Gavin Browne

@LEPonline and @The_Gazette sports sub-editor, occasional @Shrimps247 writer. Exiled Yorkshireman and Spanish speaker who loves 1970s rock music. My views etc…

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

England v Argentina in 1998.
Watched in an English bar in Barcelona, so packed you needed to know half an hour before when you needed the toilet or a drink.
TV signal was lost at 1-1 in the penalty shootout when a neighbour allegedly cut the connection in protest at the noise…

[Eugene @eugeneh84]

What's been your most comically bad viewing experience watching an England game?

In 2018 we watched a game in a place under a trainline and the tv cut out every time a train went over

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Good luck to everyone ploughing through. I start work at 8am, it’s the busiest day of the week and there are morning deadlines to hit.
Most crucially, I could do a day on reduced sleep when I was 28 and, probably, when I was 38. At 48? No bloody chance… #worldcup

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

OK, going to the garage for a tyre repair isn’t ideal but they’ve got the temperature set perfectly in their waiting room…

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Late to the debate as ever but I’ve just seen a couple of people wearing those new England shirts. I see what they mean about the shoulders… #pointy

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

From memory of Spanish TV almost 30 years ago, they showed the players going off for half-time and then cut to 14 minutes of adverts.
Post-match lasted about two minutes because they used to do a three-hour highlights show on Sunday night once all the league games were played.

[Mark Woods @markbritball]

Seeing gripes about ITV and BBC World Cup coverage.

Contrast that with here in Spain where:

Many games have no studio shows, just ad breaks and basic in/out.

Even Spain game now only has low production pregame and HT on Dazn.

Most games not free to air.

The UK has it v good

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

The most recent England shirt I have is from 2000. Kit manufacturers, take note: I’d buy all of these if they ever became a thing…

[Jonesy @adilad73]

Afternoon all, as yesterday's designs proved really popular, let's have some new @England @adidasfootball concept shirts, this time, a twist on the iconic 82 shirt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤩⚽️
#England #WorldCup #USA #Canada #Mexico #UnitedStates #FIFA

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Can the World Cup just hurry up and kick off? Today’s random press release is a list of ‘the most beautiful players ranked by science’.
It’s something to do with maths being used to measure facial symmetry. Nope, me neither…

[The Other Murray Brother @Duncan__Murray]

FINALLY, that’s both of them out of the way. Now it must be MY TIME TO SHINE!

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Last time I was here to watch an event was the first of Blur’s 2023 gigs. That was blisteringly hot. This isn’t. #wetandwild

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

According to the TV guide, the one remaining MTV channel features programmes such as Dating Naked, Just Tattoo Of Us and Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
(I actually felt my IQ dropping as I typed out those names)

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

After more than four decades on the airwaves, MTV is shutting down its music channels in the UK and across Europe - a sign of changing behaviour by consumers in the streaming and digital age.

It marks the end of an era in pop culture.

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Turning 21 years old, seeing my 48-year-old dad asked for ID when buying a beer in the USA and, on the same holiday, hearing a wedding reception on a boat where the couple’s first dance was to that Celine Dion song from Titanic…

[Leona 🎸 Graham @leonagraham]

.#Scotland made history last night - qualifying for their first World Cup THIS CENTURY! (#France98).

What are you memories of the summer of 1998?

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Yet again. I come back to the Barcelona toasted sandwich maker which imprinted their club badge on the bread…

[The Football Kit Podcast 👕 @footballkitpod]

Only buy official Cagliari panettone - beware of counterfeiters

Give us your favourite club-shop oddities

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Kyiv had also done them 3-0 at their place a fortnight before. From memory, I think it’s fair to say the Catalan media were somewhat ‘unimpressed’…

[80s&90sFootball ⚽ @80s90sfootball]

#OnThisDay in 1997

Valeriy Lobanovskyi's Dynamo Kyiv side thrashed Barcelona 4-0 at the Nou Camp

Andriy Shevchenko & Serhiy Rebrov did the damage with Shevchenko scoring a first half hat trick

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Eighteen-year-old me wouldn’t be envious at all. Half my A Level Spanish classmates didn’t fancy five days in Barcelona, so we had to make do with joining two other schools for a Spanish-speaking weekend at Crowden in the Peak District…

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

Today’s apparently 30 years since I started at @UniofStaffs so just to show you all how different life was then:
Liverpool had paid a British record fee for a striker.
Nottingham Forest had qualified for Europe.
Oasis were on tour.
The Beatles had an Anthology project looming.

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

@GlendinningMike I’ve said it before and I think I need to say it again: you’ll bloody eat anything…

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

It’s September. Sod off.

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

I didn’t think I’d be doing more #stockportcounty stories 10 years after giving @JonKeighren and @GarethE77815055 much-needed space in some of the Skrill North press boxes but there we go…

[Shrimps 24/7 @Shrimps247]

New @MorecambeFC manager points to @StockportCounty as an example for the Shrimps to follow...
https://t.co/qq6zYGDEQ6

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

“This is Wiggum, reporting a 318; Waking a police officer.”

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

What’s your favorite Chief Wiggum quote?

[Gavin Browne @GavinBrowne77]

The modern journalist only drinks 3.62 cups of coffee a day? Lightweights…
https://t.co/vD3xOkQfVo