28th November 2005 - 21:38 GMT
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Watched I’m A Celebrity last night, Jenny Frost, Kimberley Davies and Sheree Murphy had to have a wash. However attractive they may be fit women can still get dirty and smell.
Anyway, they all went down to the lake together to clean themselves. After moaning about how fat they felt (there was more meat on those crickets dumped on Anthony Costa) they started to strip. This pleased millions of red blooded males all over the country, including Liverpool’s Australian footballer Harry Kewell who was probably missing his wife and her trim body.
Kewell probably thought he was in for an evening of entertainment, sitting in his Liverpool mansion with a can of Fosters watching his wife get naked. This enjoyment must have turned to extreme embarrassment when his wife Sheree Murphy was discussing her stomach stretch mark problem and went on to say “Harry has them too”.
Kewell has been laughed at before for his recent weight gain so this comment from his beloved wife must not have been welcome. Bet the Liverpool players couldn’t wait to see him at football training the following morning!
27th November 2005 - 20:59 GMT
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Anyone heard the new single JCB Song from Nizlopi? Jo Whiley has been playing it all week on BBC Radio 1. At first I didn’t think much of the song tipped to be Christmas No.1 but as the week went on I heard it more and more the tune really has grew on me.
The song is by little known indie group Nizlopi and is about band member Luke’s childhood memories of his relationship with his loving father. Both the lyrics and accompanying music are beautiful.
The single is not available to buy until 12th December but if enough copies are sold it should reach Christmas No.1. I urge you all to buy this wonderful tune when released if only to keep that X-Factor moron Chico off the No.1 spot.
The superbly animated video for The JCB Song can be viewed online here. Have a few listens to it over the next few days. If you don’t like it at first I am sure it will grow on you.
26th November 2005 - 23:06 GMT
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Leeds travelled to Millwall today where they won 1-0 from a injury time David Healy goal. It’s always good to snatch a winner so late on in the game. This was indeed Leeds’ 3rd consecutive league victory, the last time they strung as many league wins together was almost three years ago when Terry Venables was in charge. I’ve made another montage of the game which can be downloaded here.
The game was overshadowed by a small minority of idiotic Leeds fans who failed to observe the minutes silence for George Best who died yesterday. Best was of course a Manchester United legend so with the history between Leeds and ManU a negative reaction from some fans was always inevitable although certainly not excusable.
There were also reports of booing during the silence at the Manchester City – Liverpool game, both teams are big rivals of ManU. There was also trouble at the match between Wigan and Tottenham.
While I am a die hard Leeds fan who doesn’t really like ManU or their players I do respect the greats like George Best and was saddened by the small minority today, however I feel these minutes silences for football legends are a bad idea. In a crowd of 20-60,000 there will always be a small cluster of idiotic fans that dislike the deceased player and will do their utmost to ruin the remembrance.
For future circumstances, when other deceased football legends after remembered fans should be encouraged to applaud their life. Therefore any morons who decide to boo or shout abuse will be drowned out by the majority of fans who show respect through clapping. This is very common in Scotland and was also demonstrated during the game between Wolves and Southampton today.
Still, well done to Leeds today, marching up the table and with Sheffield United losing 4-2 to Leicester and strong rumours that their manager Neil Warnock is leaving for Portsmouth it seems that The Mighty Whites may even finish above the Blunted Blades come the end of the season.
25th November 2005 - 16:52 GMT
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I’ve been off work all week on hol-i-day, didn’t go anywhere so really there hasn’t been any good excuse for my lack of blogs. In short 200+ of my old DVDs were taken away by a courier for sale, I went Christmas shopping in Bath, went to Ikea, ate and drank in a few pubs and wrapped up warm as it’s been bloody cold this week – even awoke to snow this morning.
In the evenings I have been watching I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. This show has been going for four years but this is the first time that I have watched it. I really enjoyed Celebrity Big Brother back in January so thought I would give I’m A Celeb a go.
