Fuzzy Dunlop

They'll beat Australia but Chile are a long way from being pushovers, could be tight for Spain getting out of this group. 5! Greatest World Cup of all time.

Proper belly flop from Van Persie for the goal. I can safely say it's by far and away the best goal in all 3 matches of the World Cup so far. Like I dig Spain over the last 5 or so years but then...I don't, you know? I think it might possibly be Ramos' fault, a guy who is pretty much detestable and who irritates greatly every time he runs 50 yards to remonstrate with the ref 400 times a match. Or maybe Busquets' fault. I dunno. Chasing a match? Bring on Torres! FUCK YEAH! They'll not win it but it'd be sweet as if Van Gaal brought his no chin and a winner's medal to United. And, as I type it, RVP!

Bunch of the red top 'journalists' (which might explain it actually). I only mention that '...with respect to Brian Clough' line in particular because guy from the Daily Mirror (I know, I know) used that exact line in an article the day after QPR got promoted and was damn near orgasmic because his pal was back in the Premiership. But yeah, their indignation when the the FA dared not give him the England job was hilarious, he was compared with Clough probably since Portsmouth won the FA Cup but it got worse after the England thing.

I've always liked Jon Snow since i'm a sucker for all good and just characters (Cap. America) and i usually understand why some people might find them somewhat boring at times. But this last episode made everyone in the entire Night's Watch look like complete badasses, if someone didn't like them after that then they never will. Not talking about you btw, just in general. Agreed on them making the Night's Watch look good and they did have to do an episode like this to finally get a lot of folk invested in the Wall but, I dunno, maybe it's just the guy who plays Jon Snow; he's a drip, like a less edgy Orlando Bloom. In saying that though, by and large, it's been a thankless role up until now because he's just been required to look dreamy and make goo-goo eyes at the red head so hopefully this episode is a turnaround. I've watched Night's Watch dude get nailed with that giant's 8ft arrow at least 108 times now. That reads wrong.

Aye, I'm a complete Brian Clough nerd. Saw The Damned United, I like Sheen as him and he probably did a better job as him than anyone else could have because no one could do Clough justice and you can't go wrong with Broadbent/Meaney/Spall/Al Capone in a really bad ginger wig as Bremner but it still felt, I dunno, bland. Reise, not sure if it was this one you saw, but ITV did a documentary few years back that's pretty much one of the best sports documentaries I've ever seen. Part 1 of 7: http://youtu.be/szDtu9EENQA The press treat Mourinho as a one man rent-a-quote talking head God but he ain't got shit on Clough. I know his pals in the press like to lick Redknapp's old balls too and use the 'greatest manager England never had, with respect to Brian Clough' schtick about him all the time but it's, like, shit, Brian Clough won league titles with Derby and Notts Forest, Brian Clough won the European Cup twice running, Brian Clough had Muhammad Ali cut a promo on him and Harry Redknapp got hit with a football during an interview once (NSFW due to his blue language):

For no other reason than YouTube exists and has stuff like this on it, Muhammad Ali takes time out from training for a fight to smack talk his most formidable foe yet: I'm pretty sure Clough could have taken him.

I can't be number 9? Fuck you, I'll be 1+8 instead then. Tremendous. Speaking of awesome late 90s Chileans, Marcelo Salas was another one. I remember United being heavily linked with him post 98 World Cup but the bastard broke my heart and signed for Lazio instead.

Most of the time during Jon Snow scenes my mind wanders and I start to think 'I wonder who the Hound and Arya are killing right now?' So this episode was a definite improvement on that at least. Only on this show could 'those are giants riding mammoths down there' not sound absurd.

Speaking of Shoot magazine, I remember when Joe Cole was 15 or 16, they said unequivocally that he'd be football's first £30 million player and was as much a guarantee to be the best player in the world as you could get. 15 years later and he couldn't get a game for West Ham. On a disappointing note, during Soccer Aid yesterday, Edgar the Pitbull Davids allowed lower than Z list 'friend' of Robbie Williams, Jonathan Wilkes (you know, THE Jonathan Wilkes) to go toe to toe with him. http://youtu.be/F6oq3iJaKzM I haven't decided yet whether getting booked during a fucking charity match for UNICEF redeems him or not, I do know Jaap Stam would have gutted Wilkes with his bare hands and used his femur as a toothpick though. Also, allow me to take a second to big up the postal workers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-27761336 Wouldn't use that rag to wipe my arse with and not just because I find toilet paper to be a much better option for that particular job. The fuck would anyone even want a free copy of that dogshit newspaper?

