Fighting a man with a perm

This is incredible! Loved the female security guard shouting, "ooh mr muscles! Mr muscle man!" after him.

In one of the earlier Collision appearances after the FTR turn (3/4 weeks ago), Schiavone definitely used the word "pinnacle" to describe how terrible FTR were.

I don't think you will be. I feel we're building towards Hangman defeating Mox, with Swerve coming to Page's aid to combat Death Riders to end the beef between himself and Hanger.

Cheers, so brave new world was the start of that story? Because it was just dropped into that conversation with Sam so casually that I assumed I'd missed something.

Saw this yesterday, good times! Definitely a step in the right direction for the MCU which had become quite stale lately. Pugh steals the show, she exudes charm as Yelena but still does enough to let the facade slip and show moments of vulnerability. David Harbour also chomped on every single piece of scenery as Alexei, and was a treat every time he was on screen. The movie has its flaws (the primary Valentina story took a bit of a back seat towards the end) and some of the darker beats in the final act were simply wiped clean, but I was nonetheless entertained throughout. Plus, one of the first, "oh shit" post credit scenes in a long time. I'd only watched Brave New World this week, and maybe I missed something, but when did Bucky get into politics? That came out of left field for me.

I can't wait to see how Neville and Carragher defend this decision. With all the headlines the David Coote story got, it's mad that no journalist thought to look into the biases (unconscious or otherwise) of more referees. It was just waved off as "one bad apple". Oliver referees Arsenal differently to other teams, even in the same game - Lewis Skelly gets a red for "above the ankle" contact, Joao Gomes gets a yellow for a considerably more aggressive tackle equally high. Anyway, was at the Zagreb game midweek, the lads looked tired then, and even more so today. If we can somehow get to our Dubai break without dropping further behind Liverpool, we have some chance. But, maybe a little crumb of help in the transfer market please, Mr Kroenke???

I read everything from "dismantle" to the tune of "Nightman" from Always Sunny. Hanger as Dayman, Mox as Nightman, PAC as the toll troll, Yuta as the boy. It all works!!

Just......violence! I really hope this is the start of a Brody King mega push! The new presentation of the three HONB (hat tip @Ramo2653 for the name suggestion) is great, less spooky, more hardcore! Actually didn't hate the ending beatdown, Yuta is becoming an all time great little shit! Harley Cameron has some serious charisma, and I'm not just talking about her ti.......pping point! Would love to see her get the banana peel win in Brisbane. I'm not in love with the Hurt Syndicate but that title change was needed, hopefully we see a better focus on tags again now. Good show overall, enjoyed the first signs of a potential hanger face turn. Osprey referencing why he's not involved in the title scene was clever.

So I'm on a bit of a high after last night's North London Derby (come on you gunners!) and I think something from that match highlights why I'm not loving AEW at the moment. Seeing 18 year old Myles Lewis Smelly have a coming of age moment, and whipping the crowd into a frenzy as he left the pitch is exciting. I like to see potential being realised. There's just too many acts that are my age or older in AEW at the moment - Jericho, Jarrett, Cope, Christian, Hurt Syndicate etc. we've seen these guys ceilings and they're never reaching them again so there's no "what could be" there, only "what once was". Where is the next wave of young talent in AEW? They're still talking about Darby, MJF, Garcia as young up and corners despite them having 5 years under their belts. It's literally just Fletcher and Takeshita, but they're dragged into the Callis mire. Anyway, anyone else spot the sequinned cock and balls on the back of Megan Wayne's robe???

For the record, it's Longford, Longford is the most depressing part of Ireland.

I'm sure all the foreign accents are equally bad, but man alive did I cringe hard and often when the "Dublin Thunder" were speaking. Britt baker cameo - couldn't tell if she was overdubbed or that was her own atrocious russian accent. This show should be awful, but it's somehow not. So many differing strands all coming together nicely in the final episode.

Going into this week, I really hated the "first to 3 wins faces MJF" stop because why wouldn't Cole and Roddy be fighting over card placement? Then when the Falls Count Anywhere match started I thought, ooh, this is interesting - have both guys brawl all over the stadium/town, let the show go on as normal catching up from time to time, then when Cole's match starts you can have some split screen jeopardy and that's how you maybe outsmart Max and get to the 3 way. Then 2 mins into Strong-Archer, Excalibur casually mentions that if both men win tonight it's a 3 way - blah!!!

Was pleasantly surprised by this show. It wasn't flawless, but it did some fun stuff visually, they did some nice sleight of hand to get to the final reveal(s) and I'm all in on Joe Locke as Wiccan.

Funny you say that because, at least for the first hour, I was thinking how dead the crowd was. OC did not get the reception I expected for one of his rare promos. What is up with the Conglomeration? The bad friends! You've got Ishii and Rocky last week arriving waaaay after Mark was cheated out of his title, then this week Kyle has time to creep on Adam Cole, and also to hang out with Mark and Ishii but none of them decide to help when their denim clad pal is about to have his neck snapped? "The word of the day is unreliable".

