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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39f_vkViOpI

You'd never even heard of Davies until he scored this weekend and MOTD/the Internet, a.k.a. your loyal robo-assistant on Football Manager, informed you that he was a temporarily in-form player for a club called "Swan-sea", from a faraway magical kingdom known as "Wales".

It's all about coping strategies. Telly and/or music, a duvet on the sofa, a wee dram if need be. It's all good. (Annoying, but good.)

Tell them The Sun will do a number like this on them and they might think twice about coming: http://liberalconspi...fits-scrounger/

That was baffling like. Almost as if it was designed to put off people who think they wouldn't enjoy a musical film by giving them something that sounded like their worst nightmare. If I didn't know Les Mis already I probably wouldn't bother going (which we really must get round to actually doing...) after hearing that.

Reliving some Lanzarote holiday flavours - salmon fillets with mojo sauce and roasted new potatoes with adobo canario spices. (And sugar snap peas, but they're not particularly holiday-y.)

I don't know the friend-of, but our friend is possessing of a weedy singer-songwriter boyfriend from Finland, regrettably.

So we'll be having an impromptu visitor tonight. A friend is landing from New York at 8:30pm and her friend from Salisbury who she's meant to be staying with for the weekend has point-blank refused to come and pick her up because there'll be two inches of snow between now and then.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4750515/katie-price-married-stripper-after-psychics-advice.html It's a good thing gays aren't allowed to marry, it'd totally devalue the concept.

Magic.

Interesting piece & comments thread: http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/if-hmv-goes-long-tail-goes-with-it.html

Feet up, glass of whisky, Eurovision 1969 on the telly. Lovely jubbly.

Bryan bloody Robson.

And you're living at the civilised end of Germany, too...

Bavaria has a population of 12.5 million. Not being frivolous or anything, but the federal nature of Germany reflects the fact that the football scene, like everything else in the country, is hugely fragmented by region. That said, I certainly won't deny Bayern are the go-to choice for football-obsessed kids in towns without a big club throughout the land, just like Man U are here - but their genuine support is hugely localised to the conservative south, even if the absolute numbers are undeniably large when compared with Germany as a whole and (inevitably) with other, smaller European countries.

No, that's the part that was right. Although generally German league football should get a bit of a free pass because of what was going on in the country at that time.

Well, you're half right.

I had to Wiki 1690 to work it out. Pretty much illustrates how irrelevant Northern Ireland is in the grand scheme of things.

Those Tesco horse burgers were nice, but I prefer My Lidl Pony.

Me too I draw the line at Benidorm, mind.

Torremolinos is literally what I'm looking at too. Who needs class, there's a few decent restaurants in the town itself and Malaga isn't far away if you want actual tapas culture, so who cares if the rest of it is stereotypical as owt.