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Nice one. A platform to talk about real football. 

Scottish football is brilliant. Yes, large swathes of supporters here are stuck in 1700s tribalism, but the unpredictability and lack of resources makes for tremendous viewing. Pre-season optimism here counts for absolutely everything: it is a unique feeling seeing your team sign what is essentially an entirely new squad of shitheads, rejects, misfits and the sons of past footballing legends and pin all your hopes on them. Will they be any good? Probably not. Who will be shite? Everyone in the division, most likely. But you will see some damn good games of fast paced, madcap and chaotic football. I wouldn't trade our football - warts and all - for anything. Keep your glossy, billion pound contracts and sterile friendlies in China or Saudi Arabia.

I would enthusiastically perform oral sex on the one who could give me a packet of citrus Polos again, irrespective of gender.

I will exchange Galaxy chocolate in all of its guises to have the Secret bar back. I cannot remember if a Secret was even any good - it's just a relic of my childhood that I have convinced myself was brilliant, so I want to try it again. Galaxy chocolate is a fair sacrifice in this instance in that I would miss it plenty, but not as much as Dairy Milk which I simply cannot part with.

God, I had no idea that Kev was such a super worker. He has dished out some beatings over the years.

Morelos - £15m. I will crack the jokes. He has never scored against Celtic and he's a liability in terms of discipline. Granted, he will get you goals against the smaller teams and someone will probably take the risk on him at cut price. Rangers have cynically tried to flog him for the better part of a year now with glossy YouTube videos about him and reporting nonsense bids (Jelavic, anyone?)

I'm no great lover of Celtic but to imply that Morelos is even close in terms of value to someone like Moussa Dembele is ludicrous. He proved it in the Champions League and by dismantling Rangers on his own at times. Until Morelos can skelp Celtic single handedly or keep the lid on his discipline, there will always be a question mark against him.

I am shocked that The Current War is being panned so heavily as I thought it was a pretty interesting film. Granted, it suffered in developmental hell but there are some decent features, including the always brilliant Michael Shannon. It is time for Benedict Cumberbatch to take a brief sabbatical, however: he is massively over-exposed and is very much typecast in the "offbeat genius" role. If you combine Sherlock Holmes with Doctor Strange, you arrive at Thomas Edison in this film.

It's like Game of Thrones. Boris and his crew of unpalatable cunts are Cersei, vowing to crush Jeremy Corbyn despite the impending doom that lurks ever closer. In this metaphor, Corbyn is Daenerys Targaryen, the once beloved dark horse who everyone has just got a little too fed up with and wants to fuck off. Call it X-Pac heat, if you will. Meanwhile, the incoming shadow of Brexit and all its consequences are the Night King and the White Walkers, surely set up to fuck up everything in the land beyond all recognition.

In this scenario, hopefully the real life nadir is as anti-climatic as the ending of GoT, with the goodies winning and things continuing on pretty happily from there. Who are the goodies though? 

The Lion King is completely bereft of any of the heart or emotion of the original. It's amazing to look at, but that wears off after the initial couple of minutes. I watched the 1994 version again last night and it is so superior in every conceivable department that it makes me sad that someone, somewhere in the world will only ever see the new one. It's not a terrible film like the live action Aladdin is, but there is no sensible reason why you'd ever choose to watch this over its animated counterpart. An emerging trend among these Disney remakes.

I voted for 'Stan and Ollie'. I feel like 'Step Brothers' has been diluted for me by the number of idiots who hold it as their comedy bible. Besides, everyone knows that Richard Jenkins is the MVP of that film. 

15 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said:

Is that Michael Owen’s list?

#hatefilms

4 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

That's some of the worst logic I've ever read. Firstly because the guy has obviously matured into a pretty dangerous footballer. And secondly because there are some utterly shit players at Man Utd.

If he wasn't that good, Arsenal wouldn't want him. They do so need to pay the going rate.

Not that I ever blame anyone for trying to get a deal. Your perogotive. And everyone else's to laugh at you.

Zaha is a good player but £80m will get you any of the top players in Europe outside of England. It's a laughable fee. I've already said that it is Palace's right to seek out (read: extort) the best deal out of anyone who chooses to come in for him. I could put my house on the market for £500k. Ultimately, if some millionaire with more money than sense pulls the trigger on it, he can't be surprised when he could have got a much better home for the price.

Arsenal are a strange one at the moment. On paper they have among the best attack forces in European football but the rest of the team is a basket case. I firmly believe that Emery is the man for the job as his track record at previous clubs suggest he's a top coach, but who knows what kind of chaos he is working against at board level? I would never call the Zaha bid derisory as £40m is more than fair for a player of his calibre. If he was really worth the £80m that Palace value him at, he would still be at Man Utd. They have every right to try to squeeze as much money out of clubs as ultimately, a player is worth what someone is willing to pay, but £80m should get you one of the world's top players. Arsenal seemed to be going after an intelligent target by going for Kieran Tierney from Celtic as there is value in a deal like that. It just seems toxic at the moment with the captain refusing to take part in pre-season.

