The Medusa Fora

Yesterday's Guardian Football Weekly podcast, which is available free on i-tunes, contained numerous mentions of The Pogues. Irish journalist Barry Glendenning stated that he had stopped watching the Manchester City v Everton game at half time as he was going to see The Pogues at Brixton Academy. He said that he would much rather watch The Pogues for 90 minutes every week than see Manchester City play, later adding that he saw The Pogues at Brixton every year. He then went on to say that when Shane MacGowan was off stage during one of the songs he had thought that the 7 man Pogues would beat 9 man Everton at just about anything except football (he gave a fight and Scrabble as examples). There followed various comments about The Pogues, including discussion on whether The Pogues would beat various football teams in a fight. The Pogues then came up several more times during the pod, including a brief snippet of Fairytale. It's well worth a listen.

Michaelo wrote:Yesterday's Guardian Football Weekly podcast, which is available free on i-tunes, contained numerous mentions of The Pogues. Irish journalist Barry Glendenning stated that he had stopped watching the Manchester City v Everton game at half time as he was going to see The Pogues at Brixton Academy. He said that he would much rather watch The Pogues for 90 minutes every week than see Manchester City play, later adding that he saw The Pogues at Brixton every year. He then went on to say that when Shane MacGowan was off stage during one of the songs he had thought that the 7 man Pogues would beat 9 man Everton at just about anything except football (he gave a fight and Scrabble as examples). There followed various comments about The Pogues, including discussion on whether The Pogues would beat various football teams in a fight. The Pogues then came up several more times during the pod, including a brief snippet of Fairytale. It's well worth a listen.

Ha Ha! Now if only we had a link...................

Hello Philip, Happy Christmas.
You can download it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/seri ... ballweekly
(it is the episode called "Tevez stays")
or get it from i-tunes.
The Pogues chat begins after 17 mins 30 secs and they are mentioned quite a few times after that.
There's also some discussion on The Guardian message board here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... mment-fold
It includes the following excnange between a reader and Glendenning:
AristotleJr: The Pogues? Drunken brawls? Good to see you're doing your bit to end all those outdated Irish stereotypes, Barry
Glendenning replied:
I first saw The Pogues live in 1988, when I was 15. I last saw them on Tuesday. Both gigs were excellent. Whether you like their music or not, your suggestion that they're either out-dated or an Irish stereotype says a lot more about you than it does about me, them or anyone else.

Michaelo wrote:He said that he would much rather watch The Pogues for 90 minutes every week than see Manchester City play, later adding that he saw The Pogues at Brixton every year. He then went on to say that when Shane MacGowan was off stage during one of the songs he had thought that the 7 man Pogues would beat 9 man Everton at just about anything except football (he gave a fight and Scrabble as examples).

Darn tootin'! We hereby challenge Everton to a game of Pin The Tail On The Donkey.

There was some confusion about whether there are 10 Evertonians or 9, but I'm sure we can get them an Abacus to work that out.

Cahill? Yakubu? My money's on Spider.