Davkaus

**** hell.

It becomes slightly more sickening each year, but the capacity of this year's CL final venue is 67k. Half of the stadium will be UEFA, sponsors, and other moneymen. 33k tickets go to fans of either team. With the pricing as follows: Imagine paying £410 for a restricted view while some sycophant from Mastercard gets a ticket without knowing who's playing ...

I don't really care if an existing English EC/CL winner wins the tournament, but I'd be **** gutted if Spuds did. I hope they go back to getting a nose bleed whenever their team is above 9th.

Both due to a lack of policing, and council cuts leading to them charging people to take stuff to the tip, I'd imagine. False economy if there ever was one. Make it expensive to legally dispose of rubbish, and guess what people will do? Another every day consequence of austerity. Can we talk about the disgraceful state of roads next?

They've used some of his traits, but not really done him justice. There was the barely-noticed part during the ship battle when Yara is captured for example, when his crewmen are cutting the tongues out of their captured enemies. Euron does this personally in the books, he mans his crews with his captured prisoners from his raids, and rips out their tongues so they can't plot or mutiny. They just missed out a lot of the other stuff, and turned him in to Euron, the chlamydia pirate, who likes to crack jokes about fingers up the bum, and always somehow turns up in the right place.

Shows how important he is, and how good a job Liverpool did compared to the last game where he could freely roam the pitch. I think it highlights how shit his team were too. Liverpool can surround him with a minimum of 3 players...And somehow the rest of the team weren't running rampant in all of the extra space?

Bit of an exaggeration, this. Messi wouldn't stand tallest in an under 11s side

This is a fun game, I want to play. We asked the bar whether they wanted ale, or something else. 48% wanted ale. 52 wanted something else. Some wanted lager, some cider, some spirits, some wine. A fringe group of nutters wanted the contents of the urinal. And that's what we should all have. Something else means something else!

It'd be interesting, but it'd feel incredibly cheap to be introduced so late. One of the things that made Dany so special was bringing back dragons, and now there are just other ones around, for reasons? I can't see it happening. Book spoilers:

How the **** have Barcelona bottled a 3 goal lead twice in two years in the CL. Absolutely pathetic. Fair pay to Liverpool, plenty of people have been happy to take the piss for years when they fall short, but imagine seeing that kind of thing at VP. That'd be the happiest night of my life. Well done to them.

For a moment I thought it was reasonably clever it had been hiding in a scene we've seen several times.. Then when he explained it, I wanted to do this Absolutely ludicrous. I expected the others to call him an idiot.

I went to London last weekend to watch my gf run the Marathon. Met up with some of her family afterwards, we decided to go out to dinner. She and I started looking for some reviews of local places. The rest of the family voted for Zizzi. I struggled to hide my disdain. Anytime I go out for dinner in town and see shitholes like Wagamama and TGI Friday packed out as well. Well. It keeps the riff raff out of the nice places.

I genuinely liked it more in the shot on the car park floor.

They actually suffer from the opposite problem, IMO. While the show is rushed, the books become increasingly verbose. almost gratuitously so. By the middle of book 4, I started to have my doubts, during book 5, it was clear he really needed a stronger editor. To an extent it makes me sympathise with the show writers, now that you've posted this, because the guy who was meant to have finished these books several years ago has been working on the next book for 10 bloody years, and it's clear to everyone that he hasn't a **** clue how to tie all of this together. He knows what the ending is, but not how to get there...Which might explain the last couple of seasons. "So George, what happens next?" The first 2 books are brilliant. I'm ambivalent about the third, on the whole, then in 4 and 5, he's almost Tolkienesque in how he can go on and on for pages without anything happening. As for A Dance with Dragons...someone might enjoy that book, but I've never met them. There's brilliance in there at times, but I was skimming the further I got through it.

It's a moot point really, they're both surrounded by so much plot armour, they couldn't physically get within 10 yards of each other

With all the talk of the prophecies, and why flaming-sword dude was revived 7 times or whatever, you'd thing it might be touched on what Jon's real purpose was, wouldn't you? Essentially, it made absolutely no difference what he and Dany did, because The Night King would still have come for Bran, and Arya needed no help. Why was Jon brought back, what was the Lord of Light's interest in him? It felt like he was destined to be "The Prince That Was Promised" that defeats the Long Night....Was Arya Azor Ahai? Well, no, not by any details that were given. So either the prophecy was wrong, or the show-writers just decided it'd be cooler if Arya solved everything. You could argue Jon and Dany have done nothing more than make things worse. Think about the wall. The dead couldn't pass. It was physically imposing, and magically warded so they couldn't pass. So what the **** was the Night King doing for 8 years? Just marching up and down, looking menacing? As far as I can tell, his plan was to dick about wasting time until the living were stupid enough to give him a dragon. Either way, with Melisandre dead, I think it's safe to say that the prophecy is another interesting book plot that's just going to be forgotten.

To start with, what has sneaking up on someone got to do with being one on one in battle? You're completely changing the topic Even so, though...In an even fight on a battlefield where they can clearly see the other? Possibly. She didn't have much of a problem sparring with Brienne, and Brienne has seen far more combat in her time than Jon. In any other scenario? Jon wouldn't have a chance. Whether she sneaks behind him, wears someone's face, or just fades in and out of a crowd, it's established at this point she could kill pretty much anyone she wants to.

Arya, to camera: "I trained as an assassin in Braavos, you know. That's how I did it. Go back and watch seasons 5-6." There's a lot to criticise so far this season...But what a really odd thing to be incredulous about. We saw her training for bloody ages!

Oh you terrible person. I want to click. But I don't want to.

Fair point. I assumed it'd come from the hand so they didn't have to try to persuade the actors for Bronn and Cersei to be in the same room!

Can we talk about the Bronn scene, and how he just casually walks in to the enemy castle, with his crossbow drawn, extorts the hand of the queen, who has no guards, for reasons, then they just let him walk away? The same guy who threw himself in front of a dragon to save Jaime last season, by the way. It puts another layer of "wtf" on the parley as well. Cersei has literally promised this guy a castle to kill Tyrion, her archers are willing to kill him for free, and she doesn't bother. Clearly it's not all that unthinkable thing for her to do based on how quickly the crossbows are drawn and how worried Tyrion looks. Honestly, spending any time thinking about this show is an exercise in frustration. I'm at the point of thinking "**** it, may as well finish, there's only 2 hours left", when 3 or 4 seasons ago I thought it was the best thing on TV.

Why do you think we got to see her sneaking around a library for 5 minutes in a scene so close to Jon trying to sneak up on him? I thought they hammered the point home. She's a sneaky, sneaky assassin, quiet than a drop of blood.

It was a bit fan-servicey, but the Tormund scenes were my favourite by far. Proper belly laugh when he's crying about Brienne then the camera slowly pans out.

It was definitely a shock, and like so many other recent scenes, in the moment I was absolutely hooked. It was only taking a minute to think about it after the credits rolled that I thought "hang on a minute...How many times is she going to let Euron's fleet sneak up on her?". I also like that they wanted the parley scene so much, they changed the geography of Kings Landing to make it happen. Remember the great tactician, Stannis, knowing it was impossible to assault King Landing on foot, hence the battle of the Blackwater? No? The directors don't either.

Same. It seems somewhat out of character for the mad Queen to obey the rules of parley. You know what else is against the rules? Destroying a full church. She's meant to be devious and utterly ruthless.