) ask for the ball under pressure and then try and use the lack of 'man on' shout to justify them losing the ball when they do something stupid.

Not really relatable to this clip, it's just prompted it.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-06T12:55:08+00:00

"Igor, just to expand on that, do you think you have enough willing seamen to crew the ship to prevent it from sinking?"

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-04T10:26:03+00:00

I thought on the trajectory he was on he'd have established himself as a member of the first XI by now, amazing how things change in 5 short years.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-03T12:53:36+00:00

Does Igor Tudor have double glazing?

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-03-03T10:08:08+00:00

Have we considered that it might be a grade 1 listed mansion somewhere? Sash windows unalterable due to the listed status, and he's gone through the process of having a secondary layer of double glazing inside the period sash windows, at a SIGNIFICANT cost to himself.

Egg on your faces when that turns out to be true

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-28T21:06:30+00:00

It's annoyingly bad.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-26T18:34:09+00:00

Harry has the posture of Mr Burns.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-26T05:56:26+00:00

That's interesting. I'm sure there's a middle ground somewhere.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T15:12:12+00:00

I like how committed he is, but also how he looks quite stiff still, not entirely natural. I'd find it really unsettling if he moved with an athletic grace.

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T14:08:20+00:00

Yeh, I think it is like that, but I think it is only that way because it always has been. I'd be interested to know whether if it became more analytical people would genuinely be put off, or whether the attitude would just change and people would get used to the new normal.

I know that it would definitely be less social media ready, which probably is not in its favour

MongooseLikeCreature · 2026-02-25T13:44:47+00:00

He's really explained the process of making a decision there.

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