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Jeremy Hunt foreign secretary!!! Ha, the man who hid behind a tree when coming out of a dinner with Rupert Murdoch. This IS a comedy now!

 

Worst. Foreign Secretary. EVER.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44767848

Hopefully this whole mess discredits and finishes off the Conservative party for a generation! Fingers crossed. :D

Who else but another Tory did you expect them to be replaced with? :rolleyes:

 

You're right. They pretty much are all Tory bast*rds!

Dominic Raab replaces David Davis on the unending conveyor belt of interchangeable tory bast*rds...

There won't be a general election, the Fixed Term Parliament Act will see to that.

 

By the way- the public shouldn't have another vote on it (like the Lib Dems want), that's what got us in this mess in the first place!

The new rule banning 3+ year old songs from going back to SCR has probably completely ended any hopes for 'Fix You' to ever return to the top 40 again :'( after quite a few times it has resurfaced and got as high as the 40s or 50s.

 

Good.

^It's on the list for a friends wedding I'm DJ-ing at later this year, currently in amongst the French house hits like “Music Sounds Better With You” and “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” - gotta get that dance floor packed. :P

I hope (and think) this will be a classic, I will be rooting for Belgium and I think they can win it.

 

3-2 to Belgium!

There's no way this isn't gonna go to penalties!! :)

 

Croatia's last 2 KO games have gone to penalties!

 

I am less confident about this than I was about Sweden, Croatia have been impressive so far. I expect it'll either go to penalties or Croatia will sneak through with a 2-1 win. I hope I'm wrong though!

Whatever happens the team have another game definitely (the 3rd place playoff) and can come home with their heads held high. : )

 

The last meeting of the two countries in 2009 was a massive 5-1 defeat for Croatia but that was a WC qualifier, and may have been revenge for the qualification game against them for Euro 2008 (Steve 'Wally with the Brolly' McClaren).

I wouldn't consider Belgium a traditionally big team so would like them or Croatia to win and England to do well and get to the final!

 

I know this isn't the sports forum but I agree- someone new winning it like Belgium or Croatia would be fantastic (if England can't of course :P )

From what I read, Froome won't be popular at all during the Tour de France. I hope nothing serious happens.

 

Well he crashed in Stage 1, thankfully fine to race on - but the spectators were cheering...

 

Hopefully Cav can bag a win today!

A defeat for Liverpool and it leaves a bitter, lingering taste for a while.

 

You must be used to that then!

Black swans? :huh:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

 

Is Queef of Skreech the owner of Survation, by any chance? :lol:

 

Seriously though, what has changed in the past few weeks to boost Labour?

 

Nothing, it is within the margin of error for the two main parties being neck-and-neck. Survation were the closest poll to calling the 2017 GE result correctly however:

 

19,547 for Shotgun last week, and 75,986 when adding in streaming data.

 

1.4K of that total was 7" vinyl sales.

 

“Shotgun” sold 18,132 paid-for downloads last week so roughly 2.5K/day. “3 Lions” is currently selling around 4 times as much (1.23/0.30) so probably looking at around 10K sales today.

 

To push “Shotgun” down to 0.1, they'd have to be selling 25000 a day which seems a little unlikely ! :P

Croatia are at a disadvantage here, as if they beat Russia, they will be annexed within a few months.

 

..or find Novichok in the parks of Karlovac.

The first extra-time goal in this tournament.

Closely followed by the second!

Westminster voting intention:

 

CON: 41% (-1)

LAB: 40% (+3)

LDEM: 9% (-)

UKIP: 3% (-)

GRN: 2% (-1)

 

via @YouGov, 03 - 04 Jul

Chgs. w/ 26 Jun

 

Labour closing the gap, looking pretty much neck-and-neck with the Tories still - and IMO - unlikely to change that much before the end of the year (unless there are any black swans etc.)

“Motorcycle Emptiness” by the Manics is probably my fave here - I loved a lot of their 90s output but that was their peak for me. : )

Are there any other non-3 Lions songs by the Lightning Seeds in the iTunes chart? It's sad that a lot of people couldn't name any other songs by that wonderful band.

 

I love “Life of Riley” - the instrumental was used on the BBCs Goal of the Month during the mid 90s a lot.

that '30 years of hurt line' is there for a reason

 

Yes, that's true - imagine now waiting until 2046 for another shot at a World Cup semi-final.

