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As a younger fan I clealr missed Flair in his prime but I was unbelievably impressed with his match. Without doubt the best he's had in years. Nice to see he went out on top.

P.S. Needless to say i didn't well up

I reckon it's on. I certainly won't be going to picnic this year (great great festival in general but the line up is criminal). Might try and catch them in a small stage in Europe again but avoid repeating the mistakes of Torino

Had a bit of a scare this weekend but we pulled through somehow. It's hard to say how much i hate playing Middlesbrough. Also a good weekend for Juve although we didn't even play. Notice that Edwar is sidestepping another shocking Milan performance. I didn't catch the table but I assume Samp must be right behind you now if not infront.

Also, I disagree with you that playing Poland is a step forward. The next WC is years away and Poland do not play like the teams in your region (concaf?), you should take a page out of Brazil's book and be playing under 23 teams in preperation for the Olympics because you could actually win it. The good nations always choke

Spaceman- BAbylon Zoo

My "friend" just gave me 20 Neil Young albums on a DVD so I'm wondering where to start. I have had Harvest for about half a year and adore it but other than that have only started to listen to after the gold rush. Remember that there was a Dead thread that similar to this

I personally would prefer if top athletes started pulling out based on their own political views. Asaba and Gatland would be a massive blow if they weren't to show up and if the big U-23 football players didn't go it would also be a massive blow but a country should never force it's athletes not to compete

Cole gets far too much abuse, much more than he deserves but he's still a cunt.

As for the England team, fair play to Capello for picking Wheater

Absolutely shocking tackle by Cashley in an otherwise cracking game

TBH, I couldn't be bothered reading the speech. I assume Obama just said that he would strive for equality (who wouldn't) but I was very impressed that he used the word black as well as african-american. What a stupid phrase

TBH, I think that if Milan had have gotten through it would have been much worse. Arsenal are playing great stuff and are great to watch as are Barca and Roma and to a lesser extent Man Utd and Schalke. I would have loved to see Sevilla get through for entertainment reasons. The draw was a bit of a letdown for the neutral though. Schalke and Fenerbache got impossible tasks, Roma got the team they are least suited to playing again and Arsenal vs. pool just falls on a bad weekend

We got Fenerbache and a second leg at home in are guaranteed semi final and Roman has already booked out the best hotel in Moscow. Savage. Edwar, you and your sour grapes

I think my good taste would givew way to Bon Jovi's Always.

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Gram Parsons - GP

Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

Slint - Spiderland

Goldie Looking Chains - Solid Gold Hits

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Arcade Fire - Funeral

Alannis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill

t would be horiible to have to work on Paddy's day

Walcott is doing much better now that the media limelight has calmed down but why Wenger paid so much for him i will never know.

As fot the Champions League, couldn't have gone better. Chelsea and Totti both got through, made money on my Sevilla Chelsea double and there's a 25% chance we'll get a free run to the semis

I don't think he was making those noises though. He seemed to be fine with staying with Bolton til the end of the year and with characters such as Diouf the locker room is hardly gonna be the best. I also think that the "Le Sulk" argument is defeated by his dersire to play for the national team. He is effectively directly competing with trezeguet and Benzema for the last 2 places so if he didn't get his transfer there's not much he could have done

I'm not denying a big move was inevitable but why not wait till the summer. Anelka couldn't act like a brat until after Euro 2008 and I doubt you would have got relegated if you kept him but now I'd say you have a 1 in 4 chance of going

Everton or Blackburn are not fighting relegation.

If you are fighting relegation then surely you should keep your best players

Also, if Chelsea came knocking on Everton or Blackburn's doors for Andy Johnson or Benni McCarthy, waving their billionaire's chequebook around, they'd soon find an amicable selling price. I think you're confusing ambition with the economics of the game: every player has their price.

But you don't have to sell in January, the ball is entirely in Bolton's court and he was essential to the team. You have only scored 28 goals so far. He got 11 before he left.

