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Liverpool FC RSS Feeds

Published on April 12, 2006 in Tech. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

This isn’t going to turn into a football fan website, but I’ve mentioned before the fact that I’m something of a Liverpool fan.

The official site, as you’ll see if you followed that link, is painful. The text content is thankfully free of charge, but the banner ads and crapplets are incredibly intrusive, and the site sets a cookie each day which forcibly redirects visitors to a full-screen ad before you can access the site proper.

On top of that, they have no RSS feeds, so I’m forced to wade through the crap to check the news articles each day.

Until now – I just created this unofficial official site feed, at feed43.com :)

Liverpoolfc.tv News

Liverpool

Published on December 26, 2005 in Ego. 0 Comments Tags: .

Yes, often as we lie
On the altar of the morning
Well I call up to the sky
Light my way, and I promise I’ll believe

I’ll go
I’ll go, I know I’ll go to Liverpool
Well I know I’ll be loved there

–The Libertines, Breck Road Lover

It’s time to go back to my homeland, and visit many places and people – some of which, and whom, I’ve been absent from. For far too long.

Back in the New Year – season’s greetings to one and all.

You’re on Sky Sports

Published on July 10, 2005 in Ego. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Back in May, I went up to Liverpool to watch the European Champions League Final in an Anfield pub, and wrote about it in this entry.

Sky News were there too, and whilst I wasn’t keen on being interviewed, Dan and I did manage to get ourselves in the shot a couple of times, to the delight of our friends and the embarassment of our families.

Dan finally brought the VHS tape over for conversion to a more portable format, but not without first chewing up the tape in his own VCR, destroying said VCR to recover it, leaving it on a train to Birmingham, retrieving it again, then finally chewing up the tape in my VCR, and thankfully recovering it one last time. Then it took a week for me to find the right cables. Here are the clips.

First attempt

Drunkenness: 1/10
Time on screen: 8/10
Rabbit-in-headlights impression: 10/10

Second attempt

Drunkenness: 4/10
Time on screen: 3/10
Cheesy wave: 10/10

Our Friends In The North

Published on May 31, 2005 in Ego. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

Liverpool FC celebrate winning the 2005 European Cup

I’ve been in Merseyside for the past week. I took some time off work, travelled to The Arkles pub in Anfield, Liverpool to watch THAT MATCH (managing to get on Sky News in the process), and spent the following few days catching up with friends old and new in the town where I grew up. Lots and lots to write about, and no time in which to do it. I’m back at the office in eight hours or so, so will try to catch up later in the week.