Arbroath 0-5 Dunfermline Athletic and Danny Kruger

 

 

So many football matches these days are spoiled by the never ending drivel spouted by the needless commentators.  A constant flow of words, few of which are relevant to the game in front of them, block the screen as the fans attempt to watch the game.

Add to this the constant desire of the director to ensure the camera is fixed on a man who does not have the ball, had it five minutes ago and does not have it now.  All the while, the commentator tells us needless information about the man's football history.  Either that, or the camera is on a celebrity in the stand while the game is happening 50 yards away.  

However, today I found a club that does football TV properly, Pars TV! 

Dunfermline Athletic has always been a club I was fond off, mainly because of an aunt who lived there and a cousin who once was their physio.  I always see it as a club that ought to be amongst the big boys.  I first went there in 1964, just after the bridge opened, and a good healthy crowd followed from Tynecastle that day.  Many times we have played there in enthralling games.

Pars TV, one of the many TV organisations set up by clubs these days to cover their own games, little chance of large TV donations from the main TV companies, that's for sure.  I first used them a few years ago, now they have established an excellent offering for followers of their team.

Here we see them having a lucky 0-5 win over Arbroath, no commentator spoils the game with biased, meaningless drivel, words do not endlessly flow, instead we are given the impression we are at the game itself, it is wonderful!  We hear the cries of fans, always interesting, the home and away support, and the players and referees as they, er, debate decisions.   Watching this was like being at the game, so unlike most TV coverage today.  Of course, I did not experience the fresh wind off the North Sea right behind the camera, and of that I am glad, I have been there before!

I'm probably breaking copyright to post this, but it is worth it as this coverage so realistic is to be encouraged.  Well done Pars TV.  

 

Who is this, you might well ask?  This is Danny Kruger who you and I have never heard off.  Danny, a Christian, he says, was until today a staunch member of the Conservative Party.  Now, however, he says it is dying and will not recover, so he has hopped onto the Reform UK bandwagon to save his £91,000 and more a year.

While few of us know him, he has been going the rounds within the party, writing speeches for David Cameron, then Prime Minister, Ian Duncan Smith, the mental Tory, and along with his wife, creating a charity called 'Only Connect, a youth crime preventing charity.  He has had various jobs in the DWP and does appear to have an attitude that rings true.  He supports marriage, opposes the individual worshipping society, as he sees it, and refers to himself as 'communitarian.' 

A brief read leaves the impression he may not be as bad as some Eton educated MPs, (his parents are South African, his mother Pru Leith) he also read History at Edinburgh and Oxford, so he cannot be all bad.  Yet in spite of his intelligence, his knowledge, his experience of life, he has fallen for the lie that is Reform UK!  How?

Reform are led by a liar, Reform have no policies, unless he has been brought in to provide some, Reform cannot be trusted on anything, and Farage is a liar, so how can a man like Kruger mix with him? 

I wonder what Badenoch makes of it all? 

 

Brandy for Labour

A wee while back I decided to ensure I no longer fall for those 'shiny thing' buys.  You know, when you see something and desire it now, then spend an enormous amount of money on the shiny item only to somewhat regret the purchase not long afterwards.  We have all been attracted to that latest tech gadget in the shop window, you know, the one that has been lying at the bottom of that cupboard for years, and we wonder why we spent all that much missed cash on the brute.  

I decided that there would be no more of that!

Yesterday, I took delivery of a bottle of Armagnac brandy that crossed my mind the day before.

The thought of the stuff was placed into my mind by a sick person.  I allowed this to wait there as I knew how much such a shiny thing costs, however, I realised there was a little cash left in the Amazon vouchers inserted in that company famed for caring for employees website.  A quick look, a quick purchase of the 'reduced price' cheapest, and yesterday a man with an accent I fail to recognise brought home the goods.  

Obviously I regret this shiny thing purchase...

"Enemies to the right of us, enemies to the left, enemies in front of us, we go forward!"

Such is Keir's attitude on responding to the collapse of the Labour vote, though not as great as the collapse of the Tories vote, and no apology for possibly using the wrong manifesto, the Tory one!

So far, the local elections in England have left Labour down 118 and the Tories down 430.  The Lib-Debs are up 78 and Farage and his rioters are up 466, mostly taken from the Conservatives.  One By-election has gone to Reform, one at least Mayoralty, and lots of council seats.  We are left wondering how many will be councillors by Christmas?

A newly elected Labour mayor has attacked Starmer's policies, a losing Labour candidate also, how many more before he, and the strange power behind the throne Morgan McSweeney, decide to become the Labour Party again.  Stealing from pensioners and robbing the disabled and sick gets Tories votes, until the people cry enough, so why did Labour continue this?  Add also the ridiculous idea of killing off the sick and aged to save money while not taxing billionaires, who are not running out of the country by the way, and you lose votes.  

Something strange is going on amongst those who run the country, I wonder what that could be?