Aug 12
My blogging is currently on an extended hiatus while I finish off two Bob Servant projects, the new book which will be released in October (read more about it at www.bobservant.com ) and the radio adaptation of Delete This At Your Peril which will be transmitted by the BBC later this year, full details to follow. In the meantime, here is the link to my World Cup blogging for the Independent. Thanks!
DECEMBER 2010 UPDATE
A busy year ahead so my blogging days are behind me for now. Follow me on Twitter though – http://twitter.com/bobservant
Jun 17
Very sad news with the death of Sebastian Horsley who’s Dandy in the Underworld is one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. Here’s some footage of Horsley charming an initially cynical Irish panel show.
Jun 16
Unusually exotic news from the Scottish Parliament where Labour MSP Frank McAveety has had to resign from a committee after a microphone picked up his comments on a female member of the audience. Amongst the highlights of McAveety’s learned appraisal of the woman was that “she’s got that Filipino look” and that she was “the kind you’d see in a Gauguin painting. There’s a wee bit of culture.”
You can hear his comments here along with the po-faced BBC Scotland coverage
Jun 14
A 79-year-old man has sadly died after an incident at Edinburgh’s Scorpio Leisure as reports the city’s Evening News newspaper. Scorpio Leisure may sound a innocent enough title but as the paper makes clear, there’s very little sports equipment on the premises and anything that falls under that category may not be used purely the purpose intended. It’s sad news for the family but you have to admire the old boy’s ambition. As exits go, there have to be worse options.
Jun 11
New post on the Indy blog – Tony Hayward and Clint Dempsey
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/author/neilforsyth/
Jun 10
Fascinating article from the New York Times showing the evolution of the official World Cup balls. The first synthetic ball came in for Mexico 86, no wonder Terry Butcher was able to score this innocuous own goal. Incidentally I just found that on Youtube and presume it’s from Irish TV, but that has to be the worst English language commentatory recorded on the best goal ever scored. A faint cry of “different class” as he skips by Peter Reid seventeen times hardly does justice to the footage.
