Taste of Candy, Just Like Turkey, and so forth.

I’d go same - A Catholic Education is probably still my favourite TF album. And I’ve Doc to thank for a love of CVB - never saw them live. I’m going to add Paris Angels doing an impromptu after-show.

One or two did 🤦🏻‍♂️

Owners have got relatively deep pockets, he’s happy - it’d take a properly big bid to take him away. But, yes, a concern. Still can’t believe we got him in the first place - he was doing exactly this for Altrincham last season and no league club made a serious bid for him.

(I’m guessing WsM?)

Which one? I was at Reading. Agog level: 10.

Beautiful and illuminating piece. And quite some payoff.

No, on the contrary. In contrast to so many historically esteemed vessels of information, it is becoming more trustworthy by the year.

(Said the Carlisle fam - in April, at Morecambe, they recorded back-to-back wins for the first time in 99 games…)

That’s quite the feat. What’s their secret?

Unusual. He plays himself almost the whole way through, save for reeling off those three scenes of luminous brilliance.

Tremendous. Exactly as you’d hope - twinkly, earnest and, occasionally, outraged. “He’s forgot that, hasn’t? Forgot that!” as I remarked on Alex Ferguson’s previous standing by Rio Ferdinand, amidst the ongoing saga of the latter’s new contract.

Almost certainly, although I CAN offer a thematic parallel from my back pages: Seun Kuti and Sir Bobby Robson.

More widely, though, we still have:

Of the original singles? We're in 1966 World Cup winning team territory, with just Sean Barrett left.

There’s a certain harmony in Paul McCartney aping Fats Domino’s piano style for Lady Madonna in 1968, and then Fats releasing this a year later 🙂
I am totally having it played at my funeral 🎶🎹⚰️🙉🎵