DEAD

Soldier in Woolwich, country has gone, time to get rid of these extremists. Words fail me.

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The Brussels Jazz marathon - NICE.
Getting taken to Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a few days.
Sauerkraut , traditional sausages and beer that swims down it's that nice.
Warm sunny weather.
Hazelnut, brie and rocket rolls.
Seeing the Docs reactions on the highlights of the MW and yet still people think it's all a con.

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The prospect of 7 days in a Polish hospital with no wifi coverage, knowing my luck SBW, Slater, Cronk, Chase and Hock will have signed while I'm away and I'll miss out on all the sniping from the envious types.
Landing back in Manchester in driving rain and it being about 15 degrees cooler than when you left an hour before in Europe.

Red
Dusseldorf airport. Straight through passport control to a bar next to the gate where our connecting flight was going from.
Berlin. Superb city.
SV Babelsberg 03. Friendly, welcoming, left-wing and anti-fascist. What more could you want?
Stadiums named after socialists.
Streets named after socialists.
U-Bahns and S-Bahns. Regular, reliable, like clockwork.
Olympiastadion - only got as far as the outside, but what a stadium.
"Giggs" graffiti on the Berlin wall.
Weetwood Sportspark.
Cricket grounds with a pub two minutes walk away in the grounds.
Student WAGs.

Dead
Queuing Italians.
Tegel airport.
Munich airport's ability to deal with rain.
Landing back at Manchester to find trains being to pot travelling north from the airport.
Village idiot cockneys who support Spurs and Warwickshire.

RED

rlThisrl
The Fat Duck

DEAD

"Not good enough for Salford" being the new "Well run club".

Red
Lancs beating Scotland in a home game for the first time since 1994, the first time ever in 40 over cricket.

Not red, not dead, just underwhelming
Lancs' new pavilion.

Myself and Mrs u45d wearing Salford shirts on a MUTV documentary.

RED

How hard?? DEAD

My now framed (but useless) Glastonbury ticket, take insurance out and you still don't get a refund when your not able to go.

Dead

That Dr Koukash parody account on Twitter, if you like your comedy with a touch of racism then he's your man, painfully unfunny.

RED

Stuart Broad

RED

Sport on the box, SOO & NRL, Le Tour, The Ashes and The Open (though I'm sure the people from the colonies will still insist on calling it the British Open).
Heat, lovely hot weather for a change.
Akroyds chippy in Monton - proper English jockies.
Booking jollies.
4 bottles of Brahma for less than £3:00 from ASDA.

DEAD

The realisation of the massive class gap when you watch the NRL and then Super League.
People complaining its too hot.
Being busy beyond belief at work.
Being made to keep wearing business attire in an office that has no visitors in warm weather.

RED

Window lickers getting ID'd at the bar for either being under 25 or having an IQ less than 25 (though I bet both).

The road changing into two lanes pre game into the stadium and then away after the game.

DEAD

Morons and the chants they roll out in a hackney'd way against Leeds.

The dire beer the mobile sellers were punting, like making love on a boat "fecking close to water".

Red
Edinburgh (again) fuggin fantastic!
The Western Bar, Edinburgh

To be fair I have been going to Wembley for the past 10 years and this was paid up well before my recent "work break" and subsequent lack of fundage.

Dead
No longer being a top red (used up all my points)