MIKE DEAN’S SECRET PREMIER LEAGUE GAMES
Ex-Premier League referee Mike Dean admits he used to play secret mini-games on the pitch while officiating top-flight matches.
Mike Dean: “We used to say, ‘Right, we'll kick off now, right? See how long we can go without blowing a whistle.’ Done that a few times in the Premier, before VAR obviously. 20–25 minutes without blowing a whistle a few times.”
“I used to stand in the center circle and see how long I could stay in the center circle before I had to leave.”
Josh James: “Got about 15 minutes once in one game without leaving the center circle.”
Mike Dean: “Easy money.”
ft. Mike Dean, Jamie Vardy, Josh James
I am still saying it, and this is coming from someone who finds physics fascinating: medicine is way beyond anything engineering will ever accomplish.
An aircraft is a mighty feat. We designed it. A space rocket? We designed it. Electromagnetic technology, bridges, computers, all of these are incredible feats, but ultimately things we designed and built from the ground up.
Now think about medicine. Humans are opening up a body they did not design, navigating structures they did not create, knowing what to cut, what not to touch, what connects to what, where something needs to go and what carries it there and then putting the whole thing back together.
That is, and will probably forever remain, mightier to me than anything we have ever achieved as engineers.
Erling Haaland was not about to let Omar Marmoush just leave 😂🩵:
🗣 Haaland: "What's going on? What are you doing? Get your training gear on; we're training soon"
🗣 Marmoush: "I'm going, man. I've got to train somewhere else"
🗣 Haaland: "All the best, Mozza. Are you going now?"
🗣 Marmoush: "Yeah, I'm flying out at three"
🗣 Haaland: "You better not ghost me on Snapchat!"
USS Abraham Lincoln Commander Dan Keeler arrives at Hard Rock School with the mayor of Pattaya waiting to be welcomed and exchange souvenirs. It’s a pleasure to visit Pattaya. Thank you for your hospitality.
I keep getting, “Amaka, why not move to Lagos? There are more opportunities there.”
I hear you guys, but abeg… I’ve been to Lagos. And you see this my PH? I love it here. 😂
Because:
I get to choose the kind of bus I want to board. If I enter your bus and the seat isn’t good, I can tell the driver to stop, come down and look for another bus. 😂
Bus fares are constant whether rain falls or not. If you increase your fare because of rain, I have good citizens that will happily tell you to go while cursing you under the rain, waiting for the next bus to come.
Nobody is rushing to enter the bus, and even if they want to increase the fare it doesn’t pass 100 naira😭😂 so budgeting for transport for the month is actually possible.
Nobody is rushing to anywhere. I can casually cross the road when is clear because the cars aren’t speeding to hell. 😂
I can stop a bus, look inside first. If the faces and seats aren’t friendly, I’ll simply tell the driver, “Oga, go.” 😭
Someone can stop two poles before my stop and I’ll still tell the driver to stop me at my own stop. And the driver will do it without complaining.
I fit still dey inside my street, dey walk out slowly while the bus driver dey wait for me, shouting, “Mile 3! Mile 3!” 😂😂
I stayed less than a year in Lagos and came back with ulcer.
No be me una go kill abeg. 😭
I know Lagos has more opportunities, and I’m not saying I’ll never go back. But for now?
PH is heaven to me.
I want to live long. 😂😂
Nine years ago, Burna Boy went to Club Quilox to party at the invitation of its owner, Shina Peller.
Shina Peller, the son of the late Professor Peller, the popular magician from Ibadan, is the owner of Club Quilox and, at the time, the undisputed king of Lagos nightlife. Quilox was his kingdom.
On his way to the club with his crew, Burna Boy felt something different. The night had been unusually smooth. Traffic was light. He was in a good mood.
The afrobeats giant had no idea he was driving toward one of the most important moments of his career.
He was already high on some Henny, had just finished his second blunt of the night, and was vibing to the music in the VIP section when the skinny, light-skinned Shina Peller walked up to him, played him a fresh beat the producer Phantom had just made upstairs, and said, “This one is for you.”
They went straight upstairs to the studio inside Quilox.
Phantom was waiting.
Burna stepped into the booth and recorded “Ye” in under 10 minutes.
“Ye” would go on to become one of the biggest songs of Burna Boy’s career and a turning point in his journey to becoming a global superstar. And all of it started because, on one random night at Club Quilox, a club owner played an artiste a beat made upstairs in his club’s studio.
This is why I love clubs with recording studios.