Mr Owl PhD

New Andy Stott album coming out next month: http://pitchfork.com/news/64475-andy-stott-announces-too-many-voices-shares-butterflies-video/

Chelsea Jade has a new video, which seems to be getting plugged by her compatriot Lorde:

Cruyff > Urn

Can he kick the bucket? Yes he can: http://pitchfork.com/news/64339-phife-dawg-has-died/

One thing Chegwin definitely has in common with someone like Savile is that they were both on TV all the time when I was a kid but no one actually seemed to like them or find them entertaining or amusing. There was no playground banter along the lines of 'Did you check out that brilliant thing Chegwin/ Savile said on TV last night?'. No kids in playgrounds said that. Ever. They both just seemed to be there and nobody knew why. Not saying Chegwin was as dodgy as Savile, but I'd really like to know how he ended up becoming as prominent as he did. Talent or even being liked by young people had nothing to do with it.

Now that's tragic: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/17/paul-daniels-tv-magician-dies-aged-77

Cliff Michel-no-more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35828566

Death, m'Lady: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35818530

George Martin goes to join John and George: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35761464

On the plus side for Newcastle fans, they can at least get some schadenfreude from Pardew's burgeoning meltdown at Palace. Or does that not even help?

It's also worth noting that the curse of Aaron Ramsey has struck again: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3478186/Who-s-Celebrities-fear-curse-Aaron-Ramsey-claimed-lives-Bin-Laden-Gaddaffi-Steve-Jobs-Arsenal-s-midfield-dynamo-scores-against-Spurs.html

I wonder if her astrologer saw this coming: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35739997

It's... ...filling a Gap there then!!!!!!!

And I'm definitely Roy Hodgson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_caf%C3%A9

In the words of Channel 9, it's 'Boutros Boutros-Ghali' from Boutros Boutros-Ghali: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35590039

Some more on Shaq and his undying devotion to the Cobblers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-35580868 Bit of a glory hunter to be honest. Where was he when they looked like they'd go down to the Conference?

Good to see that Shaq is a fellow Cobblers fan. Top of League Two. On the march.

That's something that used to happen quite often but hasn't happened really in the Premier League era. The great Nottingham Forest of the late 70s was famously put together mostly with people whose careers were going nowhere or were for a long time seen as lower league players. The league and European Cup winning Aston Villa side of the early 80s was a bit similar, as was the great Everton side of the mid-80s. The financial disparaties of the last few decades seemed to end all possibility of that sort of thing happening again - I can't think of any team that's come close recently - so Leicester are pretty exceptional. Leicester don't have the best squad in the league but they look to have far more of an idea of what they're trying to do in a game than any other team has this season. Watching them against City today they seemed to know precisely how they were going to try and score goals and how they would try to stop them. City didn't look as though they knew how to do either. I wonder how the bigger teams will respond next season. Maybe they'll continue to throw money after old rope or perhaps they'll try to build a coherent team with a clear plan for what they're trying to do.

Leicester are going to win the league.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/01/gary-glitter-fans-paul-gadd-facebook

I guess it's probably worth noting the announcement Marseille made on signing Steven Fletcher on loan:

Wo-gone: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/31/terry-wogan-dies-aged-77

Cecil Kark-inson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35403445