Last night Sherrie Murphy, the bird who died in Emmerdale and wife of ex-Leeds United superstar/Liverpool failure Harry Kewell undertook the Bushtucker Challenge. She had to use her hands, feet and mouth to retrieve stars from pits filled with eels, snakes, rats and worst of all (for an arachnophobic like me) SPIDERS!
I actually thought Sherrie would not go through with it. She cried when it came to jumping out of the plane and nearly shat herself when she saw a baby bird (what the fuck!?). Fair play to her though, she undertook nearly the whole challenge apart from the final bit where she had to go in a tank with crocodiles. She got further than me, I wouldn’t go anywhere near the spiders!
20th November 2005 - 14:05 GMT
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It is a year to the day that I saw one of the finest Leeds games of all time. 20th November 2004 Leeds beat QPR 6-1 on a cold November’s day at Elland Road. Yesterday I travelled to Southampton and at half time, freezing cold, 3-0 down I thought it would be a reverse of fortunes from the previous year.
Leeds were woeful in the first half and were booed off at half time. The fans were furious, calling for manager Kevin Blackwell’s head and hoping chairman Ken Bates was getting the P45’s out.
The start of the second half the Leeds fans were superb. We stood in the stands and sang our hearts out while the Southampton fans sat in silence. “3-0 and you still can’t sing” was the taught towards the home supporters.
The Leeds players slightly improved but Southampton still looked dangerous. “Fuck it!” I thought, “If were going to lose, we’ll have a good time and lose”. I think this was the opinion of most fans who never gave up. Then David Healy came on as a substitute and it all changed.
Leeds won a corner and the skipper Paul Butler scored to make it 3-1. The fans went ecstatic even though they were still heavily trailing. It wasn’t long until Robbie Blake scored another for Leeds to bring the score to 3-2.
The fans sensed a comeback and drowned Saint Mary’s Stadium with famous Leeds songs and chants. The fans were right to sense a reply, Leeds were awarded a penalty which Healy took and converted. The Leeds fans went nuts, the Southampton supporters left the stadium.
Leeds were hungry for more. There may have only been 6 minutes remaining but a win looked inevitable. Leeds pushed and pushed a terribly demoralised Southampton side and were rewarded when on loan midfielder Liam Miller slammed home a winner.
The game ended, Leeds fans were overjoyed, in shock and jubilant. What few remaining Southampton fans had stayed fled the stands to chants of “3-0 and you fucked it up, 3-0 and you fucked it up!”
A fabulous game (if you forget about the first half!) and beats QPR 6-1 game easily. I was so pleased I was there, in the crowd, one of the 3,000 fans who arguably won the game for Leeds.
Chants of the day:
“3-0 and you still can’t sing”
“3-0 and you fucked it up”
“Easy! Easy! Easy!” – Normally hate that Soccer AM chant but Saints fans were singing it at half time. Had to sing it back
“We’re gonna win 4-3, we’re gonna win 4-3” – When we were 3-1 down
“Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” – To the silent Southampton fans
“Let’s go fuckin’ mental!” – when we won
Took my digital camera to the game and was able to film Healy’s penalty. You can’t really see the goal but take a look at the fans reaction to the equaliser.
Also I made a mix of commentary for the game – enjoy!
One final note, please DO NOT directly link to these files on a forum or website. It’ll unfairly use my bandwidth and I will have no choice but to take them down and not upload this type of file again! If you do want to tell people about the clips on the internet send them direct to this page – http://www.sparkster.net – thanks!
17th November 2005 - 23:39 GMT
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Another late blog from my bed tonight.
Watched the new series of Little Britain this evening, had very mixed feeling about this first episode. There were some funny bits, namely the new character Mrs. Emery, an OAP with extreme bladder problems.
The regular characters were back – Lou & Andy, Daffyd Thomas (the only gay in the village), Vicky Pollard, Sebastian and Fat Fighters however I thought they brought nothing new to series 3.
It is almost as if the shows creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams are running thin on ideas. This was always inevitable; the success of Little Britain was down to the catchphrases and simple predictability. It is always obvious Andy would change his mind at the last minute and get out of his wheelchair behind Lou’s back. We have come to expect Daffyd will complain he is “the only gay in the village” only to come face to face with a fellow homosexual whom he will then insult.
