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Anyone else hopeful that all this attention this week doesn't put Jack of his game? It seems to have been all about him this week which for some reason just concerns me.

There was MOTD, Jenas waxing lyrical about him on PL world and at least 3 newspaper articles. I'm not suggesting it will go to his head but he's about to play against one of the best teams in the world and all that attention also brings pressure.

7 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

Gabby was only ever an exemplary professional for me, he never kicked up a fuss or was in the newspapers for the wrong reasons.

Wow - SGC you are so wrong there. His weight/fitness, his application were all appalling once he got his last contract. I also seem to remember pictures of him smoking and drinking in Dubai with Dwight Gayle when he was supposedly 'injured.'

Anyway OT sorry

I wish someone would just cancel this shit show and hold it in the summer in a proper country.

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Draft plans have been shared between clubs outlining the Premier League schedule around the tournament, being held from 21 November to 18 December.

Fixtures could take place on 12 November and resume on 26 December, eight days after the final.

The season would also kick off one week earlier and finish a week later.

It means that there would be only six weekends without Premier League games.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50169337

Pepe has just banged in 2 free-kicks for Arsenal in about 10 mins.

25 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

Just finished watching the episode of their documentary where they play us and then go out of the playoffs (thanks @Czechlad) and now my willy is weeping with pure joy.

Have you got to the "attempted murder" part yet?

19 minutes ago, useless said:

After thirteen games last season Leeds had less points than they have now, and were fourth in the league table. They've actually made a better start to this season than they did last season.

They'll still collapse in late March/April and it will be absolutely hilarious. Again.

Car horns.

Ok I live in a city so I expect an amount of noise pollution. But car horns have gone from; 

"Warning impending accident" to;

"what did you do that for you muppet"  but these days it's just;

"I'M NOT GETTING WHAT I WANT RIGHT NOW AND I NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT IM NOT GETTING EXACTLY WHAT I WANT IMMEDIATELY NOW AND I SHOULD HAVE IT BECAUSE I'M ME."

4 minutes ago, Xela said:

I did say excellent  

On 05/09/2019 at 01:50, sne said:

 

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Wolves just like us going with green for the 3rd kit apparently.

& theirs is even more minging than ours 

What ever happened to LeviRamsay? He was such a prolific poster for a long time.

 @leviramsey You last stopped by July 2018 - What happened - Who was rude to you?

2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Bought a laptop with Windows 10 on it. Now the missus has got a new job doing online teaching, and needs to use the laptop. Yet every **** menu seems to contain a record of some dirty movies I've watched in my me-time. 'Historical activity'! 'Favourites'! 'You might like to revisit this again'!

Just piss off you grass.

Are you sure they're just the movies you've watched? 

Just now, Keyblade said:

Would love to see a reimagined SW trilogy that could compete with the superhero movies of today instead of just being a slightly more modern rehash of the original trilogy.

I'm not sure I would want to see it, but if Disney think they could make money from it I'm sure it will happen eventually. 

I could see remakes of Indiana Jones, ET and all of the original 80's "lunchbox blockbusters."

11 hours ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

Unless Rik Mayall did it.  The master.

7 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

It's interesting how people view things so differently. I used to watch reruns of the old cartoon as well and it was fun in a nostalgic way. It was cool seeing cartoons my dad grew up on but the show wasn't really that good so I can see why you were put off .

I was lucky enough to grow up on the 90's cartoon, and it was just the coolest thing to me as a kid. Not so much the origin story but his powers in general. Just like the X-Men of the same time...it felt I don't know, more plausible? Star Wars in comparison seems like a distant fantasy. Which I guess is part of the allure in a way, but I think younger kids aren't as much into fantasy and more into cool action. Case in point, in my early years I was obsessed with Power Rangers and Spider-man etc. It's not until you hit 10-12 that you start to get into the Harry Potters and the LOTR's of this world.

I think Star Wars played both roles for kids at the time. I imagine it was somewhat of a techical marvel back then too. Even now when I'm watching the older movies I think to myself, "damn they could do that in 1977*?". Now I feel like if kids see SW they'll just be like "yeah ok that's cute, back to Thanos". The new trilogy is a lot of fanservice anyway. It doesn't really translate well I feel.

Absolutely - and thats why Disney bought it. They knew they would make $$$ from the 35 - 45 year saddos (like me !) and it would make the shareholders happy.

Gosh it's such a shame to be so cynical about something that was once so magical.

1 minute ago, Wainy316 said:

77 

Lol!

4 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Fast forward to now, when I went to see 7 and 8 in theaters, it was pretty much just people (mostly dudes) in their 30's and 40's. Conversely when I went to see Spiderman, it was either groups of 12-14 year olds, or families with their kids. Now that's a franchise that has endured throughout generations. Spider-man honestly never stops being cool.

Thats really interesting but I have completely the opposite view. I grew up watching the rather lame 70's/early 80's TV Spiderman and it was just, well lame. Also the idea that someone in our universe/world gets bitten by a spider and then starts jumping around buildings and squirting webs from their wrists - well that just always seemed stupid to me 

However Star Wars started with "A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away..." which just set it up so beautifully for me. It wasn't in the future in was ancient and miles from anything we ever knew. It just seemed to set up such huge possibilities. 

Each to their own though I guess 

18 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

 It might have been cool in 1974 but yeah, not anymore.

Released in '78 

I'm just a bit meh about all of this. I was a huge SW fan as a kid and of course I,II,&III were so terrible it was like Lucas murdered part of my childhood. Midiclorians FFS.

FA was ok but for me had so many stupid moments and TLJ was such an abortion it killed any hope that Disney was going to do anything good with the main story.

So meh - I'll wait to see what you lot say before wasting $30 at a Manhattan movie theatre.

9 hours ago, villa4europe said:

John Williams > Beethoven

there I said it

Totally different genres tbh. Late 18th/early 19th Century Symphonic romanticism versus movie music. 

But JW does have some great tunes for sure.

10 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Man. United have failed to score more than one goal in any league or cup game since first weekend of the season. Even our 15/16 vintage wasn't that inept at goalscoring.

They need to sack OGS and appoint Lambert for rest of the season to finish this cycle.

There's only one man that Fergie will back for the Utd hot seat......

Good result - Plop's streak gone hahahahahahahaha & Utd won't be able to sack him after today.

1 minute ago, osmark86 said:

both have been pretty good though you must admit

Yeah - Lallana had to beat the world class left back Ashley Young at the back post for that goal.