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He needed his head kicked in for that 4th goal like. Schoolboy stuff. I didn't notice it on the stream when it looked particularly bad, but the little deflection off Enrique really made it a perfect cross.

It was one of those that looked like a joke from some angles but from a couple it did look to me that the Arsenal player caused a twist in Williamson's body shape that indicated a contact that put him off the ball. Of course if it had been against us I would have called it a nothing contact and a complete joke but that's football.

I still mainly enjoy watching it though I agree they have become a bit self-parodying and maybe they should call it a day. I think the reaction to the Mexican stuff was ridiculous but at the same time I agree a bit with Coogan that it was lazy - certainly that rather than racist.

I don't blame you Stevie but its still pretty funny in hindsight - a bit of mild piss-taking is fair enough. I once left at half time at Southampton when we were only 2-0 down - I got into my head that we were doomed never to win there and the ref was being a cunt so I fucked off - it finished 2-1.

I always thought one of the most satisfying sights in football was seeing Tony Adams get it wrong and wave his raised hand furiously as an opponent went through on goal - admittedly the bastards got it right for the vast majority of times but it was still great when it did go wrong. The modern equivalent is reading an avalanche of bullshit whinging from cockney scum who despite supporting one of the dirtiest, cheating and most petulant teams around, still don't accept that one of their players can be be tackled strongly and like too many fans around the country think Barton should have his own severity factor added to every tackle he makes because of who he is. Like KSA I hope the fuckers never win anything ever again.

Get the iPhone/Android app and you can do it yourself.

It is our game.

Spot on apart from the twat agreeing Barton should have gone - where did the ball go you tossers?.

I got the impression that Tiote was uncharacteristically shit in the first half which was the big factor - it was him remembering who he is more that the red card that changed it for me. Were you watching it on tv? I disagree with that assessment. Thought Tiote and Simpson put in a good shift throughout. Yeah - I honestly thought they passed him by in the first half - agree about Simpson though.

I got the impression that Tiote was uncharacteristically shit in the first half which was the big factor - it was him remembering who he is more that the red card that changed it for me.

Ridiculous to the sublime....what was that about team spirit Gemmill? Would love to be the bloke interviewing Wenger: Wenger: "Ref - whinge - Barton- whinge - soft penalties - whinge" Me: "What about the disallowed goal that should have given you fucking cunt!!!"

Platini thinks this will affect English clubs but there's no way Madrid, Milan and Bayern will stand for it either.

Only place I've been in France is Troyes - typical quaint continental market town with cobbled square etc, etc. I have to say Rome impressed the fuck out of me.

Then again you can understand the desire to build in the centre (though the result is shit) and if you tried to build another Washington or Killingworth now I'd imagine there'd be a lot of objections.

Has anyone rooted their Android phone? I downloaded an app to do it at the weekend which worked but made everything run ridiculously slower so I disabled it.

Rotherham is pretty despearate. I know a lot of towns/cities in Yorks and Lancs have a similar industrial revolution feel but the last time we went to Rotherham for the cup it seemed like it was a dumping ground for all the mental patients in South Yorks.

I had this one last night where I was visiting the junior school I went to as part of some kind of "Who are you" type documentary and they had a tourist attraction which was a shark in a tank. Any budding psycho analysers in the house?

Not a huge fantasy fan but I know a couple of people who take this series a bit too seriously and my nasty side finds it funny that after all the years of waiting the bloke has died before finishing it.

Zeus or Thor? Moving the posts to some kind of wider Deistic universal creator is one thing but equating that with tribal Gods from a small part of the world is for me where it all falls down. Religions are very much about a personal relationship with a defined entity (as well as power and money but that's a sideline) - imagining that relationship in the context of the universe as we know it now is where it goes a bit mental.

Intellectual masturbation aside, as I said for the vast majority their God is very defineable - and demonstrably ridiculous. I don't see how rationality can be dismissed as trendy or populist.

They're as diametrically opposed as any two things can be - no amount of apologist twisting can change that. Wrong. The problem, at rock bottom, is this: If nothing happens without a cause, then something must have caused the universe to appear. But then we are faced with the inevitable question of what caused that something. And so on in an infinite regress. Some people simply proclaim that God created the universe, but children always want to know who created God, and that line of questioning gets uncomfortably difficult. One evasive tactic is to claim that the universe didn't have a beginning, that it has existed for all eternity. Unfortunately, there are many scientific reasons why this obvious idea is unsound. For starters, given an infinite amount of time, anything that can happen will already have happened, for if a physical process is likely to occur with a certain nonzero probability-however small-then given an infinite amount of time the process must occur, with probability one. By now, the universe should have reached some sort of final state in which all possible physical processes have run their course. Furthermore, you don't explain the existence of the universe by asserting that it has always existed. That is rather like saying that nobody wrote the Bible: it was. just copied from earlier versions. Quite apart from all this, there is very good evidence that the universe did come into existence in a big bang, about fifteen billion years ago. The effects of that primeval explosion are clearly detectable today-in the fact that the universe is still expanding, and is filled with an afterglow of radiant heat. So if nothing happens without a cause, what caused the beginning of the universe? Surely as it defies the laws of physics, it is by definition something devine, wouldnt you say? Goal post moving shite as usual. The vast majority of Theists don't know, understand or believe in a 14bn year old universe. Everything they do actually believe in has been proven to be wrong beyond ny kind of doubt. It's only since the big bang has been theorised that philosophical bullshit like that has been invented. I actually admire the honesty of Creationists more than the twisting insanity of people like you.

They're as diametrically opposed as any two things can be - no amount of apologist twisting can change that.

As Christoper Hitchens points out - one of the stupidest concepts of the Abrahamic faiths is the idea that their God (whoever/whatever that may be) would only talk to tribes in the Middle East when other civilisations like the Chinese were just as "civilised" at the time.

I agree with that and the idea he knows he's on a hiding to nothing - given that he hasn't done too badly but as I said, not addressing the strikers regardless of Carrol is an extremely bad sign for me.

Heights in general but specifically walking across high bridges over water.