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Bump. Hope all of you who are lucky enough to still have your mum spoiled her rotten today. I just got treated to a video call from my mum singing you'll never walk alone. It was especially poignant as she is in the mid stages of dementia and the words to that are one of the few things she remembers, bless her.

Saw my old man today (child care bubble) and this vaccine has given him the lift I mentioned the other day. He’s had a really tough year but is now taking daily walks, his mood is completely different and he’s talking about what we are all going to do when the restrictions are over. He’s timing his walks, getting quicker and is a completely different bloke. He even mentioned it’s their 50th wedding anniversary in November and what will we do.

Survived my first 24 hours post-AZ jab. Nothing more than a very slight feeling like I'm coming down with a cold, and a sore arm where the needle went in.

I read an article on The Athletic which suggested with a straight face that OGS's lack of any discernible tactical plan was in itself a deliberate move to take advantage of the chaos of this season. That was arguably the closest I've come to an enjoyable moment this season.

I think large parts of this country will be delighted because it's not us. This country is full of hypocritical cunts who see the value in LFC (and those other cunts from Salford for that matter) when we bring hundreds of millions to the league via TV rights and they want it filtered down the rest of the PL and the overall pyramid. Share your wealth, support our communities, level the playing field. Then a bunch of cunts who rule their country like it's the 1400s or something, with no democratic rights and an abhorrent human rights record, buy a club, cheat their way to the top and they're all fucking made up because it stops us. And if it's Everton I can kind of understand it. But it's not just them, it's people up and down the country who support no mark clubs who are just jealous but for some reason can let jealousy slide for these cunts.

My grandad boxed in the circus in the US in the 20s. If you beat him you doubled your money. He was only small. He had an interesting life. Emigrated to the US after his brother fought in World War one and said he couldn't live in a country like England after living through the trenches. Followed him over there. Boxed in circuses, played the piano in saloons. Married over there. Divorced, then moved back to England married my grandma. She died, married his first wife again who moved over here. He died in 92.

For anyone who liked that era buy this book. You really won't be disappointed

Alot to be said for that era. I sometimes wish I'd be born a lot earlier for sports. I think the aura has gone with the amount we watch these days. My Grandad got me into boxing and his memories as a kid are from radio broadcasts in Belfast. As a kid I remember late night games on a school night not being able to stay up but allowed to go to bed and have the radio on, or when we didn't have the money for sky in the mid 90s or just on Saturday afternoons having 5live on for the games. I honestly think I preferred it, though its likely nostalgia. Then old fighters were bloody tough, no matter what level they fought at. And they fought often. Mind you the likes of Jack Johnson, Harry Greb and Sam Langford laughed at the likes of Robinson, Graziano only doing 15 rounds

Fuck Superb fighter and was robbed in the Leonard fight

He looks like an Ausie glass collector called Shane, who all the girls fancy but he's not interested, he pretends it's because he's shy but it's really because he's gay and is in love with his dad's mate, an industrial diver with a drinking problem. He's loved him for years.

The UK has given over 10 million doses of both the Oxford and Pfizer vaccine. Number of blood clot related events: Oxford = 13 Pfizer = 15 These numbers are no higher than what is seen in the general population (no increased risk).

Nostalgia aside, who are you taking?

I prefer this colour, I like the blue laces.

Innervisions by a country mile. DSOTM is music for 15 year olds with lava lamps. Mostly dull.

I've got no problem with people saying trans women are women if they've had the procedures needed and some kind of medical definition has been passed, what I do have a problem with are some big sweaty Brian Blessed lookalike taking a shit in women's bogs, blokes being sent to women's prisons just because they say so, or people going full flat Earth and saying there's so such thing as sex anyway. Between that shite and the Trump/Brexit types and fake news, it's like there's a worldwide conspiracy to make us all nuts.

That is shit to be honest. Probably a step towards preventing a European Super League, don't need one if guaranteed enter into CL every year irrespective of league performance.

How compatible are they with the "Slater"?

Remember reading that a few days before fights he would let parts of it grow so that when he got up close he could rub the stubble in your face or cut on your eye RIP to an utter legend....I remember that first time I heard of hi was when he came over and destroyed Alan Minter....Much to the crowds annoyance

Excellent summary of some of the current issues concerning freedom of speech.

