Jenko#4

Kate McCann leading a choir of other parents of missing children on Britains Got Talent. Its not my place to speculate on what happened to that little girl, but surely her mothers time is better spent looking for her daughter than potentially going through 12 weeks of live TV to win a meaningless competition. Also, it is another guaranteed cash-cow for Simon Cowell, so is doubly annoying......

What about the ball routine in rhythmic gymnastics? It is in the olympics so is technically a sport, and is competitive as you try to score the highest marks. The only reason I can see why not is whether it is technically a sport in its own right, or a subset of gymnastics in general.

Both Sky and BT are full of 'yes' men now. I think it is because they are afraid to hire someone with an opinion since the Keys/Gray episode. The closest we have to someone with an opnion is G Neville, and that is the reason he is head and shoulders above everyone else at the moment. They will never take a risk on a Collymore for example.

The best chance we've got of scoring in that situation is a GK own goal........

Although it isn't outright, he is still technically Man Utds top goal scorer ever, so is a record holder. Fair play to the guy, top scorer for Man Utd and England, not a bad career. If only he could have done it on the biggest stages though.....

I'm going to put a couple of quid on the home nation I think. They've probably got the best African striker in the world at the moment in Aubameyang, a relatively easy group, and home support

My old man is a Small Heath fan (and I said B.Y.A.C........ * ) and I was talking to him about it earlier. He reckons they could go down this season! The sum of their team is so much greater than the parts, and Rowett was the glue that held that together. He genuinely doesn't think one nose player is good enough for a top ten club in the championship on their own, but together he thought they were. He had the same look about him that I had when McLeish took over/ we loaned Dawkins/Delph abandoned us. I felt sorry for him for a short while, but that soon passed Zola will spunk the 12m on middle-of-the-road Italians who won't have the stomach for the fight. * I didn't really say this, despite his obvious faults I could never say it to his face, and he'd kick my a**e!!

Kraken is a great shout, however another one to look at is Brugal 1888.....awesome!

I've just had a real kick in the balls!! Second season as Villa, first back in the Premier League, and I finish 4th- 1 point behind 3rd placed Arsenal. Unfortunately the English teams were so rubbish in Europe in the first season, there are only 3 Champions League places for 2018/19........

Second season with Villa. Won promotion at the first time of asking, and now sat 6th in the Premier League after 11 games. I'm doing well against the smaller clubs, but then getting hammered by the top 4. United are already 10 points clear after 11 wins from 11. My PL signings are- Joe Gomez, Nathan Chalobah, Jose Sa (keeper from Porto), Jordan Lukaku, Lewis Baker, Mateo Cassierra (potentially awesome young striker from Ajax). I've also had two potential starting 11 players come through as regens, Looking forward to seeing how they develop. I swore i'd never get into another game of FM, but I'm hooked again..........

http://imgur.com/gVyGwqL The game is broken...... Gabby planning to become a Director of Football...... I'm at January in my first season on the game with Villa. Currently top by 5 points from QPR. Kodjia has 23 league goals already. Have sold Grealish, Kozak, Westwood, Gestede, Hutton, Cissokho, and Adomah (i'm not playing with wingers), and I've bought in Clough and Dozzell. I'm a bit threadbare squad wise, but I don't want to waste the money i've bought in on players who won't do a job in the Prem later. I'm playing a narrow 433 (Gollini, De Laet, Chester, Elphick, Amavi, Gardner, Jedinak, Tshibola, McCormack, Kodjia, Ayew)

I don't think anything will. The level of investment that people have put into it means that they will not look at alternatives.. If I cancelled my facebook account now, I'd lose photos and memories from nearly a decade ago that other people have posted/tagged me in. Also, you would need a massive change in mindshare to do it. Even if you did discover the next greatest social media network, would 90% of the people that you know choose to swap over as well? I only really use facebook now because some of my friends are in the dark ages and still communicate via facebook messenger. If they all swapped to whatsapp i'd quite happily not log in for weeks on end, but I could never cancel my account because of the above.

Carlos Alberto has died.....scorer of arguably the most famous goal ever

It was Venus, but yep definitely a word removed.

Burton were in the Conference as recently as 2009, and were playing at level 6 of the pyramid in the early 00's. Now they sit above us......

Teams have got into the playoffs over the last few years after losing 13/14 games in a season. We've lost 3 so far, and even though we haven't won away yet we've picked up points against teams that we expected would be around us (Derby/Ipswich), as well as been unbeaten at home. Okay, it's not quite 'Fortress Villa Park', but surely visiting Villa Park 6 times in a row and not seeing us lose is a bonus after the last few seasons!! Are the playoffs a stretch for us- yes. Are they impossible- absolutely not. It is very obvious that we are not firing on all cylinders, but there are definitely positives to take. I still think we can do it, however knowing Villa my money is on us losing out on the last day of the season on goal difference........

Maybe there is already a replacement lined up........Nigel Spink was at Small Heath, Wigan and Sunderland with Bruce as GK coach.

I had a colleague who was convinced 'The Martian' was based on a true story......

He is joint second favourite for the England job at the moment. I think he would probably bide his time and see what happens there first.

I don't know the answer 100%, but my view is that there are a limited number of 'scripts' (as with watching the game in text mode- content gets repeated). The player attributes determine which script gets used at which time. If it was unscripted, then there would be an infinite number of possibilities that could be shown (positions a player stands in, direction of pass, height of pass, type of finish etc....) I don't think a standard laptop would be powerful enough to calculate all the different outcomes.

The simple fact is that we bought a 22 year old League 1 player for peanuts..........we got exactly what we paid for. It is not Westwoods fault that a succession of managers have decided to play him over 100 times at a level where he is out of his depth. If there ever was any Premier League potential in there, he would have been snapped up from League 1 at 18/19, much like Alli, Delph, Shelvey etc....

Yep, Fowler is the best English finisher I've seen. You could add Big Dion and Kevin Phillips to that list as well. They'd all walk into the current England squad. It's a travesty that Ferdinand, Cole, Collymore and Phillips have less caps combined than players like Heskey and Crouch. They were just unfortunate that they played in era when we probably had the best group of strikers England has ever seen.

I thought we had a winner here until I checked my own..........The Notorious B.I.G., Noel Fielding, and Mr. T!!

What happens to the salt and vinegar on fish and chips? I've just been to the chippy and stood there and watched the lovely lady behind the counter pour about a pint of vinegar on, as well as an oceans worth of salt. I get home, plate up, and can't taste a drop, so had to add more......

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, so I'm hoping one of our Swedish or Danish friends can help out and confirm whether something I heard today is actually true or not. Apparently our two greatest defenders of recent times, Mellberg and Laursen, are now technically related? Apparently Olof's wife is cousins with Laursen's wife. Is this correct?