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At a children's hospital just outside Melbourne for one of my twin boys who has been in here getting treatment for leukemia for 7 months as of yesterday. He's had a few bumps along the way, but until this point he's doing very well. The reds having the brilliant season they are having has made it a little easier to get through some long weeks in here, yet conversely, reality has been there to snap me out of a mood following a bad result. Yin and yang. I'd have loved to get to the LFC supporters pub in the city which will be absolutely heaving early Sunday morning, but the situation doesn't really allow it! As it turns out, a charity has organized for my near 4yo lad to accompany the Aussie Rules players onto the MCG as a mascot on Sunday afternoon. It's such a great opportunity for him, so perhaps not being half bladdered after the CL final will be a good thing this time. With the subscription shite for footy in this country meaning no free-to-air coverage of the final for the first time in years, I need to work out where I can hook up my newly-acquired Google Chrome (I've got a subscription to only watch on my phone) to a tv in the share house we're living in for the duration of his treatment. And to @Jarvinja Ilnow, that's so fucking good to hear mate. All the best to you in your recovery. Come on reds, fucking do this.

I read your first line and thought you were doing a Gilbert and Sullivan parody. I'm very well read with regard to matters psychological, And Everton's obsessions resolutely pathological, While tempting to refer to them in language scatological, I pity them, their glories being largely mythological

Went really well. Dads best mate did the eulogy they'd known each other 65 years, he introduced my mum and dad to each other and was their best man.Good turnout for him as well. Had a few after which he would have wanted.

Yeah, thats him there in the background.

Bit like demanding Herpes from a prostitute that.

Today's list: Tangled Up in Blue - Dylan Hurt - Cash Thunder Road - Bruce Badlands -Bruce LA Woman - Doors Paint it Black -Stones Days - Kinks Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Hey Joe - Hendrix On The Road Again -Canned Heat

Last year: Fuck off Ramos you fucking dirty cheating cunt This year: Fuck off Ramos you fucking dirty cheating cunt.. have it

YES! He has released a new one. Perfect to get in the mood for the final.

Best cover.

Change of plan for me; I'm now going to the Whitworth in Phibsborough. My record of watching sport in there: - Beating Watford 5 -0 - Ireland winning the Grand Slam in Twickenham (both on the same day) - Ireland beating the All Blacks at home for the first time. - The Origi goal derby All hail the power of the Whitworth.

Last Year: "Made up we are here, it will be tough but what a journey, what a manager, what a side, love you regardless, fucking Come on Reds !" This Year: "Just fucking win"

Thunder Road - Springsteen Ballerina - Van Morrison This is the sea - The Waterboys If you see her, say hello - Bob Dylan The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit Little Coloured Balloons - John Murry Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones Working Class Hero - John Lennon Boy From Lawrence County - Felice Brothers Queen and the Soldier - Suzanne Vega

Puts it all into prospective. My nephew spent 6 months in hospital last year getting stretched to get a rod put in his back. Losing last year's final set him back loads, he still hasn't got over it. All the best for your lads full recovery.

1 Bob Dylan.... Positively 4th Street 2. Crosby Stills and Nash....Guinevere 3. Shack... Miles Apart 4. Van Morrison....Tir Na Nog 5. Louis Armstrong...We Have All The Time In The World 6. Dionne Warwick...Walk On By 7. Simon and Garfunkel...The Boxer 8. Led Zep....The Rain Song 9. The Who...Bargain 10. The Beatles...In My Life

Yellow Submarine - Beatles Non piu andrai - (Le Nozze di Figaro) Mozart/Da Ponte Happy Jack - The Who The Things We Do For Love - 10cc Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd In Sickness and in Health - Chas and Dave There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards - Ian Dury Largo Al Factotum - (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) Rossini/Sterbini YNWA - Gerry and the Pacemakers Starman - David Bowie

Never wanted it before as seen it as bad for City, but I really hope they go down soon.

