SirFozzie

Nice to see Rooney has a asense of humor about being KTFO

So with one game left, it's a three way tie between England, Ireland and Wales.. who respectively play France, Scotland, and Italy. It is legitimately anyone's tourney to win.

Well, since I had a bit of time, I bought and read Kevin Pietersen's auto biography on Kindle. I have a jumble of thoughts about it, but this is most prevalent. A) Kevin Pietersen is a diva. He is the epitome of the modern cricket superstar. A bit prone to creating drama and needs careful management. He straight up admits he has no interest in warm up games (he calls them Harvey Norman or "Zero Interest Down" games), and dislikes ODI's. BUT.. B ) What we saw in England this World Cup is just the end result of bad decisions five+ years ago where cliques basically destroyed the Ashes winning side of 2009. When you get modern superstars on one side, and dyed in the wool, conservative stick in the mud types running the show on the other, things are going to break down. Hard. They failed to develop the next Freddy Flintoff (or Kevin Pietersen for that matter, even if he is South African), and the current generation of players are just not up to the challenge. I feel like they're going to wilt hard under the pressure of this summer's Ashes series.

The Rangers situation in Glasgow gets more and more ridiculous http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derek-llambias-sandy-easdale-barry-5304134

Andrew and Fresh, send me a friend invite on PSN (SirFozzie) Mucked around a bit on Helldivers with my friend Josh (you may remember him from RB3 or ME3)... we had to use Laptop google voice because I didn't have a PS3 headset (could have used USB, but it's a shorter cable, and with my leg, standing for lengthy amounts of time is contraindicated. First Mission, 0:42 fail. you realllly have to retrain your fire discipline when playing this game Edit: PS3 headset is coming tomorrow

Yep, Angel Di Maria wins stupidface of the week award, when you're losing, you don't want to A) get booked for diving and then B ) Put your hands on the ref to Protest A. Congratulations, Stupidface! (and I think Villa above was referring to Aston Villa with the two goals (and the idiot fans), not David Villa

England are officially out of the tournament after losing to Bangladesh.

So Muta dropped the Wrestle-1 title to KAI this week

Yeah, that's where the "Magicka level of Chaos" comes in This is a description of a couple missions of a friend of mine (I haven't played it yet myself) Mission Set 1 Important lessons that the Not Ponies have learned from last night's play session: Quinc is no longer allowed to use shotguns. Make sure that everyone knows where the run button is before setting the fuse on a nuclear demolition charge. Diving for cover is not an effective defense against flamethrowers. Quinc is no longer allowed to use flamethrowers. Turrets come out when all else fails. The previous statement is reversible. Quinc is no longer allowed to use sniper rifles. Although it seems like a good idea, there is no reason for Jackie to triple-check each input when calling for evac. Quinc is no longer allowed to use bazookas. ... or hand grenades. In fact, you know what? Just stand behind us and concentrate on calling down support. If you die while attempting to call down close air support, everyone else should flee the area as quickly as possible. The correct time for Stantz to check the latest intel reports is not during a firefight. ... even if the information would be useful. Friendly fire isn't. Close air support is often very close. Especially when Quinc's calling it down. No one actually can remember the Konami code when being assaulted by cyborgs. What the heck is that thing? Some kind of giant lobster? It spotted us! The lobster spotted us! Bullets just make it angrier. Quinc, grab the flamethrower! Grab the flamethrower! I know what I said! Ignore what I said! Do what I say! Yes, I know that made no sense! Arrggh! (gurgle.) Mission 2 It turns out that this game has vehicles! That just makes it even better, since it allows us to have complete clusterfucks like this afternoon. The Not Ponies are attempting our first Medium Difficulty mission on our first ice planet against the Bugs. We'd just unlocked Mecha Armor two missions prior, so our plan for everything was was to summon Mecha Armor, jump in, stomp around a bit, and finish the mission after all hostiles in the AO is dead. So, we land in a defensible position a little bit away from the first objective, and start calling in everything we need for the mission. Quinc calls in her Mecha suit, we all start loading up on ammo, and then the winds pick up. The Mecha Suit lands off-target, on top of Quinc. Splut. I start making a request to send down a new Mech pilot, but before I punch in the last command, a bug patrol spots us. We all fall back to defensive positions, when we notice that the bugs aren't actually attacking us. They're more interested in taking out the big armored robot while it's just sitting there. Jackie grabs a flamethrower and charges forward to defend the Mech. And then the winds pick up again. Quinc's drop pod lands off target. On top of the Mecha. In fact, it lands with enough force that every single rocket sitting in the untouched, pristine rocket pod detonates, shredding Jackie into chunks. Quinc crawls out of the pod just in time to be swarmed by bugs. With 40 seconds left before the next time I'm allowed to call down reinforcements and out of machine gun ammo, I turn around a start running for it. Right into another bug patrol.

