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  1. 128 nominations, 71 films have made the cut (Please feel free to sanity check if I've missed any with multiple nominations) 8 groups of 8, 1 group of 7. Top 2 go through from each round. Entrants: Office Space Dances With Wolves Boogie Nights Shallow Grave Stalingrad The Sixth Sense Magnolia Jackie Brown Life is Beautiful Of Mice & Men Pulp Fiction Carlitos Way Shawshank Redemption Schindlers List Jurassic Park Goodfellas Terminator 2 Tombstone Home Alone Silence of the Lambs The Matrix The Usual Suspects Se7en Millers Crossing La Haine The Thin Red Line Reservoir Dogs American History X A Bronx Tale Fight Club The Green Mile Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Heat Casino Unforgiven Trainspotting Dumb & Dumber The Big Lebowski Braveheart Point Break True Romance Good Will Hunting Forest Gump Saving Private Ryan Groundhog Day As Good as it Gets Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves Apollo 13 Swingers Straight Story Remains of the Day Princess Mononroke The Fifth Element Fargo Delicatessen LA Confidential Leon Naked Being John Malkovich Run Lola Run Barton Fink The Fugitive The Talented Mr Ripley Ghost Dog - Way of the Samurai The Truman Show JFK Toy Story The Lion King Glengary Glen Ross Boyz N The Hood Falling Down
    9 points
  2. They weren't that much different. Carlo hated the idea of the Super League so much he slagged it off then joined the club who created it and pushed it for their own self interests. Evertonians hated the idea of football while people were dying of Covid and were the ones who opposed it most. That was until they started winning games and were top of the league then they conveniently forgot about it. They also laughed at Watford fans kicking off about Everton poaching Marco Silva but now are fuming that Carlo has fucked them off for a bigger club.
    8 points
  3. Been down there for a few days with my girls in the summer holidays for the last couple of years. Becoming a kind of annual thing like Anubis’ brother. Probably gonna go this year too but we’ve done most of the main tourist stuff and plenty of other stuff on the side. It was a bit shit last year having to wear the mask everywhere but it is what it is. The ‘eat out to help out’ did bring the cost down to be fair. Hoping to maybe get them to a West End show this year as Turdsette will be old enough to enjoy that this time around. Then maybe a river cruise or something like that which we’ve never done. I’d happily spend all day in and around Leicester Square watching the street performers if the weather was nice. There are plenty of free/cheap things to do down there for kids though. Natural History Museum, etc. The Science Museum is superb and the bit on the top floor that you need to pay to get into is great fun.
    8 points
  4. “No! I didn’t manage at Everton...er...I was in prison. “
    7 points
  5. From the Barn Of Boo to the Bernabeu.
    6 points
  6. Just ate less shite and moved more...a lot more....for example ran 125k in April. Average about 14,000 steps per day...bit of weight lifting as well 3 times a week - nothing heavy, just dumbells and a barbell at home. Some days especially early on i would only have one meal a day, often chicken breast fillets with broccoli and other veg....or cod loin fillets with a sweet potato and veg. Fair amount of eggs has been a big part of it....oats as well... Tried to ensure protein high and cut out totally shite like cakes, chocolate, biscuits etc....only drank water (until pubs opened) Was 16st 9lbs on new years day measuring 45 inches round belly button. 11st 11lbs today and 34.5 inches round belly button. Feels a lot better. Chips on Friday for me this week - and plenty of them as well!
