Fuzzy Dunlop

Dixie's gonna be denying it's over even when the tanks roll in.

The Goldbergs started over here a few weeks back and I'm pretty sure it's my new favourite sitcom. I figured it's got a Wonder Years vibe and Jeff Garlin is in it so I'll give it a watch but Garlin is maybe only the 4th best member of the family. They did a Goonies themed episode which had me sporting a stupid shit eating grin throughout and just now referenced the ghost in the window in Three Men and a Baby, the random urban myth I figured only people at my school 20 years ago knew about.

The fuck is a Luke Bracey? IMDB tells me he was on Home and Away. They seriously must have casting directors who sift through episodes of terrible Australian soaps looking for leads. I mean, sure you get an Avenger or a Margot Robbie out of it but still...

I liked It Follows right up until the nonsense at the pool. The kid throwing the sheet over it had me guffawing. Which I don't think was the intention.

Not a fan of Kaitlyn, huh?

I remember during his 2nd tenure predicting that Keegan would be gone within the year and then he was. He's about the last guy on the planet I'd trust with that job. As smug as Pardew is (call me Pardiola and all that), I do love the idea of him pissing his pants laughing at how they turned out after he left. Alex Neil is 33 years old, he's 3 years older than me. I piss about on Football Manager, this dude will be managing in the Premier League opposite Mourinho, Wenger et al. I do think the Premiership needs at least one Scotsman manager at all times too. Also, Delia seemed relatively sober after the match as well. Liking the Bournemouth/Watford/Norwich promotion triumvirate, all three of them are at least 604 times more likeable than QPR anyway. Not liking the prediction doing the rounds that Eddie Howe gets the sack by Christmas so Harry fucking Redknapp steps in there and then blames everyone else if they're relegated.

Yeah, there's obviously the whole issue with Brock's dates and them not wanting to waste them on anyone but the top guys but, man, I totally want to see him work with a whole bunch of different talent like Harper/Ambrose/Rusev/Cesaro/Owens/Zayn/Sasha Banks.

Yeah, agreed. But, at least we did get that tremendous Dame Diana/Pryce scene, it was just like move aside people, actors acting here. Olenna's pretty quickly rising to the top of my favourite characters in this, not least because it's a hoot hearing RADA trained Diana Rigg bust out shit like 'shagging some perfumed ponce.' Last night just needed Cersei passing a smug Olenna on the way to her cell. Fuck it, Stannis on the Iron Throne with Davos as Hand of the King and Olenna as his consigliere. Mostly, I just want to see Olenna school the Red Lady at some point, her beguiling ways ain't gonna work on the Queen of Thorns. I'm a sucker for snow on camera (Fargo etc) so, yeah, loving that winter is here. Finally. Loved the in joke of Bronn being a good singer. 1995 best selling single of the year and all that. Best episode yet.

I'm most probably forgetting the details but there's a story about the Steiners ribbing the shit out of dudes and generally fucking with them in WCW so Ric Flair asks Ron Simmons 'Hey, Ron, how come the Steiners don't fuck with you?' and Simmons looks at him with a complete you're-shitting-me-right? look on his face and calmly and matter-of-factly replies 'Ric, I'm unfuckwithable.' I'm pretty sure I didn't make that up.

This is true. But then, I'm pretty sure every TV show ever could be improved by Malcolm Tucker running around calling everyone a cunt.

Just as long as Anna Chlumsky is going nowhere, I'll be happy. I mean, she doesn't know it yet but she's pretty much my future wife. Yeah, that's creepy but still. I'm kinda undecided on which I prefer more between Veep and The Thick of It but, man, Karen knocked it out of the friggin' park in that last episode.

Oh yeah, I also remember winning a game of pool in the absolute jammiest way possible and after being slagged about it, I busted out the old Arn Anderson promo line 'people don't ask how you won, they ask IF you won.' Such a nerd. I don't care though, that line is magnificent.

I am liking this series so far but not as much as the last one although it seems like things are about to kick off big time from now on. But still, I miss The Hound. I miss Tywin Lannister. God help me, I never thought I'd say it but I even miss Joffrey. But, most of all, I miss The Hound.

Like A Prayer came on the radio in work today. Pretty famous song, right? Well, the first thing that popped into my head was IT'S YERSEL! I had to contain myself from shouting it out in an office full of people. Thanks wrestling.

I got back from this about an hour ago and only now am I taking a breath again. Miller has every friggin' dollar of the budget up on screen. It's absolutely bonkers in the absolute best way possible.

