433

As football goes I’ve been noticing something recently, there’s been an epidemic of sides that play 442 in defence with a striker wide on the wing but when in possession break quickly onto the counter attack and play 433 with the winger bombing forward as an extra striker. Often this player is a striker on the wing, as in Heskey last season at Liverpool or Bellamy at Newcastle. Arsenal don’t quite play this system even though Reyes bombs forwards the requisite number of times because quite frankly they’re too good to be held back by mere systems. »

Hilda

And now a short interlude on matters rugby. The Observer had it right in the Summer of 2003: BLINDSIDE FLANKER: RICHARD HILL 9 Won this correspondent’s vote as the greatest Briton of them all last year, just ahead of Shakespeare. The number of piles of bodies he ends up being at the bottom of defies analysis, as does the frequency and effectiveness of the tackling. When his mates in the back row left him on his own for a little over 10 minutes, he shrugged his shoulders and upped his work rate. »

25 Band Names

If I were in a band it would probably have many names, here are some of them in an order: 1.Linus and the Rockers 2.Arch Pun 3.John Donne and the Metaphysicals 4.Closed Sundays 5.Minicom 6.Annular Fission and You 7.The Gallery 8.Ornamentalism 9.Slang 10.Great American Novel 11.Penguin Hotel 12.Backup Tape 13.Read Reciept 14.Penalty Fare 15.From The Author Of 16.Chelsea Ted 17.24 Hour Protection 18.Wear More Badges 19.Bad Passport Photo 20.Moneyball 21.Monkeyball 22. »

Grain

I was moaning about MS Access again the other day, this time particularly about its charming manner of blocking on even the whisper of use leaving others who want to gain information from its sordid depths unhappy and mewling. During this sustained rant I was forced to deploy that startling geek catchall the ‘fine grained system of permissions’. Robert naturally disagreed commenting that ‘it is a fine grain’, ‘the problem is it’s only one grain’. »