Died at 66. Proper boxing legend

I'd definitely stop vaccinating for a few weeks because one in a million people has a blood clot that may or may not have something to do with the vaccine. Doubt thousands of extra people would die because the vaccinations would have stopped.

Which is nice bravado but the reality is he'll want to play if he can.

They can fuck off. Clubs pay their wages,not national teams.

Fucking irritating looking at a game and thinking mancs winning is best result for us because we are no threat to them and fighting with West fucking Ham for European footy.

Fucking blood clots. Bane of my year.

Get the fuck in.

I like these. TRX Vintage

He lives near my mum, I made a point of walking past his house with my LFC beany on. He bet he shat hisself.

I try to rationalise away City's trophies on the grounds that anything they win is meaningless because of a decade and more of cheating. My problem then,though, is that this doesn't appear to be the attitude of the mainstream sports media who continue to fawn all over Guardiola and give the club an easy ride. They don't seem to be at all concerned that, if you take Liverpool out of the equation, City have finished 19,26,15 and currently 17 points ahead of their next nearest rival over the past four years. THis position of dominance and near monopoly on domestic trophies has been bult on years of financial doping and outright cheating - and hardly anybody out there seems to give a toss. Staggering.

He certainly did. No one saw him putting in the performance that he did. If I remember correctly Leonard watched the Mugabi fight and thought for the first time that Marvin was slowing down a bit and so thought he could beat him. I thought Marvin won by a round or two but can see why Leonard could also have taken it. Those flurries at the end of the rounds really helped him.

Songhoy Blues. African band from Mali. Refugees after the civil war ripped the country apart. They're something else and their lyrics are great as well. I'm in love with this record... should be played in schools imo

Clive James once said that even if the race was going through a boring period, Murray Walker commentated in the manner of a man whose trousers were on fire.

50-something own goals in the PL is proof of that.

Imagine the tantrums all over little England, it would almost make this shitfest of a season worthwhile. 10 years ago I’d have said this is one for the modern football thread but if last season showed us anything it’s that the hate for LFC is strong. I think it would be hilarious, especially if someone like Karen Brady is effected by it.

To be fair its shite. Makes it harder to compete at that level and earn a pedigree if places are given to those who already have it. Why don't they stop fucking about with the game, everything they do is to find more ways they can rinse more cash out of it until its just a husk that everybody hates.

Milk going off before it's sell by date. Been up since 6.30am with my youngest after having a few drinks last night. I thought a few coffees and I'll be sound, pour the milk in the cup and it's lumpy as fuck. Milk says 16th on the carton, wankers.

Are there modes to give a buff and polish to your dirty inch? Clockweight cleanse?

I suppose you better get that first aim right unless you want par boiled knackers, but what a time to be alive

Used to remember those fights coming thick and fast, often on a Friday night (I think), enthralling watching those legends go into battle, even then I knew I was watching a golden era of boxing. Incredibly exciting. Crackerjack, Sherlock Holmes, Monkey, It's A Knockout, legendary fights, damn I miss those nights. Seconds out Marvelous Marvin, it was an honour sir.

In other news, halfway through When They See Us on Netflix. Predictably distressing and utterly disgusting. 9/10 and rising. Those poor boys. And their poor families and friends. Fuck.

Look at them. Hagler, Hearns, Sugar Ray look at their physique then look at their spirit.... not a chance they'd get past 5 rounds. De La Hoya, Mayweather, Calzaghe, Jones even... nah. (I know you're gonna say why am I using Calzaghe) Its a fact. The refs let them fight. Boxing isn't really that hard for those with that bit of talent but fighting as well? Hagler epitomises the master boxer/fighter for me.

Says there's only one word for it then gives half a dozen. The word he's looking for is Everton. It's the collective of that half a dozen. One of the few things that brings me solace in this miserable bastard of a season is the fact that they're having as shite a time of it at home as us and it's keeping us within catching distance of them. It's still down to us to get ahead of them though.

No fucking way. Fucks sake. One of my boxing heroes. RIP

Of course the tedious one was going to win this. Pink Floyd fans have got nothing better to do except sitting alone in their sweaty basements fart-arsing around online.

Who’d have thought we’d see the day when the English were calling out another nation for being cunts abroad? Last time I remember that, the war was on.