Nothing by Either of the Matthews Brothers

[Beef Oven!]

BBC TV is over run with football, in the same way that R3 is over run with contemporary music.

Indeed. And I would add that people who don’t like football are really weird.

[teamsaint]

Indeed. And I would add that people who don’t like football are really weird.

TBF, some people who follow it are weird too.

[Beef Oven!]

TBF, some people who follow it are weird too.

Fair’s got nothing to do with football - we even got rid of the fairs Cup yonks ago.

[teamsaint]

Fair’s got nothing to do with football - we even got rid of the fairs Cup yonks ago.

so what about about the fair play league?

I think we may have drifted off topic.

[ahinton]

BBC TV is over run with football, in the same way that R3 is over run with contemporary music.

Really? (the latter, I mean)...

[ahinton]

Indeed. And I would add that people who don’t like football are really weird.

What? All of them? Could you explain why you believe this to be so?

[ahinton]

I think we may have drifted off topic.

Might some consider that to be rather unsurprising, given that it reads "Nothing by Either of the Matthews Brothers"; after all, just think how much music alone (never mind anything else) isn't by either of them...

[ahinton]

Fair’s got nothing to do with football

So you consider it to be an unfair sport, yes? Given that, in a mere decade or two's time, the most widely regarded of its professional participants might well be changing hands for 10-figure sums, one might wonder how significant such unfairness is...

Never mind; let's try to return to the topic, which suggests that there are only two Matthews brothers. As the word "neither" suggests only two brothers yet Sir Stanley had three of them (so four brothers in all), which of them might you suppose to be referred to by the use of the word "neither"?

[Beef Oven!]

I think we may have drifted off topic.

Yes, let’s get back to Matthews. Stanley?

[ahinton]

Yes, let’s get back to Matthews. Stanley?

As indeed I just suggested in the post immediately preceding yours...

What's the betting, though, that someone might throw a spanner in the works and mention Cerys (not that she's anyone's brother, of course)?

[jayne lee wilson]

1. Buy Sky Sports subscription.
2. Buy BT Sport subscription.
3. Watch live matches & ignore MOTD (avoiding Gary Lineker, for which relief...).

4! Listen to H&N to your heart's content, even late on a Saturday night....

Sorry, must dash - Liverpool v Leicester K.O. 17:30 (BT). Having already dragged myself out of bed at 1215 for Manchester derby (SS1).

[Dave2002]

But seriously, this is exactly the kind of programming H&N ought to be doing.

I've been once to Bergen which was a memorable visit on account of containing the heaviest rainfall I've ever experienced.

Interesting comment re rainfall. We once went to a village in Sweden, perhaps on the way back to Göteborg. We walked into the village, and it started to rain. Within an incredibly short period of time we were in around a foot of water. We took refuge in the library, but then it closed, and we had to walk back to our hotel through the water. Not sure if the people there were used to this, but sandbags were brought out to block off the entrances to subterranean garages. It was just so fast, and it wasn't even as if the place was at the bottom of a hill or anything - basically flat.

[MrGongGong]

I've been once to Bergen which was a memorable visit on account of containing the heaviest rainfall I've ever experienced.

Interesting
I'm going on Monday
I used to teach at UL (Limerick) so will be interesting to see whether Bergen is similar in terms of precipitation

(must take Frank's After the rain just in case)

[gurnemanz]

Interesting
I'm going on Monday
I used to teach at UL (Limerick) so will be interesting to see whether Bergen is similar in terms of precipitation

(must take Frank's After the rain just in case)

We went to Bergen and decided to visit Grieg's house in Troldhaugen. It's about 8 miles away and being too tight to go by taxi we caught a bus which deposits you about a mile from the house. It of course rained quite heavily during this short walk. Despite brolly we arrived a bit bedraggled but the house was well worth the effort of getting there.