    6 points
  7. One of the things I love most is where someone or something triumphs in the face of adversity. Being astute in the transfer market is great but, nothing beats a situation where someone is a virtually nobody \ surplus to requirements \ deemed not worthy and yet makes a hugh impact and success of things. I dislike that many seem to think the only way to be successful in football is just spend, spend, then spend more. If I subscribed to that ethos, Id be a fan of city, chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and Barcelona. So I think it's great players like Nat come through and do as good a job as anyone else costing £40m-£60m. To some, Nat will never be good enough because they think every defender has to be quicker than the quickest footballers, not to mention being 'perfect.' And they dont need to be. They just need to have a good football brain, a sense of positioning and do what is expected. Ive lost count of the number of times van Dijk has made a mistake or been beaten by an opponent. There's nothing wrong with van Dijk or Matip or Gomez making mistakes. It's part and parcel of football. Whether Nat decides to move on in 12 months time or not not remains to be seen. I still think he'll get game time next season because van Dijk and Gomez will be eased back and not overburdened. I think Nat has been one of the true successes of our season.
    6 points
  8. Well they have very little to celebrate, so it’s understandable. Sorry to hear about your gf
    6 points
  9. I like the way they console themselves with the fact that Moyes left for United, Koeman 'left' for Barcelona, Brown Shoes 'left' for Belgium and now Carlo has left for Madrid. My girlfriend has left me and I am back to wanking myself silly on a Friday night - but she left me for a much better looking lad than me, with more money and better prospects - so actually, when you think about it - I am winning.
    6 points
  10. Hearing the Echo is signing up some work experience writers and is set to save a fortune.
    6 points
  11. It always comes down to Heysel. Always.
    6 points
  12. I had a wank about that Foxy Noxy which involved her whispering in my ear ‘I did it and I loved it’ just as I was cumming into her. Like I say… help.
    5 points
  13. Word on the street is Susan Boyle is fucking disgusted being portrayed as Everton. She's actually has some success over the past 25 years.
    5 points
  14. Ancelotti getting off the plane in Madrid
    5 points
  15. They took their time, but got there eventually. Yes! You guessed it. It was all our fault!
    4 points
  16. 4 points
  17. So it is somebody from TLW.
    3 points
  18. Filming at the moment https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/better-call-saul-season-6-appears-to-be-filming-at-notable-breaking-bad-location.html/
    3 points
  19. He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
    3 points
  20. When your joints feel like they lack any semblance of lubrication, my shoulders click more than Predator.
    3 points
  21. Been rewatching this, am midway through season 3 and it's even better on second viewing, phenomenal show. Chuck's a massive cunt but that storyline in season 3 with him trying to get Jimmy disbarred is truly captivating TV, especially the court hearing
    3 points
  22. I thought the same when Chelsea signed Shevchenko and Ballack. Seemed nailed on to make a great side nigh on unbeatable; things rarely work out that way.
    3 points
  23. They’re undoubtedly the funniest football club in the land. We’re actually blessed to have them as city rivals and have them hate the RS so much it physically hurts them, especially when we’re successful and they’re constantly imploding. The small time twats. Long live the Ev.
    3 points
  24. Silly bastard walks right past his recycling bin to break that glass. He could have saved himself a sweeping up job later by just lashing it in there. Or just fucking growing up and not bothering, not that it’s my business you see.
    3 points
  25. Not if he asked him to play the piano.
    3 points
  26. That's fine - I'm seeing if my ex-will come back, she was boring and unattractive but she was good with money and loyal.
    3 points
  27. Can’t wait to see peppers take on this.
    3 points
  28. “I was gonna break up with her anyway”
    3 points
  29. Its always difficult to pick just five. But I would mention these in no particular order. The Killing Fields Rainman Missisippi Burning The Last Emperor Platoon
    3 points
  30. Ange could be a very astute signing for Celtic. When he was coach of the Brisbane Roar they were undefeated for the the best part of two seasons, playing some of the best football ever in the A-League (no real mean feat I know) He is very attack minded, his team principles are all about possession with purpose, fast paced counter attacks and quick, intelligent movement from the front 4 or 5 and he was trying to implement a 3-2-4-1 system for the national team. He went to Japan and has evolved his methods and philosophy further where he has won the title as well playing that style of football. He is a massive red and when you watch his teams you can see that pass and move style of the 80s which he fell in love with. I have been lucky to know him through some people I work with in football. He is an extremely deep thinker, a student of the game and I am curious to see if his methods can translate into the Scottish game. If he is given the time then Celtic will play a very attractive style of football in the next couple of seasons.