Real tough. In no particular order, and will probably change by the time I finish posting this. I’m approaching this in a desert island disc type of way. Like if I was to curate a 10 track playlist to listen to for the rest of my life what would it currently look like. 1. The Beatles - In My Life 2. Prince - Purple Rain 3. Tom Waits - All the World is Green 4. Sylvester - Over and Over 5. Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It 6. Roy Ayers - Liquid Love 7. Madvillain - Figaro 8. The Joubert Singers - Stand on The Word 9. Radiohead - No Surprises 10. Flying Lotus - Robertflack

I practice being on Ken Bruce’s tracks of my years quite frequently, so this is a piece of cake. The La’s - There she Goes Neil Young - Heart of Gold Bruce Springsteen - Badlands Bob Dylan - Love Minus zero/no Limit Radiohead - Fake plastic trees Bruce Springsteen - Tougher than the rest Oasis - Rocking Chair Don Henley - Boys of summer The Beatles - A day in the life Fred Neil - Everybody’s talkin’

Also devo’d I forgot Rainy night in Soho

10 more because Tony is an evil wanker (I've used artists I didn't last time) : YNWA - Gerry & The Pacemakers Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Faithfully - Journey Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Cutt Off - Kasabian Mystify - INXS West End Girl - Pet Shop Boys Common People - Pulp Everlong - Foo Fighters You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

I endorse this.

About an hour and a half so far, watched two episodes of The Shield on my laptop but my arse is now numb.

Well i’ll be whelmed. (I nearly put an exclamation after this but then realised, a full stop would be much more apossite)

All this negging and repping is very extreme. I suggest a "whelmed" button for when you are somewhere between underwhelmed or overwhelmed.

I'm told Suarez and Coutinho are there, crying all over their patatas bravas and calamares.

First Hawking, then scrawny and now this. Turdseye’s a cunt and that lads, but have a heart.

Another neg. Ha. I stand by my no comeback point. What a daft cunt.

As is your right, one that we should all hold dear

I used to love KFC but it's decline has been dramatic. It's fucking shite.

I’m hoping Hendo does a Sarri. He scores a hat-trick as we cruise to victory, then when he lifts the trophy shouts “Liverpool are magic, Stringvest is tragic and so is Turdseye the scrawny little gobshite! Shit that didn’t rhyme.”

Don’t understand mean spiritedness towards Sturridge. He’s a world class talent with a body that lets him down. He’s never put a foot wrong for Liverpool and was incredible in 13/14. Yes, it’s right he’s going, but don’t see that he deserves shit. As for Albert The Moron, despite my previous ire towards him and early call on his ineptitude, I wish him well too. Yes he was risible in that Europa final (and on other occasions too) but he’s accepted his fate since with dignity (or whatever passes for dignity inside the mind of someone with a massive tattoo of a besuited chimp wearing headphones and holding a gun). Neither should be here next season, but I don’t wish them ill.

Israel to auction prefab classrooms donated by EU to Palestinians Calls for Israeli authorities to rebuild West Bank structures confiscated by military Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Fri 31 May 2019 06.00 BST Shares 1,335 Prefabricated classrooms, funded by EU aid in Ibziq, in the northern West Bank, were dismantled and confiscated by Israeli authorities. Photograph: Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem Israel’s defence ministry plans to hold an auction next week to sell two prefabricated classrooms that were donated to Palestinian schoolchildren by the EU. The Civil Administration, the body tasked with running the occupation, tore down and confiscated the classrooms last October. They had been intended for 49 students, in grades one to six, in Ibziq, in the northern occupied West Bank. An advertisement published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv said the sale would take place at Civil Administration offices in the West Bank. After the classrooms were dismantled, the EU mission to Jerusalem and Ramallah condemned Israeli authorities and called on them to rebuild the structures in the same place “without delay”. FacebookTwitterPinterest The classrooms were meant for 49 children in grades one to six. Photograph: Aref Daraghmeh, B’Tselem “Every child has the right to access education and states have an obligation to protect, respect and fulfil this right, by ensuring that schools are inviolable safe spaces for children,” it said at the time. “[T]he EU calls upon the Israeli authorities to halt demolitions and confiscations of Palestinian houses and property, in accordance with its obligations as an occupying power under international humanitarian law.” A list of auction items, seen by the Guardian, showed dates, item numbers, locations and descriptions that matched the confiscated classroom structures. The sale also appeared to include material confiscated from Palestinians and Israeli settlers who built without authorisation. Asked to comment on Thursday afternoon, the Civil Administration said it needed more time to respond. Palestinians have limited autonomy in parts of the West Bank, mostly urban areas, but Israel maintains full control of most of the territory and demolishes homes and buildings it says were built without permission. More than 400,000 Israelis have moved into the West Bank, building settlements on land seized from Palestinians. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to annex those settlements. A GREAT BUNCH OF LADS

