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Haven't used it since we've been in the prem, but I'll keep it on for the year. Still happier to spend my money on saintsplayer than on a subscription to this place.

Puncheon:The only thing missing from his performance was a goal, which almost came when he cut in from the right, and curled the ball inches wide of the post. They didn't notice the shot that actually deflected into the goal then?

I'd like to imagine he'll at least get dropped to give Shaw a chance, now it's so clear how we improve without him.

Forgive me as I'm generally pretty clueless about these things, but why is Clyne a right back and not a winger? Yes, we were better when he replaced Fox, but mainly because he kept us attacking on the left, not because of his defending. he's often a bit at fault for poor defending, but he loves to get forward, cut in, run at their defence, put balls into the box and even run into scoring positions, you know, like a winger. Now it's probably obvious to most but I need it explaining because I'm stupid, why is he a right back and not a winger?

Lambert, only just watched the match after recording it. he was utterly dominant in their half, especially in the second half. Very strong and they were very rightly very wary of him. He was everything a centre forward should be. Despite Ramirez being very classy, I thought Lambert was the best player on the pitch.

Seems a bit harsh, maybe in the premier league...

Just like to add how annoying it is that such a large proportion of smokers don't see their cigarette debris as litter. I've frequently seen people opening a pack of cigarettes and dropping plastic and paper wrapping casually as they do it, but an overwhelming number of smokers just drop their cigarette end in the street. Why do they think this is acceptable? They certainly don't biodegrade quickly, dirty ****ers should pick up their rubbish and throw it away just like any piece of litter. I know their are litterers in all sections of society, but smokers are noticeably over-represented. The other annoying thing is when smokers leave a building to smoke, they are too lazy to move away from the doorway, so you end up having to walk through a big stinking cloud to get into the building. They are also often ignorant that they are casually holding a burning hot item at a level where people can be hurt. I don't think I should have to ask people not to wave a burning cigarette around at my children's eye level as I walk into a place. ****s.

Wouldn't it be covered under either home or travel insurance? It's quite surprising some of the stuff you can claim under travel insurance.

It's true, smokers stink. Also, have you seen those comparison pictures of twins where one of them smokes and the other doesn't? Smoking makes you ugly too. Smoked for a while in my twenties, then realised it was the lamest, stupidest thing I'd ever done and gave up. Drug addiction is for the weak.

Is Mayuka a winger then? I thought he was a striker for some reason.

I think they work far better in printed form than they will on screen. It's not a disservice to the character, I happen to think it is already in its perfect medium. A lot of people wrongly assumed Watchmen was cinematic because of the way the strip was designed. Moore insisted it really wasn't and the resulting film proved him right, nearly copied frame for frame and yet it didn't really work. A cinematic style in the drawing doesn't necessarily translate in a retro way. Dredd was based on different movie characters depending on the era. Sure he was Eastwood when I started reading in the late seventies, but in the eighties he filled out and muscled up just like the movie stars, but that doesn't have any bearing on how well the stories and characters would come across squeezed into an hour and a half designed to have as wide an appeal as possible. Being influenced by cinema doesn't mean the comics are suited to a cinematic makeover. For me the hundreds of stories I read created a complete and perfect character that I still remember fondly today, I don't need him to get the cinema treatment and I don't get why some people see that as the ideal ultimate development for characters they like. Sometimes (actually, pretty often) the page is just better and cinema is a step down, why would I need to see a step down in characterisation?

I don't want to see Dredd. I was a 2000AD obsessive as a kid and I don't actually think you could do those strips justice in a movie. I'm certain any movies would only disappoint me they aren't really cinematic, I'm with Alan Moore this time.

I saw Prometheus at the weekend too. I'm surprised it's had so much negative reaction, but maybe that was from people with too high expectations, who subsequently lowered mine. I thought it was quite good. It seemed to me to be a reboot of the old franchise, taking the original director's vision in a slightly new direction after his old one was ruined by too many sub-standard sequels and a thinly plotted spin-off. I'm assuming this is meant to be the introduction to at least a new trilogy and it works pretty well as that. I thought the end scene was a bit unnecessary though and they should've just concentrated on the engineers rather than the monsters so much.

That was a beauty, to be fair.

