Eddie

John Simm is wonderful in it.

Aye, for the most part, the batting is back in DuPavillion these days.

I'll settle for catching practice. If Derbyshire had taken their chances before lunch on day 1, it might well have been a feeling of "The weather robbed us" as opposed to "The weather saved us".

It's definitely a 'slow burner'. After the likes of 'Kin' and 'Baby Reindeer', slow is a pleasant change. As an arthritic sepuagenarian, I would not have fancied those steps.

If ever there was an advert for 'not playing football', this is it. Teams trying to stop us by playing football - W 10, D 8, L 27. If that's the best anti-Warne argument you can come up with, don't bother.

Liu Cixin's second part of the "3 Body Problem", aptly called "The Dark Forest". Surprisingly, no VAR yet.

Ripley (Netflix) Really good - Andrew Scott is a much, much better Tom Ripley (in my opinion) than Matt Damon.

I've been performing rain dances for the last hour, so expect a tropical heatwave.

Is that horror, or flower-arranging?

Baby Reindeer. I found this extremely disturbing, but compelling.

Yes, I know.

I've only been in the 'home' end once in 57 years of going to away games - and that was at Highbury (The North Bank). It was our first time visiting the ground (1969/70) and we asked Dibble which end the North Bank was, planning to go to the other end. "Cheers" we said, promptly walking in the opposite direction and, yep, we ended up on the North Bank. Of course, the scuffer thought we really wanted to try to 'take their end' (all 6 of us) so pointed out the other end. Once inside, it took us all of 10 seconds to realise our little faux-pas (the 3,000 or so Gooners might have been some sort of a clue), and about 15 seconds to leap over the wall at the front, run the entire length of the pitch and make the sanctuary of the 'Scoreboard End'.

If you thought that was a tough watch, you should have been at the County Ground watching Leicestershire giving a proper mauling to Derbyshire with both bat and ball, AND having to read the negative stuff in this thread. Cue "We had it tough" 4 Yorkshiremen sketch.

We don't need anything from any other, side, and that's how it's been for weeks bar a single blip matched by the other promotion candidates having their own wobbles.

I'm 4 days younger than Leighton. This one really hit home.

Me too. My son is James Roy.

My son James is named after him.

So, basically, the FA lied.

Four more weeks of the season?

What it prevents is a 'lap of honour', which is the way the players show their appreciation. When we lost at Hull, one of their 'fans' lamped Keogh, so I can understand the club being anti-pitch invasion.

I'll be at the cricket tomorrow, jabbing the phone all afternoon.

I enjoyed so much Irish telly when I was over there a few years back, but I've still never seen anything quite as wonderful as "Podge and Rodge - A Scare At Bedtime".

It is an utter disgrace, but not unexpected given the cosy relationship between the FA and the Premier League. If they can do this, then there is nothing to stop them severing the relationship between the FA and the EFL - and the next logical step being the establishment of a 'closed shop' Premier League with no promotion and relegation.

Sometimes, groups of fans who have both been to hell and back develop a mutual respect and understanding - like we have with Blackpool.