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It'll be like a busman's holiday, 70 years almost to the day

How good a bang dya reckon Charlotte Church would be?

Sheepskin coats have been threatening a comeback for a couple of years now, and with men's catwalk designers touting them lately it's a fair shout that they'll be on the high street for next winter. When brands like this are offering them on websites like this you know it's only 12 months away from average Joe... To be honest, though, a grey faux-sheepskin from the 80s sounds a bit naughty...

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Barry Bannan being a mainstay of our side is one of the key reasons that we are genuine relegation contenders this season. He's played over 50 games for us now, yet still looks like he's making his debut every week. He can't tackle, his positional sense is awful, he doesn't intercept the ball, he gets caught in possession and he's set up one, maybe two, goals for us (by my reckoning - could be wrong though). He's just not good enough. Maybe Championship standard. Maybe. He plays like someone who's had a tough upbringing and his social worker wrote a letter to "Noel's Christmas Presents" saying how much little Barry wants to be a professional footballer.

If we get to that Cup Final I'll be watching it on telly. I'd hate to see us get beat by 5 or 6 at Wembley.

Just dreadful.

I just don't know what he DOES do. He can't tackle, he doesn't read the game, he can't shoot and his passing is hit and miss at best. I just don't know what his role is. It's like he's won a competition or something.

Ireland's been our best player today.

He's played over 50 times for us now, scored once (a penalty) and set up how many - one, two?

Why have we got players trying to showboat against a far, far superior side?

This should really be about 8 by now.

Bannan really is **** awful.

I really should've gone and put the Xbox on.

We look absolute dogshit here. I'm off to play FIFA.

Holman looks really pedestrian today. There's been a couple of times hes picked the ball up fairly central about 25-30 yards out and you'd really want him to drive at their defence. He hasn't. And one suspects it's because he can't.

Awful.

He's an asthma attack waiting to happen, that bloke.

Swindon Town?

Someone in Manchester has done a low rent version of this for Christmas, but this American Hallowe'en one is better. I hadn't seen it before, but it's probably in here already somewhere -

Der Spielvereinigung!

You must be gutted today mate. Time for a new favourite!

He's gonna score more goals for England than Alan Shearer.

I'm hoping to add Peru and Norway next year. Not sure where else yet. Maybe Brazil.