Lovely limp bizkit reference by Mason Madden to Turbo Floyd, "you think you're special? You do! I can see it in your eyes. Let me see how vascular you are" Harley Cameron must be protected at all costs. She is a treasure! Jesus Christ, that one fan in the front row who had a collection of misogynistic signs and was miming fellatio after Ricochet won. What is wrong with people?? The front row of AEW shows has become rotten over the last few years, just full of the worst people on earth.

With how Quen showed his displeasure at the stipulation, plus with how Zay was the one most obviously targeted by Mox (hammer to the hand), i could see private party losing and then Zay absolutely destroying Quen to set him for something solo (or maybe joining Mox - "you were right John, I needed to be broken to come back stronger"). Was Christian calling Hook, "Tyler" after the Kill switch? Why did Ishii come out and pose only after Big Bill destroyed Briscoe and stole his title? Rocky had already run interference against Bad Apple. So stupid! Caught Yuta initially putting the chair on Chuck's ankle which to me was diabolical as Excalibur was talking up the career ending ankle surgery. But then Claudio angrily takes the chair and goes around the neck instead and Yuta then shows remorse/concern. Hurricane Helms voice - "Whassupwidthat?"

Wonder where Mox winning leaves Christian?? I don't see him going after Mox. Is his "next AEW champion" schtick on the shelf till luchasaurus returns?

I'm all for Darby and OC leading the charge against BCC. Those two have always represented the heart and soul of AEW to me. Don't tease me with thoughts of super-face Big Bad Brody King joining with them to act as their Claudio equaliser. Doesn't OC have history with all 4 members of BCC too? Went into this show with low expectations, came away thoroughly entertained with a real sense of "what's coming next? I'm excited/intrigued to find out" and I had been losing some of that feeling lately.

Funny enough, I picked up on Osprey saying, "I'm no Davis", so I was just glad they weren't ignoring the big Aussie in his absence. Not enough glorious mullets in AEW!

Pac vs Orange Cassidy has been running from the early days of AEW and it's always a treat when their paths cross since. Pac's, "you?!?" to OC on Collision last week spoke volumes.

Two historic fourth place finishes on the track for Ireland. First Rhasidat in the 400m, she's only 21 and all 3 women ahead of her are in the 26/27 peak so she will be back stronger in LA. Then the 4x400m women's relay. For all 4 of our runners to go sub 51 seconds while 2 of them (Phil Healy and Sophie Becker) have full time jobs is just incredible. I really hope the outcome of these games here is that our government cease the near 100 million euro annual funding to horse and greyhound racing (huge animal cruelty issues, plus the links to gambling) and put that money into actual sports funding.

RTE coverage is really good in terms of quality of analysts/commentators here in Ireland. Sadly the breadth of coverage is lacking. I strongly urge you all to look up clips of Irish basketball commentator Timmy McCarthy, known for his shouts of "boom shaka laka" and "from downtown" in a very Irish accent. The man is a legend, who loves the game and oozes enthusiasm. Conflicted over Kellie Harrington. On one hand, she's from one of the most impoverished parts of Dublin and is an inspiration with what she has achieved. On the other hand, she has retweeted some really dodgy stuff from GB News about immigration and didn't cover herself in glory when questioned on it.

Ireland channelling our reputation for equestrian excellence into the pommel horse! Can't believe we have a gymnastics medallist, never mind a gold medallist. I was in tears when Rhys stuck that landing after his Tokyo heartache, and he spoke so so we'll afterwards! Amhran na bhFiann has had 3 outings so far, we've never had more! But I still think we'll hear it at least once more in the next week.

PULL LIKE DOGS!! Incredible performance by O'Donovan and McCarthy to win the lightweight mens doubles in the rowing. O'Donovan becomes the first Irish athlete to medal at 3 games, and both men become the 2nd and 3rd Irish athletes to retain an Olympic title (Kellie Harrington is 2 fights away from becoming the 4th, and the first woman). We've now matched out Tokyo medal total (with at least 1 more bronze guaranteed) and a few very strong medal hopes remaining. G'wan Ireland!

As Michael Conlan said at the Rio Olympics, "Fuck AIBA!". My heart goes out to both these women who have been caught up in both a power struggle between AIBA and the IOC and the shitty culture war stuff that seems to infect everything. Barry McGuigan (who was a hero of mine growing up) has waded in on this with total ignorance under the banner of "saving female sports", yet he has had no problem training and working with actual wife beaters (and worse) over the years! Sean Ingle (Guardian chief sports writer) is all over this too, the bigoted prick! A man so concerned about women being cheated out of sporting achievement, whose own wife got caught cheating in a marathon by taking a taxi.