You can however have too much of a good thing. The predictable humour was very funny at first but then it just gets a tad boring. Looking forward to next weeks episode though, it is still a great series and I am interested to see sketches from the new characters like Mrs. Emery and the man with his Thai Transvestite bride.
16th November 2005 - 23:50 GMT
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A bit of a late blog tonight, I’m in fact typing this in bed – the joys of a laptop with a wireless internet connection!
Went to the canteen at work this lunchtime for a bite to eat and decided to have a sandwich. Looked through all the choices and decided upon “Chicken Caesar Salad with Bacon” thought I would push the boat out and go for something a little exotic, makes a change from BLT or Coronation Chicken.
Got back to my office and started to tuck into my lunch. It wasn’t until I had nearly finished the first half of the sandwich that I noticed the ghastly aftertaste in my mouth. I checked the sandwich packaging to make sure it was actually in date and found out something far more sinister than a dodgy past it’s sell by date sarnie… this sandwich included one of the most disgusting food substances known to man… Parmesan Cheese!
Parmesan is disgusting, it smells like and (as I can now vouch for) tastes like vomit. It is foul, how anybody can call it food is well beyond me. This puke-like taste/smell is no coincidence either. Parmesan cheese uses an ingredient called rennet which is taken from the stomachs of baby cows. Vomit also comes from the stomach.
Eat parmesan. Eat this calfs last meal.
I am a big lover of Italian food, pizzas, pastas, spaghetti – love it. But when these Italian waiters come along in their restaurants and offer to foul your beautiful meal with cow vomit cheese…. I just dunno…. The thing is a lot of people love the stuff.
I had to resort to fussily dissecting my sandwich and ended up with a bit of bread, bacon and lettuce squashed together. A further mess of bread, lettuce and vomit cheese was thrown in the bin. Looks like I’m back to a BLT or cooked meal tomorrow.
14th November 2005 - 20:37 GMT
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Had to go to the dentist in town this afternoon, I took the bus home along with a dozen school kids and what annoying little fuckers they were. The gobby little shites took over the rear of the bus and spent the whole journey competing with each other for who was the wittiest chav.
They argued over chocolate covered raisins which they threw about and then ate like pigs, made unnecessary sexist remarks to young ladies getting on the bus, told some terrible jokes and started rapping awful material from their idol 50 Cent.
They also complained about the amount of hospital workers catching the bus. How they know who works for the hospital and who doesn’t I do not know but I find it a little bit rich coming from them. It is not a school bus it is for the public.
The best way to transport rowdy school kids
Their school should organise their own transport, ideally pile them all in a cattle truck, after all they behave like animals. Alternatively make them walk, if the youth of today are indeed turning into obese, E-number filled slobs than the short stroll back from school will bring some much needed exercise.
I really should have done something to shut them up, Mark from Peep Show (David Mitchell) had the right idea…
12th November 2005 - 21:42 GMT
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Well what a great game of football!
I couldn’t really have asked for much for entertainment wise, England winning 3-2 with Michael Owen grabbing two late goals coming from behind against Argentina, one of the strongest teams in the world.
I’m not going to start saying we will win the World Cup or anything like that but today’s performance did prove that the England players can play very well against a top side and come back to win from behind.
The performance today was the best I have seen by England in a long time. If they play like that during EVERY game of The World Cup and are fortunate with injuries and suspensions I cannot see any reason why England cannot win the competition. The major factor is, as always England keeping their excellent performance for 90 minutes and into extra time. In so many previous, crucial games, England have let themselves down by not playing at their best. They must overcome this problem.
Anyway, well done to all of the England boys today, you did so well, now play every game like that! Oh and finally I predicted a win for England (see below)! :o)
12th November 2005 - 15:38 GMT
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England recorded a famous win over old foes Argentina to take a giant step towards World Cup qualification from Group F.
Once again captain David Beckham was the hero, stroking home a penalty after great work from Michael Owen seconds before half-time.
