I was at the match yesterday and we won 1.0.

I don't recall moaning that it would have been 3.0 in the days of Chris Waddle, David Hirst and John Sheridan though... I don't say that if it isn't 442, it isn't real football. (Although it would have made us less reliant on good defence if it had have been...)

On this, I seem to be in tune with Al. I can respect but would never put it on the same entertainment level as what I personally like, yet folk music can deliver both. It's just that where appreciation and sheer entertainment coincide for me, it rarely wears its trousers up to its tits and tries to impress gullible collectors about a childhood it never actually had.

When Tom Brown said on Radio 2 that he learned a song (I bloody wrote) on his mother's knee, I just saw it for what it was. Theatre. (Aye, he knew I hadn't registered it too..) Perhaps if those who worship MacColl actually listened to what he said, you'd see that.