TimRam

Agree, all made worse by what Clough and Taylor were doing down the road. Never had the phrase "Could have been us." rang truer. Strange but I thought the relegation from old div 1 was worse for me than going to old 3rd. Probably as we got cox in and the feeling did not last long.

The late 70’s until the arrival of King Arthur 

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A new Maiden track was released today. I really like it, some brilliant guitar work from Adrian Smith. Bruce can still hit the notes as well, thankfully, since his cancer treatment.
You’ve got to love Maiden, they still sound strong and they keep progressing their sound, even after 40 + years.

Yodel Metal ?
 

Kelly Brook. Although I don't think she would be
 

Agree! How rude, especially when you have been waiting in for them. We had this problem. We needed a bathroom cabinet putting up, grouting doing, an over-bath shower installing and a glass shower screen putting in. Three firms said they were interested, made an appointment and never showed up. Then a Polish guy phoned from Nottingham and he did a brilliant job for far less than we had budgeted. Needless to say he received a generous tip!

The early episodes of Mr Bean are good...specially the Exam and Library scenes. I've noticed that all age groups in the family enjoy the series...from my parents to youngest nephew. The films were overkill though. I liked Black Adder 1 and 4.

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Too soon?
 

Got us to a semi-final and final in his only two tournaments so far. He’s not the perfect manager, but I’m struggling to see how he can’t be considered the second best in our history.

No change of thought. Always thought him conservative, and a bit negative. and last night confirmed that he is still reluctant to grab hold of a game when it is there for the taking.  Starting Mount wide on the left, where Sterling had been excelling, and not having a proper right sided attacker was odd, but he clearly didn't know his best player on the right of the pitch all tournament. Grealish and Foden should have been given more game time. Taking off Henderson at the end again was naive - he has a good penalty record, and putting Sancho and saka at 4 and 5 in the penalties was never going to be a good idea. Some experience and mental toughness was needed in that situation. Henderson, Shaw and Walker would have been better picks for penalties when we were at 129 minutes.
Deserves another go, but he is yet to convince me he has anything other than a good rapport with his squad, rather than being game savvy. Got some very good players at his disposal after all.

All the thrills of being a Derby fan. Nearly one of the top european clubs under clough/taylor to relegation and almost out of business in old 3rd division. Come on you Rams, never a dull moment!

Too soon?
 

Too soon?
 

Yes. The country, nay the world, is in upheaval, and for days the main news item is a football tournament. Not even a world event. 
How much attention does the European athletics tournament get for example compared to the Olympics? 
Even now it's over it still gets greater prominence than plans to come out of the most serious pandemic we have ever experienced. 
It's a tournament which has brought out the best and worst of behaviours. 
One minute we are all being cautious to protect others, the next everyone is hammered and people are being stampeded in a bid to storm Wembley. 
Be sensible is replaced by let's all go mental and have Monday off. 
England gets a bad reputation because it goes so far over the top when its sporting heroes come good. 
Most of the excitement is adopted by those who don't even like football, they just want to party and shout Ingerlund. 
Anyone who is not 'them' gets abuse, including national anthems. 

Too soon?
 

And to think at approximately 20:03 last night the country was a wonderful place and it felt like anything was possible.  Then by midnight it a complete an utter poo hole full of disgusting racists & nutjobs who only seem to follow the national team as an excuse to be a dick head for a few days a year.
I wanted us to win more than anything because I know what it's going to be like for the three lads to fluffed their penos.  Yes they were crap, but there's no need to spew the racist bile that a lot of these gammon heads have subjected them to already.  Bar the Scotland match the whole team performed admirably and shouldn't feel any way ashamed of their achievements this summer.
Personally if I were Southgate I wouldn't have sat back in the 2nd half as much as we did, but you have to give the Italians some credit in sorting themselves out at half time and pressing us a lot more effectively.  Unfortunately once their goal went in you could only see one winner

I was a bit pissed off at full time with some of Southgates decisions, & I do wonder if he wishes he’d never made those last two subs... but hey what the duck do I know about top level football management...nowt...& it’s the first time in my 50 odd years that I’ve had the excitement, hope, & alas ultimately heartbreak of seeing England in a major final.
A huge, huge opportunity missed...yes definitely ... but what a journey, I loved every minute of it (well almost every minute lol).. but hey it’s just a game, the sheep are still grazing on the tops & life’s rich tapestry continues to unfold. 
The best team won... it would of been worse if we’d of been the better team & lost, but quite clearly we wasn’t.