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Amazing life. Ray was the best in the business when I first started getting into snooker as a kid.
One part of the obituary above confused me……..
The bit about the snooker table in South Africa…..
“when he had to use a table each of whose four corners touched the walls of a circular barn.”
If all 4 corners were touching the wall, then it would be impossible to move around the table. Unless the circular barn had doors on each of the 4 sides of the table? Or he had to climb over or under the table to play a shot?
on a slight tangent, I did a placement at the University of Rostock during my music degree. I went to watch Hansa Rostock play a home match against Borussia Monchengladbach. It was a boring 0-0 but it was really snowy so we entertained ourselves by making snowballs and throwing them at Borussia Monchengladbach's manager Dick Advocaat. He was far from pleased about this, and after a while he sent someone inside to fetch him an umbrella.
If it was a Chelsea player I'd definitely be calling for jail time. Even if the Chelsea player hadn't done anything. Especially if he hadn't done anything in fact, that'd make it even funnier. Lock up all the Chelsea players I say. And I tell you what, I'd pull the bloody lever myself and all.
From the same trip here’s some video I took of Mark Cavendish on the podium in Nimes. 2008 was the first time he won a stage at the Tour de France, this was his 4th win that year. He left the tour after that to go to the Olympics.
I finished reading The Three Body Problem a few days ago. Mind bending science fiction by Chinese author Cixin Liu. My favourite sci fi author is Philip K Dick so if you like his stuff give The Three Body Problem a try.
Most of the time I lean more into horror with my fiction reading. But not cliched stuff, something with a bit of humour & a bit of brains.
Really liked The Supernatural Elements by Edgar Cantero Slade House by David Mitchell (not the Peep Show one)
I’ve read quite a few by Grady Hendrix lately, all of them very good. Also Devil House by John Darnielle (singer in The Mountain Goats) and The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Most of my favourites already mentioned Brentford away with Massimo Mauro 3-1 v Chelsea (first QPR game I took my girlfriend, now my wife to) The game v Jamaica for Barker's testimonial. My first sighting of Peter Crouch was pre-season at Aldershot. Everyone laughed when he came on, but then he did this incredible bit of skill right in front of where we were standing. We were big supporters of Crouchy from that day onwards.
Another great day out was the pre-season match at Aylesbury. We won 8-0 or something like that. After the match, we were in the bar for quite a while, then set off to walk back to the train station. We get most of the way there and then this car pulls up next to us. It was only bloody Ray Ray Super Ray Super Ray Wilkins who'd spotted our QPR shirts and stopped to say in that distinctive voice of his "Alright lads, do you need a lift?"
We just went "no you're alright Ray, we're just going back to the station."
What idiots! We could've got a lift back to Hammersmith with the great man but we turned it down!
I was looking through their squad to try & work out if they were any good or not. Saw a name there that rang a bell. When I looked up his career stats, it turns out he played for a certain club called Queens Park Rangers. Can anyone enlighten me on Jan Mlakar because I have no recollection whatsoever of seeing him play?
couldn't find a way to share my photo on here so I've just put it on Twitter
A photo I took at QPR's promotion parade on 19th May 2004. This was on a wall opposite the Hammersmith & City line station (now renamed Shepherds Bush Market) THIS IS SHEPHERDS BUSH. WE R QPR. 7PM WEDNESDAY. BUSH KNEES UP. EVERYBODY WELCOME* (* NO DOGS, NO CHELSKI) pic.twitter.com/Gjko13vSRT
— Chorizo Garbanzo (@ChorizoGarbanzo) May 28, 2024
"STAYING UP WITH PIGEON GERRY" appeared in various places in the week leading up to the final game of the season in 1999. (the 6-0 v Palace) Particularly prevalent around Shepherds Bush roundabout and Hammersmith Grove area. I may or may not have had something to do with this. Couldn't possibly say.
Love is one of the greatest albums ever. But yes, they went seriously downhill after that when they started thinking they were AC/DC or Guns n Roses or something.
The biggest mystery in English football is how Tottenham still get talked about as a big club. They’ve only won the League twice in their entire history and the most recent of those was 63 years ago!!!!!!! That’s the same number of League titles as Preston, Portsmouth, Burnley & Derby. Derby have also won it more recently than Spurs! So have Villa, Blackburn, Leeds, Forest, Leicester, Everton.
When those clubs tried to form that breakaway Champions League a couple of years ago, Tottenham were somehow part of that. They’ve only qualified for the Champions League 6 times in their entire effing history!!!!
I genuinely don’t understand how anyone keeps a straight face when discussing them in the same breath as Arsenal, Man City, Man U, Chelsea & Liverpool who no matter what you think of they’ve won pretty much all the major domestic trophies in the last 20 years, as well as a few European trophies.
In fact I’ve just worked this out, between them those 5 clubs have won….
19 of the last 20 Premier Leagues 17 of the last 20 FA Cups 17 out of 20 League Cups
So the case for there being a “Big 5” is pretty strong. But how the fućk do Spurs get themselves included with those other genuinely successful clubs?
Also the bass player wrote and played on “Queens Park Rangers” by The Loftus Roadrunners, as well as the superior b-side “Drive Me Down To QPR”
Most of Elvis’ records around that time were recorded in QPR territory, either at Eden Studios which was on Beaumont Road near South Acton tube, or another recording studio in Willesden that I can’t remember the name of.
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