PLAGIARISM!

At any cold weather NFL game, there's always half a dozen drunk fat dudes in the first five rows with B-R-O-W-N-S or B-E-A-R-S painted on them in dog masks and shit. American football uses beer for a scarf. Incidentally, I saw part of some program profiling the rise of neo-nazi sentiment among european football leagues. Particularly in Italy and Spain, I think. Some Spanish coach called some other player a "black shit," and all this other rotten stuff. You ever see anything like that, or was the show blowing a few isolated assholes out of proportion? I've not seen anything that bad in the UK, but I don't go to games that often. It's much rarer in Britain than the rest of Europe, definitely. The incident you're referring to was a comment from the Spanish national coach about Theirry Henry. Spain and Italy have a shambolic record of crap like that and there's a lot going on to try and stop it, or so we're told by the regulation bodies. A guy who used to play for my team who's now in Italy acknowledged the Neo-nazis in the crowd with a Hitler salute when he scored, later defending his actions with the gem 'I'm a fascist, but I'm not a racist'. Not every club has an openly fascist section of their fanbase though. There certainly needs to be programmes about it.

Hello Young Lovers is arriving on my doorstep monday. Oh hell yes.

YESSSSSSS WE ARE STAYING UP (I think) We won with Lee Bullen in net, which means he has literally played in every single position for us. Good lad. Hope Lucas's injury isn't too serious tho, that could fuck us over...

Wire - 'Sand In My Joints'

Good job one of us was listening to Yes or we'd never have known.

Sandman? That bodes well for fans of shitloads of cheesy CG...

The more I see Morrissey's band live (Boorer, Whyte et al) the more I appreciate them. I think Whyte's guitar style compliments Morrissey's voice just as well as Marr's, even though he's not technically as good. Johnny Marr as a composer without Morrissey's delivery (the crucial factor here) is only a shade above Bernard Butler.

Replacements - 'Alex Chilton'. Should be a cringeworthy homage track, esp. as he was working with them and everything, but as usual, effortlessly sublime.

Well any family that raises five quasi-emos isn't gonna go on many picnics.

Always been more of a scarf man. Is that mainly a soccer/country with shite weather thing? People paint faces here, btw.

Christ, away at Millwall on saturday. Definitely the biggest game of the season so far. We have to win, after all, blades have signed their dangerman Bruce Dyer! hehehe. More proven premiership mettle at the lane...

Isn't 'incredibly fat pug' an apt description of him these days?

Do you still have that Wolf Blitzer guy on the news? American names, good lord...

Suede. Early Suede mind. That's kind of OK, right?

Dunno if this rule applies to the US, but Radiohead's lifeless obsessive fanbase guarantee a lightning quick sellout.

Ah, see, not me.

I suppose for an industrial fan that's a formidable supergroup.

'I Like You' wasn't too good. I liked 'I Have Forgiven Jesus' and 'You Know I Couldn't Last' however. His live covers of 'No One Can Hold A Candle To You' and 'Redondo Beach' were good on his last tour.

WWE Royal Rumble 2006.

I think King of the Hill had the potential to become a classic, but went on too long.

I struggle to watch most ECW stuff these days too, but I think Heatwave 98 is one of the better ones where all the daftness was watchable and fun and didn't screw up the flow.

Didn't Nelly tell us to pop our collars like 4 years ago?

Nice! Obv. I'll probably love it whatever, at least to some degree. I'm only going on descriptions but it sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than You Are The Quarry.

Well OK it was twice. But the message is clear. God bless him. And yeah Your Arsenal is class, but I think 'Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself' is his best song. Also, The live versions of the Your Arsenal songs on Beethoven Was Deaf are absolutely superb.

The word 'kill' crops up in the tracklisting of Ringleader... far too often for it to be bad.