Jonny83

Couldn't think of a better thread to put this found it on that Beijing Red twatter site - this has to be a fake surely? "The following songs and times must be adhered to"?

Gerrard Sturridge Coutinho

I do find it hard to detest someone who willingly gave us actual legal tender for Carroll and Downing, so had to keep reminding myself of the whole Rafa gesture thing every time a City goal went in last night.

Bad shit, always rooted against him ever since the shit he pulled on Damon at Adelaide '94 but right now feeling like I did when Senna hit the wall, with the odd exception I prefer an alive cunt to a dead one and hope he pulls through.

Former Fulham midfielder Steed Malbranque owns and operates a home mail order business specialising in miniature llama figurines.

Mikhail Kalashnikov has bought it, I didn't have him but I'm sure I remember others did: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25497013

7 and remembered fuck all. Italia '90 was the first football I ever remember seeing so experienced us as being defending champions but never actually winning it.

I'll replace Nelson and Ronnie with Pope Benedict and Ian Watkins (the paedo, not H) - guess he doesn't count for extra U50 bonus points but I assume it's allowed? Murray Walker Pope Benedict Joao Havelange Ayman al-Zawahiri Robert Mugabe Ian Watkins Prince Phillip Tito Vilanova (U50) Bashar al-Assad (U50) Lewis Hamilton (U30)

Thick-cut chips (wedges and roasties too while we're at it, but at least they're not every-fucking-where whenever I try and eat at a pub) Peas Baked beans Mayonnaise on anything (rules me out of ever being able to buy a sandwich when i'm at the shop)

Can't really rule anything out with Taggart, but for example in many ways Shankly's reputation was if anything enhanced by the fact that Paisley had been left the foundations to actually win more trophies than him. It might just be the simple fact that, as good a manager as he was, Slur was as guilty as the media of buying into the whole 'British manager doing a decent job with top-half team NEEDS to get a job with a top club' thing. Much like at the time some people (mostly outside the club but also sadly in our boardroom) genuinely thought Hodgson would be a great fit for us. I'm just going to enjoy this while it lasts though, the eternal pessimist in me can't get too excited not this early in the season anyway. Even applying cold hard logic, if he can finish above us with Everton the last two seasons - as shit as we were in the league - then surely he was nailed on to do so again with the reigning champions. Then again I guess managers can fit certain clubs, and much like Woy actually made us worse than his Fulham team for the time he was here, maybe the methods that twanslated from, er.. Preston to Everton, are doing likewise. We can only hope.

I've no problem re-watching a TV series again in terms of already knowing the story and ending, although in practice there's not many full series I've watched in their entirety multiple times simply because there's only 24 hours a day and 365 days in a year and not enough time really in amongst all the other shit to do.

They were testing his resolve.

Pretty much word for word my feelings on the subject. I remember in the summer everyone in the media wanking themselves silly over how awesome Spurs DoF setup was, getting all these fantastic players in, while taking the piss out of Arsenal and the autocratic Wenger's inaction. Look how that appears to be ending up, with Mini Shitcoat being criticised for how he's playing (or not playing at all) and integrating "his" signings when he probably had no input into them in the first place, while strangely enough the team over which their manager has been able to make select additions with his way of playing in mind is actually doing quite well. Regardless of the inevitable springtime bottling for the Arse I know which position I'd rather be in right now. I'm far from anti-Rodgers (regardless of the Hull abortion we're still having our best season since 2008-9), but if he's been poor in the transfer market, then that's his fault and he needs to do better, if I do shit at my job then my boss won't hire someone between us to "direct" me, he'll tell me to do better next time or I get the sack. Don't get the stability argument either, as if your DoF is shit you have to replace him too (like Comolli), or give him immunity and make the "head coach" the fall guy - in other words all the control with none of the accountability. Pound-for-pound I think Swansea have the right idea - let the manager get on with it, and when you need to replace him, deliberately get a guy with a similar style and way of playing so the transition is as smooth as possible and you don't need to tear up the squad. Admittedly they've lost every manager from Martinez onwards due to being poached for being good, rather than sacked for being shit, so they've never had to make an appointment to firefight or steady the ship, but still.

Cuper's team. Or something like that.

Is the correct answer.

Done this twice now, last time in April, bit too many hen/stag party types on it the second time round for my liking but I'd still definitely recommend it.

Having different cars is half the fun though, not knowing for certain which individual driver is best in the same way that it's tough to make comparisons between individual f*******lers because it depends on the team around them, and a lot of drivers through history had a M*****nho-esque knack jumping ship at the right time to land themselves with the best opportunity (like Fangio who Vettel is one short of equalling, won 5 championships with 4 different teams but timed it so he arguably had the best car with all 4 of them). And if people don't like the same guy winning all the time, Schumacher could well have won 11 or 12 titles in 13 years had Hill, Villeneuve, Hakkinen and Alonso been forced to drive the same car as him. If it wasn't for breaking his leg in '99 a case could be made for winning 12 or 13 consecutively.

I'm caught in two minds re. Vettel winning all the time - it's funny watching the Pirelli/DRS generation fans go into meltdown on various motorsport message boards because a driver and team has had the bare faced cheek to do their job better than the others and win a lot of races. I'd love to invent a time machine, drop them in 1952 (or 1992, 2004, 1965, 1960, whatever) and watch their heads explode. On the other hand, I can never underestimate the ability of the powers that be to react to such domination by introducing yet more silly rules to make it less "boring". Perhaps inverted grids, an in-race phone vote to give the public's favoured driver extra boost, a Mario Kart-style blue shell for the leader, a standard-spec engine that everyone must use that can randomly explode at some point in the race, the top two facing off after the race in a hexagonal shaped cage armed with balsa wood chairs with the winner declared the race winner, literally nothing would surprise me with that lot since the changes made in 2011. Oh well, thank fuck for the World Endurance Championship. Webber knows. /rant

Visiting family in West Cumbria this weekend just gone, returning home (I live in Leeds) on Sunday, which usually entails an hour-and-a-half wait at Carlisle station. I arrive there only to find that the previous Leeds train has been severely delayed to the point where I can hop straight on it, it departs a few minutes later and I get home over an hour earlier than planned. Not only that, but the conductor hands out cards to fill in address and ticket number and return, not 100% sure what will happen but last time I was given one for a severely delayed train a few years I recieved 2 Northern Rail vouchers each covering the cost of any train journey I take on their network, and even if I get a hollow apology letter or something instead I still got home early. Put me in a right good mood after a shitty weekend.

Happy with the win and three points. My blood pressure would appreciate the scudding a few teams as we did towards the end last season, so I can relax the last 15-20 minutes of a game at least, but for now I'll take what we have and where we are thank you very much.

I'm not one of these forgive for forgiveness sake types, but if it was me I reckon my anger would be directed at, you know, the cunt who actually went out of his way to kill her, rather than the poor bloke whose decision may or may not have had these consequences and has probably been beating himself up every day since (and spent some time incorrectly jailed to boot)

Don't mind them so much as long as they don't infest the place - if one or two are lurking around my flat and capture the odd bastard cunting fly as a result, I'm prepared to let them live. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Common sense prevailing really.