Yeah, lack of Germans stood out for me too. Schweinsteiger was one of the best players at the last World Cup but Spain won it in the end so went with Iniesta. If I'd been born 10 years earlier Matthaus probably would have walked into the team for World Cup longevity alone but I don't remember much of him from 94 and he was past it in 98. Forgot to mention Frank de Boer narrowly missing out, if only for THAT pass for THAT goal during World Cup 98.

I went with best World Cup performers but most of them cross over into best of my generation anyway so it was all good.

Pick your all time World Cup XI: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-27699398 And why not. I only picked players from my generation so no place for dudes like Pele and Maradona. I mean, who'd they ever whoop? Buffon Cafu Thuram Cannavaro Maldini Hagi Zidane Iniesta Rivaldo Ronaldo Romario Defenders are slightly all over the place, Cafu and Thuram were both immense but both right backs but had to have them both in there so Thuram slots in at centre half where he also played a bunch of times. Most of the team picked themselves but put a little bit of thought into the last midfielder, Iniesta got in there slightly ahead of Xavi/Pirlo/Schweinsteiger. Got a 10 for defensive strength but a team with Zidane, Rivaldo, Ronaldo et al only got a 6 for attacking. The fuck?

Speaking of Van Basten and comprehending, I remember my 7 year old child mind not being able to comprehend how a guy scored 4 goals in one match like Van Basten did in a random European Cup match. At that age, for whatever reason, possibly because I hadn't seen it done before, scoring 4 in a professional football match was unbelievable to me. Then I heard George Best scored 6 in a match and I damn near wet myself, which was normal for me at that age but that's besides the point.

Jesus fuck at the Ronaldo video. As I say, I remain convinced that but for the couple of really bad injuries that essentially cost him two years of his career in his prime, he'd have been one of the best that ever lived.

Give or take an inch, aren't Hornswoggle and Big E the same size?

Bergkamp! Knew I forgot someone. As a United fan, I know I was supposed to dislike Arsenal but Bergkamp was pretty much a genius. Davids too; agreed on that mid 90s Ajax team, I could pretty much name their starting XI from their European Cup final win off the top of my head. Even with Liverpool and a dude like Suarez, I find myself going 'fuck he's good' on a frequent basis. It's like 'Jesus Christ, when you're that good, why do you have to be such a cunt sometimes, dammit?' I find myself wishing he played for United at times.

1. The Wire 2. Breaking Bad 3. Deadwood 4. The Sopranos 5. Game of Thrones In that order. I think The Wire will pretty much always be unfuckwithable at number one on the list. Few years back I was one of those super annoying Wire nerds that talked constantly about how good it was and urged everyone I knew to watch it but, whatever, the more people I got to watch it, the better, The more I watch it, the more I love the second series. Frank Sobotka is pretty much one of my all time favourite characters.

Holy fuck. Besides the point, anything wrong with wearing a hairnet and paper hat at work? A job is a job is a job. Ric Flair is Ric Flair, he's the greatest wrestler that ever lived. Charlotte is an athletic women's wrestler but so was Michelle McCool.

Random question: favourite players from teams you don't actually support? Batigol When I was, I dunno, 12 or some shit, would copy the crap out of his smash-the-fuck-out-of-the-ball-so-hard-that-both-feet-are-off-the-ground-when-you-hit-it routine. Alas, I could only dream of being as cool as Batistuta, a dude who built a career out of 'have some of that, ya cunt' EAT MY GOAL goals, including this one against United which made me both weep and applaud at the same time: Loved the crap out of Football Italia on Channel 4 back in the day (James Richardson remains probably the best sports TV show host that there's ever been) and you had dudes like Casiraghi and Del Piero and Ravanelli and whatnot featured but Batistuta was the coolest motherfucker that ever lived back then. Original fat assed Ronaldo Essentially missed 2-3 years of his career through injury and but for this, I remain convinced he would pretty much have been top 5 of all time. At his best, guy was devastatingly frighteningly good. Romario World Cup 94 was my first World Cup, Romario was cool as fuck during it. That's all I got. I do also recall him and Stoichkov et al shitting all over United when Barca beat them 4-0 in the European Cup though and remember my 9 year old self wondering what the fuck I just saw. In those words too, I thought 'what the fuck did I just see?' I have others, Messi is obvious, random chap like Peter Beardsley wouldn't be so obvious.

