mjmooney

Sheffield United have joined Wigan and Aston Villa in the race to sign Hull City goalkeeper Boaz Myhill. (Daily Star) http://tinyurl.com/cyuz Well I suppose we could look at it as having been an extended loan deal. Anybody know how much we sold him for in the first place?

I think he could be invited to join this lot: http://tinyurl.com/2oqf45 Best bit: "Infectious Lass is withdrawn and seems to suffer from a mild asthma-like condition and sounds permanently congested. Her powers involve creating an infectious slime, but it seems limited to creating a quick, mild cold".

A virtual pint for anyone who can tell me where it was taken...

I voted for Brummie Reds being worse. At least the Noses support a local team. I might make an exception, e.g. if it's someone who was born in Brum, but to a family of Mancunians who have supported United from way back when they were shit. Otherwise, no, they're gloryhunting clearings in the woods.

Yes they do. Excellent.

Is it just me that finds the above rather gross? Like something out of an "Alien" film.

Older readers: remember Don Revie? Picked Brian Little ONCE for England. He came on as a sub, played a blinder, set up the winning goal... and was then dropped, never to be picked again. I hated Revie with a vengeance. Well, I hate McLaren even more. So I've voted "no". I'm not at all interested in England games while he's in charge. Utter, utter rocket polisher. I hope they lose every game until he is sacked. Mike

Yes. Just.... yes. Mike

He is to me. I read all the books (in publishing sequence) before I saw any of the films. OK, I realise that I'm in a minority here, but for me the films are (post-Connery at any rate) irrelevant. The books are where it's at. Mike

absolutely 100% spot on Peter. I am quite shocked by some of the posts here in support of Moore. he is nothing at all like the Bond Fleming created. He's a wooden comical cartoon version of him, who got the part thanks to his outings as Simon Templar in the Saint. Moore was not helped by the increasingly comical scripts for his Bond films, but i've yet to see Moore excel in a serious acting role, and the Bond role is (or at least should be) a serious role. Agree with you both. Daniel Craig has the capability to become the best overall but at the moment he is certainly reviving the franchise. Add me to this camp. Connery the best, by a mile. Moore the worst, also by a mile. How could Roger Moore ever hope to be James Bond? Everybody knows he's THE SAINT. Haven't seen the new one yt, but Craig looks quite promising. Mike

Fantastic Malc, chimes with my memories of The Great Man exactly (although I never had the privilege of meeting him). I still get goosebumps remembering how pumped up I felt when he did that interview with a journo who reckoned that Ipswich had the league title sewn up - the look on his face as he growled "You wanna bet against us?" made me so proud to be a Villa fan, and at that moment I knew we were going to win the trophy. Because if he could inspire me like that via a TV screen, what must it have been like to be a Villa player in the dressing room? All I can say to the younger generation of Villans is "You should have been there". Mike

How about this one from the BBC: "606 gossip: Mr_stewart is "99% certain" he saw Chelsea's Shaun Wright-Phillips at St James' Park with Newcastle coach Terry McDermott". SWP at St. James's, eh? Hmmmm.... Mike

Slightly OT, but we were having a chuckle about the Upson saga earlier. This little gem from the Grauniad deadline watch made me laugh: "Steve Bruce was insisting that Upson should do the "honourable thing" and see out the contract he signed. Steve Bruce. Seeing out contracts. Honour. It's so relaxing when you don't even have to join the dots..." Mike

Ashley Young: "With the new training facilities and the investment in the team, there the ambition to be a top-six club and I believe that's what we can be". I referred to this quote over on the AY thread, but thought it was worth mentioning here as a nod to the General and the rest of the Board. Note the reference to the training facilities. Payback already. Well done fellas. Mike

Well, yes, but there were always "teen idol" acts, whether it was Mark Wynter, or The Osmonds, or The Rollers, or Westlife. They got on my nerves a bit, but by and large I could ignore them - their audience was always 10-year-old girls, who have as much right to have their own music as the rest of us. I think we have to compare "like with like": The Pistols and clash weren't really replacing The Rollers, they were replacing (or trying to) the likes of Genesis, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, etc. Ironically, all three acts I've just named are still around now (although for my money they WERE washed up by the time punk came along). I liked the Pistols and Clash singles, but they couldn't really do albums. I liked the progressive bands much more, but they mostly did their best work on their first three or four albums and then went stodgy. Mike

The 70's were a bizarre decade. Many of my most treasured albums come from the late 60's and early 70's. Around 73 things started to go badly wrong. The mid to late 70's were bad for Jazz, Rock, Psych and the Avant Garde. I see Punk like a triple heart bypass - a sad but necessary measure at the time. A man after my own heart. Actually, punk was not so much a triple heart bypass as an emergency amputation with a rusty knife. It maybe saved the patient's life, but it left him scarred and crippled. Mike

Well, the thing is, musical "decades" don't necessarily map to calendar decades. As most people on this site know by now, I'm a big 60s & 70s enthusiast, but principally the SECOND half of the 60s (i.e. once pop started to metamorphose into "rock") and the FIRST half of the 70s (before punk threw the baby out with the bathwater). So my favourite decade is 1965 to 1975, and I can't vote for one listed in the poll. If I absolutely had to though, I'd probably say the 60s, because of the sheer amount of innovation that started with The Beatles . The WORST, by a long, long margin, was the 80s. Ghastly, just ghastly. Mike

Who is Sarah Michelle-Gellar ? Mike

That'll be the 1957 Cup Final shirt. Nice shirt, with great associations, but not suitable for a regular home shirt, which MUST be claret body, blue sleeves. So there. Mike

Interesting list. I guess you must be a southerner, with your choices of nos. 1 & 2 ! Nelson is a good call, and clearly some respect for an old adversary with Giap. Nice to see Omar Bradley get a mention over the big-name bigheads like Montgomery and Bradley. I'd add Shaka Zulu to the list. Mike

Totally agree. I used to buy the Sunday Times many years ago, when their advertising slogan ("The ST is the Sunday papers") was true. Then I stopped buying Sunday papers for years, but got the ST out of curiosity a few months ago. Feking hell! I could not believe how shite it had become. No better than the Sun. I'm also amazed at how many of us on here are Grauniad readers - I'm sure you'd get a different result if you could poll the non-internet-using footie fans. Must also agree with the respondents who praised the Saturday Guardian - apart from the Sports and Guide sections (and the quiz!), the Review is excellent - I get many good book recommendations from there. But, as has been quoted elsewhere - You Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express. Mike

I suppose this is off-topic, but I'd like to ask the General: Have you seen "Flags Of Our Fathers" yet? And if so, what did you think of it? (Sorry for the 0% Villa). Mike

My hero. Mike

Nice to see the Spizzmeister is a VillaTalk reader. Mike

Agree with you on that mate, definitely needs re-recording - could be the one. Also think guitars don't work too well for an anthem, wouldn't mind it going a bit more electro pop if possible. Heretic! Burn him! Burn him! Electro pop? :evil: Mike