Player power has definitely made football a lesser spectacle. There was something quite satisfying about seeing the gaffer run his shop with an iron fist. Nowadays, if you stand up to the players, you will find yourself in the dole queue pronto.

https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/1147950675814494208

Eugh. I'd rather watch Triple H and Stephanie open Raw every week for the next 20 years, honestly.

Add me to the list of those who loved series 3 of Stranger Things.

There is a lot of waiting about and artifice to TV tapings. A lot of posing to the hard camera side and things of that nature, which is usually jarring to see as it's always the least populated part of the arena for obvious reasons. I noticed a lot of repeating lines etc as well which can obviously be tidied up in post-production.

23 minutes ago, Holmesy said:

I have Northern Irish, Protestant heritage and your post has greatly offended me....tee hee 

So you'll agree that the conflict is out-dated, embarrassing and shameful then? Good lad.

1 minute ago, thescottishchamp87 said:

Why bring Football into this when it's nothing to do with Wrestling at all

Correct. But she's seeking sympathy on a public forum where her username celebrates a hate crime. As a contributor to the Call It Out campaign (I have Irish and Catholic heritage), I will challenge this behaviour just as I would any other type of racism, xenophobia or sectarianism. Poor girl though, she took the week off for a house show.

7 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Apart from six months ago when she still looked the coolest woman on the planet.

When was this?

For my money, WrestleMania alone completely exposed Becky's frailties - she was in a triple threat with the biggest star in the company and the woman who carries herself as the biggest star in the company. She looked small fry compared to them. I like Becky, but to me, she is a midcard babyface. She was doing well when she was having passable matches and putting goggles over the heads of little girls. At the top, she is out of her depth as there are a) more interesting characters than her, b) better workers than her and c) in some cases, both.

I will concede that I am prejudiced against her by the ludicrous fantasy booking that ensued when people were saying she should win the Men's Rumble etc. That isn't her fault. But I do not connect with her "The Man" persona as I think she comes across as someone who is superbly skilled in exploiting social media, but when it the times comes, she drips with insecurity. Becky got lucky that her eye socket was broken and provided THAT image - without it, her push would have been stone dead. And to think that people think it derailed her progress.

41 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Some people rightly cheesed. I like this one though. A week off work for Raw?

 

Almost felt sorry for her until I noticed the 1690 in her Twitter handle. Another moronic, knuckle-dragging bigot who drags the great city of Glasgow down. Fuck the Old Firm and all who fly in them.

Would be interested to see if she harbours any strong opinions about WWE's participation on Saudi Arabia, but we probably wouldn't hear it over her overt hatred of Roman Catholics.

That will put butts in seats.

Boris Johnson is a turd of the highest order, but a calculating one. The evidence presented in this thread alone (Jeremy Vine's experience/the bus debacle etc) prove that he is a dangerous bastard who seeks to cultivate the affections of the thick. Can you imagine Ronnie Pickering and his pals watching Boris dangling from the crane? They would be howling. They probably speak about it with the same wistful nostalgia as Del Boy falling through the bar or when gollywogs were fine.

All Tories are indeed cunts, by the way.

Went to see Toy Story 4 yesterday. It is a superb ending to the series (if it really is the last one - which it should be) and definitely overcomes the worry that it was a cynical cash-in. It is the most understated entry in the series and I have read reviews saying that it feels like an epilogue. I don't think that's a bad thing and I would agree with that. A really funny, warm and actually quite sophisticated film.

I think Toy Story 4 will become gradually more appreciated over time. It's not the immediate mind-blowing experience that 3 was, but I think people will reflect on it and realise its true greatness as the years pass.

4 hours ago, Bellenda Carlisle said:

I'm not into this Becky and Seth being a big couple and ending the show cuddling and stuff thing at all. It's not even the general idea I hate but the two of them are right unappealing smug cunts and it's just not working for me.

 

This, a million times over. Rollins is a weasel-faced arse (or is that aN arse-faced weasel?) and is completely unrelatable as a top babyface. Don't even get me started on Becky Lynch - the silly season that ensued when certain pockets of fans fantasy booked her before WrestleMania lives long in the memory. Beating up R-Truth at #30 to win the Men's Rumble, tapping out Ronda clean at Mania then beating Austin in Saudi Arabia seems perfectly plausible to some of these nutters.

"Unappealing" is the best description of both of them I can think of.

14 hours ago, Astro Hollywood said:

Look at the picture of his therapist that he had sex with. Chinny reck-on, mate.

Has she been daughter? If not, I don't know if Marty will be interested.