CRAZY CHRIS

England draw: If all top seeds win their Group: R32 - 3rd place team R16 - Mexico or 3rd place team (in Mexico City) QF - Brazil (note Brazil will not play a group winner before QF) SF - Argentina (potentially!!!) Wouldn't play Spain until Final (again assuming all top seeds win their Group).

Yes I agree. really. Do it late March. Nothing spoiling until then.

England, Croatia, Panama, Ghana Brazil, Morocco, Scotland, Haiti Should both get out of that...

England's opening game in Toronto or Dallas againat CROATIA. Repeat of 2018. QF. Could be hard for England. Lineker says it's the most difficult draw ever to undersatand. Think the commentators are even struggling.. Scotland's first game against Haiti. First group complete: Spain, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Cape Verde. Spain, in great form now, v Cape Verde.🤔

Buble may have a chance too..

That would be hilarious...

Wonder why there's a pic of Abba on the Freeview page. Can't think of one of theirs that missed...

I see Chris Rea has a Christmas album coming out. Only 9 tracks and two are his well known Xmas song. Can't see it doing much. Don't know if it's re-issue.

Next Saturday, 10pm on BBC2, The Hits That Missed. A look into the BBC’s music archives to examine the all-time classic tracks that seem to have been around forever, and get everywhere - apart from the UK Top 40. It’s a journey that sees us heading back in time to the Summer of ‘69 with Bryan Adams and takes in Bowie’s Changes, Dolly’s 9 to 5 and Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire – just some of the most surprising favourites to feature in this selection of the biggest, most enduring tracks ever written that mysteriously failed to have an impact on the charts the first time around. With crowd-pleasers that still get everyone on their feet and anthems everyone can sing along to, these songs are forever part of the soundtrack to people's lives but always leave them wondering 'why was this not a hit?'

Dying to see where Grandma ends up. 🤔

Little anecdote about the Barbra Streisand song. Radio 1 had a competition on the Tuesday lunchtime chart countdown show to predict the next week's Top 3 and you won the T40 singles. Usually thousands were right but the week she went from 10 to 1 nobody got it right. LOL.

Think it was Rivers Of Babylon by Boney M in 1978 as it climbed back to No.2 when they started playing Brown Girl...rumours that some people didn't know it was the other side so bought it again...

Was in Philippines for 4 weeks and it was inescapeable there. Played on every bus, in every station, rerstaurant, cafe, shop...over and over again. When my sister picked me up from airport she said U2 were No.1,

Farage says it's not right that some go off work at 20 with an illness or injury and are still on sickness benefits at 60. He's spot on but how can they disprove bad backs and depression? You can't. My parents had 3 dancing couples as friends and all 3 were off with bad backs yet were sequence dancing at the weekend. Another was supposedly deaf from pit work and at every re-assessment he kept saying "pardon Dr, can't hear you." I come off benefits in Jan, on to old age pension. No more assessments thank goodness and more money.

Great album. First released in US in Nov. 1963 but didn't sell well as they were grieving over Kennedy. Many understimate how huge an event the assassination was. My other faves. Twelve Songs Of Christmas - Jim Reeves. Parents had it on LP in the 60's and played it to death every Christmas. The Merry Christmas Polka! Have the CD now. Buble's, Mariah, Cliff.