One of the things I used to really like about Amazon was that the marketing emails it occasionally sent you and the recommendations it made on its site were usually pretty good. Spookily accurate in some instances. However, I have noticed over the last year that these predictions are becoming far less good and, dare I say it, pretty bad on occasions too. For example, I bought my wife a digital camera from Amazon for her birthday in June and I’ve now twice had emails suggesting that as I bought this camera, perhaps I’d like to buy the same camera . . . → Read More: Is Amazon losing its way?
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I went to see the Damned United yesterday lunchtime, in a cinema in Derby. There were less than 20 of us in the auditorium (perhaps the later showings are better attended), but nonetheless, we were treated to a glorious trip down memory lane – albeit quite a few of the memories are obviously fictional (Clough begging Taylor to forgive him at the end of the film – I don’t think so!) The interviews Clough gave to Austin Mitchell on Yorkshire Television bracket the film(*), and as the originals are still available in the archives, they provide an anchor in reality . . . → Read More: Reflections on The Damned United I’ve just come across the trailer for the film of David Peace’s book “The Damned United”, which was the most memorable book I read last summer. While the portrayal of Brian Clough in the book (and presumably in the film too) has provoked criticism in Derby, I’m certainly looking forward to seeing it, because if nothing else the book was a well written piece of fiction. Or fact. Or faction perhaps?  |
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