 

If there is still a habitable planet by then of course.

 

https://www.mixcloud.com/1869300/uk-top-40-...-5th-july-1992/

 

Here is the chart for 5 July 1992... with Top 5 debuts for Smart E's(!) and Jimmy Nail - at the time the #3 debut by Christopher Howell, Tom Orton and Nick Arnold (Smart E's) was the joint-highest ever for a uncharted act matching the #3 debut by Crystal Waters' “Gypsy Woman” a year earlier. The track is based around the piano refrain from the theme from Sesame Street and latched on to the so-called Toytown Techno trend of remixing children's TV theme/information films into rave tracks that was started with The Magic Roundabout sampling Mark Summers “Summers Magic” in 1990. That was eventually a #27 hit early the following year - and was followed quickly by the Prodigy's “Charley” which stormed into the UK Top 10 months later. This trend appeared to reach its peak this month with the #11 by Urban Hype “A Trip To Trumpton” being a remix of the theme from Trumpton, and would the following week jump to #6. No idea why Jimmy Nail was so popular at the time (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet?) but “Ain't No Doubt” was his first hit in 7 years, went straight in at #5 and would be the song that would depose the current #1 the following week.

 

Erasure sat at number 1 for their fifth and final week at the chart summit with their only ever #1 in a career of 16 Top 10 hits - The “ABBA-Esque EP” - a four track EP of ABBA covers, featuring among others “Take a Chance on Me” which was played in the re-cap at the head of the show and “Lay All Your Love On Me” which was played at the end, and was the one I assume with most of the video/airplay, although videos were made for all four tracks.

 

Lots of other new entries here, including the rather bizarre but wonderful Was (Not Was) at 20 with Kim Bassinger and Ozzy Osbourne on vocal duties- I kid you not!

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singl.../19920705/7501/

 

WKS - LW - TW - Artist - SONG

 

05 - 01 - 01 - Erasure - ABBA-ESQUE (EP) ***5th WEEK AT No.1***

03 - 02 - 02 - Mariah Carey - I'LL BE THERE

01 - NE - 03 - Smart E's - SESAME'S TREET

10 - 03 - 04 - Richard Marx - HAZARD

01 - NE - 05 - Jimmy Nail - AIN'T NO DOUBT

02 - 13 - 06 - Snap! - RHYTHM IS A DANCER

06 - 05 - 07 - Utah Saints - SOMETHING GOOD

02 - 06 - 08 - Electronic - DISAPPOINTED

05 - 04 - 09 - Nick Berry - HEARTBEAT

04 - 10 - 10 - Diana Ross - ONE SHINING MOMENT

 

01 - NE - 11 - Urban Hype - A TRIP TO TRUMPTON

12 - 07 - 12 - KWS - PLEASE DON'T GO

01 - NE - 13 - U2 - EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

05 - 08 - 14 - George Michael - TOOFUNKY

02 - 26 - 15 - Roy Orbison - I DROVE ALL NIGHT

02 - 16 - 16 - Altern 8 - HYPNOTIC ST-8

02 - 27 - 17 - Sophie B Hawkins - DAMN I WISH I WAS YOUR LOVER

06 - 09 - 18 - Take That - IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE

03 - 12 - 19 - Def Leppard - MAKE LOVE LIKE A MAN

01 - NE - 20 - Was (Not Was) - SHAKE YOUR HEAD

 

04 - 11 - 21 - Orb - BLUE ROOM

02 - 37 - 22 - Joe Cocker - UNCHAIN MY HEART

06 - 14 - 23 - Elton John - THE ONE

01 - NE - 24 - Dina Carroll - AIN'T NO MAN

04 - 15 - 25 - Tori Amos - CRUCIFY

04 - 21 - 26 - B-52's - GOOD STUFF

01 - NE - 27 - Wet Wet Wet - LIP SERVICE

02 - 31 - 28 - Sinitta - SHAME SHAME SHAME

1 - NE - 29 - Jose Carreras And Sarah Brightman - AMIGOS PARA SIEMPRE (FRIENDS FOR LIFE)

04 - 20 - 30 - Messiah - TEMPLE OF DREAMS

 

