24hoursfromtulsehill

I’ve heard it’ll be weekly on Thursdays, which was historically the Chron’s biggest circulation day (because of the property pages). It won’t just be The Rarely Wrong anymore...it’ll be The Rarely Wrong and Rarely Printed.

Guilty as charged. The online subscription was too expensive. As I recall it was initially set at about 90% of the print version price. I do believe in paying for journalism, but if you don’t have print and distribution costs, your paper should be a lot cheaper right? Besides, I don’t live in Oldham so I don’t feel that guilty. The Grauniad’s policy is similarly insane but in the other direction. I used to pay 50p a day for the print version, but it’s now about £15 a year for the online version. That’s not enough if you want quality journalism.

Is that on the Sticky Fingers album?

Stop nicking my jokes you pouting, preening rock n' roll fairy. I can't get no satisfaction when someone's getting upboats that are rightfully mine.

Yeah cos people who suffer in silence always get what's due to them.

That's that one sorted then.

Kinnell. Is he as much of a troublemaker as the person who hasn’t paid him? Who’s actually made this trouble?

Maybe they’ll fine him two weeks’ wages. That’s another thing about not paying people. Your corporate discipline goes straight out the window. You have to pay people to bind them to the rules. No exceptions, not even football.

I can only imagine the epic rage I’d be in if I went even one day without being paid, so a couple of tweets is a pretty mild protest. It’s difficult but if you set aside the affront to civilisation of not paying people for the work they do for you...a business that doesn’t pay it’s employees isn’t really a business.

Was hoping to knock 1,000 off the gate for the next home game but alas it wasn't to be.

Seaside Latic buys into the ethos only so much, so he bought bottles of slave-picked Cabernet Sauvignon filled with salt n’ shake style sulphates to make it taste okay. Yesterday’s bar strategy worked fine. We bought a job lot of cans before the daytrippin’ sappers arrived. I reckon some of them queued for the whole 90 minutes of the game. Hopefully my mug on the front cover of The Times on Monday will discourage them from coming and push them back to south London’s rugby belt where they belong.

I’m off to Dulwich Hamlet. Things have changed in recent years in one distinctly unpleasant respect: you can’t take your own booze in. Or you can’t if you haven’t spent the last 20 years running rings round League One stewards. A couple of weeks ago, for instance, Seaside Latic left the clubhouse VIA THE FRONT DOOR with a rucksack (and my crutches) and waltzed back in from Sainsburys with a couple of bottles of wine for our little gang. I resent the inconvenience is all.

Let’s not get carried away. 69 days annual leave. Plus bank holidays. Then you’ve got TOIL to throw in on top of that. Did I not mention the TOIL? It is quite nice though, when you think about it.

You been in the Smart Alec section of the bookshop again?

What a load of old wank. Who gives a fuck about Barnet anyway?

I was wondering when you'd be on. Have you got an alert set up for whenever anyone mentions modern slavery? I work 36 hours a week (minus 40 days annual leave and bank holidays and the Queen's Birthday). Not a second more nor less. Plus the way it pans out next year is I carry over another 29 days annual leave because I was on sick leave while booked on annual leave. Immobilised with a broken leg. What are the chances? The so-called taxpayers, as always, are bleeding me, not the other way around. Come to think of it, the taxpayers get right on my titties. They've got this idea - they're so fucking precious - that because the Government takes it from them, they have a say in how it's spent. They form these opinions about anything and everything...coppers, hospitals, parliament...the lot. Why don't they just cough up and fuck off out of it?

That would be Clapton I think. Clapton are wankers.

Let's put it this way. I'll give £1 to your penny that the PFA is seeing the players through this shit. I'm also willing to bet that the non-unionised staff are either into the petty cash or just simply going without, which is an absolute abomination.

Every time someone doesn’t get paid for the work they’ve done - even for a day - civilisation itself takes a backward step. Nice to know we’re at the forefront of modern slavery.

I was just wondering about some people’s poverty of ambition. People like yourself and rudemedic would get a massive thrill out of being top for even one week or just a few days. The likes of Me and Dave Collinge just can’t be happy with that. Then you’ve got people like nzlatic, Joe P and others who can barely believe they’re up there at the business end of the season and decide they don’t want it after all, for reasons I’ll never quite understand. I suppose in in my mind there’s a moral hierarchy reflected in the league standings and records. Perhaps a nerd might want to calculate who’s been top for most weeks since the beginning of the league, or who’s accumulated most points. I reckon I’d be top of that even if you take into account the fact that I’ve been retired for a season and a bit. Just a thought.

Dave Collinge is obviously as bored as I am with this charade. Well done Pete for producing the tables...that show the standings in a dreadfully diminished competition in which one fluke attendance guess means you’ve accumulated more points than the others, including all the sockpuppet accounts you’ve put in there to make up the numbers. It’s getting to the point where people might be wondering if there’s any point at all to predicting or having a prediction league table. We are where we are. I suppose we can all look forward to rudemedic’s inevitable slide down to midtable. Has he ever held the top spot for even a week with, say, five games played? Maybe that’s what he’s in it for. Maybe there are some people out there who would retire happy after hitting the top just once.

Cheers Bristol. The plaster should be coming off on Friday. If it doesn’t...there’ll be trouble. I don’t mind nzlatic as a champion but people like Ex_pat don’t deserve it and aren’t authentic - there’s no getting around their credibility vacuum. It is a shame but that’s how it is. It’s nice that that you’ve managed to boost the numbers with sockpuppet accounts but we all know the writing’s on the wall without the Greatest Predictor of All Time on the books.

I’ve booked the week after the final off work so I can travel up for the open top bus parade and civic reception.

You’re right. It’s conceivable that someone, with a fair wind, might get within 30 points or so of My Record.

We play in blue and lamb tagine.