So, this starts back on Sunday and I've been watching random clips on Youtube of the last series in anticipation (Viper/Mountain has lost none of its shock value but, good Jesus, they better have The Hound somehow recover from the shitkicking he took) so hopes/expectations? Me, I'm still all in on Stannis. Every damn time Davos was all MY CLIENT STANNIS BARATHEON and cut a promo putting him over, I was thinking, well, shit, if Liam Cunningham says it then it HAS to be true so, yeah, he's my dude.

Most hated teams? I suppose, hatred is a strong term so we'll say, most very very disliked teams? Arsenal Lehmann Lauren Ashley Cole Winterburn Adams MARTIN FUCKING KEOWN aka the biggest fuckpot there's ever been in football. Vieira All reprehensible gobshites and couple that with there always being a certain level of smugness with them and their fans (an accusation probably thrown at United fans to be fair but, I dunno, most of the Arsenal fans I've ever known including mates of mine have always been insufferable when it comes to Arsenal) and, yeah, Arsenal were always the shitbirds of the Premier League. But, it's funny, I miss the hell out of the matches when the two of them were going for the league, they were bonkers and fun and led to shit like this: I mean, I'm a someone that liked seeing Jaap Stam steam in there and grab Vieira by the throat, I'm someone that liked seeing Vieira and Keane kick lumps out of each other, I'm someone that liked seeing Keown doing that crap to Van Nistelrooy...actually, no, that was just childish nonsense and he's a twat. But now, pretty much, they're kinda stagnant. I support Man United but I'm not from Manchester (write your own jokes there) so the likes of Leeds/Liverpool/City weren't huge rivalries to me and Arsenal was always THE match of the season back then and I miss that. Lately, Chelsea haven't exactly been an endearing bunch. Their fans, their captain, their centre forward, their manager. All shitheads. Anyway, yeah...

I still want to see how much damage that dwarf with the knife was gonna do in Deadwood.

I am neither female nor gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) which seems to be their target audience but I was always slagged for saying Girls Aloud made some pretty swell pop songs. I stand by this assertion: Plus, Nadine...Derry representing and all that.

Charlie Adam doo-da was better than the Beckham goal. It's always been strange with Beckham, I mean, I'm a United fan but I never thought he was that great a player but he was always marketed as such and the Wimbledon goal was always trotted out even though Xabi Alonso and Rooney and others scored better ones but he was Beckham and he had a pretty face and nice hair and his wife was a Spice Girl or something and, ah, yeah, I'm rambling. Chelsea are obviously champions as detestable as they are and Arsenal are looking good but if United finish 2nd/3rd this season, I'd consider that a good season. Build from there after that and, I mean, shit, United aren't going away. I'd fully expect them to win the league again in the next 2-3 years.

I'm disappointed I haven't seen anyone work their internet magic with the Balotelli thing to stick a couple of perms and shellsuits on the Liverpool fans holding him back. But, man, between THIS DOES NOT FUCKING SLIP...followed by him slipping and his Abe Simpson impersonation yesterday, Gerrard's been the gift that keeps on giving. How nice of him to apologise to everyone. Apart from the dude he stamped on.

Man, I just wish they still had Sting use the WCW music. Remember how much we marked the fuck out for this: Well, now imagine them doing it live at Wrestlemania. Sweet Jesus.

Holy shit, FRANK SOBOTKA! Cena shrugging off the sledgehammer shot and knocking Triple H the fuck out with his hat was the best. Shockmaster! Yeah, pretty much the best thing ever. At the end he asks if we honestly wanted it to be an hour long? Well, um, yeah, I totally did. I'm pretty sure '...ah, fuck it, it's Ric Flair, he's AWESOME' should just be the standard argument winning reply to any negative comment about Flair too.

Holy crap, the body language between Keane and Shearer on the BBC is so awkward it's making my teeth itch.

Clough's family consider much of it bullshit and want nothing to do with it but 'The Damned United' is still a tremendous read. The author has said it's fiction based on fact and, I mean, by all accounts, Clough really did tell the Leeds players upon first meeting them to throw all their medals and trophies into the biggest fucking dustbin they could find because they won all of them by cheating. But, yeah, I love reading about all those cool as hell 60s/70s managers like Cloughie, Shankly and whatnot. The author of 'The Damned United' also wrote one on Shankly called 'Red or Dead' but the way it's written it's an, ah, acquired taste, shall we say.