The Wire, Cricket and Poker

The wire is one of my favourite TV programs, top stuff and you should make the effort if you haven’t caught up. A British actor plays one off the leads, Officer Macnaulty, one of the best written and played ante-hero’s of our times.

My wife has a soft spot for him, so when I read in the paper he was to play Fred West in an upcoming ITV docu-drama I made a mental note to update the wife. So when I get home I say, “Guess whose going to play Fred West in this new drama, I’ll give you a clue, his name also ends in West” She looked at me and said in all seriousness “Kanye West?”. Ohh how I laughed.


















Took my mate to the Somerset V’s Essex game on bank holiday Monday, saw a big barny where the Stewards and then the police contrived to turn nothing in to something. My mate is a fellow West Ham supporter and we agreed that neither of us have seen anything as brutal at Upton Park (even a Julian Dicks tackle) than the pepper spray assisted assault led by the local constabulary.

This wasn’t a bunch or looters this was 6 or 7 young lads singing and enjoying a drink, it really was a total overreaction and everybody in attendance where shocked. Anyway was a good game, got very drunk and Somerset won, can’t ask for much more than that.

Poker’s been abysmal, have run so bad its almost untrue, except for home games where I have won 5 of the last 6 and came 2nd in the other. Fuck it, things will turn around they always do.

Special mention to Dave ‘nocash’ Garden, awesome results for the year, hopefully he will post a trip report up on his blog here,

http://nocashpoker.blogspot.com/