Most people would agree. The difference comes in how you define "extremist". We live in a country in which we are routinely told that an extremist is someone who espouses progressive taxation and nationalisation of utilities and public services (to a degree that appeals to the Tory burghers of Guildford), peace and justice in Israel/Palestine and a foreign policy that isn't "bomb first, think later".

I use it as a kind of “best of the Internet for Paul”. So for music, The Reds, humour and politics, I get loads of stuff that comes to me rather have to go looking for it. I also like it for the occasional venting opportunity. The fact that virtually no-one is listening is neither here nor there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-48443134?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR24Iee3QTiilpFSeaSMY5VB32E2zBf97b2tIFi3T7bAotxss9sA1MgSTIo Eazy-E given a memorial bench in Newhaven, Brilliant

Would change tomorrow if you asked me again, but a few would probably make that list too: Barry Maguire - Eve of Destruction Tom Waits - Innocent when you Dream Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line Misfits - One Last Caress Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' Radiohead - No Surprises Sam Amidon - Wild Bill Jones Wham - Last Christmas The Animals - Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Fascination Street (Extended Version) - The Cure. Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed, You Black Emperor. Stay Golden - Au Reviour Simone. Bankrupt On Selling - Modest Mouse. Invitation To The Blues - Tim Waits Avalanche - Leonard Cohen. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison. Rocket Queen - Guns & Roses. Sinnerman - Ms Simone. Moonlight Sonata - Some Deaf Bloke. Subject to constant change and mood.

Be fucking boss next year when I'm in the bedroom with Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba while Gordon Ramsey is in the kitchen making my brekkie and an army of oompa loompas are outside mowing the lawns of my giant mansion!

I hope he told you to fuck off.

Dave Kirkby started early

The vast, vast majority of homeless people/people who rough sleep won’t harangue anyone. A polite “I don’t have any change sorry mate, take care of yourself” will be met with a thank you. Even if you don’t want to give any money just giving a few minutes of your time and talking to the person can be the highlight of their day and a massive positive.

Im not watching it. I havent missed a European Cup final since 1968 although I must admit, I went out and played on my scooter in the back yard when manchester united scored their first in the 68 final. Number 1 son is getting married that day and the bride to be was in bits when she found out the game will be played on the same day. Yeah, we can debate the timings and arrangements to watch it etc but I love my son so, on 1 June he and his wedding day comes first. No doubt other guests will bring phones but I dont want to know the score and will watch a replay if we win. I'll be playing the game in my head though!

It's my dads on Thursday. It's a catholic service but not a full mass. Dreading it but I know he'll get a good turnout. It's my birthday tomorrow fair to say I've had better ones

Rick, Rick, Rick, what happened man, where is the bloke who was going to set off an atomic bomb if Maggie didn’t do something to help the kids?

It feels like it isn't part of last season & is just a one-off game.

It's going to be a Sunday 7am kick off for me here in Aotearoa. I'll be watching it on the Sky Fan Pass App on my iPhone. I don't have Sky Sport, as I can't afford it, so I went all out on a $15 monthly subscription to Fan Pass for one device. I may be able to get to my Mum, but the iPhone is too small for her to see. She's 92 and partially blind. We've both been lucky enough in our lives to have been at Anfield for big games, and like me, she's just about a life long supporter. We'll be together, but I doubt she'll see much. However, the sense of the occasion won't be lost on her. She's up with the play and her memories of Shanks, Thompson, Hunt, St John, Smith, Lawrence etc are as vivid now as they were standing on the Anfield Road End through the sixties. Christ Almighty I'm crying right now, as I type this. Come on you Men in Red. Let's show the world who the greatest team was, is, and always will be.