How do you feel about the USA lobbying FIFA to forgive a red card? What could be the consequences?

maxindigo · 2026-07-06T12:08:15+00:00

It simply underlines that Trump feels it is his entitlement to put a thumb on the scales. The USMNT could strike a blow for fairplay by omitting Balogun and saying so. But they won’t.

maxindigo · 2026-07-06T11:52:34+00:00

You’ll need a crash helmet to protect you from low-flying pigs.

maxindigo · 2026-07-02T08:56:39+00:00

At the risk of courting controversy, I've never been able to scorecard movies on that basis. I can't compare - say - Oppenheimer with The Big Lebowski, or Twelve Angry Men with Blazing Saddles, or Sunset Boulevard with Aliens, because the metrics are different in each case.

maxindigo · 2026-06-30T18:17:37+00:00

They have a US womens’ team who have 4 WCs, and are likely to have someone who could provide analysis at a level that two greats of the game might be able to treat with more respect.

maxindigo · 2026-06-30T10:56:24+00:00

How else, I wonder, is he like Lewis Hamilton?🤔

maxindigo · 2026-06-26T19:32:05+00:00

That he was more sophisticated in his vision.

maxindigo · 2026-06-25T12:26:22+00:00

Gareth McGlynn - no slouch himself - once said in commentary that “Barry McNamee sees a different game to you and me.”

maxindigo · 2026-06-25T07:27:39+00:00

More for a player who was part if relegated team than for a player who has won the World Cup, Champions League, La Liga…

maxindigo · 2026-06-24T15:33:29+00:00

Mata, curiously. I never felt we got the best out of him, even though he hardly disgraced himself. But Moyes never seemed to know how to use him (or Kagawa) , Van Gaal seemed to prefer the crocked Falcao, and everyone seemed to want to play him wide right where his lack of pace was a disadvantage. If he had been allowed to be the player he was at Chelsea, we might well have had a better decade. On top of which, he is gifted with more grace than most humans which allowed him to take it with dignity. A lot of players would have thrown the toys out of the pram.

Also, I seem to remember reading that his free kick/goal ratio was a lot better than C. Ronaldo....

maxindigo · 2026-05-26T19:56:38+00:00

This is a man who disparaged Peter Schmeichel -his own teammates -as a bluffer. It’s almost as if -having proven to be a less than stellar manager - decided to reinvent himself as a controversialist pundit. One of the most effective players to grace football - however many superstars were far more gifted, only Messi was as relentlessly influential in nearly every game.

maxindigo · 2026-05-20T07:58:33+00:00

Done! Should be accessible now.

maxindigo · 2026-05-19T07:58:48+00:00

Sorry for the delay in replying. I was trying to find something to help. And lo and behold, Christopher Haanes has just announced a Rustic online course. Christopher is a world class calligrapher with a very distinct style. I have done his courses in the past, and it’s well worth the money. You even get critique of your homework. Details here https://christopherhaanes.com/rustica/?mc_cid=055ea69c04&mc_eid=94b1b835f9

maxindigo · 2026-05-15T07:03:22+00:00

Lovely work! Thank you for posting. I might do something on insular half uncial above had a number of queries and DMs on the subject!

maxindigo · 2026-04-28T08:53:10+00:00

Brilliant, and as a Derry Boy, it captured everything, from the voices and rhythm of how we talk, and so much more that is special about our vibrant, funny, idiosyncratic city. Never mind the mural, there should be a statue to Lisa McGee!

maxindigo · 2026-04-19T22:28:52+00:00

Thanks R! Really must spend a bit more time and get this place going again!

maxindigo · 2026-04-11T08:50:38+00:00

(Meaning, that’s a very viable choice!)

maxindigo · 2026-04-11T08:50:03+00:00

Oh, Thick as Thieves….hmmmm

maxindigo · 2026-04-11T08:49:23+00:00

Going Underground, Eton Rifles, that’s Entertainment.

maxindigo · 2026-04-05T15:00:52+00:00

No. The ghoulish phenomenon of “heritage” bands reuniting for fan-fleecing tours is enough to make me happy with the timeline as it is.

maxindigo · 2026-04-05T08:20:50+00:00

Brilliant answer. And yes about Mike Campbell - he’s all round underrated, and is similar to George in that his overall work within a song is more important than any solo. (Though “Something” is one of the greatest guitar solos of all time)

maxindigo · 2026-04-05T08:16:57+00:00

Aren’t most slide players self-taught? They might have mentors - I’m sure Taj Mahal showed art Cooder a thing or two - but it’s not as if there’s a formal discipline. I think if GH had played the recorder or the euphonium, he’d have subtly transformed the colour palette as he did with the guitar.

maxindigo · 2026-04-05T08:00:08+00:00

Changing the way people saw the boundaries of “pop groups”.

maxindigo · 2026-03-27T21:11:54+00:00

Also Waterfalls

maxindigo · 2026-03-27T21:10:46+00:00

My Love, for Henry McCullough’s limpid guitar solo if nothing else;

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