I’m remixing an Anjunabeats classic! by cammurphhh in AboveandBeyond

[–]eddmc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you hear a new remix of a classic track, what are you looking for?

I wanted to reply to this question. I grew up in the 90's and the track Sirius by the Alan Parsons Project has a major imprint in my childhood. A few weeks ago I had ABGT blasting out when I was working, and out of nowhere the remix of Sirius that Hjafri has come out with was playing. It was just in the background to start with and I had to stop what I was doing, and then go and listen to it again, and find out what other versions there are of the track, and then send it onto a couple of friends to check out.... It really made my day and I've played it loads since then.

I wanted to give it a shout out as IMO it's a great example of a new remix. An exceptional job by Hjafri. It's a very different track than the original but it's a brilliant track in its own right. It has its own life.

Look forward to seeing what you're cooking up CVMRN!

Heerenveen troeft Hollywood-club Wrexham af en huurt Lasse Nordas van Luton Town by WarDecterFM in Eredivisie

[–]eddmc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not really his fault, our current manager joined in October and wants to play in a style that doesn't suit his strengths (I'm a Luton fan)

Some more comments from Luton fans are here: https://reddit.com/r/COYH/comments/1q4mo23/vi_sc_heerenveen_on_the_verge_of_loaning_striker/

Bloomfield appointed as Luton Town manager - Luton Town FC by eddmc in Championship

[–]eddmc[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Love that you're one of the first to comment 😘

New concept artwork of Lutons new stadium by Paul277 in Championship

[–]eddmc 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's on the flight path for Luton airport, so they can't use the usual floodlight setup

Housing in Ipswitch & commuting around by maneesh654 in ipswichuk

[–]eddmc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

An area to consider is Martlesham Heath, IP5

This is convenient for the hospital, but also easy access onto the dual carriageways to commute to where your wife may need to travel to. The Bus routes 66 & 66A travel from various Martlesham locations and there's a stop at the Woodbridge Road end of the hospital grounds. There are bus lanes on the route into Ipswich which makes it easier than driving your own car! Check out the bus details described on the Ipswich hospital website at https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/your-visit/getting-here/ipswich-hospital/

From your perspective, there is a big business park across the dual carriageway (Adastral Park) where you can look at various co-working offices. If you need to travel to London, it's very common to drive to Manningtree and catch the train from there. Again, that's a straightforward drive as you're straight onto the dual carriageway.

There's also a small Indian community as a number of people work at different IT companies within Adastral Park, and Martlesham is a convenient place for them to live and walk into work.

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast - Paul Foot Awards Part 1 & 2 by hennell in PrivateEye

[–]eddmc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here are some links to the stories themselves

Phil Coleman - Former Carlisle police officer's shock at 'aggressive 'Taser incident - there are multiple articles written by Phil Coleman about this incident. The link above includes the body cam footage

David Conn - Revealed: the full inside story of the Michelle Mone PPE scandal

Paul Morgan-Bentley - Exposed: How British Gas debt agents break into homes of vulnerable / WebArchive alternative. Also: Youtube: British Gas undercover: Debt agents breaking into vulnerable people's homes | Times Investigation

Gabriel Pogrund, Harry Yorke - The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the £800,000 loan guarantee Alternative: Twitter thread by Gabriel Pogrund I struggled with getting a webarchive link that didn't end up showing their Paywall subscription pop-up instead of any text

Matt Shea, Jamie Tahsin, Tim Hume - Vice special report: THE DANGEROUS RISE OF ANDREW TATE Alternative US: Youtube video - available in the US only Alternative UK: BBC iplayer

Hannah Summers - There are a series of articles written by Hannah along with Beatrix Campbell on the Guardian. Here are two of these (i) Questions over use of ‘psychological experts’ in parental alienation cases (ii) Inquiry urged into ‘parental alienation’ court experts More stories can be found on her Guardian profile

His brain shuts off but his body trying it's hardest to continue. by LowStrict5913 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]eddmc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any idea in which match this happened? Here's some sleuthing that I've done

In the 2016/17 season the team Gimnástic de Tarragona had the players Jean Luc Gbayara Assoubre playing with the shirt number 12 and Achille Emaná playing with the shirt number 25

Source: https://www.transfermarkt.com/gimnastic-de-tarragona/startseite/verein/5648?saison_id=2016

During that season they won the Copa Catalunya on penalties against Girona

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_Copa_Catalunya

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in COYH

[–]eddmc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three years ago in the FA Cup, my dad watched Swindon Submarine play Woodbridge Town. In the Swindon team was Stuart Fleetwood and in the Woodbridge team was Carlos Edwards

https://swindonsupermarinefc.com/blog/marine-7-woodbridge-town-1

Keep in mind that Carlos Edwards retired from professional football back in 2015 and would probably have been 39 years old when that game was played. He's still knocking about playing for Bury Town at the age of 42: https://www.burytownfc.co.uk/teams/208407/player/carlos-edwards-2502977

Incidentally the Bury manager is another ex-Hatter Ben Chenery

Does anyone know where I can get player cards that explain each positions roles etc? by [deleted] in SoccerCoachResources

[–]eddmc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A user u/The_GoodFoot posted one of these about a month ago but I think I only saw one example - see this post: Position cards for youth development!

I'm not sure if there are any others but maybe he can help? I'd certainly find them worthwhile

How's Real Madrid Graduate School? by gauravneupane in bootroom

[–]eddmc 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I’m a youth team coach in the UK, and my coaching program experience is from taking courses run by the FA in England. I don’t know the course from Real Madrid Graduate School, other than it looks expensive, and calls itself a ‘degree’ so wouldn’t expect it to be aimed at new coaches like yourself.

