how many materazzis can the zidane er “confront“?[…]

One of the biggest bugbears I have with the Pokémon games is the ongoing rubbish that each game only has ONE SAVE FILE POSSIBLE! It’s not even so much down to the fact that there’s a choice of three Pokémon at the start that you can on[…]

Now, I’m not a great one for petitions myself, they tend not to have any effect on whoever they are sent to, yes the outcome might be achieved, but this is much more likely to be because it’s what was going to happen anyway or politicking[…]

Ages ago on the lamented MP3 blog POPNOSE I wrote about how soca’s greatness lay – partly – in how omnivorous it is, subject-wise. Like the calypso it sprang from, anything from arthritis to trade policies makes fine raw material fo[…]

Everton have a player called Dax Hoogerwerf who is from Blackpool. Meanwhile, in a cantina bar somewhere in a galaxy far far away, an old Jedi and his apprentice try and strike a deal with a space pirate called Jimmy Armfield.[…]

A special treat for Mark S: 
One should not use the terminology established by the non-believers and the polytheists, like: ‘foul’, ‘penalty kick’, ‘corner kick’, ‘goal’. Whoever pronounces these terms[…]

The point is Clive, the main thing we have against you is that you CAN’T FVCKING SHUT UP about “that night in barcelona” so mentioning it in the first answer is hardly going to change anyone’s mind on you, is it?
Furthermore, […]

Rough reception for Ronaldo
Two points of interest:
 i) were the boos last night really pan-national? I was wondering aloud to my wife who the last big international football villain was – she suggested Maradona but I said no. For one thing I […]

In Barcelona, some time before the Brazil team caught the plane home, browsing in FNAC, the HMV of the continent.  Suddenly, this!
 There were loads of them, a pile of – oh, fifty – taking pride of place on the counter, and more dotted[…]

A minor point of terminology: (more…)[…]