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- 05/31/23
| Name: | bill pennington (no, not that one) |
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| Location: | Australia, but reasonably peripatetic |
| Member since: | June 26, 2004 |
| Last visit: | May 30, 2023 |
owlhouse has posted 166 links and 3,267 comments to SportsFilter and 11 links and 756 comments to the Locker Room.
Good Morning Football with Fin Taylor: Billed as the most awkward TV appearance ever, comedian Fin Taylor on the NFL in Britain, and other stuff.
posted by owlhouse to football at 09:15 PM on March 22, 2023 - 3 comments
US World Cup Covfefe: "Fox’s coverage of the World Cup is so bad it’s become unmissable."
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 07:12 PM on December 05, 2022 - 5 comments
Women's World Cup 2023: You're all welcome to join us down under in three years' time. Note that I only have a couple of spare rooms so book early. :-)
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 11:04 PM on June 25, 2020 - 5 comments
Icarus: A new film exposes the level and scope of state sponsored cheating by Russia in the London 2012 and Sochi 2014 Olympics. And the limited ability of anyone to do anything about it.
posted by owlhouse to olympics at 08:47 PM on July 23, 2017 - 1 comment
The Table Never Lies: Are Brentford one of the first Moneyball-era football clubs, and can they make it work?
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 09:50 PM on February 20, 2017 - 4 comments
Barney Ronay's analysis of a club sleepwalking to relegation.
posted by owlhouse at 09:02 PM on May 28, 2023
Bring me sunshine.
posted by owlhouse at 09:01 PM on May 28, 2023
Eric Morecambe.
That is all.
posted by owlhouse at 06:44 PM on May 26, 2023
This will be T20 cricket which is only about 1.5 to 2 hours long
Closer to 3 hours, NoMich. But certainly not like a five day Test match*!
*Which, given the chance and with no outside "interference**" from Mrs Owl, I would still watch every ball.
**"Why are you wasting your time watching that?"
posted by owlhouse at 09:36 PM on April 18, 2023
Didn't Tottenham also rebuild a big part of its ground without closing?
They played all their home games of 2017/18 and most of them in 2018/19 at Wembley.
posted by owlhouse at 09:30 PM on April 18, 2023
Yes! I was at the Paddo Town Hall one - apparently we found out after the fact that it was their farewell before heading off overseas. There was a bit of drunken aggro at the back of the venue at one stage, and us youngsters (I was a 16 y.o. with some school mates) ended up being sprayed with a lot of beer foam.
The gig itself was good, if nothing special, but the time and place, and the (then unknown) future of the band appeared to give it legendary status, very much in retrospect.
posted by owlhouse at 07:55 PM on March 21, 2023
"Never bet on anything that can talk".
- Damon Runyon (anecdotally)
posted by owlhouse at 09:03 PM on March 13, 2023
I'm not a fan of the three-team groups. Too many opportunities for a Gijon 1982-like "fix".
By contrast, the groups stages in Qatar were extraordinarily exciting.
posted by owlhouse at 09:24 PM on February 20, 2023
Is MLS a Major League? It depends where you are, and who you ask, apparently.
posted by owlhouse at 06:47 PM on February 20, 2023
Hi Team. Bit of The Saints' Brisbane DNA in that one. Did you know that the Brisbane City Council have not only named a park after Ed Kuepper, but a bridge after the Go-Betweens?
But the best Brisbane band ever is Powderfinger.
posted by owlhouse at 11:07 PM on January 11, 2023
World Cup Final 1958. Still only 17 years old.
posted by owlhouse at 04:46 PM on December 29, 2022
Well, that was a game and a half.
Literally.
posted by owlhouse at 07:21 PM on December 18, 2022
Hi there NoMich. The Go-Betweens were quite well known around the indie/alternative circuit, playing lots of live gigs, but never really made it on commercial FM radio. They were a bit too poppy for the hardcore alternative audience, and a bit too "Brisbane" for the larger cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
In recent years, and following Grant McLennan's death, they seem to have captured a bit of the nostalgia market for 80s music for people of my age. Lindy Morrison is currently advertising aged pensioners insurance, which makes me feel old.
To be honest, I'm not a big fan. I once called them the most over-rated under-rated band in Australia.
If that makes sense.
posted by owlhouse at 07:12 PM on December 06, 2022
Fortunately, down here we have full, live and uninterrupted coverage on SBS, one of our national public broadcasters. And the classy Martin Tyler commentating on at least half the matches.
My only two issues are with the panel - Craig Foster's lack of socks and Mark Bosnich opening his mouth. Still, Fozzie and Bozzie sound far better than what you're getting.
I saw this article on The Grauniad and thought my American mates would get a kick out of it. So to speak.
posted by owlhouse at 07:59 PM on December 05, 2022
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle
That goalkeeper won't be waiting for a big European club to come knocking, that's for sure.