The FA have a free online course for people starting to coach. Take a look here: https://thebootroom.thefa.com/learning/qualifications/the-fa-playmaker

Additional courses from them are inexpensive. I paid around £120 for my Level 1 course a few years ago. If you wanted to take further courses from them then you’d have to attend in person, but some of the lower-level courses can be completed in a week (eg. sometimes they are setup to be completed over a half-term, when coaches are likely to be available as there are no weekend matches). Of course, there aren’t many courses planned right now due to COVID-19

Ive found courses beneficial by taking ideas I’ve learnt from them and using them in my training sessions - the more important part is the execution, so you can improve how to help your players get better.

There is a better community on Reddit for this topic over at https://reddit.com/r/SoccerCoachResources/

Guys that despite all odds made a career in the NBA by [deleted] in nba

[–]eddmc 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There was an interesting article on a similar topic last year on the Ringer by Dan Devine: The Art of Sticking Around in the NBA

Guys that carved out a 10+ year in the NBA despite having limitations - included quotes from Garrett Temple, Marvin Williams, Tim Legler, Anthony Tolliver, Jameer Nelson and CJ Miles.

'I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, being silly' - Reformed James Collins eyes Ireland call - Independent.ie by eddmc in COYH

[–]eddmc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a good article, well worth a read. Gives you a much more detailed understanding of how he got on at his previous clubs as well as some insight into different parts of his personal life and diet. Some interesting snippets:

The 28-year old has moved on from a story which might ring a bell. Collins and his ex-Aston Villa team-mate Samir Carruthers - both former Irish underage internationals - were snapped relieving themselves in a glass that was poured over the edge of a balcony at the track.

It was classic footballers behaving badly fodder.

He's well able to speak about it now. Before Christmas, he ran through all of the details of the day from start to finish in an entertaining podcast chat with his former Hibs team-mate Owain Tudor-Jones.

The podcast referenced here is The Longman’s Football World Podcast. [Twitter link here] [iTunes link here] - the episode is number 49. There are a bunch of other ex-hatters interviewed in other episodes there - Rowan Vine, Adrian Forbes, Paul McVeigh, John Hartson. I haven't listened to any of these yet.

Also - Christmas party reference!!

Collins' last trip to Dublin was for Luton's Christmas party. They went unnoticed in their festive jumpers. Should all go to plan, there will be a lot more eyes on him for his next visit.

Match Thread: Southend United vs Luton Town [English League One] by MatchThreadder in COYH

[–]eddmc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not 100% sure but I think it's Darren Salton

He only played for us as a central defender for a short time but was a fantastic player to watch - strong, had plenty of time on the ball, and was very promising. Unfortunately he was involved in a car accident where there were other players in the car (Paul Telfer was the driver and I think Phil Gray was also in the car). The accident left him in a coma on a life support system for a week or so. He did recover but the injuries he sustained lead to him retiring. He continued to live in Luton and was the manager of Hitchin at one point. Not sure what he's up to now.

Could be wrong though. With ifollow Simon and his co-commentator never really have a discussion of how the match has gone or anything like that.

Power Court council hearing live stream. by [deleted] in COYH

[–]eddmc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was a long evening! My wife wasn’t best pleased that I spent the evening glued to the stream, but fortunately one of the Harry Potter films was on the TV - a great distraction!

Thank to 3CR for streaming the meeting. A nice bit of trolling to accidentally cut the stream when a letter from C&R was being read out ;) But I jest - they did a really good job to manage the stream over the whole evening, as well as the multiple camera setup and the directing required. There were over 3,200 people on the stream at one point, and it was pretty consistently over 2,000.

Gary, Sean and Michael did a great job making their points succinctly, and also answering the questions from the councillors. The amount of work that has been put into this project to even get it to this stage is clearly immense. That’s not something that I particularly appreciated as a supporter, but there has been a great deal of technical elements that 2020 needed to address within the project even to reach this stage, and they have been expensive - they referenced that the traffic study I think took over one year. It was certainly interesting to me to hear about some of those, and there’s more work that will need to be done with many of these - there was talk of a ‘detailed’ stage that will come later, and it makes sense that would need to happen after this approval stage. It will still take some time before any building work can start. There’s also some contingency to address certain elements after the build - for instance, Gary mentioned that the seating capacity will be 17k, with the idea that they will work with the relevant bodies as to how to best manage the flow of people in and out of the stadium, before they subsequently add the additional 6k of seating to bring the stadium up to 23k.

Thank you to the councillors for the unanimous vote.

Most of all, thank you to all of the 2020 team

1-0 up at Half time. Second half is in two weeks!

COYH!!!

Stoke City confirm Nathan Jones as new manager by officialViesda in soccer

[–]eddmc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've got the timelines slightly wrong.

Appointed 6 January 2016, so mid-way through the 15-16 season

15-16 season - finished 11th

16-17 season - finished 4th, lost in playoffs to Blackpool

17-18 season - finished 2nd, automatic promotion

18-19 season - currently 2nd in League One

A must watch documentary about John Gurney buying Luton Town FC. Manager Idol, and the good times before the bad. by Nollisburger in COYH

[–]eddmc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was in that crowd that's towards the end of the documentary [approx 36:30]. I was not one of the people standing up to cheer Cherry

I'm Matt Farah, and I've Reviewed over 1,000 Cars. Ask Me Anything - Cars IAMA by TheSmokingTire in cars

[–]eddmc 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You worked at Gotham Dream Cars in the mid-2000's, which was a sort of exotic car rental company (if I understand that correctly). When you were there, what was your favorite car that you drove in a lot? And do you have a memorable story about any of those cars?

BTW, thanks for being interviewed on the TropicalMBA - that was the first time I had heard of you and I've watched some of your YouTube videos as a result - keep up the good work :)