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He always was. In the book and the film, which just goes to show how good Cusacks performance is, as you STILL root for him. A COSBYYYYYY SWEEEEAAAAATERRRR

Week 38 fixtures Premier League Fulham 2-2 Crystal Palace Manchester United 3-1 Burnley Newcastle United 4-1 Sheffield United Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Luton Town Aston Villa 2-1 Chelsea (20:00) Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Arsenal (Sunday 14:00) German Bundesliga RB Leipzig 1-2 Borussia Dortmund (14:30) Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 Union Berlin (Sunday 14:30) A Primeira Liga Porto 1-2 Sporting (Sunday 20:30) Maltese Premier League Naxxar Lions w/Stinky Dad 1-1 Valletta (Sunday 13:00)

Gave High Fidelity a rewatch and didn’t realise how much of a dickhead Rob is. The biggest wanker in Chicago, at least Barry is funny.

It Follows. Another one I've been meaning to watch for ages. Watched this directly after The Babadook and had a much better time. This looks great for something so simple and low budget, it's creepy, it's got a great concept and had me pointing at the screen and shouting "FOR FUCKS SAKE DON'T GO IN THERE" out loud a couple of times. Imaginary. Absolute dross.

Did anyone bother with Hunted this year? Some interesting contestants this time around. The posh boys were entertaining to watch. Obviously ACAB and you want everyone to avoid capture but (series ending spoilers) It’s staged and edited to fuck with some glaring inconsistencies but it’s always good value.

New series of Hells Kitchen started a few weeks back. Started watching it on catch up and the chefs seem shitter than usual. GET OUT etc

On a technical level, what he's just done there is the rapping equivalent of playing Frere Jacques on a recorder. It was only marginally better than a middle aged white man trying to spontaneously rap for the first time in their life and I was half expecting to hear "My name is Max Caster and I'm here to say,,,," Turgid.

Scoop - The interview part was very entertaining and the makeup effects on Sewell and Anderson are incredible, but when the original interview exists and is readily available, I'm not really sure we need a dramatization of it? It was decent enough, anyway. Kong x Godzilla: The New Empire - This is such a weird, inconsistent franchise and this movie pretty much sums that up. Everything to do with Kong and/or Dan Stevens was wildly entertaining, everything to do with Rebecca Hall and her daughter was quite boring and I veered between entertained and bored from scene to scene. I love Brian Tyree Henry but his role in these movies makes my teeth itch, just the absolute worst 'comic relief'. That's all I managed to catch this week. Had that Really Bad Shits bug going around so the only thing I've been watching is the bathroom wall. Hoping to finally catch Immaculate and a few others next week!

I know I shouldn't approach this as a "rap fan" critiquing, but fuck it, he's rapping so why not. Thatt was absolutely dreadful. Awful lyrics, metaphors, similies and a delivery that can only be described as a copy of about 20 other rappers. -5 mics. Its actually made me angry.

Just delivered an employability workshop to around 50 Ukrainian guests. Absolutely love my job today* *check in with me when I have to do all the admin follow up and impact reports.

I think this is possibly one of the most memorable posts on this board for me. Keep fighting the good fight Dev.

Yes. He just walks around and does a dance.

Painmaker will always be the worst Jericho. Always.

And hopefully, although he isn't a previous winner, the Big Boss Man - cos next year is definitely his year for the Rumble.

what stood out about that rap was that Bowens was clearly meant to snatch the mic away from him before the last word, and cut him off way too late. It was shit, though, and Max Caster is in Ricky Starks territory of looking like he'd rather be anywhere else, and his raps get worse every week.

I thought Golden Jets or OJO Jericho was the worst incarnation - then I met Learning Tree Jericho

I think you've taken a throwaway line and kinda took it seriously and a Wrestling discussion isn't really the place to discuss politics, but you can throw stats around all you like, London is in a really bad state in lots of ways and Khan has done fuck all to address it. I'm a lifelong Labour supporter and he's as rubbish as the previous two mayors. Anyway as I say, not really the place for politics and it was just a line.

It really isn't. Every available bit of data shows a decline in most types of crime over the last five years, and that London ranks lower than plenty of other areas in England for antisocial behaviour, crime rates, murder rates, knife crime, and gun crime. Where crime rates have increased, it's been at a much lower rate in London than the national average (the Independent a couple of weeks ago quoted the figures as 18% in London compared to 35% across England and Wales in 2023). The area covered by the Met ranks 31st out of 42 police force areas for violent crime, compared to ranking 3rd in 2016, and the increase in knife crime is also lower than the national average. London has plenty of problems, and throwing taxpayer money at Wrestlemania would be a bad look no matter what. But it's a question of saying "but we've got Rey Mysterio!" instead of paying striking train drivers, not of the conservative fantasy of London being a crime-ridden hell hole. @The Reverend nailed it - some staffer in the Mayor's office looked up what the biggest sporting events are, and Wrestlemania was in the list. This isn't about winning votes from John Cena fans, it's about selling London as a major international city, and Wrestlemania is a footnote in that. The "bid book" for host cities that David Bixenspan found a couple of years ago doesn't appear to exist online any more, but from what I remember of that, the amount of costs they expect to be covered by the host city are so excessive that I don't see London ever forking out for it, nor do I think they have the infrastructure to support Wrestlemania week the way WWE want it presented. If nothing else, they won't consider anything less than a 65,000 seat venue, which narrows the list down to Wembley, Twickenham, and then maybe, depending on configuration, could allow for the Spurs stadium, London Stadium, or the Emirates. But I'd assume AEW have an exclusivity deal with Wembley, and I'd assume football grounds won't be available for Wrestlemania and the amount of prep work that would take during the season. To say nothing of attempting to run an outdoor venue in London in early April. On top of all that, I just don't see London being won over by the usual WWE spiel of "give us a few million quid, and we will add so much more to your local economy, and bring tens of thousands of people to your city". London is already the most visited city in Europe, it doesn't need Triple H lending their tourist industry a hand. There's also an ongoing lawsuit between WWE and the Texas Attorney General around WWE not wanting the records of the bid for the 2023 Royal Rumble to be made public, the results of which could be interesting in terms of how honest their figures are. It won't happen, and I'd put any amount of money on that.

Big Bill talking to Jericho just made me think of the episode of Simpsons where Homer is accused of being a sex pest and a TV show edits his interview in the most jumpy, stilted way possible. That's how Bill delivered it.

I don't know that I agree, and that may be in part because of my own bias because of when I'd have watched them (I think I watched 8 broadly in the same era when it came out, but 10 I may have come back to in 97ish), but I'd say Hogan v Sid Mania was still that late 80s/early 90s WWE aesthetic, whereas by Wrestlemania X it felt like (with the benefit of hindsight) that they were starting to lay the foundations of the Attitude Era. Black became the primary colour, there was more natural light, they started to pack the crowd's in a bit more (probably the MSG effect, like you say). Wrestlemania 9 is still the maddest show. Fucking Roman cosplay in a car park. Love it.

There's a Bumblebee as well but it doesn't transform.

If they do end up having a Wrestlemania here, it would be the perfect time for Triple H to push his newest protege into the main event scene.

The problem with holding it at White Hart Lane is that the results will be even more predictable. There's no chance of anyone winning a title there.