Recent content by Luther Blissett

Thanks to everyone for their continued support. Eva finished her first round of chemotherapy last week and is resting up before she starts her second round of treatment next week. Much love to you all.

Thanks so much to everyone for their support. It really means a lot at a very difficult time.

Ticket bought, but I won't be back in Ireland until Christmas Eve sadly. My last Thumped Christmas was 2003 in the Lower Deck. Tycho Brahe, The Dudley Corporation, and Knifed(?).

It's a 98-man provisional squad though. Lee Trundle, Terry Dixon, and Joe Lapira are in there too.

Yesterday I found a really great live recording of Kevin Burke & Micheal O'Domhnaill of Bothy Band fame playing at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1980. Involves signing up for a free three-day trial but.

Ireland U21 versus Germany U21 has just kicked off (on Eurosport and the interweb). Jack Grealish is starting in midfield.

From Celtic Folkweave, the album that Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and Mick Hanly recorded together in 1974.

Sad day. He produced so many great performances for Ireland. On a personal note, I'll never forget the joy I got from his thumping header against Bulgaria in 2009. I was heavily under the kosh with college and work at the time and watched the game with one other Ireland fan (who I later realised...

Kevin Burke from the Bothy Band is a brilliant fiddle player.

Arcade Fire. Their songs all sound like the music for a car advert to me.

Titi Camara on Suarez.

Are you Jonathan Pearce and Lawro's love child by any chance?

Jesus, I feel sorry for your friend as he's missing out on a brilliant World Cup. The best international tournament in years in my opinion. Also I don't think there has been that much diving in the World Cup at all. There's been lots of bad defending coupled with hell-for-leather attacking play...

I don't think Matuidi can receive a retrospective ban as the ref gave him a yellow. It was a horror tackle. Although Kenny Cunningham doesn't agree.