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Just goes to show how subjective these things are. I think K-Pax is a superb film. You are right that Kevin Spacey makes it what it is, as the film centres around his character anyway, but Jeff Bridges was also very good in it though.

Actually - ignore my last post. I've just done some digging and realised it was a completely different Oriana I was thinking of. The pictures should have given it away really.

Crikey - didn't know that. She didn't last very long at all. I remember doing some agency temp work loading her up ready for a world cruise, must have been about 1998, and she was quite new then if I remember rightly.

Agree with that. I used to enjoy Ross's saturday radio show, but his friday night show on BBC makes me cringe because he is so ****ing sycophantic towards his guests. He recently descried Lady Gaga as one of the finest singing talents on the planet. Don't make me laugh. As for James Corden, He reminds me of Chris Moyles. Seems to think that all he has to do is open his gob and come out with something crude or self-deprecating about his weight and people will fall over laughing. How wrong they both are.

Just been to see Alice in wonderland 3D, and judging by some of the comments on the post-match thread tonight I'm glad I decided to do that instead of sitting at home and listening to the Saints game. There is no doubt from the very beginning that you are watching a Tim Burton film. I have to say that the vision he had for this film was incredible, and it didn't disappoint in any way. The 3D works really well with some of the animation, and TB manages to get exactly the right balance between light-hearted humour and dark, menacing tones. Jonny Depp, as always, is truly magnificent as the Mad Hatter. Perhaps not the best performance of his career but certainly up there with the best. Lots of cameos such as Matt Lucas playing Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-dum, Stephen Fry doing the voice of the Cheshire Cat and Alan Rickman as the voice of Absolom the smoking caterpillar. A timeless tale which appeals to children and adults alike, beautifully executed by a master of his craft. Spectacular, engaging and lots of fun. Lewis Carroll would have approved - I think. 8.5/10

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Considering that gap was 19 points only a few weeks back, things are looking a lot more optimistic.

Totally agree. I did a review of it in post #724 on this thread.

Descent Into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid. An eye-opening insight into the whole political situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the run-up to and the aftermath of the US-led invasion. So much to it, but the thing that really strikes the reader most is the sheer hypocrisy of the Bush government when it came to dealing with Musharraf and their reliance on the support of the Pakistan government.

There are plenty of ways to express passion for your football club, and the vast majority of fans can do it without getting punchy with the police just because some nasty horrible boys were being nasty and horrible to them. I don't call that displaying passion. Stupidity and immaturity maybe.

I've watched it again a few times and I can't even see any contact at all, Seaborne was just standing there watching him make a mess of an attempted overhead kick and the d1ckhead in the pink decided that it was a foul. I reckon 99% of referees would have realised this as well but that ref yesterday seemed to be forever looking for ways to penalise Saints for the smallest of incidents. The amount of times Lambert won headers in a 50-50 and was penalised for it was an utter joke.

Why is everybody always blaming the pitches? The pitch at Tranmere wasn't exactly up to the same standard as SMS it's true, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as some you might see in this division at this time of year.

Were they actually pompey fans though? Or were they actually Tranmere fans who thought it would be funny to wear pompey shirts just to wind the saints fans up?

Just what purpose would it have served for me to get involved and inflame the situation further? Some people had obviously already made their minds up that they wanted some trouble so I fail to see what I could have achieved by speaking my mind to them. Knowing from previous experience how indiscriminate police can be at football matches I didn't want to get thrown out myself because I was there to watch the game, unlike some. FWIW there were a group of lads (I say lads, but some of them looked like they were in their forties at least) a few rows in front of us who seemed as though they weren't even the slightest bit interested in watching the game cos most of their time was spent watching what was going on in the home supporters stand next to us. These 'fans' were being watched very carefully by the stewards and the police all afternoon and when they did join in the singing it was pretty much just the anti-pompey songs that they bothered with. Like Delldays mentioned, some of our fans appear to developing (even more of) an obsession with Pompey lately and I find it utterly cringeworthy.

Right, so just because I found the schoolyard attitude of some apparently grown up men to be appalling, that means I'm knocking the saints does it? :confused: OK... whatever you say. I'm guessing that you must be one of the kids who looked about twelve who were very bravely () arguing with the stewards from behind the safety of a barrier a few rows back while all this was going on. If you are the future generation of Saints' away supporters then god help us.

They did though. They were moved away by the stewards very early on and asked to hide the flag, and when they gave it to somebody else later on it was confiscated by the police. Don't really see what more they could have done.

I think he might have taken exception to some Saints fans singing "You're too short to referee" and "The referee's a midget".

It was right down in the left corner so you wouldn't have seen it from the other end of the stand.

Trust me, they were shocking. Kept giving free kicks against us just for 50-50s, yet books one of our players for diving when he clearly had his legs hacked. He was an utter, utter joke. I'm still at a loss to understand how he came to the conclusion that their player was fouled when he went for an overhead kick and fluffed it completely falling on his arse in the process. Apparently nowadays that deserves a penalty. Maybe I missed an important rule change or something.

...who decided to start scrapping with the stewards and police at the final whistle just because you were being taunted by a bunch of teenage kids with a Pompey flag. Well done, how very courageous of you, you must be very proud of yourselves tonight. Utter, utter morons. You are a pathetic embarrassment to our club and we can really do without fans like you.

Yep this was exactly how I saw it too. Tranmere player went for an overhead kick and completely fluffed it, ending up on his backside with no contact from a single Saints player that I could see, and the ref gave them a penalty for it. Then a few minutes later Fonte clearly had his legs taken from under him by their defender and he got booked for diving. Utterly ridiculous referreeing. We didn't really do enough to deserve to win, even though on the few occasions we did get the ball down and play possession we were a class above Tranmere, but it seemed like every Saints player struggled to control the ball all afternoon and always needed an extra touch which gave Tranmere the time to close us down. Our long ball tactics didn't work and IMO AP left it far too late to bring on Antonio and Waigo cos they hardly had any time to make any impact on the game. Tranmere lacked any real quality and it's easy to see why they are where they are in the league. They didn't look likely to score from open play, but they closed down the midfield and denied Saints the opportunity to play our normal game. They obviously did their homework on us so fair play to them - they worked harder than we did and got a massive, massive slice of luck with the referreeing decisions.

Didn't we go on a lengthy run of games without conceding under Hoddle?

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It was only about one minute in fact if you are referring to the game at Naaarich last weekend.

Either he was just trying to sound 'down with it' by showing concern for something that millions of people in this country care about (football I mean - not the skates ... obviously!!!!) or he has seriously got his priorities wrong!