    3 points
  31. 3 points
  32. Nah, Les Dennis > Amanda Holden
    3 points
  33. Was wondering when they would start backing Pep.
    3 points
  34. Saturday May 22: Wow, as far as tributes go this one is pretty spectacular by Klopp. “Gini Wijnaldum. An LFC legend now and forever. What this person – this wonderful, joyful, selfless person – has done for our team and club I cannot sum up in words in truth because my English is not good enough. “He is an architect of our success. We have built this Liverpool on his legs, lungs, brain and his huge, beautiful heart. “If – and it is still is if – he goes, he does so knowing we as his teammates are eternally grateful for having this special human being come into our lives. I love him and he will always be family.” I’m intrigued by the ‘and it is still if’ part though. Why add that if it is definite that he’s leaving? I feel a bit like Lloyd Christmas here, but is he telling us there’s still a chance? Meanwhile, “Hamez” has taken the last couple of Everton games off due to ‘fatigue’ and posted this picture on his instagram, causing something of a fume with our neighbours. The irony in this is off the fucking scale. They signed him due to his social media clout, they bragged about him having more instagram followers than LFC, they embraced all these new fans from Colombia, and now they’re crying about the ‘content’ he’s putting out. It’s that content that got him all those followers, so you live by the smartphone you die by the smartphone. Losers. Sunday May 23: L 2 Palace 0. Third. Haha fucking hell. The rest of the league should be looking at that and wondering just how the fuck that happened, because we were dead and buried a couple of months ago. What a dog turd of a season though. Man City won the league without being anything special, but all of us who were meant to be challenging them fell massively short. People actually think United are City’s closest challengers when really they’re a million miles off. If they’d had to deal with what we did they’d have been relegated. Chelsea had to deal with Frank Lampard, Spurs and Arsenal are just a hot mess and even Leicester, one of the non-big six teams that should have taken advantage, well they choked like dogs in the run in for the second year running. What does any of this mean for next season? Honestly, I don’t think any of it means shit because this year was a complete outlier and none of what happened is relevant because these circumstances will never be repeated. Next season everyone starts with a clean slate and as of right now I’m not worried about City being ‘uncatchable’. That may change depending on who they buy though, because they are a couple of top quality players away from being out of reach I think, especially as we aren’t going to be competing for those players. I’m talking Kane, Sancho, Mbappe, Haaland, Grealish etc Now more than ever we need Edwards and Klopp to be the smartest people in the room Monday May 24: The kids lose the Youth Cup final to Villa. No complaints, they got fucking battered in the first half and were lucky to only be 2-0 down. The second half was better and they had opportunities to take the game to extra time but couldn’t take them. The only one who impressed even a little bit was James Norris. I thought all the others were below par and the ones who you would have been looking to step up were the most disappointing. Koumetio, Balagizi and Musialowski did nothing. That being said, it fucking stinks that this was a one off final played at Villa Park. That shit just isn’t right. Either have it two legs (as it always used to be) or play at a neutral ground. We had this a couple of years ago too when we had to play away at City. It’s shit, but it’s like virtually every other change made to the game in recent years. None of it makes anything better. Meanwhile, it looks like Konate is close to a done deal and some reports say we’re paying more than his buy out clause just so we can pay in instalments rather than the whole lot up front. Makes sense as £40m is a big slice of the budget considering we need to strengthen in midfield and up top as well. Is the money going to be there for what we need? And if it’s not, then I want to know which cunt wouldn’t sanction the contract for Gini? There won’t be a permanent deal for Kabak though. I knew there wouldn’t be as it’s been pretty obvious for a while that he was not high on the list of targets. I think he may well have been good enough for us if the circumstances were different, but it’s not the right time for him. He did a top job though and can leave with his head held high. He’s played a lot of games in Germany but he’s still a kid and coming into the situation he found here was really not easy. He wasn’t perfect but he did what we needed him to. Maybe in a