112: The nightclub dwellers of the Brixton region.
Didn’t blink an eyelid when a group of souped up, check shirt wearing, drunken muldoons landed onto their patch on Saturday night.
113.Gordon Banks
116 (keep up people): David “Bumbles” Lloyd
117: The staff at Highbury who let me and my grandmother in to have a look at the stadium on a non-match day in 1987
118: The staff at Goodison Park who did the same in 1989
119: The staff at Wembley who did the same in 1990 (and also let us into the the dressing rooms), despite me wearing a “Who’ll put the ball in the English net?” t-shirt
120: The ever so polite police who apologised for questioning me for possible ticket touting at the London Olympics when they found out that I was in fact buying one for face value
121: The Victoria and Albert museum
122: Andrew Flintoff
123: Sir Geoffrey Boycott
124: Ian Hislop
125: Paul Merton
126: Jimmy “the Whirlwind” White
127: A lovely old Cockney geezer who chatted away to me and my father on a London Transport bus in Bermondsey in 1990
128: The London Transport museum
129; Covent Garden
130: The rooftop beer garden in the Big Chill House in King’s Cross
131: The Wolves fan I had international football-related bants with after the second U2 Slane gig in 2001
132: The National Railway Museum in York
133: The Jorvik Viking Centre in York
134: “Mind The Gap”
135: The Brownlee brothers
- Johnaton Agnew
- Sir Henry Bloefeld
- Liam Howlett
- Two world cups and two world wars.
139, The banter before and after matches in The Queen’s on Green St. just down from Upton Park tube station
140. The timeless pictures on the wall in the pub of Brooking and Moore
141. The carpet on the floor of the pub
142. watching final score with the knowledgable crowd after the game as the pub refuse to pay for Sky
- The quiet dignity of those who wear the poppy for the right reasons
141: The brave stand taken by those who wear a white poppy
142: Those brave stand taken by those who refuse to wear any poppy
143: The collective “yeeeeeesssss” in the House of Commons when a member makes a good point
144: The cut and thrust and razor sharp banter of House of Commons debates
145: Mr. Speaker
146: Speaker’s Corner
147: The “well, good luck mate” commentary by Jack Karnehm as Cliff Thorburn prepared to pot the black for the first ever 147 at the World Snooker Championship
148: Snooker commentator Ray Edmonds
149: The savage and stark urban beauty of 1960s tower blocks
Next poster please begin at 154.
- Grange Hill
155: The classic 1980s Grange Hill theme tune
156 just say no.
157 The Holy Trinity circuit in the Peak District.
158 The Goyt Valley being closed to cars in the summer.
159 The cycling clubs and event volunteers.
160 The Manchester Triathlon Club £220 for a years gold membership.
161: The neon signs at Piccadilly Circus.
162 The flexibility of a benign MOT tester.
163 The right of access to countryside laws.
164 the relative lack of fucking midgys
165: Devon Malcolm’s stellar wicket-taking performance during the final test of the 1994 Cornhill Insurance England v South Africa series at the Oval.
166: Gladstone Small having no neck.
167: The benign paternalism of William Gladstone.
168 The array of tricolours waving proudly over many graves in southern cemetery left unmolested.
169 The nhs
170 The compassion shown to bereaved parents.
171: Danny Boyle’s magnificent Olympic opening ceremony.
172: Especially the “Pandemonium” section of reason 171.
173: The nightly highlights programme of the London Olympics presented by the lovely Gabby Logan.
Btw for the record, I really don’t want England to win the World Cup, but it s a grand spot by and large, so I’ll continue in the spirit of things.