Davis easily as much to blame as Jos, but to get in that position, one of their players walked through 3 of our midfield and defence as if they weren't there, puts a lot of pressure on the last man. Two Arsenal players were right on Jos' shoulders.

Not really just Jos to blame. Davis flapped and let it roll in front of goal, but they should never have been allowed to just run through our midfield and defence like that.

I used to have a game for the speccy called Tracksuit manager. It was international football management and it was in the era of players like Paul Mariner. You actually had quite a huge amount of possible players to select the England team from, probably everybody in division 1 at the time and they had a good list of various attributes. In theory it was a brilliant management sim with a pretty decent match commentary too. The problem was it made you sit through every single international match while it calculated the results, not just your own, for every nation. it took ****ing ages and you couldn't just walk away and let it finish working out the results, you had to press enter after each one. The idea was brilliant for footie management simulators t the time but the gameplay was painful. I remember for some reason Chile were far and away the best team in the world. It's the sort of game that would still be okay if they made it run at a decent speed and cut out all of the waiting. Well, okay, it would be ****.

Interesting to see that despite Murray doing well, the next British male is ranked down at 200, whereas the women have 3 in the top 100 and two just outside, one of whom only just dropped out of the top 100. As far as British tennis goes, Murray seems to be the exception, but the women are improving a bit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19546206 Nice to see that the best English ones are still among the best in the world, despite losing the top spot. It's also interesting to see that the traditional "best universities" have so much competition. Oxford is not considered one of the top two in England any more according to this and MIT has gone ahead of Harvard and Yale as well as ahead of Cambridge. No, I didn't go to one likely to trouble the top 10 any time soon (UEA). I know Oxford has still held its place at number 5, despite UCL overtaking it, but I wonder if the prestige of having been to Oxford will ever lessen as a result. By the way, I'm fully aware that a university education can be pointless (most of my students will easily out-earn me working in the North Sea) and that most people aren't impressed by what university others went to etc, I'm just commenting on that article.

Shaun of the Dead and Life of Brian are great, Borat was very funny. I can't remember laughing much at American Pie. Anchorman has a couple of hilarious moments, but as a whole film wasn't much good. I liked Airplane when I was 12, but I reckon I wouldn't laugh at it much now, partly because of that genre being overdone with a lot of very week cash-ons. Didn't rate the hangover or Superbad at all, just very average. It's not that I don't like juvenile humour either, the first Harold and Kumar film had me laughing from start to finish. I thought Bridesmaids was okay, but it doesn't belong in the top ten. Why are you saying "y'all"? Why does anyone type that? The word you makes you sound less of a ***** and is shorter.

Could this have been Flashback? Very different and involved sort of game at the time. Games of my life? well, definitely Elite back in the eighties, it was years before another game on that scale came along. I had a Spectrum and played a couple of management simularors called Tracksuit Manager, that took ages to simulate all of the matches you weren't in and Boxing Manager where you managed a stable of boxers. Later onto the Megadrive and I was another Speedball 2 fan. All football sims on the Megadrive were rubbish, so my mates and I usually played the ice hockey one instead, which was everything the footie games weren't. Streets of Rage was the other favourite and later on Brian Lara Cricket. Had a playstation, but only really did Tomb Raider and FIFA, later got a Playstation 2 and just had time to do San Andreas before I became a dad and gaming largely drew to a close. Recently tried Skyrim, but it was so easy that there was no real challenge.

It is 7, but I understand the common mistake people will make thinking it is 1. I don't know where you've got 6 from.

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Excellent, just disappointed Saints don't seem to be connected to any mediocre England right backs. Beasant ? - Ruddock - Venison - Statham Ripley - Richardson - Palmer - Guppy Walters Dixon Subs: Beattie Hirst Wise I reckon few teams would manage to claim so many poor England internationals.

le Saux should get a mention too. Wonder how far we could get with a disappointing saints England team? Beasant ? - Ruddock - Venison - ? Ripley - Wise - Palmer - Guppy Walters Dixon I know Guppy only played in our reserves, but he was at Saints. Could also have had Beattie or Hirst who were poor for England. Have we signed any full backs who had previous failed for England or later went on to disappoint at a national level?