jeff leopard

Agreed. Considering that the love of cricket in ****stan goes beyond fanatical, it’s a sure sign that the country is ripping itself apart. I can't see anyone wanting to play ****stan home or away for years to come. I'm sure that India are worried that they'll get tarred with the same brush, so to speak.

Wow, your icon of captain caveman really fits the rubbish that you're inflicting upon us. The only icon more fitting would be a picture of a retarded ****.

Going slightly off topic for a second, I saw Mark Thomas on his latest tour where he asks the audience to suggest a policy if they were in Government, he then went through them all and the audience voted on the winner. On the night I went the winning policy was to replace the national anthem with this very tune. Just imagine everyone singing along just before England matches.

excellent result, it makes tuesday night look a bit tasty. i was going to get the kids out but now i'm thinking about limiting my fiddling to giving a couple of subs a run out and try out some established faces in new zany positions. i lost badly on sunday, i bit like saints/man u this season, the score wasn't too unkind on us but we were beaten down like dogs. i'd hope to have a go at them being only 0-1 down at half time, but no. i bought an argentine defender with really good stats just before the game, put him in the team and there was a huge bust up in the dressing room and my great team spirit has turned to anger! against me! :smt022 i feel like i've been raped in the back so yeah, tuesday.

is he still on sale? i just had a search using his stats but couldn't see him. i'll arrange another date for the away leg of the friendly as i'm playing the stain's team on tuesday. i fear a hattrick spanking tonight off the top side, they've been handing out 9-0s to all and sundry this season.

ba-dum, tish! he's got metaphorical money to spare

Doesn't anyone listen to radio solent? Merrington is always bang on the money. The man's dulcet alone have get me through these dark times.

I think I enjoyed it a bit more than you but it is definitely more successful as a "clever" film, knowingly playing with themes that get post-modern film theorists in a flap. After the success of Dark Knight, Chris Nolan will hopefully have the money and freedom to make something really weird but a bit more emotionally involving, before the next batman flick.

301-3 at close of first day's play great stuff, the windies really fumbled the ball at the end there, in every sense. England just stopped scoring around 260, the ball started turning viciously and it looked possible the day could end at 280-5. but gayle took the new ball and the runs suddenly came, about 40 in 5 overs, including lots of wides and no balls. And they dropped five catches. England finish day one on top.

ohhh, a bit of a wobble, as the windies get a brace of wickets and are definately on top in this after-tea session. Shah goes after a 49 ball 7 runs and a massive total looks very unlikely. i don't think i've been so glad to see collingwood come in. I'm loving Strauss's new found aggression, another big century. 259-3

well, two of my defenders were injured and it was a bit make shift in midfield, plus i told them to only give about 75% and my reserves are dire. but i'm glad it wasn't too one sided as I've got a big game this sunday. they'll turn me over but if its only by 4 or 5 i'll see that as a bizarre moral victory. if you're still willing to sell matey, shall we have a go at getting him into my squad in time? (who i'm i kidding, he'd go straight into the starting line-up)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade I watched this the other day for the first time in years and years and thought it was great, very silly but endless fun. When it came out I thought it was too silly for its own good, I was just the right age when Raiders was released and was blown away just how scary it was (to a ten year old anyway). Last Crucade just didn’t have that wonderful supernatural/other-worldlyness that thrilled and chilled at the same time. But…after the debarkle of Indie 4, Last Crucade has gone from above average to whip-cracking fun! The first three Indie films are like a cool uncle who would turn up at family get-togthers and effertly impress. Indie 4 was that same uncle but whose exploits now are tinged with a tragic desperation as they try much to hard to live up to their reputation. You sit there cringing and wishing somebody would whisper in their ear, 'that’s enough, this is just sad'.

He seemed to have a good game so I'm definately still up for having a go at signing him. Cheers for an intersting game, bookended by a dodgy penalty each. After being 3 down after less than 20 minutes I feared a 0-9 drubbing so to come out at 1-5 was something of a relief. My players actually finished with some pretty good ratings although they were clearly out-classed. The only disappointment was the low turn out, 350 punters. Oh well, onwards and upwards.

I always get up 3 hours before going to bed, so compared to me the rest of you are dole-scum. Some weekends I don't go to bed at all! (which probably explains my terrible headaches, nasty voices and agonising mental break-down ) Still, its better than being Johnny sleeps too much.

Just Imagine My girlfriend's just starting her PhD in utopian/dysutopian urban sci-fi and we're watching the key early films that have influenced it ever since. Metropolis is a classic and is still used as a template for the future city (see blade runner, star wars episode 1, the fifth element etc). Over the weekend we saw Just Imagine, a "comedy" "musical" spin-off of Metropolis made by Hollywood in 1930, a film which dared to dream how life would be in 1980. Think massive sky-scrapers and everyone flying around in there personal hover-planes and constantly popping pills. It’s a timely reminder of just how terrible the early 'talkies' could be (compared to modern cinema) as its bascially a bunch of vauderville entertainers trying to cross over to cinema, and failing. The acting is laughable and the waffer thin plot is padded out with truly awlful songs and variety acts. But the sets and special effects look really good and they even got the 80s big-hair just right. And it's the key influence on the Flash Gordon comic strips and Saturday morning serials which came out a couple of years later and went on to influence just about everything sci-fi wise up to 2001:A Space Odyssey. Next up is Britain's first £1000,000 movie, the epic world war/nuclear desturction nightmare, Things to Come (1936). Dun-dun-duhhhh!

