What to make of the news that Beckham junior has had trials at the club. I suppose it's hard for me to forget the circus that his father became to the club, I would have been happier to have seen david Beckham a go a year earlier at the time. People forget, but he was definitely England captain first, Manchester United player second by that time in his career at United. That treble season, where he could lay claim to have been our most consistent player, seemed a long time ago by then. But who knows, it doesn't have to be like father, like son, does it. Saying all that, he could be a sack of shit, who knows, it's nice publicity all round though I suppose.
On the subject of Beckham, given the snippets the press gave us last week, one area where Fergie's judgement seemed spot on, was his evaluation of footballers to have played for and gainst United in his time as the manager of United. Gerrard, Lampard, very good, but not great, Ronaldo, the greatest in his time at the club, but wouldn't say he was better than Messi.
Ronaldo, probably was our greatest player since Best, though personally not really a favourite of mine I'm afraid. Don't get me wrong i loved watching him play and that period of 2006-2009, was as good as it's been, watching United for me, especially the 2006-07 season. But he was never really "United" in the same way as say, Eric, Ole, Giggsy and and Scholesy.
Music
Franz Ferdinand -Right thoughts, right words, right action: Another foot tapping guitar driven indie/pop album that hits the spot from the Scots outfit. They have never really hit the heights of the first album, but they never let you down.
Hot 8 Brass band - The life and time of: I absolutely love this album, New Orleans jazz fused with funk, blues and virtually every other form of black American music, and boys does it swing.
MGMT - MGMT: I'm still not sure what to make of this, it's definitely not as good as either of their previous offerings. It's less radio friendly than the debut, yet whilst it's as ambitious as the second album, I don't think it delivers as well.
Pinkunoizu - The Drop: Another band dining out on the psych/krautrock sound, this Danish bands second album does it well. I do love the genre, and it's a really hot sound at the moment, add to this to the list of belting pysch albums of the last couple of years.
Rocketnumbernine - Meyouweyou: This is a excellent debut album from the experimental electronica duo that has echoes of the rock drone, not a million miles away from Fuck Buttons.
Superchunk - I hate music: A reasonably good album from the reformed US indie power/pop group. I haven't heard that much of their earlier stuff, but they can craft a stomping tune.
The Strypes - Snapshot: They were massively hyped ahead of their debut album, thankfully the album duly delivers. Reminiscent of Dr. Feelgood amongst others, they weren't even born when the Feelgoods were tearing it up, they power their way through the best part of 40 minutes. I'm not sure it could be labelled classic though, there are no real stand out tracks, hopefully they are to come.
On the subject of Beckham, given the snippets the press gave us last week, one area where Fergie's judgement seemed spot on, was his evaluation of footballers to have played for and gainst United in his time as the manager of United. Gerrard, Lampard, very good, but not great, Ronaldo, the greatest in his time at the club, but wouldn't say he was better than Messi.
Ronaldo, probably was our greatest player since Best, though personally not really a favourite of mine I'm afraid. Don't get me wrong i loved watching him play and that period of 2006-2009, was as good as it's been, watching United for me, especially the 2006-07 season. But he was never really "United" in the same way as say, Eric, Ole, Giggsy and and Scholesy.
Music
Franz Ferdinand -Right thoughts, right words, right action: Another foot tapping guitar driven indie/pop album that hits the spot from the Scots outfit. They have never really hit the heights of the first album, but they never let you down.
Hot 8 Brass band - The life and time of: I absolutely love this album, New Orleans jazz fused with funk, blues and virtually every other form of black American music, and boys does it swing.
MGMT - MGMT: I'm still not sure what to make of this, it's definitely not as good as either of their previous offerings. It's less radio friendly than the debut, yet whilst it's as ambitious as the second album, I don't think it delivers as well.
Pinkunoizu - The Drop: Another band dining out on the psych/krautrock sound, this Danish bands second album does it well. I do love the genre, and it's a really hot sound at the moment, add to this to the list of belting pysch albums of the last couple of years.
Rocketnumbernine - Meyouweyou: This is a excellent debut album from the experimental electronica duo that has echoes of the rock drone, not a million miles away from Fuck Buttons.
Superchunk - I hate music: A reasonably good album from the reformed US indie power/pop group. I haven't heard that much of their earlier stuff, but they can craft a stomping tune.
The Strypes - Snapshot: They were massively hyped ahead of their debut album, thankfully the album duly delivers. Reminiscent of Dr. Feelgood amongst others, they weren't even born when the Feelgoods were tearing it up, they power their way through the best part of 40 minutes. I'm not sure it could be labelled classic though, there are no real stand out tracks, hopefully they are to come.
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