mike rowbottom

Passionate, articulate, visionary - Mike Rowbottom is none of these. A regular dogwalker, Mike also likes reading old football biographies. Micro entrepreneur.

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

@martynziegler @EditorsUK Why the surprise Martyn? Well done.

[terry christian @terrychristian]

My memories going back almost 30 years of the great Danny Kelly . Brain the size of a planet, perspicacious and tolerant ....of my at times 'pointless belligerence' 🤣🤣 A truly admirable human being and all rounder in 'broadcasting'. Writing /thinking. Ar dheis de go raibh a anam @prodnose @dannykellywords @SpursOfficial @talkSPORT @BBC @Channel4 #DannyKellyRIP

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

👊 Johnny Rotten vs Russell Brand💥

I think it’s fair to say Johnny Rotten wasn’t Brand’s biggest fan 😂

Back when Brand first got into politics the left were all over him like a rash, the same people now criticising him and jumping on the bandwagon. Rotten wasn’t having any of it. He was particularly unimpressed with Brand telling young, impressionable people not to vote.

The interviewer praises him for calling Brand a “bum hole” for it. Rotten finds this very amusing, then lays into him properly:

“It’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard. The likes of Russell Brand coming along and saying something so damn ignorant, is absolutely spoon feeding it to ’em. Your individuality, your sense of right… I mean, you must not forget, a hundred years ago, who could vote here? And to have that so easily, flippantly ignored in that lazyarse ‘I take drugs and tell not funny jokes’ way, it’s very poor.”

“You have to vote. You have to make a change. You’re given lousy options, yes, but better that than nothing at all.”

What I’d say is it’s hard to get people to vote, young, old, first-time voters in particular, when it’s the same options that betray your vote every single time. You have to give people something to vote for, to interest them and get them involved.

Thankfully a lot has changed since this interview. There are more options now and politicians are being forced to change, at least rhetorically. Let’s see what they actually do when they get into power.

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

Big truths here. And in this case, now really is good.

[Alan Thomson @TheSysMechanic]

These are some hard hitting facts.

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

No. Shame.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Absolutely DISGRACEFUL!!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Absolutely DISGRACEFUL!!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. The moment Jake Tapper called the Mississippi Senate race is something to see.

Mississippi was ground zero for civil rights. The most dangerous state for Black people. They kept saying go slow, go slow.

Tonight, Mississippi sends a Black man to the Senate.

Scott Colom

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Upon hearing that 32 copies of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ had been thrown into a school's furnace, the late great KURT VONNEGUT — born 104yrs ago today — wrote to the head of the school board…

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

@AlexClark3 Bless you.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: I refuse to accept that my two little girls will grow up in a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become.

I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up with artificial friends and teachers in a society where the sick die not because there's no cure, but because they have no money. Where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousandfold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. On a poisoned planet, rearming for world war, where human life is cheap, and might makes right.

See, when Eva is old enough to ask why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully that I didn't.

I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick not just to win, but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

Tim Conway surprised Carol Burnett with her idol, Jimmy Stewart, on her show's final episode. Her reaction transforms her into a kid again. ❤️

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

Well deserved!

[Lou Macari @LouMacari10]

What a fantastic day at Windsor Castle to receive my MBE from Prince William. I was dead nervous beforehand, but was then ok chatting with him about football and our work with the homeless over the last 10 years at the Macari Centre.

[Lou Macari @LouMacari10]

What a fantastic day at Windsor Castle to receive my MBE from Prince William. I was dead nervous beforehand, but was then ok chatting with him about football and our work with the homeless over the last 10 years at the Macari Centre.

[John Pitchford🌹💙 @Johnnypapa64]

For Remembrance Day (by Siegfried Sassoon)

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

@prodnose Sorry for your loss.

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

What happy days Rob! Love that dichotomy. Danny was a lovely, passionate life force - humour, wit...sadly missed.

[Rob Draper @draper_rob]

Danny Kelly gave me a break at Total Sport Magazine when I was a bit lost professionally in my 20s. His office was an extraordinary jolt of energy, creativity + wit. I loved it

I’d spend half the week at The Mail - suit, tie + right wing politics - and the rest with Danny + Total Sport - jeans, T shirt + Public Enemy on the stereo, Friday nights in Soho at The Coach + Horses, Danny buying drinks

Thank you, Danny for showing me there was a different way. RIP

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

What a fine tribute Stan. I had no idea. Didn't know Danny well but was on his show once and he was as kind and welcoming as I hoped; we kept in sporadic X touch thereafter. A life force whose warmth and energy lives on. All best.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

This morning I was told of the passing of my good friend and colleague, Danny Kelly. The tributes to him in the coming days from those who knew him and worked with him will give you an idea of how much he was loved.