Would you call yourself a) Bitter b) Angry and Bitter c) A hate filled Daily Mail reader d) An emotionally burnt-out husk of a man Do you always wake up in a bad mood? I recommend that you drink heavily and beat up randoms (preferably fatties and students) on a weekend. That will help. Or smoke some weed man!

Awesome. Are there any ways for shady dealings in hattrick? Done.

Stare into my wild eyes and laugh at my gay microphone for I am Hattrick's Phil Brown! Kind of. My first first season is going much better than expected, my fans feared a dour relegation struggle and yet after four games I'm second in the league with a 100% record! Admittedly it’s a rubbish league with lots of bot-teams and human sides in a Saints-like states of decline. My first three games were against bot-teams which got the ball rolling and settled everyone down nicely. Yesterday's game was against a human team and I was genuinly surprised that I gave them a semi-spanking (4-0). There was a really bad tempered end to the game with a flurry of bookings and bad injuries, which I found hilarious. This was the first time I set tactics, using my wingers to attack!attack!attack! My next game is a top of the table clash against the side that has thumped everyone so far 8 or 9 nil. So if I can keep it respectable then I'll be happy, although it could be time that my side are brought down to earth with a bump. But at the moment, my fans are dancing in the streets (as opposed to marching ) I'm guessing that we can't make changes during a game unless we state them before kick-off? It seems a bit strange but maybe it needs to be like this to ensure all the games finish at the same time. If anyone wants to give me a friendly then I'm the sinistry of mound fc, come down to our fortress, the kiss-my-face areana. And if anyone has a striker and right back who they don't need anymore, and who would have a field day down in league 7, we should do some shady deal (like put them up for sale late at night) so I can pick them up nice and cheap You can have some of my youngsters to do whatever you like with them. Just be certain to cut their hands off and smash their teeth in before you dump their remains.

Stare into my wild eyes and laugh at my gay microphone for I am Hattrick's Phil Brown! Kind of. My first first season is going much better than expected, my fans feared a dour relegation struggle and yet after four games I'm second in the league with a 100% record! Admittedly it’s a rubbish league with lots of bot-teams and human sides in a Saints-like states of decline. My first three games were against bot-teams which got the ball rolling and settled everyone down nicely. Yesterday's game was against a human team and I was genuinly surprised that I gave them a semi-spanking (4-0). There was a really bad tempered end to the game with a flurry of bookings and bad injuries, which I found hilarious. This was the first time I set tactics, using my wingers to attack!attack!attack! My next game is a top of the table clash against the side that has thumped everyone so far 8 or 9 nil. So if I can keep it respectable then I'll be happy, although it could be time that my side are brought down to earth with a bump. But at the moment, my fans are dancing in the streets (as opposed to marching ) I'm guessing that we can't make changes during a game unless we state them before kick-off? It seems a bit strange but maybe it needs to be like this to ensure all the games finish at the same time. If anyone wants to give me a friendly then I'm the sinistry of mound fc, come down to our fortress, the kiss-my-face areana. And if anyone has a striker and right back who they don't need anymore, and who would have a field day down in league 7, we should do some shady deal (like put them up for sale late at night) so I can pick them up nice and cheap You can have some of my youngsters to do whatever you like with them. Just be certain to cut their hands off and smash their teeth in before you dump their remains.

Well I wish it could be preston every game

Genius! the stone noses

Very good call, few bands are so gloriously British. Their influence on our punk/new wave/indie/break-core has been immense. Sad but true, the current scene is pretty dire. All the interesting stuff formally known as indie is coming out of the US. I just can't see a British band this year offering anything nearly as inventive and beautifully weird as the latest Animal Collective album. And whilst I admit the brits has never been a celebration of forward thinking, 09 is undoubtedly the year BEIGE ROCK BLOWS UP IN ALL OF OUT SH1T. weller, duffy, elbow. its not just the economy that's phucked

Since I finished the Wire I've had a gaping hole in my life. I tried to fill it with The Shield but that was gash. Thank God for Mad Men and Flight of the Conchords, both on HBO. Mad Men is bascially a period drama set in the booming world of advertising in the 1960s. Everyone smokes and drinks therir way through each working day, maybe pausing to molest their secretary and have a mild heart attack before lunch. Its classic 'American-Dream-turned-sour' stuff, and two episodes into season 2, its showing signs of maturing into something with a lot to say about the current mess we're in. Flight of the Conchords season 2 has been a bit of a mixed bag so far. Episode 1 was something of a disappointment but since then its been more hit than miss in their mix of office-style deadpan humour and boosh style sillyness. Bret and Jermaine have admitted that writing 20 new songs for season 2 nearly killed them (they've already said they won't be doing this again) and a few of them sound tossed off, but these two are pretty good - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtbQaJzZh1k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoM3gz02zIE&feature=related

Tom Jones Max Boyce Lloyd Coal and the Locomotions Johnny Hates Jazz (and phuking despises the English) Duffy (i admit, i was just being stupid with the last one)

Like everyone else I'm gutted by the result, especially considering how the Windies batsman were queuing up to give their wickets away on the evening of day three. the injury and illness that limited Flintoff and Harmiston definitely cost us the match. but lets not get all 'ffs! what a load of rubbish!'. this was an incredible game of cricket that went down to the wire on the final day, bringing back memories of the unbelievable ashes series in 05. this is why test match cricket is such a special thing, building like an epic novel and ending like a pantomime, with every ball being cheered and booed in equal measures. well done England for coming back so well after the disaster of the first test, and well done windies for putting up such an incredible defence when it looked like they were doomed to fail. the game was a draw but the future of test match cricket was the undoubted winner. its been a long time since we've been able to enjoy football, lets try and remember that there is still pleasure to be had in sport.