Not only did Tony bring it to my attention that he outdrove me, he even got Tom to take a pic of me hitting my second shot first!

We had our first "Old Firm" match of the season at Wollaton Park GC on Monday which might well be renamed the 'Last of the Summer Wine' match when the photo gets uploaded. After five hours of battle with the course and the chilly breeze the homeboys won the day each with 33 stabbos. Kerchinggg!

Tom is amazingly fit and strong just 4/5 weeks after his medical issues, regularly striping drives well over 250 yards and Tony is a picture of good health too regularly striping drives 150 yards! He did outdrive me on one hole and it was duly brought to my attention. We had a great days golf which I thoroughly enjoyed and look forward to doing it again soon when Tony returns from Vegas having got the lot obv.

I saw that The Times leading football correspondent is advocating for Crystal Palace to play a weakened team v Lance Armstrong FC this evening. This is because they are likely to rest a few players for their upcoming Conference League final match in the last game of the season against Arsenal. It will apparently 'level the playing field'. 

Well that was about as enjoyable as watching the Wardley fight last night.

We obviously could have won it a lot more easily but wanted to put those pesky spuds fans through the wringer

You’ve earned the right to be where you are, but football is not being improved by VAR.
Shay Given made some good points on the subject on MotD.

I thought Shay Given spoke a load of unmitigated bollox. Danny Murphy told him exactly that on the show.

 

Well that was about as enjoyable as watching the Wardley fight last night.

We obviously could have won it a lot more easily but wanted to put those pesky spuds fans through the wringer

Very sad indeed.

RIP Shaz

I can honestly say that having experienced Emery's management style at Arsenal I never regretted his leaving for a moment, even during Arteta's struggles early on in the first year of his tenure. I had some doubts during that period but never at any time did I rue Emery's sacking.

Some very good stuff from Andrew at Arseblog today:

https://arseblog.com/2026/05/reflections-3/

My handicap came down 0.6 after yesterday's heroics too. I'm now 13.3.

I had half an hour's coaching with our head pro yesterday to see if he could help my worse than dismal iron-play.

Lo and behold! I shot 83 off the whites today garnering a rather pleasing 39 stabbos which came as a very pleasant surprise as my last few have been in the high 20's. I did chip and putt a lot better as well but my ball-striking was noticeably better, especially on the front nine where I 3-putted from about 20 feet on the ninth to be out in 40/22pts. A welcome upturn in form with the big match  v "the lads" upcoming on Monday. 

Won't you feel a bit dirty rooting for us on Sunday Phil?

Great result at Villa Park last weekend btw, Di Zerbi seems to have had quite an effect.

As Terry Griffiths once famously almost said "We're in the final now".

It's been a pretty decent week after a few testing ones but I am wary of getting too carried away..

Mark Allen's missed black of the spot to make the final...

He'll carry that scar forever.

Me too. I was on at 50/1

Pass on my best wishes too please Vinny.

Tonight we have Trump v Iran in the snooker