Oh it will go great... great for the people watching. Time until at least one person in the game is reduced to muttering random obscenities? I set the over under at 17 minutes.

So.. I think all Team Leeroy Jenkins with a PS4 or vita need to pick up Helldivers NOW.. because the amount of insanity and laughter this game could potentially cause is amazing. (the level of Chaos from Magicka, combined with Starship Troopers the Movie), and yes, you can end up killing each other by mistake. (sometimes for example, when you call in an orbital ammo drop and it accidentally lands on your teammate)

Ireland squeaks through by five runs against Zimbabwe.. Now they're actually hoping for the weather gods to pull through, as a No Result (weather) against Pakistan or India will put them through (If the Windies fail to win against the UAE, they will also be through)

Oh shit, another player collapses mid game. (Swansea-Tottenham) Worrying signs as Gomis has collapsed in the centre circle before play got underway after the goal, the medics have rushed on and he is getting treatment. Gomis was just jogging back to the halfway line when he collapsed and now the players are all standing around in the centre circle as the medics tend to the striker. It looks like he is being put on to the stretcher and the stadium is silent. Spurs players have their hands on their heads but Gomis is moving. Now there's applause as Gomis is taken off on a stretcher. He is being given oxygen but appeared to nod his head and is moving. Remember it was only three years ago that Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest at this ground.

So, MLS looks to go on strike after tonight, the only owner proposal for free agency is "Age 32 and up, 10+ years at same club". Players are (rightly) laughing at that.

Well, Ireland's minipush is getting brutally squashed, as South Africa become the first team ever to score 400 in consecutive ODI games, finishing at 411/4.

Liverpool with a huge win. Remember when Brendan Rogers was on the hot seat?

Here Lies England's World Cup Hopes 2015-2015 They never really existed.

That's no fun! Bah! But big game today, are 'Pool contenders or pretenders

That sound you hear is all the air going out of Scottish Rugby, as Italy wins only its second ever Six Nations away win thanks to a last minute penalty try, 22-19, seemingly dooming Scotland to the Wooden Spoon and facing a whitewash (England and Ireland left to go). Wales beat France in the other game today.. tommorrow's the big one, Ireland-England.

This starts a trend no one wants, the next step is when someone in the J-League does it, and it involves a Sailor Moon Transformation...

No one tell him about the strike.. I don't want to harsh his buzz yet.

Yeah, you need to watch these highlights. http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/839693.html One of the rules of thumb in One Day Cricket is that to get a ball park score for a full 50 overs, you take double the amount scored after 30 overs. (usually, the teams start to score quicker at the end because they have wickets in hand and can take more risks) At the 30 over mark, South Africa was 147/3. Decent, not spectacular. Then it became the 1812 overture as South Africa scored 261 runs in the last 20 overs (yes, 13 an over), to put up 408/5 If you're in the US, watch the highlights, basically in baseball terms it's like someone was hitting batting practice homers and line drives to all parts of the ground, against top level pitching. Just boom! Boom! BOOOM! everywhere. West Indies were disheartened by this (De VIlliers had done this to the in the most recent series, so it was deja vu all over again, has to be at least psychological at this point), and fell to 151 all out in 33.1 overs.

Another last over nailbiter between Associate Nations as Afghanistan chase down 210 with one over and one wicket to spare. This is what you're losing out next time, ICC.

Wow, Ireland and UAE with a nerve wracking game. UAE batted first, and were down to 141/6 but managed to get to 279 thanks to a World Cup record 107 run seventh wicket partnership in just 11.5 runs.. and Ireland got off to a slow start, but chase it down with 2 wickets and 4 balls to spare. Ireland move to 2-0, and are quite possibly one more win away from the Quarterfinals (they have Zimbabwe, Pakistan, India and South Africa left)

Most obvious joke ever: World Soccer Talk ‏@worldsoccertalk 40s40 seconds ago Suarez playing with real bite here tonight. Two goals to the good already and he looks hungry for more. #FCB 2-0 #MCFC 34'