I loved all of the Wire, but I’ve got a special soft spot for season 2. I know it’s not everyone’s favourite, but the way it dug deep into the underbelly of the docks, the ghetto and the city was groundbreaking. The story of Frank Sobotka and his sons was truly heartbreaking.
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I get it felt like a bait and switch for lots of viewers but it was that change of focus, the expansion of the scope but in way that still was so connected, that elevated the wire to what it was.
Funny thing is I was watching an old film the other day and had one of those “ I know that guy” moments with a minor character and realized it was ziggy
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I realised as season three started that the Wire wasn’t a police procedural or crime story. It was actually about the ecosystem of a city. What an incredible series it was. Quite a few of those actors have gone too soon.
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In my opinion, that was the best season of the show - because it felt the most “personal” out of all. I’m really sad about Ransone, I did a bit of reading on the Internet and it seems that his life story has really been a sad one… But he did manage to start a family before taking his own life. Who knows how many similar stories there are…
Chris Rea isn’t making it home for Christmas. I always liked his laid back style of blues rock. He’ll be missed.
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This became my favourite christmas song after going to live in a foreign country 
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Road To Hell was probably my favourite album, although Tell Me There’s A Heaven always brings a tear.
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It was a favourite of my father’s before he passed, I’d completely forgotten about tell me there’s a heaven, and now please excuse me, there appears to be something in my eye…
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Oh no! How sad. I always loved his Christmas song. It was so positive and hopeful.
RIP Chris Rea. Thank you for the music.
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I had a weird fascination with John Robertson around 1978 which was related to a Panini sticker album. He was the one blank space I had left and ran out of pocket money for more stickers. I was almost convinced that he didn’t exist, but eventually got swapsies with Beckenbauer.
The portrait on the sticker looked several years out of date, but it completed the album. I always kept an eye out for him on Match of the Day after that.
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Before my time but love these details, they are valued @RedWhippet !
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Brigette Bardot at 91 years old. Quite a character and interesting life.
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Also a fascist
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Convicted several times for inciting racial hatred, amongst other things.
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He was the best and most important player in a side that won back to back European cups. He is possibly the most unfairly forgotten top player of my lifetime.
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Hugh Morris, former Glamorgan/ England cricketer and ECB chief Executive/ Managing Director has passed away. He was only 62.
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"Whitlock reveled in the attention that his delivery received. “I was in, I think, Grand Central Station and far away I heard someone say it and they’d be kind of smiling,” he told an interviewer in 2008. “I’m glad people enjoy it.”
In 2014, he started a YouTube series teaching people how they, too, could perfectly say it. Whitlock said he got the phrase from his late uncle Leon, who delivered it in a way that would always make people laugh.
“Do I get tired of it? No,” he told the AP in 2020. “If it makes you feel good, so be it,” he said with a smile"
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