Jimbo

I was watching the Celtic Vs ManUre match but I'm sick to death of Clive "That night in Barcelona" Tildsley's jizzing over every ManUre touch of the ball.

Urby Emanuelson would be a good signing at left back, and if we are doing business with Ajax why not go for John Heitinga or Hedwiges Maduro, all would improve our defence no end.

David Blaine starts spin cycle in Times Square THE ASSOCIATED PRESS David Blaine’s latest stunt is as much about charity as publicity. The magician traveled to Times Square on Tuesday for a topsy-turvy Thanksgiving escape, stepping inside a gyroscope where his hands and feet will eventually be shackled. Blaine has until Friday morning to shed his shackles in the spinning scope; if he does, 100 children selected by The Salvation Army will go on a shopping spree. The shackles go on Thursday at 2 p.m., giving Blaine 16 hours to make his great escape. “This is more difficult than anything I’ve ever done,” Blaine said before he was loaded into the gyroscope, which was then hoisted 40 feet into the air. “I’ve not tested it much. I will be learning how to do this as I’m doing it.” The gyroscope, with three spinning steel rings, will flip Blaine in assorted directions as often as eight times per minute. Several hundred people turned out for the start of the stunt, which was set up just a few blocks from the site where Blaine once spent 61 hours inside a block of ice. This shaped up as another chilly stunt for Blaine, who has no protection from the elements other than his clothing — including a black nylon ski jacket with matching pants. By 11 a.m., the temperature in midtown Manhattan was barely above 40 degrees. If Blaine makes his escape (and does anyone think he won’t?), he will lead the underprivileged kids on a shopping expedition at Target. Each child will receive a $500 gift certificate from the retailer. Blaine said this stunt was particularly important to him since The Salvation Army had provided him with clothing while he was growing up. “This challenge is close to my heart,” said Blaine. The gyroscope escape is just the latest big event for Blaine. This past May, he spent 177 hours underwater in one of his endurance stunts. Previously, he spent 35 hours balanced atop a 100-foot pole and was buried alive in a see-through coffin for a week.

What a bunch of rogues, looking at the mugshots on that site most would look at home on Crimewatch !

Film director Robert Altman dies Robert Altman, acclaimed director of MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player, has died at the age of 81, his production company has announced. A Hollywood maverick renowned for his improvisational style, he passed away in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday. A five-time best director nominee at the Academy Awards, he never won the movie industry's top honour. But he was given an honorary Oscar this year for "a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form". Actor Kevin Spacey, director of the Old Vic, said he had been "privileged" to work with him. "Robert Altman was a truly unique director and an extraordinary man," he said. "We are all saddened by this news and send our condolences to his wife Kathryn and family." Actor and author Julian Fellowes, who wrote the screenplay for Altman's 2001 film Gosford Park, called him "an extraordinary character". "He was a giant of the industry who kept the energy of a youthful rebel until his 81st year," he told BBC News 24. The recipient of a heart transplant in 1995, Altman was continually in and out of favour with both audiences and critics. His other films included the "revisionist" Western movie McCabe and Mrs Miller and comic strip adaptation Popeye. His last film, A Prairie Home Companion, was released in the US earlier this year. The cause of his death was not disclosed. "No other film-maker has gotten a better shake than I have," he said while accepting his honorary Oscar in March. "I'm very fortunate in my career. "I've never had to direct a film I didn't choose or develop. My love for film-making has given me an entree to the world and to the human condition."

Give him a break man. Bollocks, at a more professional club the first you'd hear of a signing like that is when the player is photographed next to the manager holding up his shirt with name and number. Fair enough but the 'alert everyone to our targets' comment was a bit daft. I mean, there isn't clubs hiding in the shadows who are going to buy him solely because we were intrested. I disagree, ManUre bid for Rooney because we forced their hand, although he was obviously on their Radar as a target, because we went blundering in, they jumped in too, the same could probably be said for Kuyt. Now we are shouting of our lust for Huntelaar from the rooftops, look for the likes of Arsenal to get twitchy too.

Give him a break man. Bollocks, at a more professional club the first you'd hear of a signing like that is when the player is photographed next to the manager holding up his shirt with name and number.

Nice one Glenn, lets alert everyone to our targets.

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Very hash, especially considering how Hollywood has romantisised it recently

Jorman kits

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Most 10 rated players in a match:

From BBC. Anyone heard of the latter? And how much would we have to hand them for Maloney? Highly-rated, isn't he? Plays for Leicester, must be a world beater........ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kisnorbo

I'm not bothered about the woman wearing her cross either, the thing that bothers me is that I suspect that if the person had been a male sikh he wouldn't have been told to remove his Turban.