couple of years we’ll revisit it and if we do I’d be happy to see him back here as he seemed like a good lad as well as a promising player. Obviously they prefer Konate but I don’t know what that actually means for our spending. We could have had Kabak for £18m and freed up funds for other positions, but instead we’re paying £35m or whatever it is on Konate. Does that mean we’ve got more money to spend than people think, or did we just prioritise centre back over other positions? Tuesday May 25: Happy ‘sorry but I’m really not arsed about Istanbul Day’. Seen all the clips on social media, just skimmed over them all. Fair play anyone who still likes the trip down memory lane but I’m all Istanbul’d out now, especially with Chelsea and City preparing for a final this weekend. It didn’t annoy me though as it has in the past. It would have if we’d finished 5th, but because the season ended up being ok it didn’t seem too desperate. Nothing worse than when you’re shit and you have Istanbul thrown in your face. Meanwhile, Southgate bottles naming his squad and includes half a dozen or so extra players who will be cut next week. Just prolonging the suffering for some of those lads who know they aren’t getting in. Like Trent, if reports are to be believed. I just can't see Southgate being brave enough to make that call. Can’t remember if I mentioned this last week or not and can’t be arsed checking back to see if I did, so I’ll just say it again. Last week I had Talksport on in the car a few times and the talk was usually about the England squad. I heard four different pundits picking their squad and not one of them had Trent in it. Not even Martin Keown, who may not be everyone’s cup of tea but he’s not thick. But even he has bought into this weird bullshit about Trent somehow not being in England’s top three right backs. Never mind right backs, he’s one of their top three players!! They don’t deserve him. I really wish he was Scottish. Staying with full backs, although this one doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Trent, I thought these quotes from Alberto Moreno were quite interesting today. “To this day I don’t understand why I got so, so much criticism, when the whole team didn’t play well. The finger was pointed at one player and …” Moreno shrugs. “I don’t think that’s OK. People blame you. Only you. It was like I lost the final. It’s hard. You can’t get it out of your head. You look at the paper, at social media – I don’t usually pay much attention to social media because it’s all so false – and read things. ‘Alberto, Alberto, Alberto, Alberto.’ I’ll go to my grave not understanding why I got all the blame.' This may surprise you a little, but I mostly agree with him. The whole team was shite that night and Klopp didn’t cover himself in glory either with his inaction when the game was getting away from us. We didn’t lose because of Moreno, but what he seems to be unable to grasp is that until his brain farts we were well in control of that game. He turned the tide against us and then nobody was able to swim against it. So while what he says is mostly true, I’d think a lot more of him if he owned his own shit, because he’s a likeable lad other than that. Wednesday May 26: I don’t know exactly what has happened at the Hillsborough trial as quite frankly reading about it just makes me angry and depressed so I try not to follow it too closely. Basically though it has been stopped before it went to a jury, which means that 96 people were ruled to be unlawfully killed and fuck all has been done about it. None of those responsible were dealt with by the law because the system - and the whole country for that matter - is fucked and stacked in favour of rich cunts and freemasons. Is anyone remotely surprised by this though? I could not have any more respect, admiration and sympathy for those who have fought so hard for justice and I feel just so fucking sad and angry for them. But I’m not the least bit surprised. Nobody was ever going to be held to account because the establishment looks after its own. Always has, always will, and nothing will change because the good people of this country keep voting for the cunts no matter what they do. It's like all these calls for an inquest into the government’s handling of Covid and all the unnecessary deaths. Even if there was an enquiry where it was proven that Johnson and his cronies took bets on how many people they could kill by their actions, they’d still win the next election because there is literally nothing they could do that would stop the people of England voting them in. That’s the world - or the country - we live in. A jury of regular people may well have done something, but a judge? Get the fuck outta here. Remember the other cunt judge they put in charge of the inquest back in the