Great programmes that you wanted to watch.

In over four months Everton have only beaten one team, (Burnley) in the #EPL , they lost 6-0 tonight and are only 2 points from the drop zone. Yet however bad things are you suspect they’ll still manage to stay up because they always do. #CHEEFC

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Good point. Derek Underwood looked like a middle-aged 50 something Classics master in the 1970s but he was only in his late 20s. Today it’s the opposite, everyone is looking much younger than they are! Too young in some cases....

Talking of #DerekUnderwood I can still name the England cricket teams of the mid/late 1970s. Can’t do it about today’s team. Having Test matches live on the BBC in the 70s made all the difference. Same with golf.

Sad to see that ‘Deadly’ #DerekUnderwood has died. Can’t believe he was ‘only’ 78 though. So when he was playing for England in the 1970s he was only in his late 20s/early 30s. At the time I thought he looked much older. He looked like he was in his 50s. What a great player.

The Emperor’s New Clothes springs readily to mind. GG is like the little boy in that story.

I was just about to tweet that I expect Pep is just about to light a large cigar. The title race isn’t quite over yet, but big advantage to Man City after this weekend’s results.

Israel will ‘exact a price’ for Iran’s drone attacks but when the time is right. But Iran’s attack was in response to Israel bombing its Consulate & killing the people in it. Did Isr expect no response? Isr response to Iran’s response will mean another Iranian response. And so on

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👇If you’re still deciding who to back in the Grand National..

A few minutes after 4pm today 34 horses will be trying to get over this safely-the first fence in the #GrandNational Aintree Racecourse. As to who’s likely to win, do check out my Intelligent Punter’s Guide! (see previous tweets).

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If you’re thinking of having a bet in tomorrow’s #GrandNational Aintree Racecourse (and who isn’t!), then do take a look at my horse-by-horse Intelligent Punter’s Guide to the big race.

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I love the Cheltenham Festival, don’t get me wrong, but for me this is the best three days’ National Hunt racing of the year coming up. The Aintree Racecourse Grand National meeting. There’s nothing quite like it for excitement. (GN tips to come!)

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It’s clear that ‘wealthy’ pensioners & the NHS are the current targets. We haven’t got the money for them any more it seems, there needs to be ‘means-testing’ & ‘reforms’, but of course we always have the £££ for wars. Don’t fall for this ‘there’s no money left’ mantra.

No, we don’t need to talk about this. We don’t want means testing of triple locked state pensions & winter fuel allowance. Your pal’s Mum gets the pension by right. Universality is the cornerstone of the post-1945 welfare state (& NHS). Once we break that it’s over.

👇Yes, Jane makes a good point here. Part of the problem is this obsession (which started with Hancock) with pushing everything online & trying to get us to use apps to make GP appointments. But the elderly, who need the NHS most, generally don’t have smart phones.