This is the post on the sigames forum:

Christmas deadline as Belgravia mulls over move for Newcastle Michael Walker Tuesday November 21, 2006 The Guardian Belgravia, the company in talks with Newcastle United about a possible takeover at St James' Park, expects to have made either a formal offer, or to have walked away, by Christmas. Effectively that leaves five weeks for the parties to reach agreement and, with Belgravia into their period of due diligence, City sources said yesterday that a bid is "imminent", although that means weeks rather than days. January's transfer window is a key factor in the self-imposed deadline. Newcastle and Belgravia want to have a sense of certainty going into January, with a Belgravia spokesman saying yesterday that, regardless of speculation about the value of the land around St James' Park, the primary focus would be on improving the club's Premiership standing. Despite sceptical noises from within St James' about Belgravia's true intentions - there appears to be little belief, publicly at least, that the Jersey-based company will make a bid - Belgravia stressed yesterday that any takeover could not be classified as hostile. "We are in discussions which are ongoing," a spokesman said. That has been Belgravia's stance since August 21, when it was first revealed that discussions had begun and when they were entitled to begin inspecting the books under the due diligence period. Newcastle's position, reiterated by the chairman, Freddy Shepherd, at the weekend, is that there has been no official offer from Belgravia or any other party, and even if one or more is forthcoming it does not have to be accepted. However, discussions can be at an advanced stage before any formal bid is declared under Stock Exchange rules. Newcastle are facing injury problems for Thursday's Uefa Cup visit of Celta Vigo. Damien Duff and Craig Moore will have scans today on injuries picked up in the 1-1 draw at Arsenal. Duff hurt a knee and faces a fortnight out of action, and Moore is also likely to miss the match. This leaves Newcastle with only three fit defenders for the game.

Where to extract graphics to A lot of people will already know where to put FM graphics but for those that don't, here's a guide. First of all you need a program called winRar. As all graphic downloads are in .rar form you need this program to uncompress the files. Once you have downloaded a .rar file double click on it and it will open in winRar. Now right click on the folder you want to extract from the rar archive and click %u201CExtract to specified folder...%u201D You now need to navigate your way to the following directories depending on type of graphics you have downloaded. Below are the three main type of graphics and where the should be extracted to in red: Default Kits: (If you are wanting install a new type of kit like 3gt or 2gt you will need the default template of that style of kit so when you download the actual kits made from the template they show up in the game):- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pictures\kits\default Club Kits::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pictures\kits\clubs National Team Kits::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pictures\kits\nations Face packs::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pictures\players (and then you can also sort them into their different countries, if you like) Skins::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\skins 2D/3D players::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pitch\icons Balls::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pitch\balls Competition logos::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pictures\logos/comps Nets::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pitch\nets Pitch icons::- C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\graphics\pitch\icons ======================================== Most downloads come with a readme and this readme will usually tell you the location to extract to if you are unsure of where a particular download should go. This is especially true if you have to extract some graphics to an unusual place. And remember to back-up your original FM graphics before you replace them with any new graphics, in case you wish to return to the original graphics in the future. And don't forget all FM2006 graphics will work in FM2007, so your player facepacks can be moved from your FM2006 directory to the same directory in FM2006. However skins made for FM2006 should not be used in FM2007. As the way the skins are made differs slightly and may crash FM2006. ======================================== How to put a background in FM First off all you need a JPEG image that is the size of 1024x768. Rename the image "default". Copy and paste the image into C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\skins\(the name of the skin you want the background in)\graphics\backgrounds. So if you wanted to change the background of the Turnstyle skin the diredctory would be: C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\skins\Turnstyle\graphics\backgrounds. ======================================== How to install skins 1. Find out the links of the sites that have skins. Skins are normally situated in downloads--->graphics-->skins area of an FM site. Goal Kick's area for FM2006 skins can be found here. 2. Download the skin that you want. 3. Once downloaded use WINRAR or WINZIP to unzip the files. 4. Once unzipped extract them to C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\skins 5. Then load up your game and click preferences. Make sure you untick skin cache and then pick what skin you want from the list. This should be done with any skin.# ======================================== Large player pictures Some skins allow you to display large player pictures. But if you've ever wanted your favourite skin to show large player pictures then continue reading. A skin mod can be downloaded to customise other FM skins to display large player pictures as well. This mod can be downloaded from here. You will now be able to use large player pictures in all your other skins as well now. ========================================

When was the last time you had a curry? People only think of the cons, it cant really be double standards to the extent people wish. But to be fair the british adapted curry and changed half the names of the dishes to sound English, well so says my Indian mate, Im not so keen on the fact an Extremist preacher can say what the fuck he wants and get away with itl.. '' This country is a toilet ect'' If thats the case, fuck off home and enjoy the car bombs... Other cultures have enriched our own in a lot of cases, my only problem is when British culture is expected to adapt rather than the other way round.

Did you see him at The Secret Policeman's Ball the other night? Natalie Imbruglia joined him on stage halfway through (she was singing the whole song live), and even joined in with the miming towards the end! Fucking brilliant. Yes, fucking superb !! here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69PPqeMxNzE

That guy is a ringer for Jimbo!

Gogol Bordello - start wearing purple

Surely not