This is NOT a Podcast, episodes 428 and 429, are now out and available to supporters and subscribers of my audio work. A look at the minutiae of life, my writing and regular bulletins on life as a comedian on the stand up comedy circuit, THE café, hygiene fails (plenty of those in south London) and more.
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When Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, to 1992, when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.
If the shorts weren't short, we don't talk about it.
In the first of two festive specials, this week’s guest is legendary comics editor Barrie Tomlinson, last on in Christmas 2020. Barrie enjoyed a long and illustrious career at Fleetway, initially as a writer. He worked as a sub-editor on Lion before becoming editor of Tiger in 1969 and then famously launching Roy of the Rovers in his own standalone and hugely successful title in 1976. Of course Barrie has worked many more titles than that, including the Daily Mirror football strip Scorer on which he spent 22 long years.
I asked Barrie if he fancied choosing his All-Time Comic Book Footballing X1, a traditional 1-11, no squad numbers and names on shirts, and only two subs allowed, something only introduced at the start of the 1987-88 season.
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When Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, to 1992, when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.
If the shorts weren't short, we don't talk about it.
My guest for this episode is one of the finest comic editors to ever come out of the UK, David Hunt. David joined Fleetway in 1961, working on a couple of picture library titles before joining Tiger, then already one of the country’s biggest weekly titles, where he worked under its founding editor Derek Birnage.
By 1970, still only in his mid-20s, David became editor of the new football comic Scorcher, though it styled itself as a football paper, and it’s his years on that title, still my favourite all-time football comic/paper, that made him one of those people I absolutely had to speak to when setting up this show.
David and I had a long chat about his childhood, growing up in bomb-devastated East London just after the War’s end, his journey into comics, his influences, the Scorcher years that kickstarted a long editorial career, and which in the early 90s saw him caught in the eye of the storm after Roy of the Rovers finally folded in controversial fashion. David, as he tells us, was unfairly blamed for the storyline that saw Roy lose his famous left leg and 30 years on, get the chance to right that.
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Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
The FINAL episode.
Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available signs off its last show with an 80-minute special.
10 years.
4 Flats.
2 P45s.
2 surgeries.
1 orthodontic brace.
1 golden radio era.
Thousands of coffees.
Thank you for listening over the last decade.
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Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
Talking dads, books, running, gigs, Star Wars Football, café and more.
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Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
Talking gigs, potential bicep size disparity linked to lost glove, dip in quality of Star Wars Football commentary, air pods peril and more.
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Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
Talking gigs, origins of Judaism, Tuesday blues, running, books, ovens, books, rodents, Star Wars Football and more.
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Talking gigs, housing, stress (see housing), running, Star Wars Football, Cost Of Living Crisis, Nectar Points and more.
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Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
Talking Friday 13th confusion, trap rotation, fish that tastes like fish (nasty), gigging, books, dreams, Star Wars Football review/preview and more.
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This week, ‘the hiccups episode’.
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Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
This week, bringers, palpitations, hard swallows, books, a hygiene fail, Star Wars Football League denouement and more.
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When Shorts Were Short concerns itself solely with what was actually a very narrow window in football history when teams wore, well, short shorts. The podcast takes 1954 as its starting point, when Umbro made their first England kit with shorter shorts, to 1992, when short shorts were all but finished as Umbro's baggy shorts for Tottenham's new kit, ahead of the '91 FA Cup Final, quickly caught on.
If the shorts weren't short, we don't talk about it.
My guest this week is former Ipswich, Rangers and England captain Terry Butcher. We take a look at the second half of Terry's 1981-82 season when, playing for Ipswich in the FA Cup 4th Round at promotion-chasing Luton, he suffered a curious and near-fatal injury, one of the strangest injuries ever seen in English football. And yet somehow, Terry recovered to nail down a place in England's World Cup side that summer.
Plus Twitter’s unofficial bookshop @Biggreenbooks are giving away a book. To enter, listen out for the competition details towards the end of the episode.
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Now in its 10th year
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Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
This week, heat rationing, hard swallows, hot water bottle meltdown, Moriarty overkill, books, running, coffee, Star Wars Football late season drama and more.
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Now in its 10th year
Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
This week, a stunning hygiene fail, curiously old ink on a young inked up guy, elderly woman bus rage, books, running, coffee, Star Wars Football and more.
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Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
This week, oversized vitamin tablets, ‘Izzy Moreno’, pandemic dreams, coffee, books, internet searches and more.
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Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
This week, ‘The Man’ closes in, hard swallows, books, running, hygiene fails, Nectar Points and more.
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Daniel Ruiz Tizon, a man on his fifth nose, is, he’d like the world to know, Available, and dissecting the minutiae of everyday life.
Another 7 days in the life of the latte ponce.
This week, under-the-weather, 'Tat-tween', toggage issues and more in the last show of the year.
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