Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Paul Freeman on 2005-04-26
This season’s FA Cup final is a remake of my favourite FA Cup final ever, the 1979 final. Suprisingly, it is a game in which my team lost. I must be a sucker for exciting endings. This is only the second cup final I can remember, the previous year I remember telling my Dad I wanted the red team to win (cos I supported United) only for my Dad to explain the heinious crime I had just committed. Blue coloured underdogs it was then, and said underdogs, Ipswich beat the Arsenal 1-0, Trevor Brooking falling off the fence to score with a diving header from about a yard.
The 1979 final was mostly dull (I remember kicking the ball round in the back garden for at least 5 minutes after the second half had started). Dull that it, until the 86th minute. Arsenal had controlled the game and taken a 2-0 lead by half time. Suddenly, United got 1, then the got another. 2-2. Me and my Dad were still on our backs cheering when Arsenal scored the winner. I don’t think those moments were matched until a certain European Cup final twenty years later.
What is your favourite FA Cup final?
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Paul Freeman on 2005-04-14
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Paul Freeman on 2005-04-13
There was is a quote reported from Russell T. Davis on “Outpost Gallifrey”:http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EEEFkuuVFplZQphzdp&style=newsrss&tmpl=newsrss the other day
“Eccleston’s departure was all planned but it was not meant to come out. You were supposed to watch the series first. Then it was to be announced. But Christopher was the best Doctor in the world. He is one of the best actors in Britain.”
There is a rumour going round the boards and mailing lists that makes a lot of sense. The rumour is that Eccleston was only ever going to be in Series 1 (27) and his departure was planned from the start. Further more, there would be a surprise regeneration at the end of the series (or in the Christmas special). Imagine what a series cliffhanger that would have been (okay Battlestar Gallactic seem to have a very similar series end). Remember a time when you didn’t know the Doctor was about to regenerate? I don’t. I started watching with Tom Baker, and it was very publicly announced that Peter Davison would be taking over.
And the newspapers (with the addition of a rubbish BBC media department) has ruined the surprise.
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Paul Freeman on 2005-04-12