SMBU's Tom Doherty

It's the second week of Tom 'Tom' Doherty's sponsorship deal with SMBU (we give some money to the club and they spend it on a specialised windowcleaner for Scores.) Here is a roundup for our pal Tom (he hates us).

Tommy's week

Match performance

Tommy looked a bit tired at Lincoln - he'd probably been out too much the week before chasing up last week's recommendations. You don't need to follow them all up, Tom.

Criticism

A few narky remarks about Tom on the gasroom after Wycombe lost a game. What's he supposed to do - score a double hat-trick? Grow the fuck up.

Midweek

No match until Saturday, so why not take in a bit of:

Cinema

No Country for Old Men. Don’t be fooled by the Oscars. Faithful to Cormac McCarthy’s bleak thriller, this is a corker of a feel-bad movie from the Coen Brothers. The acting – from Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Kelly MacDonald is as taut as the hard-bitten Texas dialogue. Based in 1980 in a border country which the sheriff, Jones, is increasingly convinced is going to hell in a hand cart, Brolin’s Vietnam vet comes across millions in drug money and then runs, trying only to keep ahead of Bardem’s psychopathic hitman. Hidden depths in this one - a real gem.

TV

Everyone knows TV sucks, but if you must … If you’re in tonight, at least put off switching on Channel 4 until some self-promoting bint has ceased trying to persuade Marlow to give up its car addiction and tune into the beautifully bearded monologues of Frank Gallagher on Shameless. Alternatively, you could better use your time on a...

Book

Ian McEwan’s “On Chesil Beach”. McEwan uses his masterly abilities to pull apart pre-sexual revolution sixties England. It is 1962 and Edward and Florence have just got married. They are intelligent, mature and ready to take life on – he as a historian, she a musician. Fatally, the constraints of the age mean that they are both virgins and have had no inclination or ability to discuss their attitudes or feelings towards sex. This is a tragedy of manners, in which McEwan draws a convincing picture of the pair’s path through childhood and adolescence – she in Oxford, he in Turville – to a defining honeymoon night in a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach. As if this weren’t enough, a crucial element of the story takes place on Wycombe station.

Gig

Yet more musings on Englishness, as Billy Bragg makes a hotly awaited comeback. Be at the Roundhouse or be in the square house.

LP

Bragg's own Mr Love and Justice is out this week. But you might also want to grab a moody copy of the soon-to-be-released debut album by Foals. It's got more Hooks than north Oxfordshire and if you listen to it this week you can be ahead of the crowd.

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