And in the second half England's defence stepped to the fore, standing firm to claim a memorable win as Argentina mounted wave upon wave of attack.
Remember that? If you are a football fan or even simply English you surely will. The date was Friday 7th June 2002, the venue - the Sapporo Dome in Japan, the event - the crucial 2002 World Cup game against two of the strongest football teams in the world and bitterest of rivals.
England of course won the game 1-0 thanks to a David Beckham penalty after Michael Owen was brought down in the box. What followed was some of the most impressive football England has ever played.
Don't cry for me Argentina!
These two teams meet again tonight in a pre-World Cup friendly. There will be some old and new faces in both teams since they last met. It should be a good game, I don’t normally watch friendlies but I will today. I know a lot of patriotic fans are up for this so hopefully the players are also, if you cannot get excited about playing the likes of Argentina than you may as well not bother going to Germany next summer.
Score prediction: 2-1 to England
Both teams will fancy themselves to win the World Cup next year and they boast some excellent players. On neutral ground there will be no home advantage for either team. I may live to regret this but I’m going to back England to pull off a win against the Argies. C’mon En-ger-land!
10th November 2005 - 22:04 GMT
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I tried Napster yesterday for the first time in years. Napster was a great program I used a good few years ago to download MP3s. Napster soon became world famous and was then shut down due to the fact it was illegal to download copyrighted material.
As we all know there are now hundreds, if not thousands of ways of downloading music illegally should you wish to. I have chosen personally to now avoid such means. Maybe I have become a little paranoid from reading horror stories about “everyday” people like you or I getting £5,000 fines or worse for downloading the latest Robbie Williams single, but I feel with so many music law enforcement agencies out there to get you it’s best to move on to something safer. This is when I returned to Napster…
Napster is back (has been for 2 years or so) and is 100% legal. You now have to pay for your music. Not a problem, I have a generous collection of legal CDs and DVDs and do not object to paying for material. I pay £9.99 a month for which I have access to millions of music files and can download an unlimited amount.
The music files you downloaded are protected using DRM (Digital Rights Management) and can only be played back on your registered PC or two other nominated machines. If you chose to end your subscription all your previously downloaded media files will become unavailable. Bit of a problem but that’s the way it is (although if you look around there are ways of converting your protected music to standard WAV and MP3 files, you’ll need to search Google on that though, it is also illegal).
I think the £9.99 monthly fee is more than fair. Look at it like this, £9.99 a month is less than £2.50 a week – a price of a pint for unlimited music. Not bad huh?
They run a free 7 day trial, try it out, if you chose to cancel you simply call up ( UK number) and get to speak to a friendly American who will cancel your account and tell you to “Have a nice day”.
8th November 2005 - 22:52 GMT
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I got absolutely soaking today! It was dry all day until I left work at 5pm. Then the heavens opened and it absolutely threw it down, it was like a monsoon! It takes me less than 10 minutes to walk back from work but by the time I got to the front door I was dripping, I don’t think I could have got anymore wet had I gone swimming in the River Avon!
What made it worse is that I need new shoes, I’m planning on going into town to buy some more in a fortnight when I have a week off work but at the moment I’m having to make to with what I have… problem is the soles have holes in, not good if walking through puddles in torrential rain. Needless to say my socks were as wet as the rest of me.
Could have done with the boat to get home in
Anyway I am dried off now, changed into some dry clothes and am hoping that is just an old wives tale about catching a cold from spending too much time out in the cold and wet.
5th November 2005 - 23:42 GMT
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This evening I watched Dave Spikey’s new DVD from his live tour. If you have not seen him live you may remember him as Jerry Saint Clair from Phoenix Nights. I watched his original DVD “Overnight Success Tour” two years ago and found it very funny, his latest release is just as good. His observational humour is very similar to the hilarious Peter Kay (who created and starred in Phoenix Nights).