07 - 17 - 31 - Kris Kross - JUMP

01 - NE - 32 - Sonic Youth - 100%

01 - NE - 33 - Iron Maiden - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY

02 - 22 - 34 - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - DO RE ME SO FAR SO GOOD

03 - 23 - 35 - Urban Shakedown - SOME JUSTICE

04 - 19 - 36 - TLC - AIN'T 2 PROUD 2 BEG

01 - NE - 37 - Del Amitri - BE MY DOWNFALL

01 - NE - 38 - DJ Seduction - COME ON

01 - NE - 39 - Praga Khan - RAVE ALERT

02 - 42 - 40 - Bump - I'M RUSHING

 

08 - 28 - 41 - Guns n' Roses - KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR

03 - 32 - 42 - Londonbeat - YOU BRING ON THE SUN

04 - 18 - 43 - U2 - EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

01 - NE - 44 - Joe Public - LIVE AND LEARN

01 - NE - 45 - Various Artists - FOURPLAY (EP)

01 - NE - 46 - Sabrina Johnston - I WANNA SING

04 - 25 - 47 - Loose Ends - HANGIN' ON A STRING (KNUCKLES REMIX)

01 - NE - 48 - Thomas Dolby - I LOVE YOU GOODBYE

03 - 34 - 49 - Kim Wilde - HEART OVER MIND

02 - 48 - 50 - Farm - RISING SUN

 

01 - NE - 51 - Finitribe - FOREVERGREN

05 - 38 - 52 - Beautiful South - BELL BOTTOMED TEAR

04 - 29 - 53 - Crowded House - FOUR SEASONS IN ONE DAY

03 - 30 - 54 - Kym Sims - A LITTLE BIT MORE

06 - 33 - 55 - Cyndi Lauper - THE WORLD IS STONE

01 - NE - 56 - Curtis Stigers - SLEEPING WITH THE LIGHTS ON

05 - RE - 57 - Arrested Development - TENNESSEE

01 - NE - 58 - Thousand Yard Stare - SPINDRIFT (EP)

05 - 35 - 58 - Oceanic - CONTROLLING ME

09 - 36 - 60 - Ugly Kid Joe - EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU

 

02 - 51 - 61 - Fish - SOMETHING IN THE AIR

03 - 24 - 62 - Megadeth - SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION

01 - NE - 63 - Ragga Twins And Junior Reid - SHINE EYE

05 - 40 - 64 - Manic Street Preachers - MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS

02 - 41 - 65 - Jesus And Mary Chain - ALMOST GOLD

03 - 39 - 66 - Prince And The New Power Generation - THUNDER

02 - 43 - 67 - Gun - WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

03 - 44 - 68 - Des'ree - WHY SHOULD I LOVE YOU?

06 - 47 - 69 - Incognito - DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT A THING

02 - 60 - 70 - Celine Dion - IF YOU ASKED ME TO

 

02 - 68 - 71 - Tom Jones - DELILAH

04 - 45 - 72 - Martyn Joseph - DOLPHINS MAKE ME CRY

03 - 46 - 73 - House Of Love - YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

01 - NE - 74 - Hue And Cry - PROFOUNDLY YOURS

05 - 52 - 75 - Prefab Sprout - THE SOUND OF CRYING

IT's #1 on iTunes, most people believe that means it is officially number 1 anyway. The official chart is pretty redundant these days.

Bit surprised at that to be honest, thought he might have swapped Dele out.

 

Good job he didn't!

 

A pretty good game to watch, though as others have pointed out Sweden weren't exactly great and apart from a few chances never really looked like scoring. We have a really strong chance at getting to the final for the first time in almost 3 decades but I don't want to jinx it. Whatever happens from now on, this performance at the WC will go down in history and that is something that the team fully deserve all the credit and support they are receiving, credit due also to Pickford who many were quick to write-off earlier in the tournament - he's certainly silenced the critics and earned his place in the squad.

 

Sterling was the only disappointment for me, he really should have scored on more than one occasion. Hopefully he is saving it as Lineker suggested for a critical moment later on.

 

Also - England are GUARANTEED* two more games whatever happens so hopefully Kane has a good shout for the golden boot! : )

 

*Third place playoff game on 14 July if they lose the semi-final.