The wit and wisdom of professional footballers/managers. Last night on Match of the Day we had Aston Villa Manager Alex McLeish giving us an incredible insight into the game;
"The more you lose, the more games you don't win"
Charlie Adam of Liverpool then added - "All the lads gave 110% today."
It's wonderful when footballers emphasise how hard everyone is trying in various degrees of impossibility. "Everyone gave 110% or everyone gave 150%." It is a physical impossibility to give any more than 100%. If you could you would indeed be "totally unique."
Anyway this afternoon I'm off to Carrow Road to see Norwich play bottom club Wigan. It's a match that will strangely define our season. If we win we go back up to eighth place and can think about finishing the season in the top half which will be some achievement. If we lose we could be sucked down towards the nether regions (if you'll pardon the expression) and that's something we don't want to happen. I will let you know later how the day went.
I have always been fascinated by accents. I love trying to work out where a person comes from through their accent and usually you can get pretty close. I love the Scouse accent and the fact that usually you can't understand a word that a broad Liverpudlian says. The funny thing is that, coming from Norfolk, we have our fair share of dialect speaking people. There are, however, many people who, despite being born in the county and having lived here all their lives, do not have a noticeable local accent. The same just can't be said about Liverpool. One of their community projects was featured on Match of the Day and even the leader of Liverpool City Council had a thick Scouse accent!!
Received our new council tax bill yesterday and it was interesting to note that the only section that has gone up is for policing. Our payments to Norfolk County Council and South Norfolk District Council have been frozen and that to Hethersett Parish Council has gone down by 0.4%. Our contribution to policing has risen by 3% however. It's interesting to see that we now pay more for policing than for the services provided by the parish and district councils combined.
"The more you lose, the more games you don't win"
Charlie Adam of Liverpool then added - "All the lads gave 110% today."
It's wonderful when footballers emphasise how hard everyone is trying in various degrees of impossibility. "Everyone gave 110% or everyone gave 150%." It is a physical impossibility to give any more than 100%. If you could you would indeed be "totally unique."
Anyway this afternoon I'm off to Carrow Road to see Norwich play bottom club Wigan. It's a match that will strangely define our season. If we win we go back up to eighth place and can think about finishing the season in the top half which will be some achievement. If we lose we could be sucked down towards the nether regions (if you'll pardon the expression) and that's something we don't want to happen. I will let you know later how the day went.
I have always been fascinated by accents. I love trying to work out where a person comes from through their accent and usually you can get pretty close. I love the Scouse accent and the fact that usually you can't understand a word that a broad Liverpudlian says. The funny thing is that, coming from Norfolk, we have our fair share of dialect speaking people. There are, however, many people who, despite being born in the county and having lived here all their lives, do not have a noticeable local accent. The same just can't be said about Liverpool. One of their community projects was featured on Match of the Day and even the leader of Liverpool City Council had a thick Scouse accent!!
Received our new council tax bill yesterday and it was interesting to note that the only section that has gone up is for policing. Our payments to Norfolk County Council and South Norfolk District Council have been frozen and that to Hethersett Parish Council has gone down by 0.4%. Our contribution to policing has risen by 3% however. It's interesting to see that we now pay more for policing than for the services provided by the parish and district councils combined.
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