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It’ll mostly be music, LUFC and (left leaning) politics. Live and let live, be kind to others and all that decent stuff. Clean living under difficult circumstances.

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Just found you on here after reading the Bill Evans piece. Have been a fan of your work for years.

12.03.2026 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Plain Or Pan Outdated Music For Outdated People since 2007

‘You can imagine the harsh New York winter outside, Christmas creeping up on the city, the sidewalks slow-moving with hatted men and hair-done women leaning into the cutting chill from the East River..’

Craig McAllister on Peace Piece by Bill Evans

Worth a read & a listen

plainorpan.com

12.03.2026 22:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Roy Budd - Get Carter - Main Theme (Carter Takes a Train)
Roy Budd - Get Carter - Main Theme (Carter Takes a Train) YouTube video by LM R

Roy Budd - Get Carter - Main Theme (Carter Takes a Train) #Film

youtu.be/YO0dHPhDuLs

12.03.2026 21:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Soul-sapping, demoralising home defeat - just fine I reckon.

12.03.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here's an amazing story to celebrate the 50th birthday of Andrea True Connnection's More, More, More
youtu.be/yZ_QUh0lmj4

12.03.2026 08:25 👍 46 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1

He should‘ve been sent off a couple of minutes ago for a 2nd yellow offence. Ref chickened out.

09.03.2026 22:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I got back from the shop with this I played it down the phone to my mate by holding the receiver up to the speaker. We managed to decipher about half the lyrics. Of course, it has the greatest B-side in human history.

09.03.2026 15:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
PEOPLE are often asked
what their dream job is. Mine
would be third choice goalkeeper
for a Premier League Team.
Getting paid a fair old wedge to sit
and watch football in great seats
while knowing there's not much
chance your boss is going to call on
you really ticks all my boxes. If this
magazine's editor happens to be in
contact with any managers, please
feel free to pass on my details. As
a sweetener, I'd do it for half the
money any top team's current third
choice keeper is on.
Adam, Manchester

PEOPLE are often asked what their dream job is. Mine would be third choice goalkeeper for a Premier League Team. Getting paid a fair old wedge to sit and watch football in great seats while knowing there's not much chance your boss is going to call on you really ticks all my boxes. If this magazine's editor happens to be in contact with any managers, please feel free to pass on my details. As a sweetener, I'd do it for half the money any top team's current third choice keeper is on. Adam, Manchester

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08.03.2026 21:14 👍 195 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 5

The whaty what?

08.03.2026 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1

07.03.2025 14:34 👍 504 🔁 220 💬 13 📌 52

Totally agree Mark #ALAW #MOT

07.03.2026 10:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Utter

04.03.2026 22:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christ, yes, forgot about those. Remember seeing a lad walk in to a mod do in Bournemouth wearing a suit with a single stripe down one side. Just no.

04.03.2026 22:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Yup, Union Jack on the A side.

04.03.2026 21:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If this is confession corner, I will admit here and now to buying the Lambrettas picture disc of D-a-a-ance in 80. I knew it was wrong.

04.03.2026 21:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Photo of the cauldron of frustration Elland Road, home of mighty Leeds United, in the morning sun after an evening of horror

Photo of the cauldron of frustration Elland Road, home of mighty Leeds United, in the morning sun after an evening of horror

A cruel mistress last night, but like the masochist I am I’ll be back for Brentford. #lufc

04.03.2026 11:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Meat breakfast at Laynes, Leeds

Meat breakfast at Laynes, Leeds

This is cheering me up a bit this morning #lufc

04.03.2026 10:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The one I saw over in front of the East Stand was definitely Xhaka but he probably had an intimate moment with all of them.

04.03.2026 09:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Attwell does a solid for Bankes by shafting us. These tinpot twats are as bad at their jobs as referees have ever been & yet paradoxically have far more power than ever, & crave the attention & limelight. Attwell & Xhaka having a cosy little chat & giggle was infuriating. #lufc

03.03.2026 22:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would imagine that after Saturday, & then that, he’s just a hollow shell of a man

03.03.2026 22:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Elland Road this evening

Elland Road this evening

I’ve had more pleasant trips to the dentist than what I’ve just experienced at Elland Road. Fucking excruciating #lufc

03.03.2026 21:44 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Friendly wave to Arsenal at the Emirates from the train on the way up to Leeds today.  Bit tired so had to give four of my five fingers a rest when waving

Friendly wave to Arsenal at the Emirates from the train on the way up to Leeds today. Bit tired so had to give four of my five fingers a rest when waving

Yes, thats right! Took me ages to get the ‘Stach in Black’ reference last time so would have stood no chance with this 🤣. Cheery wave to our North London friends just now

03.03.2026 16:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kicking Xhaka hard on his bad ankle early in the game would be my key strategic input.

03.03.2026 08:36 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't Pretend
Don't Pretend YouTube video by Belles - Topic

Thanks to the orange shitgibbon across the pond it’s getting to be a pretty shitty world. So here’s some of the best music that (most of) you won‘t ever have heard before. Always feel better after a bit of rare soul & knowing I’m up to Elland Road tomorrow #lufc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obrd...

02.03.2026 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great Yarmouth Scooter Rally 1982
Great Yarmouth Scooter Rally 1982 YouTube video by 80`s Scooter Rallies

Bit #lufc politics/religion heavy this morning, so going back to simpler times with this. May 1982 - can’t see me or my Lambretta anywhere but I was there. Mod was our religion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDA...

01.03.2026 11:03 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We were really disappointed at the booing at ER last night. Its not just the players, it's the lack of respect for fellow-fans who may be observing Ramadan or fasting.

Think before you join in.

*All* Leeds, aren't we.

#RamadanMubarak

#LUFC 🏳️‍🌈⚽️🏳️‍⚧️

01.03.2026 10:22 👍 74 🔁 17 💬 12 📌 1

I didn’t see anyone moralising - just seemed like a healthy, respectful exchange of opinions.

01.03.2026 10:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi Rich, I’ll be posting from ER Tuesday night as usual. Perhaps you just don’t see *everything* that‘s posted here. Is that within the realms of possibility?

01.03.2026 10:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry mate don’t think that’s the right way to look at this, and I’m not sure using the word ’panders’ is helpful. In a multicultural society (& sport) we should be respectful and accommodating to other faiths especially when health and wellbeing is involved. It’s a unique situation.

01.03.2026 09:26 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Six of us were on our way to Great Yarmouth on our scooters (me, Lambretta TV175) for the bank holiday rally & we got caught up in the traffic and general movement of people for this. As self-absorbed mod-obsessed teenagers we had absolutely no fucking clue what was going on. Pope? What Pope?

28.02.2026 10:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0