Rage Against The X Factor

For my UK based readers :

If, like me, you are sick of the X Factor winner having a guaranteed Christmas number one every year, and especially don't want him topping the Christmas chart with a Hannah Sodding Montana song, then please buy the download of the track

KILLING IN THE NAME

by

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

from each of these sites :

iTunes
www.7digital.co.uk
www.hmv.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk

And if you're a member at tunetribe please buy it there too.

It only costs 79p to 99p each time - and just 29p on Amazon - so you can buy six copies for well under a fiver. Buy just one from iTunes and from 7digital, but HMV, Amazon and Tunetribe all have two different entries for the track, and if you buy one of each that does count as two sales.

Please buy these tracks some time between now and Saturday evening. Thank you so much.

Let's tell them enough is enough.

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After being rained off twice, today the Hawk girls finally got to play their FA Women's Cup 2nd Round tie with Plymouth Argyle. The two postponements at Plymouth meant we got to play at home, but as we'd been refused access to Westleigh Park for fear an extra game might wreck the pitch, we were, alas, subjected to the squalor of Fort Blockhouse. Several of my fellow spectators were less than happy with this, not least because we had two girls watching, one of whom has just signed for us and one prospective new signing, and they were not likely to be impressed with the lack of facilities on offer.

My own view is that for a big match we should make every effort to play it at a decent venue. We have booked AFC Fawley for FA Women's Cup games before. I live a 15-minute walk from Blockhouse but I would rather have travelled down to the New Forest to stage this match at a ground with terracing and a proper clubhouse, with a lovely range of beers and food and sport on the big screen, than be subjected to that bloody place. Then there's Moneyfields which we once hired for an evening match when Westleigh was unavailable. We'd known about this match for over a week and we knew we might not be able to get WLP, so IMO we should have been on the phone booking Fawley last Saturday evening. Rant over.

The girls raced into a 3-0 lead by half time, but lackadaisical defending after the break allowed Plymouth to pull two back. When Chloe came on as sub on 72 minutes, her arrival sparked the Hawk girls into a resurgence, spurred on by Lizzie, and Jodie made it four with a beautiful looping thirty-yarder over the goalie's head. With six minutes left, Lizzie had a shot parried by the goalie; Chloe's shot from the rebound hit the post, zinged across the goal and bounced out off the other post. The linesman, though, saw the ball cross the line as it pinged across, so we were awarded our fifth goal to make the game safe.