Makom

Mayweather just destroyed his spirit. Claiming he thought he won the fight, claiming he was injured? Bullshit. Either his gameplan was all wrong, or he lacked the mental/physical toughness to follow it through. I was banking on Manny starting strong, and carrying on until Mayweather got desperate as he realised the card wasn't going his way. The fight was over by the sixth, by which time Manny had capitulated and Mayweather knew he was gong to win on points. This result has definitively proved Mayweather is the best boxer of this generation. It's just a shame that does indeed mean boxing is dead. It actually looked like what it was - two fighters only agreeing to the fight because the money was insane. Despite losing, Pacquiao almost doubled his entire career earnings with this one bout.

Given the choice between McLaren and Carver, I choose nobody. Just let the team decide amongst themselves who plays and how for the remaining games.

The EU has a significantly disproportionate effect on our laws and our budget considering the only real benefit to being a member is free trade. The EU has been a racket for years, they get away with it because ordinary people have almost zero interest in what it does or how it does it.

Clegg is doing fine. Being honest, more natural than either Ed or Dave, and unlike Ed is actually owning his mistakes and justifying them. There will be no wipeout, they will benefit from knowledgeable tactical voters and their strong local factor. And he's also been the only one of them brave enough to give a big F.U. to a question designed simply to mock him. the other two could barely manage to say, well, obviously I disagree, and even looked like they were weighing up whether to even dare say that. Cleggy is odds on for me to be having a say in who forms the next government.

"All you need to know about the big fight" http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/32530215

I'll frankly be amazed if the pollsters/pundits don't score that as a win to Cameron.

Are you one of these people who think Labour can win this election by disowning their economic record? Ed Milliband was part of Gordon Brown's economic policy circle. If he genuinely thought he couldn't do anything to affect what happened to the UK as a result of the global financial crisis, then what was he even doing in the job?

I thought he did OK. It doesn't matter how he comes across to card carrying Labour voters, it matters how he came across to people who are trying to decide whether he or Ed will put the economy into reverse. Nobody gives a fuck about the poor, that stopped being a Centrist concern in the UK in 1979. Ed's very first contribution is the good old blame it on the global financial crisis card, which shows exactly how unimaginative his campaign has been so far. It's like he doesn't even realise Cameron's just said about 5 times that he's created more jobs than the rest of the EU combined. And he's wearing a blue tie. What a spanner.

What happened to the stated policy of having a backup to the backup in every position? And of having targets identified and ready to go at the first hint that a player in any position was either leaving or going to be out long term? Or was that just horseshit?

Welcome to the tour lads. See this cupboard, this is where we keep the WD40 for routine player maintenance....

Shut it you filthy monkey. I wish it was OCD, then I'd be able to cure it with simple will power, my mind is awesome like that. This is something physical, I just don't have a clue what.

"Hell yes I can win." That was my particular favourite.

Meet Ed. He's your mate. Your smiley mate. Just chatting to you, like mates do.

Here's something weird though. I can only actually get to sleep in one position, and I mean it has to be exactly that position. On my left hand side, head resting on my left hand, which is sort of twisted around so my cheekbone is on the back of the hand. Any deviation at all from that configuration, and I'm not dropping off without the aid of extreme exhaustion or alcohol. It doesn't even work if I use the exact same layout but in a mirror image.

Aye, but he's an idiot. He's the moron who thought Milliband is the sort of person who looks natural walking in the park, when in reality he simply looks like Ed Milliband walking in a park. Clegg is the only one who actually looks natural, and it's clearly because he's the only one who feels comfortable in the spotlight. That's why he had that small surge just after the 2010 TV debate, since those are largely about how you come across as, rather than what you're saying. There was nothing more creepy this time around than the way Milliband would start answering the question by looking at the audience member, then half way through pan his head round to face the camera. That crap could be down to his innate unnaturalness, or the dumb yank giving him bad advice.

I'm new to this style of politics. I'm used to the old style, which was simply about delivering soundbites and staying on message, but in your own voice. Blair never tried to change the way he actually spoke as far as I remember, and I don't think all the Tory leaders before him could have even if they tried. Other than Hague putting on a baseball cap, I can't remember a more obvious attempt by a leader to come across as something they weren't during a campaign. I'm too young and pretty to remember what Old Labour leaders did. I do seem to recall one of the Thatcher documentaries after she died claimed she specifically altered her style of speaking, but the details are escaping me at this point.

Humans are not meant to sleep 8 hours continuously. We are biologically programmed to sleep 4 hours, get up, have a snack/chat/read, then sleep for another 4 hours. This ties in exactly with my experience - if I know I'm under time pressures such as work deadlines or shitty shift patterns, I find myself less tired and ratty during the day if I grab 4 hours, than if I sleep for 6 or 7. Obviously you can't do this for long, otherwise you enter falling asleep on the Metro territory. If you're getting up at 4 or 5, it might simply be because you've gone to bed at midnight, and weren't all that tired because of either a very long sleep the previous night, or because of all these daytime naps. Also, a good rule of thumb - if it takes you more than 10 minutes to get to sleep you weren't tired or your bed time routine is not right, but if you're falling asleep the moment your head hits the pillow, you're sleep deprived.

I'm going to stick my neck out and make a prediction. Conservative minority govt, with the Queen's Speech passing with the help of the Lib Dems, DUP and UKIP. I think this will be the inevitable result of the Tories being the largest party and benefitting from the 'shy Tory' factor, an unconvincing Labour campaign, and them being wiped out in Haggisland. The Lib Dems won't be decimated as much as some have predicted, and they will stick to their pledge to approach the largest party first. Unable to form an actual coalition due to insufficient seats, they'll instead be happy to support a minority Tory govt. as and when, seeing it as preferrable to supporting a programme/budget resulting from any Labour/SNP negotiations. Whatever gains made by UKIP, if any, will be offset evenly as losses to the main three, thereby not ultimately affecting who the largest party is or the Lib Dems ability to prop up the Tories. The Greens simply won't make an impact at all.

That's just it, it wasn't normal. Him saying 'aint was like watching a yoot say nevertheless. He has so obviously been told at some point in the campaign to start altering the way he speaks to make him sound more normal, this isn't the first time I've noticed it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32525171 They missed and R and a D off, but this is how you do a stadium protest.

She's not asked. But if she had, I'd have told her to sort out that Wikipedia page. For a new MP, who I assume hasn't done anything embarrassing yet, it's bloody awful.

Milliband is coming across as a right bellend with all this 'Look Russell, I 'aint about to tell you this or that'. Stop trying to talk like you're down with the kids, you're a PPE graduate and career politician. The 'ordinary people' already think politicians are fake, he's only reinforcing this view with this shit.

Rubbish article. Two citiies names Newcastle, both with struggling teams, both with a stroppy dick of an owner who's a self made man who likes a pint. And there the similarities seemed to end. The contrasts were more interesting - they actually won the league straight after he bought them, and his later issues seem more about the federation and the media than the fans. You can almost hear the sound of the crowbar as the journo tried to force the reader to believe there's anything more to this than a coincidence.

Christ. They sound like a couple of giddy schoolgirls FFS. They're being given the opportunity to go and see this team train and have a chat with Carver. That's not my idea of a great day out. Are these even the fans he was offering out?

Granted leave to appeal by Sweden's Supreme Court. Not sure if that means he's going to go back or not? And I though he said was meant to be leaving the embassy "imminently" 6 months ago?