Without spoiling it too much for any of you here are just some of the many funny jokes in the show…
My grandma has just died, she was 93. She died peacefully. Was sitting in a chair, closed her eyes and fell asleep... dentist shat himself
My granddad is in his mid-nineties, we call him Spiderman. He's not agile, he just can't get out the bath
Cous Cous - so shit they named it twice
Have you ever met anyone who has poked their eye out with a stick?
The only time a guy feels like doing it twice is before he's done it once
A typical “to-do” list left by a wife on a Sunday morning when she goes out for the day and you want to spend the day in the bookies and pub …
- Feed dogs
- Water plants
- Wash last nights pots
- Point gable end!
and of course the tale of when he asked a nurse to right click her computer mouse and she wrote “Click” on it… The myth every kid is told that if you piss in the swimming pool a dye will show it… A sneaky trick to get cards for free using Boots Gift Vouchers… And how he would love to run chavs over in his car (not kill them, just break their legs).
Very, very funny stuff!
2nd November 2005 - 23:20 GMT
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I watched the Manchester United game against Lille this evening, another defeat and terrible performance which will lead their fans scratching their heads wondering what has happened to their once successful club
For me the problem stems back a good few years. They are not the team than won the treble all those years ago. Teddy Sheringham got too old and left, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s legs are f**ked, David Beckham (one of their best providers of the ball) was driven out by Alex Ferguson, Nick Butt is old and gone and the likes of Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs are the OAPs of The Premiership and past it.
Ferguson cannot escape blame though. He has bought many quality players but still hasn’t got the results! Look at Wigan, tiny team, 2nd in The Premiership! No excuse Fergie!
Team Captain Roy Keane was right to slate his players after the Middlesbrough game, wonder what he’ll have to say after today’s equally pathetic performance? :o)
As a Leeds fan I’m loving this, when Leeds were relegated the official Man Utd website mocked us and posted pictures of a weltering white rose while their fans laughed and laughed. I said at the time “what goes around comes around”. Looks like I was right. Not only have they mocked Leeds but many other clubs in the past during bad times. They are now getting their just desserts.
In the post match interview, Ferguson sounded a broken man and close to tears. I have never heard him like this before. While I find the recent turmoil amusing it was unsettling listening. I think he should leave the club and the over paid, lazy players while he still has some respect left.
If any of you “Glory Supporting” ManU fans are getting fed up with your teams performances and want to make it all better may I suggest checking out this website. There’s still time to sort your woes out for Sunday!
1st November 2005 - 22:58 GMT
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Leeds played Crewe tonight and lost - what a letdown. To be honest though, having supported Leeds for some time I could see this coming. A nice run of unbeaten games, good results against the top sides of the division and then falling to the relegation fodder. It has happened time and time before and will undoubtedly happen again.
I was really hoping Leeds had turned a corner this time, would go to Crewe and beat them. The thing is, with the squad Leeds have this shouldn’t have been a problem. From what I heard (ok, just on the radio commentary), the Leeds players didn’t seem to care tonight. They are the ones to blame tonight. The strikers couldn’t score, the midfield was woeful and the defence pathetic.
For this result I refuse to blame the manager Kevin Blackwell. I have had very mixed feelings about him since he took charge but lately he has convinced me that he is he right man for the job as the results up until today have been generally good. Leeds play scrappy, ugly football but they are playing in a scrappy, ugly league where it isn’t how much skill you have which wins you games it is how much you fight for the ball. Leeds didn’t fight tonight.
Looking on forums like WACCOE and listening to the post match phone in on BBC Radio Leeds it just shows how fickle some supporters are. Most of them are slating the manager and calling for him to be sacked. Where were these people when we were getting respectable results? Nowhere to be seen!
Even if the manager was sacked who do you replace him with? There seems to be some arrogance with Leeds fans that any manager in Europe would love to be in charge of us. Wrong. If Blackwell was sacked it’s unlikely any decent replacement will be taken on, more than likely a character of Peter Reid’s quality.
The season is still young, Leeds are in a healthy position (5th with a game in hand). Very disappointing result today but nothing to panic about yet, roll on Saturday, the players owe the fans, the manager and themselves a good result against Preston.
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