Only popped on to download my archive. And to say I'm not on here anymore - and you probably shouldn't be either.
(Not deleting my account - I'm stumoff everywhere else so just protecting/squatting on that username here now.)
@drivelcast@vizcomic Can’t remember the exact wording but:
“I’ve noticed that when a famous actor dies they show all their films on TV. I hope Clint Eastwood dies next, I think he’s brilliant.”
Is there a @vizcomic Letter or Top Tip that lives rent-free in your head? EVERY time I'm driving, I think of the person who wrote in to say "Why should I use my indicators? It's none of your business where I'm going"
I have a fairly common first and last name, and a matching gmail address. I frequently get mis-addressed e-mail. If I get an automated notification for an appointment for something like a phone transfer, I log in, reset password, and move the appointment to earlier in the day.
The best possible advice & I kick myself sometimes for not taking it, is when your thing hits a problem, do the bits that aren't a problem & don't sit there sweating & doing nothing. With luck, something will turn up and/or maybe with the other bits done it didn't need that bit.
I covered #England under 10 managers, including some caretakers, very august names and figures among them. Not one of them achieved what #GarethSouthgate has, some with potentially exceptional sides in 98, 06 and 10.
(Venables might have, but couldn't swallow his pride and do a Euro 96 'audition', though it was really the FA suits fault for insisting he did.)
Worth remembering too, that England failed to qualify for a Euros and three World Cups in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Not only is Southgate's record of achievement quite brilliant, he did it with enlightenment, by developing and empowering young men, showcasing them as shining representatives of a diverse and - largely - tolerant nation, partly bolstering a nation's self-esteem in some dark years and ridding the national team of a world-weariness.
There are those who called him woke. He certainly woke English football. The 'Dear England' letter was a masterstroke.
There were mistakes, moments he missed, opportunities that slipped through his fingers. He will surely reflect on them more than anybody.
They are not for today, nor does today belong to those who have been vilifying this most honourable, articulate and steadfast of men for perceived failures that really aren't.
Today is for him to be assured that those who have any realistic sense of English football's history and standing, and who appreciate a return to being able to hold heads high, are humbly grateful for his eight years of inspired, yeoman service.
5 - England at EURO 2024 will be the first team in EURO/World Cup history to face five different countries all beginning with the same letter in a single tournament (Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Spain). Sibilance.