And if we hadn't have sold him, what would that have done? We'd have a player who resents the club, doesn't try, isn't motivated, the kind of thing that spreads throughout the team, destroys morale, etc, etc. Basically a Van Hoojidonk on our hands. Hardly an approach to help stave off relegation?!

Anelka never demanded to go, he did the same as Berbatov. Said he was happy where he was but if the right team came in for him he'd listen to what they had to say. There are no indications he was unhappy and keeping your top scorer is definitely a better way to stave of relegation than selling him

We had no choice, otherwise we'd have been left exactly the same as Arsenal where, they probably didn't want to sell Anelka first time round, but his brothers engineered a move for him, so they made the best of a bad situation and got what they could. The only reason that he signed a new contract with us at the beginning of the season was so when the envitable came, and Chelsea decided throwing money at the problem of being without Drogba for the African Nations would solve their problems (a move which backfired spectacularly in the Carling Cup final), then he wouldn't get transferred for nothing, or next to nothing.

Completely different situation. He was young, told the press he wanted to go and Wenger needed the money for Bergkamp or Overmars or someone .And players don't sign new contracts so there clubs can sell them, especially if he wanted to leave to Chelsea as much as you claim. He signed because he was happy

Nobody has claimed it was a good move for Bolton. It was inevitable move.

Then why not wait till the Summer. Anelka couldn't risk being a cock because Domenech would have had none of it and he would have lost his place in the national team he worked so hard to regain

I am sure he has broken contracts before with other clubs. As for Everton, they flogged McFadden didn't they and he was an important player for them.

You can't just break a contract but you can force yourself to be sold ala Van Hoojidonk but Anelka wasn't near doing that and he hasn't for a while. As for Everton selling Mcfadden, a man who would never get past Johnson and Yakubu up front and Cahill, Arteta and Pienaar in attacking midfield and then moves to Birmingham is not an important player. He just scored one cracker against france

Anelka is the type of player that does what he wants to, no matter what a manager says to him. He left every club he was with, grumbling and bitching. We made a killing on him when we flogged him to Real Madrid. Having said that, I would have him back at Goonerland in a pinch.

I'm pretty sure he had 2 and a half years left on his contract. and to sell a player of his standard screams that the club have no ambition. Everton or Blackburn never would have sold a player of his standard

Cisse was not a good player. He playes like a dog chasing a balloon most of the time.

As for Megson, I don't see how anyone could claim selling Anelka was a positive move but I do think he's a good manager to keep teams up. Great result for my team yesterday. Not everytime can put 4 Green

wow, I'm genuinely surprised by some of the views airing here.

 

I am a recently converted Wilco fan in all honesty, and after discovering SBS, I could not stop listening to it.

 

I can't see why people can see this album as boring really, the amazing soloing of Nels, Glenn's fantastic beats and yet more lyrical beauty from Jeff.

 

Listening to previous albums, this record seems to have more of an upbeat feeling and of positivity in comparison to the previous records, and as a collection of songs and individually, I can repeat earlier sentiments about how I think this is one of the greatest records ever.

 

But I have to ask, exactly what is it about SBS that you don't like? Personally, it ticks all the boxes but I'd like to see what you all think about it.

I have a couple of problems with SBS. For one, I don't think it's actually a great album as such. Some fantastic songs but I struggle to listen through it from start to finish compared to AGIB and YHF which blend so well (excluding the drone). Also, you mention the upbeat lyrics as a positive but I got into Wilco because of the sad ones and I preferred what I had before.

I also think there are some very very average songs on it that I wouldn't have given a third listen to if it weren't Wilco like Please be Patient, Sky Blue Sky and Either Way. Having said that, I adore Hate it Here, You are my face, Walken and Impossible Germany

Anywhere to get this uncensored

Do they have that in Chicago? It should be required drinking for everyone.

It would have to be Magners there and it's not really the same thing and either way, it's not the season for it. Bulmers is only worth it in Summer

YHF demos.

Because after god punished me with a virus for looking at porn it's the only album I have on here