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The first thing you see on the invoice is the address...Sacramento.

99% of the people being kept apart are like pissheads in a pub as well. "Hold me back!" If you didn't keep them separated they'd put their heads down, cover their colours and get on their way. They love the confrontation as long as it comes with the safety the police barrier affords them.

175 wasn't it... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24476130 The way those ONS numbers were publicised as Newcastle fans being the worst scum was a disgrace though. The numbers were massively weighted by the 100 divvy kids who weren't even at the Sunderland game all arrested in 1 day. Look at travelling fans in 12/13 and Newcastle have less arrests (15) than all but the most poorly supported teams in the Premier league (Norwich, West Brom, Fulham, Reading, Southampton, QPR and Swansea). Fans which travel in similar numbers to us (or less) are much higher in terms of arrests made... Man U 55 Man City 44 West Ham 42 Chelsea 37 Everton 35 Villa 27 Arsenal 26 Mackems 25 Stoke 24 Tottenham 23 Liverpool 21 That's a true reflection of the behaviour of fans in stadiums. A similar story comes out of the banning orders fans have received with Newcastle fans dwarfed by Man U, West Ham, Chelsea and co. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/248740/Football_Arrest_BO_Statistics_2012-13.pdf One would think there was some sort of southern bias to the press reporting of hooliganism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0G67AmppKI That son of a bitch is Ice Cold

On the other hand this is fucking mint though. 2 weeks off for christmas and 2 or 3 games every day. Work usually gets in the way

"A switch to up-rating benefits in line with the lower CPI measure of inflation rather than the RPI will pull in £5.8bn".

The 2 mackems on there that have roped in a few foreigners that don't know better stick out a mile

tbf he looked like that when he collected his Sports Personality lifetime achievement award so you never can tell. The miserable prick.

An 8pm kick off would mean most of the bairns involved in any trouble the past few years would have to be at home for school the next day.

No less responsible than the behavior of fans at any of the worlds major derbies that are policed after 1.30pm though. If the police treated it like any other game then perhaps less of the idiots would think of it as an occasion to get uber Mortal as early as possible.

This review is spot on... http://www.newstatesman.com/broadcast/2013/11/passion-and-piss-channel-4s-gogglebox "Piss!"

Wonder if the mackems will be able to sell their ticket allocation for the final.

I'm impressed people are so well off to turn their noise up at the free £100 or whatever for switching. If that's the case, I recommend everyone do it and give the money to SBR. That must be worth the half hour application

There's a peak halfway through season 3 that results in a really annoying reveal that's just bollocks, and then it builds again to a really exciting/solid conclusion which a series so similar to 24 demands I think. I appreciated that rather than the open ended cliffhangers which falsely suggest the writers are doing any more than winging it.

I think it's all been shite from season 1, but season 2 was the shittest of the 3. There's a homeland thread where I've moaned at length

Aye it would inevitably have got a doubtful reaction because it was bollocks, but like you say they'd written him into a situation where whatever they did would have been bollocks

I smell a rat, that's Kanayo Chiemelu.

Season 3 is better than Season 2.

In terms of story, plot, writing, inventive situations and solutions it's a bit emperors new clothes. It's set up as being clever but when you think it through the situations don't hold water. For example... ...but I might be stupid and just didn't understand them myself. What you can't take away from it is the production value. That's always brilliant and worth watching for alone. I always get more enjoyment from the flashy editing than the storylines

:lol: "Howay the bonny lad, who's that?" :D

Best show on telly at the minute Gogglebox man.

The hard work comes in adding your new card details to every website

I hadn't, so cheers for that. I've read elsewhere you have to have a 100k income though. It'll have to wait a year or two for me