Football simulations have been done to death. Be you a playing type of the FIFA Soccer or Pro Evo schools, or management boors wrapped up in Championship Manager. But there is one area of football simulation which has been sorely neglected. That of r[…]

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The spate of clubs going into some form of adminsitration recently has provided a fascinating look at the ways in which clubs operate through looking at who they owed money to. Hull achieved some notoriety by owing over ‘6000 […]

End of an era/PCGM!!!
I was rather shocked at seeing this story on ceefax last night. How can you take the beef out of bovril???? That just makes it marmite, shurely??? Although I reckon if I go out to tesco tonight and buy up all their PROPER bovr[…]

ALL DIEBOLD ALL THE TIME:
Microsoft: “We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, we fixed it, because we built it. Nobody ever knows who built open-source software,” […]

A FRIEND OF FT WRITES:
“Some of you may have missed this unbeatable 1-2 of stories (persevere if you find the first story boring)
FIRST STORY (Monday 15th November)
SECOND STORY (Thursday 18th November)”
I’m closer to ‘unbear[…]

ROBOT ART 10 – NON-ROBOT ART nil:
To: Mark [mark@xxx.co.uk]From: Imperialism P. Brotherhood [capitalizes@okfa.hu] Subject: I’ve heard a lot about you
Hello, playmates! :) Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenienc[…]

47 KitKats are eaten every second in the UK and ex-Bond heartthrob Pierce Brosnan is a ‘big fan’.
Not everyone is on message, though. From the Guardian (natch):
KitKat is my favourite bar, but I have not bought one since Nestle tried to e[…]

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!!
i used to get v.worked up when small abt the bright green meteor shower in the day of the triffids
i. wd i have watched it? ans=yesii. wd i now be purblind triffid-bait? ans=yes
(warning: they probbly don’t look lik[…]

DEAR SANTA
CURRENT GAMES I WANT FOR MY GAMECUBE PLEASE:
1. Donkey Konga
2. Pokemon Colosseum
3. Paper Mario 2
4. Sonic Mega Collection
5. Phantasy Star Chronicles
6. Animal Crossing
7. Wario Ware Inc
8. Viewtiful Joe
9. Capcom vs SNK
10. Tales of Sy[…]

For some time, Tayyabs has been my favourite curry house in the world. I haven’t been to them all, sure, but the quality at Tayyabs is so high, and the price so low that I find it difficult now to go anywhere else.
So far, so un-news. Except t[…]