matt1983

Sort of. The one where Emma Willis is walking round with her legs out is ok.

Why has every advert got to have some kind of cartoon character in it that is completely irrelevant to the product? Often with some sort of irrelevant gratuitous implied nostalgia? Started with the meerkats, continued with that Short Circuit-type thing Brian and Churchill the dog (complete with Knight Rider theme or Depeche Mode for no reason) and now I see there is a purple muppet advertising Three to the tune of an East 17 song. Just fuck off.

Self service checkouts. Scab tills I call them. Employ a fucking person to do the job.

That's definitely part of it. I remember being very pissed off with split decision wins for GSP( vs Hendricks), Jones (vs Gustaffson) and Benson Henderson (vs everyone he's ever fought) as well. Sitting there getting really into a fight only to see the wrong man win really winds me up and switches me off- although in hindsight Jones probably did enough in that fight. But it was all entirely predictable for me ( I was top off the prediction league when we did it, don't you know). Why would you sit through 3 hours of fights every other weekend where you know what's going to happen? This weekend just gone is evidence that that has changed for the better of late.

Her elbows are too pointy. Not for me Clive.

The improvement in Werdum's striking the last two years has been fantastic. From the guy who just kept pulling guard against Overeem in 2011 to this, it's like a different fighter. I was getting a bit bored with the watered down cards (not helped by high profile injuries and bad judging) over the last 18 months, but the last few cards have really delivered and reignited my interest.

There is a documentary series on iplayer called Secret History of Our Streets. The episode about Arnold Circus may go some way towards explaining the diversity (or lack of) in that part of London. The gist of it is that at some point during the 70s (I think) the local council gave Asian families the choice of where they wanted to live to get them out of properties they had claimed squatters rights on. They chose to group together,as you would. That's how I remember the programme anyway, I watched it a couple of weeks ago in the night during the first week we had our baby home from hospital. I've watched the whole series, I found it quite interesting as to how demographics can change in an area over time.

No Pellegrino? Sami and Carra, then.

I prefer Aurelio as a player but Riise played almost three times as many games. Played and scored on some big ones too- despite the underwhelming end it's Riise for me

Babbel, but Finnan's longevity and consistency run him close.

Pepe

She was certainly at the front of the queue when God was handing out chests...

Makes Carlton Palmer's caps total even more confusing... Seriously though, I do wonder why Taylor was so keen to poo-poo Digger's opinions on his lack of management opportunities during that documentary. The idea that those kind of conversations have happened as late as that makes you wonder if his claims have some credence.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/clarke-carlisle-lorry-driver-who-hit-former-footballer-during-failed-suicide-attempt-refuses-to-speak-to-him-10225560.html?dlodl

