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Good taste man - been a while since I heard Sexy Mexican Maid. In fact, I might just use the Mother's Milk album to test these blanks I've just picked up!

Literally just been to Melton to get some old BASFs off a bloke on Freecycle. I've gone tape crazy over the last six months, notably picking up a fella's entire life recordings of 300+ tapes for free on the very same site. He'd just got around to digitising his collection so he wanted them to go to a good home, and I was daft enough to accept them all! There's no other format I know where anybody would be throwing out 300 albums worth of Prog, Classic Rock and Electronica on 80's D90s for free, and that's the joy of it - they're dirt cheap to collect, if not entirely free from the right people! Now Vinyl is back in the mainstream the days of easily picking up anything good for a low price are long gone - and besides, they take up a hell of a lot of space. It's culminated in finally getting a proper working deck during a hunt at Quorn Car Boot the other week. Nice little Sansui with a solid range and good recording capabilities. Plays sweet as a nut and has an interesting history - the fella selling it lived on the road in Birstall where the house blew up in the gas explosion. He was helping their next door neighbour clear out their conservatory as it got wrecked by the blast, and this tape deck was amongst the stuff he got given to sell on. I figured that if it already survived an explosion it must be made of tough stuff. Cassettes really are tempremental buggers to get working right in this day and age where the only good equipment available is 25-odd years old, but it's already taught me a few things about electronics getting into the gubbins of various Walkmans and Hi-Fis to service them And yes, there's something immensely satisfying about making a Mixtape - you know it's unique to you. Half the fun of collecting is finding people's crappy old tapes at swapmeets and stuff and taking them home to decide if their music taste was good or terrible

Climbed 6 places since Friday, 7 if Arsenal - Man City stays the way it is now.

Given the blatant discontent amongst the Old Trafford fanbase, and possibly amongst Man Utd's own ranks, over this window, I think we find ourselves presented with a unique opportunity to really twist the knife tomorrow and get our first win at Old Trafford since Cottee sank them all those years ago. I honestly think we can get something out of tomorrow - on paper even a draw would be a fab result, but if we show up we can take advantage of a back line who can't exactly be the most confident knowing they're only starting because Jose scared off their replacements with his miserable bonce. Get me on the Optimism Bus, boys! Time to top the Premier League for the first time in... um, two years! 1-2 win, Maddison and Maguire with the goals.

My biggest memory from that game was Gary Taylor Fletcher scoring a consolation goal that we celebrated like we'd won the Premier League. How little we knew...

Or maybe he'll finish off at the boyhood club who were stupid enough to release him? I'm well chilled out now - can't wait for Switzerland next month now I know we'll still have 2 of our players wearing the 3 Lions at our stadium.

With Kingy at the end of his time with us, is it safe to now say our Jamie is "Mr. Leicester City?" Can't reiterate how important it is to tie him down for the rest of his "best years". We're set. Can't wait for tomorrow now.

All the best, Leo. You had some big big moments in your few years here.

I'd report the fvckers (Sky) to Ofcom after the window tbh. It's blatantly obvious that they're peddling false information to try to engineer a move or boost their own coffers.

For those who recall one-and-a-half-hit wonders Electric Six, their frontman Dick Valentine has been doing daily round-ups of the World Cup on Facebook. This was his take on Nigeria - Iceland: So there you have it.

PEARSON IN

You know those memers who still call the Leicester players snakes for getting Ranieri the sack? I finally agree with them. They want to get Puel sacked. It's time for a clear-out. Of the old guard still playing in that first XI, I can only say with a straight face that Vardy and, at a push, Albrighton (today excepted) deserve to remain at the club.

MAGGIE IN MIDFIELD You can't make some of this stuff up

I refer back to what I said earlier. He has this weird, cringe-y soft spot for the Eagles and it's in full force today. He won't stop declaring how brilliant Zaha is, how wonderful Selhurst Park is, how much Van Aanholt has come on as a player since he was average for us and so on. He just credited Choudhury for defensive work. I sh1t you not - that was the first positive thing he has said about us IN OVER HALF AN HOUR OF PLAY. I know we've been second best, but the negativity is astounding.

Someone give me an alternative audio stream please. I'm going to smash my radio if I have to listen to Stringer rim Palace and slate us much longer.

Stringer is such a kn0b it's unreal. Due to forces beyond my control I'm stuck with Radio Leicester today. Since the first minute of the programme, Stringer has done absolutely nothing but slate our team and, for want of a better word, rim Palace. Zaha is world class. Selhurst Park is "one of his favourite grounds". Sakho is "somebody we should be looking at". He is really, REALLY winding me up. He actually sounds more excited when they get the ball. I'm p1ssed off, frankly. He needs to take a look at himself, you'd think he was commentating for BBC Radio London today.

He's too good for Swansea. I'd say he's about on the level of a Leicester City myself.

But likewise, if Stoke and Southampton both beat them, they're gonners. Some massive fixtures coming up for all three then.

We could always borrow some of Sunderland's spare seats and paint the red ones blue.

Swansea are really in the 5h1t too, both Stoke and Southampton can still catch them. Wouldn't want to see our Kingy relegated, but fact is they're stagnating at just the wrong time while the performances, if not necessarily the results, of both the teams directly below them are starting to improve. Who is their game in hand against?

So it looks like it's pretty much guaranteed now that 7th is getting Europa. So... feel a little dirty saying it (albeit not so dirty since the title season and our shared hatred of the Spuds), and no guarantees of us hanging on to 8th anyway, but... are we Arsenal fans for the rest of the season? Also, additional question - if Liverpool win the UCL, Arsenal win the Europa and the domestic cups both go to UCL qualifiers, does that mean 9th gets Europa? Or would Chelsea just end up playing in both competitions on a 5th place finish?

Awww, and here I was hoping to mine reams of Reddit karma when it turned out Mahrez was in the squad after all. Let's dick 'em.

Wellp, that's blown it.

We're theoretically able to catch Chelsea, even if it's a massive ask at this point. Why the hell would we loan them one of our players, fringe or not, to help them consolidate a spot we probably won't get but still want? Selling is one thing - it's a final thing - but if you're on loan, you have to be able to go back to the parent club at a moment's notice if required. We could do without any split loyalties if there's an outside chance of top 4 at their expense, as farfetched as that scenario may be.