Ending was the Game of Thrones equivalent of this: 'When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.' I dunno, maybe Oberyn didn't have it on his Netflix account or something. Alas, too late now. Goddamn at that ending though and Goddamn them for making me invest in characters and then punching me in the spuds in brutal fashion. Obviously Tyrion doesn't die though, he's too integral a character on the show. I figure he somehow escapes next week, possibly with Jaime's help. But if they were to kill off any one of Tyrion/Hound/Arya, I may be forced to do something drastic, like post about it on the internet. Killing boring shits like Robb Stark is fine but keep away from my triumvirate, dammit.

Holy crap at Lester in smug prick mode. That smirk in the police corridor at the start. Feeling the need to throw in 'you know you're not half the man your brother is' during his interview. Getting his end away with Hess' wife while staring at a picture of him. Goddamn. Probably not going to work out well for you in the end though, pal. Loved the scene with Malvo fucking shit up in the Fargo building with the mirrored windows. It'd have been easy (well, not easy, but you know what I mean) to just show all the blood and carnage but I dug imagining it instead. Not that I'm some kinda sociopath that frequently imagines blood and carnage but, again, you know what I mean. Everyone in it is pretty great, agreed on Tolman and you know the cast is great when Carradine's only been the 7th or 8th best person in it (although as said, he needs more to do obviously) and you know a show is great when I don't mind Colin Hanks that much, a guy who is usually acting narcolepsy and who if you cut open would bleed beige. Even minor characters in somewhat minor scenes have impressed me, I've found myself re-watching the scene from a couple episodes back with Hanks' neighbour telling the parable of the rich man who gave everything away including his life because I thought dude who played the neighbour was really good in it. 'Only a fool thinks he can solve the world's problems.' Oh, you betcha.

I know texanspaniard has him in his Real team but I think most United fans would have to have Ronaldo too. He's been one of the best players for both teams in the last 20 or so years (arguably the best in Real's case), he was great at United but, if anything, got even better at Real. Real have had an embarrassment of riches (I mean, think of some of the names texanspaniard doesn't even have listed there) but think Xabi Alonso walks into a Liverpool and Real XI. Once nearly punched a Liverpool supporting mate in the penis when he debated Alonso, it's like, shit, there is no debate, it's Alonso and then 10 others. But not Bruno Cheyrou.

Saw this earlier, thought it was fun. As someone who has never read a comic, only knows X-Men from the films and had never heard of Quicksilver until I heard he'd be a character in this, reiterating that he absolutely stole the show. I'm trying to remember the last time I saw a character get so over so quickly with an audience at a film I've been to. Shit, the scene in the kitchen is one of the funnest in any of these blockbuster superhero type films. It's a bank holiday over here so lot of kids at the screening and heard one of them say they'd watch a film with just him. Kid should be a studio executive. Fassbender acted the shit out of his dramatic speeches, having dudes like him and McKellen in these films really elevate them (in more ways than one) but then there's no film in the history of ever that Fassbender couldn't make better. I'd watch him read the ingredients on a Reggae Reggae Sauce bottle. Surprisingly, at least half the cinema didn't stay for the post credits scene, of the half left half of them gave an audible 'the fuck?!' (and that was just the kids). Had to google it afterwards.

After all these years, I too would like someone to explain to me the 'appeal' of Scott Keith seeing as his reviews literally just consist of him listing the moves during the match and then going, um, ***1/4 but people (idiots) seemed to eat that shit up. I discovered today that he is still a thing and, in 2014, still has followers. I know on here tends to take the piss out of him but there are an awful lot of people out there who hang on his every word and, I mean, shit, there are people out there who have actually paid actual money for his old reviews. This is absurd to me. I don't mind certain reviews of wrestling and that but I'd rather read a review filled with joy than a review filled with obnoxious miserableness.

Kinkladze AND Wanchope though? That team is A-number-one. I don't know how well it would do overall but it'd be damn fun watching them. I still remember the 'fuck is this guy?!' reaction after Wanchope scored THAT goal at Old Trafford.