Bradford City stadium fire: New evidence casts more doubt on verdict Bradford fire was accident EXCLUSIVE: National Archive papers reveal testing – rushed and scant as it was – undermines theory lit match caused stadium disaster The fire, in which killed 56 supporters died, 30 years ago next month, was found by the official inquiry conducted by High Court judge Sir Oliver Popplewell to have been caused by debris beneath the seats in the main stand being accidentally set alight. But an investigation for Popplewell into the likely causes, published by the Department of the Environment’s Fire Research Station (FRS) 30 days after the tragedy and part of the body of evidence relating to the disaster at the National Archive in Kew, tested the likelihood of a match struck by a spectator still being alight when it fell to the floor. The experiments, which recreated the conditions at Valley Parade, found that 35 out of 48 matches tested “self-extinguished” before they reached the wooden platform beneath which debris lay. That means only 27 per cent of matches were still alight when they reached the floor. Then one of those still alight would have had to fall through a gap between floorboards and ignite debris below to cause combustion. The slim statistical basis appears to bear out the claims by Martin Fletcher, a survivor of the disaster who lost his father, brother, uncle and grandfather, that the investigation into the fire was inadequate. In his book 56 – The Story of the Bradford Fire, Fletcher finds that there had been eight other fires at businesses owned by or associated with Stafford Heginbotham, the late Bradford chairman. Fletcher says that the number of other fires was an extraordinary coincidence and that Popplewell’s inquiry should have investigated Heginbotham’s background. Nowhere in the substantial body of FRS and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) papers at Kew is there any mention of such a possibility being investigated and discounted. But they do reveal the concerns of FRS director Dr David Woolley that he was being given too short a time to undertake a detailed enough investigation for Popplewell into how the fire could have started and consumed the stand at such extraordinary speed. “We were concerned that there might be, because of the rapidity of the fire, a mechanism which was hitherto unknown to us,” Dr Woolley told the inquiry, which gave the FRS, based at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, just four weeks to gather evidence and put Woolley through a mere two hours of questioning. The FRS’s tests did not lead it to discount the hypothesis that a burning match might have caused the fire. Its report concludes: “It would seem quit feasible for a lighted match, dropped through a gap in the flooring of the stand to ignite rubbish beneath.” The body’s “technical assessments” found that the possibility of a match causing the fire would have increased “markedly” if the head of the match was accidentally broken in the act of striking it. They concluded that a dropped cigarette would need “good contact with the material [it sets fire to]” to cause a fire and says that pipe material was a more likely cause of the fire than matches. “The glowing zone may be larger than with cigarettes. The effect… will be greater.” The FRS’s statistical data demonstrates the need to have put the body’s evidence to greater scrutiny. If a match was the cause there is also the unanswered question of how tens of thousands could have been thrown to the floor since the stadium was opened in 1908 – never causing a fire before. By some estimates as many as 1.25 million people smoked there over the years. There were no ashtrays and no smoking restrictions. A view of the Bradford City stadium fireA view of the Bradford City stadium fire The Kew Archive also reveals correspondence from the Timber Research and Development Association which had also rejected the theory that the ignition of debris under the stands had caused the fire. The documents paint a picture of the desperate rush to gather evidence for Popplewell, with one of its staff writing to West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Police in June 1985 pleading for copies of the force’s photographs of the Valley Parade disaster. “My inspection [of your photographs] was curtailed because Dr Woolley was called to give evidence and I had to rush away and brief him on a few additional points which I had found from the photographs.” Woolley also tells the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory in a letter: “I’m still finding great difficulty in obtaining a set of photographs of the fire. The photographic coverage of the fire was enormous but the supply seems limited.” The papers also reveal attempts to avoid public blame for the disaster in the months that followed. An internal memo from HSE director general J D Rimmington in 1985 reveals that the organisation’s, inspector, a Mr Laird, had seen rubbish under the stand in 1980 but “did not assess the hazard arising from the rubbish… as so serious that he should discuss it with the fire authority.” Rimmington reveals that a review of liaison procedures is to be carried out but says the HSC “should not make it public” as it “could provide the idea that the commission and executive are already clear something is wrong and we are at fault”.

I'll admit to being disappointed when I read an email on the PC and her picture was attached.

I've just got mine through these- the lender pay them a fee and they can tailor their searches to suit you. Girl called Kieley was very helpful http://www.lcplc.co.uk/mobile/home/

Christ,never seen that one on Carroll. Didn't watch that game as I was still sulking from the weekend before.

Negged by mistake,will rectify...

In the pre-season shoot-out with City.

We had a box of prawn cocktail crisps go by past their sell by date at work the other week, so they come off sale and the staff eat them. My receptionist turned up for work complaining she was hungry, so I pointed out the crisps, but told her "to be careful because out of date seafood can be dodgy". "Oh yeah" she said, sadly, and didn't eat any. She was recently demoted.

Rosie the dog and her bank manager

Stu Monty Posted Yesterday, 11:28 PM Can't wait for this week's football ramble. Luke Moore, the Pompey fan, hates the cunt as much as I do and will go into it with two feet. They could do a special where he basks in the glow of his Stuart Pearce prediction, then sticks the boot in Redknapp for half an hour.

Owl Faced Cunt I reckon...remember when the Hodge opined that Alder Hey was probably the second best children's hospital in the country?

Some grown men have made nasty signs about his cousin on A4 bits of paper too.