Sad to report that the great jazz pianist Howard Riley died yesterday, aged 81. He leaves so much great music, made in collaboration with the likes of Barry Guy, Tony Oxley, Jaki Byard and Keith Tippett, as well as his many extraordinary solo recordings. RIP

@iancleverly Not the drummer's problem.

@MartinXRugby You mean Eddie?

Ouch. Congrats to the Azzurri.

Rugby was played in Wales for the very first time in 1850 at St David’s College, Lampeter. This week it was announced that it will no longer offer degree courses. My father, Ieuan Williams, played for the college XV at full-back and would have been greatly saddened by the news.

“Couldn’t get it out of his feet” is now the polite way of saying “Couldn’t control it”. And this is the worst half-hour of football I’ve seen all season. Everything that’s wrong with current tactical fashion is on show at Old Trafford tonight.

And Cliff Jones, the prince of Welsh wingers in the other kind of football, is 90 today. Very pleased to say I saw both of them in action. Cymru am byth!

@whentlaw Chris -- were you once at Polydor in London/NYC?

@pierre_dalai @jfordham_jazz @guardianobits Yes.

@PaulKennyinfo One of mine, too.

RT @TheBishF1: ‘Silver Arrows’ racer Manfred von Brauchitsch died #OnThisDay in 2003, aged 97. He’s mentioned at length in an episode of my…

A happy 85th birthday to Barry Hoban, the Yorkshireman who won eight Tour de France stages between 1967 and 1975. The first of those stages came the day after the death on Mont Ventoux of his compatriot Tom Simpson.

@don_rooke Nice that you remember that, too, Don.

@ClarkTucker49 Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it

@IanPlayfair Go away! Leave us alone!