The Holiday Song

Off to a festival tomorrow where they are playing, and enjoy their new album so one of the bands I really want to see there (alongside Lankum and Interpol). Good to hear they were decent!

Incredibly similar to last years' Dutch promotion playoff. ADO up 4-1 on aggregate after 77 minutes of the second leg (at home!). They lost on sudden death penalties in the end. One thing to console you Partick fans, they then had an incredible season this year...... actually they didn't, the stench stuck and they finished twelth and had one of their three worst seasons ever. Good luck folks.

Any idea what the deal with promotion from Tweede divisie is? Best I can make out is the champions can go up if they want to but up until this year they have the choice to do so or not?

You’ve missed out the crux of what he said: “You are the guy that posts about supporting the Pars got him through some tough personal times but comes on regularly to laugh at other fans when they are disappointed” A bit close to the bone maybe but I see his point. Anyway, hope all is good at the moment. I know myself when times are tough football can be a great release (although been been more just of a distraction recently with Falkirk than any actual positivity!).

Went to a Köln men’s game a few years back. They had a song that started playing just before kickoff and the crowd joins in. Nothing unusual there… but after a few seconds I realised the music was Loch Lomond! Whole day was a brilliant experience and agree on recommendation. YouTube video of aforementioned song:

Look into Delft too. A lot smaller but quite a charming wee place. In between Den Haag and Rotterdam.

This is maybe not the easiest question to answer, but is there a certain type of person that follows Excelsior rather than Feyenoord or Sparta? I guess location wise, south of the river is Feyenoord, west is Sparta and east is Excelsior, but would that have much bearing on who people decide to support?

I live in Den Haag and work in Leiden. Go to Leiden. It's more compact with some nice canals and places to eat and drink next to them.

Will go against the grain a bit here and say things like the Mumsnet saga was when the general nonsense side of P&B became less relevant/interesting... things like that had already been done by bigger and more broader based forums (literally in the case of the Mumsnet thing). But the Scottish football side of P&B really has been fantastic. Great reading wide ranging views from all parts of the setup.

As a Falkirk fan, I’d have to begrudgingly say Captain Sensible was the best WUM on here. His heyday being around the time of the vote for Falkirk to be promoted after 02/03 season.

People remembering BBC interrupting Neighbours and seeing the second plane hitting live on 9/11 is a false memory. It cut to news after it finished and the second plane had already hit.

Was at PSV’s second leg against Monaco in the last round… was a great atmosphere but they were incredibly lucky to get through, fear Rangers have a decent chance.

I'm the other side, near Haags Bos. Not far from HVV Den Haag's ground if you know that. Been here four years, last year was first with ADO season ticket. Where is your Excelsior connection from? Yesterday's game went worse than expected, 2-0 home loss to Den Bosch who had lost 3-1 the week before to FC Eindhoven (who were starting two of our castoffs from last season). Not a great start! Although Kuijt has seemed to identify what we thought was lacking yesterday too so hoping it's just a team gelling issue these first two weeks.

Tremendous f'ck up by one of the Jong Ajax team.

Got my season ticket for ADO again this season (playing in the second tier because on the opposite side of Excelsior's miracle in the playoff final!). 4-0 opening game loss to Hercales but think (hope) they might be pretty decent. First home home on Sunday against Den Bosch, but having to watch in pub as no fans allowed in as punishment for fans somewhat OTT reaction to aforementioned playoff defeat.

Watched the 2nd leg of the PSV - Monaco tie and if PSV play like that then I (unfortunately!) don't think Rangers should be too worried. Monaco were by far the better side and reckon Rangers are more than a match for PSV.

There was no apologies!

I'd be voting yes, but this is a perfectly reasonable and fair post. The one thing I do disagree with though seems to be the actual reason you'd be a no voter (if I'm reading correctly). Eight years is plenty of time for another vote with what we've seen happen since then, the Brexit part of it in particular when you consider not only how big a part EU membership was of the 2014 campaign but also that Scotland as a whole voted by quite a large margin for Remain in 2016. That is, in my opinion anyway, enough of a shift for another referendum to be acceptable.

Was at this game (as an ADO season ticket holder). What a disaster! Some of our fans are an utter disgrace, and nice to see some of them getting attacked by the police dogs afterwards! You've got some good players. Azarkan was scary from an opposing fan POV, dunno if you'll be able to keep him on loan next season? I liked El Yaakoubi at the back too (although this is all based on two playoff games!).

The stat about Aberdeen being the last team to beat them in a European final is a good one. But does it also mean we are all in agreement the Super Cup doesn’t really count as a European final…?

Re: Arcade Fire - Reflektor did end up growing on me (and I actually could see how it would be someones favourite of theirs). Not massively relevant but I really like that Joan of Arc song on it, although the lyrics sound like David Brent could have written them. Everything Now I think is pretty terrible though. New one sounds sortof the same but might get better in time. Think my favourite album so far this year is the Jill Lorean (that's the bands name) one. Lead singer of Sparrow and The Workshop and one of the guys from Frightened Rabbit are two of the members.

Could be both Sandwick and Ness, different associations. (the two teams who I actually played for... a long time ago now unfortunately!)

Visa isn't accepted in a lot of places. All the main bank cards are Maestro as far as I can remember. I think Mastercard is okay though, but worth checking that.

Le Pen better than 11/1 on Betfair if anyone fancies a bet on her winning

This doesn't answer your question, sorry... but as an experiment when I'd had covid and was still getting a faint line later on, put the liquid into the test without doing anything with the swab... and it came up faintly positive! So don't take any notice of faint lines now.