day and the first thing he said was a quip about “Liverpool fans being late again”. I absolutely despise this country and wish I’d been born somewhere else. I’m not sure where like, as most of the world is just as fucked up as here. New Zealand seems sound though. Thursday May 27: Woke up this morning to the news that United lost the Europa Final on pens last night. Nice. Even better, Moreno scored one of the pens and then absolutely obliterated United on instagram afterwards. Funny as fuck, I saw it this morning and watched it about half a dozen times and it got funnier each time. “Manchester United… GET OUT” hahahaha he was always a really funny lad to be fair. Meanwhile, Mbappe took to social media to show off his new tattoo…. Friday May 28: Konate is done. I have no idea what to expect. Maybe he’ll kick on and become one of the best in the world or maybe he’ll be another sicknote like Matip and Gomez. We needed to sign another defender though and if this is who they wanted above all others (which apparently he is) then I guess I’m happy enough with that. The suggestion from James Pearce is that we won’t be replacing Gini though. I mean, I suppose you could argue that Thiago was signed to replace Gini and that’s fair enough, but whatever way you try to dress it up we’re still a midfielder light now because we can’t count on Keita to give us anything. Then there’s the increasing number of injuries Hendo is picking up, Milner is another year older and Ox isn’t exactly reliable either. So that leaves Thiago, Fabinho and Curtis. We need another, it’s blatantly obvious. I’d go and get Ward-Prowse as he looks like a perfect fit for us and is ready to make a step up. Of course I’d prefer Grealish but the talk is that City are in for him. I’d be sick if that happened. I’d love him here but we don’t have the money to make Villa sell. He’s worth far more to them than he is to anyone else, but this talk of City looking at Kane and/or Grealish for huge money is a little disturbing. As much as they’ve taken the piss out of FFP with their spending, the one thing they haven’t done is gone massive on fees in the way that United have. If City start pulling that shit by signing £100m players then everyone else may as well forget about it. I won’t be watching that Champions League final tomorrow and I just hope Chelsea can stop those cunts from getting their hands on our trophy. I’ve got no love for Chelsea but I fucking despise City so there’s no dilemma here. Saturday May 29: Would usually post the diary today but thought I’d hold off a day so I can cover the CL Final. I didn't watch but I tuned in without a couple of minutes left and watched stoppage time and then some of the celebrations. Chelsea winning was the lesser of two evils by far, but I did think I’d be more sickened by it than I actually was. Weirdly, it didn’t bother me at all seeing them win and celebrate. I didn’t begrudge them it. There isn’t one Chelsea player I’ve got any kind of dislike for and although Tuchel seems like a fucking weirdo I can’t say he bothers me too much. Can’t stand their fans of course, but fair play to Tuchel and his players for ruining Noel Gallagher’s birthday. Tuchel has Guardiola’s number doesn’t he? This wasn’t even that difficult for Chelsea, they just completely nullified City once again and only gave up one shot on target. Guardiola shit the bed and tried to be too clever again and that’s a huge flaw of his his. In the biggest games he out-thinks himself every time. Not only did he not start with a striker, he decided he’d also leave out a holding midfielder too. Rodri starts virtually every game but he was benched for this. It’s amazing how often Guardiola shoots himself in the foot when the pressure is on. He’s spent the last ten years or so with every possible advantage he could have and he still can’t win a European Cup without Messi. Bald fraud. Chelsea have been a consistent force in this competition and they’ve earned the right to win it. They’ve got scars, they’ve been to finals, lost in semis generally just been a big player for the best part of 20 years. City have no more right to winning it than Spurs would have had when they faced us. They haven’t earned it, they don’t have the scars. Now they’ve been in a final and lost that gives them more right in future, but the other thing to consider here is that the cunts shouldn’t have even been in it as they were thrown out for cheating. So all in all the last week has been pretty good. We secured a top three finish, we’ve made a new signing, United lost the Europa League and were trolled by Alberto Moreno and now City and the Gallagher’s are left crying their hearts out. Considering where this season looked to be headed that’s a pretty reasonable outcome all in all. …. and that was the week that was.