I loved him too. Very much so. A man who I called "Dad" on air because I wished he was. I hope you give me a few minutes to read my thoughts, and I hope they do you justice, Dan.

By 2008 I was a mess. I would sleep 18 hours a day, the other 6 mostly wanting to die. Once or twice a week I would open my laptop, organise football tabs, gossip and news as prep for jobs in broadcasting that I knew would never come, "just in case". When hope dies, we die, after all.

Then Danny Kelly came into my life.

I was driving out of London having been to see a psychiatrist about the state I was in and had BBC London on the radio. Danny was presenting with a guest, reviewing books. My name came up in the conversation, so I called in.

We hit it off straight away, talked about football for what seemed like forever but was probably a standard 10-12 minute section. But for me it sparked a temporary respite from sleep and chronic mental health issues and even for that I was grateful.

A couple of years later Danny joined talkSPORT to do the 7-10pm slot through the week. He told me he was offered a few co-presenters but he remembered that conversation we had and he wanted me to do it.

A lifeline of work, passionately talking about our sport, having fun and feeling a value as a human again. Something lost for 7 long years.

Danny gifted me that. Without that I know I wouldn't be writing this today.

"Always fresh, never frozen" was the tagline in a Domino's read we had to do in the show, something we'd instinctively greet each other with until our last meeting, in a pub, broadcasting for talkSPORT around 3 years ago. I didn't know that time would be the last, but perhaps fittingly we hugged as I left, I'm glad I did.

The shows were loved. They were funny, honest, insightful and I hope, along with Saggers after that, proof that Danny's belief in me was worthy. But to say my love for him was only thanks for a job doesn't even scratch the surface.

His kindness, his phone calls late at night ( Dan was a notorious night owl) of support, his man hugs, his indomitable spirit, his big brain on anything from football to music to geopolitics, his love, as I know many others will testify, came from the biggest of hearts and the biggest of souls housed in a giant of a man in every sense.

Dan, thank you, thank you for the kindness, the fun, the hope, the support and for being someone to look up to and aspire to be.

I love you very much, I know I'll hug you again some day. Thank you for everything.

"I love football Stan, I love it ".

[mike rowbottom @MikeRowbo]

Love love this

[The Beatles Legacy @TheBeatlesPMcC]

10 novembre 1970, Paul McCartney avance sur son album RAM.
Il s'attaque au titre qui fera le plus de bruit. Un peu trop d'ailleurs puisque John Lennon l'entendra trop bien.
​Derrière les riffs accrocheurs se cache un règlement de comptes direct envers John Lennon et Yoko Ono. Paul confirmera d'ailleurs plus tard que le titre faisait référence aux sermons incessants du couple depuis le "Bed-in" et à leur ingérence dans ses affaires personnelles et professionnelles.
​Plusieurs paroles ciblent directement John, notamment le célèbre "Too many people preaching practices". Lennon répondra d'ailleurs de manière féroce et disproportionnée avec la chanson "How Do You Sleep?" sur l'album Imagine.
​​Malgré son texte tendu, le morceau brille par elle-même. La chanson s'ouvre sur un effet de son saturé et le cri de Paul avant qu'un riff de guitare ne s'installe. Enregistré à New York avec des musiciens de studio comme le guitariste David Spinozza et le batteur Denny Seiwell, le titre cultive un son rock brut assez éloigné des arrangements soignés des derniers albums des Beatles.
Un morceau d'histoire dans un album de légende.
"Too Many People" Paul McCartney, 1971.

[The Beatles Legacy @TheBeatlesPMcC]

10 novembre 1970, Paul McCartney avance sur son album RAM.
Il s'attaque au titre qui fera le plus de bruit. Un peu trop d'ailleurs puisque John Lennon l'entendra trop bien.
​Derrière les riffs accrocheurs se cache un règlement de comptes direct envers John Lennon et Yoko Ono. Paul confirmera d'ailleurs plus tard que le titre faisait référence aux sermons incessants du couple depuis le "Bed-in" et à leur ingérence dans ses affaires personnelles et professionnelles.
​Plusieurs paroles ciblent directement John, notamment le célèbre "Too many people preaching practices". Lennon répondra d'ailleurs de manière féroce et disproportionnée avec la chanson "How Do You Sleep?" sur l'album Imagine.
​​Malgré son texte tendu, le morceau brille par elle-même. La chanson s'ouvre sur un effet de son saturé et le cri de Paul avant qu'un riff de guitare ne s'installe. Enregistré à New York avec des musiciens de studio comme le guitariste David Spinozza et le batteur Denny Seiwell, le titre cultive un son rock brut assez éloigné des arrangements soignés des derniers albums des Beatles.
Un morceau d'histoire dans un album de légende.
"Too Many People" Paul McCartney, 1971.