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That maybe be true but it doesn't invalidate their musical opinion though....well it doesn't if your a normal fair minded and balanced human being....

Tevez's first game for Bocca at the weekend...Maradonna in attendance but Carlos was overshadowed a bit... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/babb/11749557/Diego-Maradona-left-stunned-after-Jonathan-Calleri-scores-exceptional-rabona-chip.html

What a load of shite man....theres thousands of people who weren't born when their favourite music was released.

Less physically attractive but equally as mind blowing from Glasgow around the same time...

Take Money for Nothing and walk of life out of BIA and its a classic, the title track alone is a masterpiece Graceland was a bit meh for me but I appreciate it more nowadays..

Agreed, for me the 80s was a great decade for music but not for any reason CT could come up with. The post punk early 80s in particular was a great time for innovative and interesting artists. Perhaps not musically as such, but the likes of Culture Club were properly "out there", in fact most weeks on TOTP there seemded to be someone who was doing something very different to what had gone before; Soft Cell, Hazel O'Connor, Human League, early Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen etc etc. Most if not all heavily influenced by Bowie. Even properly mainstream bands like Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran wrote killer pop songs and could all play pretty well live too. They piss on the likes of Take That and their irish imitators iyam.

Not too sure about that.... Anderlecht manager Besnik Hasi has described Mbemba: “He has great class, he may not be tall if you compare him to some defenders but he is so fast and can jump so high, plus he’s a really good footballer too.” - See more at: http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/07/newcastle-agree-deal-for-chancel-mbemba-reports/#sthash.P7ZSodj4.dpuf

Well he's being put into this position by his career choice. He may be misguided but what is actually wrong with standing up for what you believe in? He's got to look the catholic community back home in Derry in the eye, I imagine that means more to him than pissing off the internet and football people in general tbh.

The national anthem is a fuckin disgrace. If his attention seeking efforts put some focus on what a pile of shit it actually is then fair play to him.

Aye just had a Google and came up with this from 2013 with quotes from your mate Ross Tucker http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23368970

Packed with old Tories but run by left wingers....we'll end up with fairness and balance being deregulated in broadcasting and the likes if Sky news morphing completely into Fox News, shovelling mountains of shit down the throats of the ignorant and easily lead.

Is there any way (or any point?) in comparing Froomes times over the classic tour routes (Ventoux??) with Armstrongs best times on the same routes?

Santon is a good footballer but a dreadful left back. I know all the arguments and some top coaches gave picked him there but his final full season with us was fuckin appalling. His performance in the first 0-3 v the mackems was one of the worst I've ever seen from one of our lot in a derby. Haidara has his moments but he's natural left back in a way the Santon could never be and was in all likelyhood brought in as Santons replacement which is a rare display of effective recruitment policy from the club i.e. get the replacement in while the player who is likely to move us still at the club.

Yeah that's fair. We've not replaced Santon, who was never a decent left back for me in a million years and Haidara is already a better fit iyam, but a lot of the time the same old shit gets rolled out about the squad in general i.e. It's not strong enough in all positions. It's stating the blindingly obvious that it never will be to the extent we all want under Ashley,but the mark of a really good coach is the improvement he can make and sustain to the players he inherits. Am prepared to wait and see. We annihilated Pardew,Carver and Stone for not being able to get the most out of all the players. What needs to improve over and above ability for me is attitude, not turning up for half a fuckin season is a far worse crime than being shit. If McClaren can inspire consistency of performance in effort and ability over nine months then we'll be a dozen points better off iyam. That doesn't sound a very high target but seeing as we could've been relegated on two out the the last three seasons on the final day the bar is pretty low.

Yeah, but name a side with three or four full backs as good as him?...it's not that my expectations are low, but ffs be realistic.

I know every word of all four sides of the Grease soundtrack due to my older sister. Also the Oliver! soundtrack, and several Disney films, all due to her domination of the dansette in the 70s. It's not that I hate any of that, but very soon after for me came Madness, the specials, the jam, all the punk/new wave stuff, electronic synth pop etc etc, a brief dalliance with ac/dc, thin lizzy, iron maiden etc after we moved to rural Scotland in 1980 which was what the older kids in the village listened to, along with Bowie who's Scary Monsters album came out the same year. Then a bit later this hip hop/rap thing came in from the states and blew me away, I'd never heard anything like it before, I became obsessed with def jam, especially the Beastie Boys. I started reading the music press around this time and got into loads of indie stuff, I had the free C86 cassette which was the blueprint for sound which major labels would appropriate a few years later to make indie mainstream. A bit later I went to one of the first raves ever held in Scotland, and I saw Nirvana play to 500 people in Edinburgh. Loved it all. I know loads of people with this sort of background, but I don't know anyone who's musical tastes were formed at 12 in the late 70s and never moved on in any wayshape or form What the fuck is wrong with you?

Corbyn is strongly rumoured to be ahead though. We might get another SDP?...

The current queen, to give her official title, Frau Saxe Coburg Gotha-Schleswig Holstein Sonderberg Glucksberg strongly refutes this claim

Rollo died in AD 932, he founded the Viking colony in what we now call Normandy. The Norman conquest of England was134 years later. I reckon there's a lad somewhere in England with Polish parents at school in 2015 who will play football for England before 2025. Think toontl makes a good point

"Trudging through the (18)80s"

Don't give up your day job if you can't stand up your collusion point though...there's nothing in that link that even mentions the events leading up to the conquest.

Hes never had the shout though. The Anfield transfer "committee" made him take Ballotelli last summer a month after he said that he wasn't signing. Bottom line is Rodgers is a slight upgrade on Pardew as a coach. That's not a high bar. That's why he couldn't get anything out of Ballotelli which is basically his job description i.e. get the best out of the players provided for him, not to recruit them himself.

It was fraternal feuding that induced the admittedly expationist (he had a thing about Cnut and his north sea empire) Harald Hadrada to sail up the Ouse to Stamford Bridge for a punch up with Harold in September 1066. The English king's brother Tostig sailed with the Norwegian fleet after he was banished due to an earlier attempt to grab the English throne. Agree that there's not a lot if any evidence to suggest any collusion between the Normans and their distant cousins. The British Isles had successive waves of invasion/conquest (or immigration as we now call it ) throughout pre history and right through what we call the dark ages, but that also goes for pretty much the whole planet tbh