    3 points
  35. It's getting pretty tiresome hearing how Nat Phillips isn't good enough to play for Liverpool despite winning 8 league matches on the bounce playing for Liverpool. Reminds me a little of another moderately paced, unshowy, limited centre half; one who wasn't deemed good enough to represent his country at international level, yet captained his side to multiple league titles. Not every successful centre back has to be a Virgil or a Rio or a Baresi; sometimes they're a Steve Bruce.
    3 points
  36. Some dickhead overtook me going round a roundabout the other day then cut me up causing me to slam on to avoid a collision. I hit the horn, he stops his car in the middle of the roundabout and his passenger who looked off his tits on something is screaming abuse, I give it back, my Mrs is telling me to leave it and the driver takes off with the passenger still giving it the Billy big bollocks. What a pair of fucking bellends. What annoys me most of all is the fact that in my past I would have taken great delight in spreading the little cunt right up the road, these days I can barely walk 10 paces to the car. Really boils my piss.
    2 points
  37. Yes I share a lot of those views. I have been very defensive of Ancelotti, partly because I think the points he's got are better than the league position but partly because in general I think we turn on managers a bit quickly and I am in favour of giving people time. But the doubts certainly started to creep in for me. I kind of felt we had got to a bit of a fork in the road. One way was the way Ancelotti wanted to go, the other was the way the club probably needs to go if it wants to move in a sustainable direction. I don't think there was anyone in the club who was able/prepared to stand up to Ancelotti and say no, and the concern was that we may have gone further down a rabbit hole. There is a chance of a re-set now, and the positive is it's not a re-set in mid season with us in or around the relegation zone which leads to a short termism. We finished 30 points above 18th (twice as high) last season so to me there is no excuse for a pragmatic choice of coach. I understand the criticism of Brands, but this has to be his moment to stamp his authority on the club as to what we want to do moving forward. Selecting a coach that fits that brief becomes important. I think overall we are all a bit guilty of a bit of an old fashioned outlook, that getting the biggest name manager is how you turn a club around. What you really need is a good process, a process that makes sense for where you sit and the to be consistent and patient with it. The alternative was Ancelotti was going to be to gamble again. Gamble on 2 or 3 players who will offer nothing in terms of "sell on" in the hope we could gate crash the top 4. He is such a pretentious little wanker isn't he? You can imagine him nodding sagely at various posts 'hmmm yes, yes - good point' "Yes I share a lot of those views. I have been very defensive of Ancelotti, partly because I think the points he's got are better than the league position but partly because in general I think we turn on managers a bit quickly and I am in favour of giving people time. But the doubts certainly started to creep in for me." I mean, what the fuck does any of that mean? I think we turn on our managers too quickly, but Ancelotti was always the wrong choice. That's it. Basically, his whole point. Illogical bollocks for 18 months.
    2 points
  38. I’d be a worried if Eddie Howe takes over. Any Manager that can take a Club from the bottom of the football league to the Prem in 5 years and keeps them there for 5 years on crowds of 10,000, all the time playing attractive attacking football, is a little bit special. he gets the most of nearly every player he works with which is why he had a core of 7/8 players from League 2 still in his Prem side, he has an eye for young talent ( we were linked with the likes of Lewis Cook, Danjama, Brooks, Lerma, Lloyd Kelly etc), and he’ll be around for the long term so can build something. after 11 years, he eventually got burnt out as most Managers do, but he would be a smart gamble.
    2 points
  39. Well, while they're always on 'The Chase' of the unattainable, if they're going to go that route, there's a far better and more appropriate fit elsewhere...
    2 points
  40. It's no 'Titty City', but it's a start.
    2 points



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