ChrisA

The youth of today say, "we don't need Mark E Smith, we've got Ed Sheeran". RIP to a true maverick.

Maybe forgivable if so but no, he's 50 odd!

There's a tit of a bloke at work, who will seriously contest that Bryan Adams' 'Everything I Do I Do It For You' is the best song ever. Why? Because " it spent the longest time at number 1 so it IS the best song ever written". No amount of telling him how shite it is makes any difference. "It's a fact". etc etc etc. I collared him today and asked about our defenders. The best ever? "VVD". Because.. "he cost the most amount of money ever". Unfortunately, none of this is a joke. :-(

My tastes were a little bit closer to home - Two Black albums - 'Wonderful Life' and 'Comedy'. Full of fantastic songs. Still amongst my fav albums ever. RIP Colin!

'Refugee', covered that song in my first band. Loved Tom, that four hour documentary on his life and times, recently shown on BBC4 was brilliant. An incredibly humble, and seriously cool dude. RIP to a proper American legend.

Me too. Gotta love Eubank. .. the Steve Collins fight point was a good one actually. Wouldn't surpise me to see McGregor going down that route, because, there's not a chance in hell of the first bell sounding and McGregor edging out in an orthodox stance. He MUST have something else up his sleeve, and because of that, I'm curious.

I won't be staying up to watch this, or paying for it. But on Sunday morning.I'd ike to see how it all ends. Where's the best place on the net to hopefully catch the highlights then?

Again though, I think you are missing the point . Accumulative punches to the torso, or anywhere else, will take a lot of gas out of Conor. Conor is used to intense spurts of rolling round on the floor and dancing around on one leg looking for an opportunity to strike. He's never been near anyone with the tools - and the licence to use them - like Mayweather. For me, it really is a case of horses for courses.

This size and power connundrum doesn't exist. Ali/Foreman? George was a total destroyer, lot bigger than Ali and crushing everyone around. (Remember that punch that lifted Frazier right off his feet? ) Ali, had a plan, and slayed the giant. There are other parables of course, but Mayweather, like Ali, is a totally schooled, and brilliant defensive boxer. He won't have any fear whatsoever of Conor's physical advantages. And people are seriously underestimating the skills of a real world class boxer vs someone who has a bit of lower league boxing in his arsenal. Conor will never have been hit as accurately and systematically (powderpuff, or not) like he will be by Mayweather, Then there is the stamina issue as well, after 4 rounds Conor will be gassing like Jan Molby chasing after Usain Bolt. Nah, the fact is, Conor's skills are thinly spread to suit his own discipline. He's a jack of all trades, whilst Mayweather is a MASTER of one. It will be fun seeing Conor fly out and try and lay it on Mayweather, (does anyone really think he will come out in an orthodox boxing stance??) then it will all pan out into a big fat red face for the Irishman. (Literally).

Levi Stubbs Scott Walker. Marvin Junior. Aaron Neville.

That's great. Love how the club rep guy tried to excuse the journalist's 'Yankism' by trying to insunuate he was referring to the World CLUB cup. Really?

ha ha, cheers! Could've been worse though, Neville had had a few .... :o

To be fair, his looks were the last thing he needed to worry about. I've yet to find a bird who doesn't fancy the twat! Anyway ... just after he signed for Madrid, me and a Manc mate were out with our birds on in Deansgate locks, Manchester. Went into this poncy bar and after a bit, I noticed Neville hanging around the dancefoor, he looked up for a chat so went over and collared him. All credit to him, he was a good laugh, ribbing me about my accent, asking if i'd got lost, etc. I asked him how he was gonna cope now that his best mate had pissed off to Spain, "Can't get rid of the fucker" he said, and right behind him, with his bobby hat pulled down over his hair was Beckham. looked bored as fuck but nodded and half grined my way. Went off and told my missus and she headed over, in the market "for a kiss" etc. Got one as well. (Off Beckham, she wasn't interested in Neville!) Then she spent the night calling all her mates harping on about it!

You really do that? Must be earning damed good money! :D

As a bit of a northern cabaret artiste myself, I've played all these kind of places and met all those kinda blokes. It's a brilliant depiction and Soooo accurate. Many great moments but this is so perfectly executed, its hard to beat ... 'NONCE'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5e2EVXPjg8

Wilson's comment re Scouse melody and Manc attitude sums it all up really. The Roses have some top tunes for sure, but (for me) don't quite cut it live We all know Brown can't sing, but he's made a career out of being cool and hawking charisma in spades, and good luck to him. He seems a proper decent bloke. I agree on the 'Mersey Paradise' comments and it is possibly my personal fav Roses track,even though it's got sod all to do with Liverpool. ("River cool's where I belong") ... It's actually about a place where Brown and his mates used to hang out in Northenden, where the river Mersey is half dammed. Bit of a scally's adventure playground. I've lived near there and know exactly where he means, there's even some graffiti on the bridge - 'welcome to River cool', which rumours have it, was done by Brown's own fair hand.! Anyway, for me, there's a band much closer to home, far more important than the Roses, namely, The Coral. Wonderful band, with some stunning melodies. I've never heard anything quite as beautiful as 'Rebecca You', (youtube it) and James Skelly's voice is a thing of rare beauty.

James Milner; £165,000 P/W Semantics mate. You could just as easiy have said .. James Milner; Signs for free. It's all about the Bosman! And Milner's no mug. He's a solid premiership level midfielder, perpetually underrated. I reckon he'll do ok here. Anyone seen the 'Boring James Milner' twitter account. :lol: https://twitter.com/boringmilner

Totally agree on the' Pep overrated' comment. Winds me up everytime I see him mentioned as some kind of management superstar. He's had it all too easy. If he goes to City, he'll come unstuck bigtime.

Gotta agree. Fake tits? Yeuch.,, :-(

What the hell is that conk all about? :lol:

Is that some kind of skit on a Manc accent or what? Weedy thin buzzing noise like Liam Gallagher farting. :D And 2.21 that's the worst pronounciation of the word PENALTY I've ever heard. 'PELANTY' or summat ??? :lol:

:lol: State of Keown in that. Looks like Frankenstein's monster off out on an 80's night ... :lol:

Time paradox hell. I mean, if it's a bulletin from the future, I can accept that at 79 Suarez IS a former Barca player, but if that's the case how come Messi is still playing for 'em? Prof, PROF??

Just checking on how he's doing and seems I've missed far too much! Former Barcelona star Luis Suarez says Lionel Messi could Leave Former Barcelona star Luis Suarez believes Lionel Messi's time at the club could well be drawing to a close. The 79-year-old believes "a stratospheric offer" could turn the Argentine's head given the recent lack of success at Camp Nou. :unsure: :wacko: :blink: From here .. http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2015/01/07/7737922/messis-cycle-could-be-over-says-suarez