The world of football – defying the recession and common sense
on Nov 15, 2009 in Sport Angel di Maria Benfica Chelsea Everton football Football Transfers Jack Rodwell Manchester City Manchester United Soccer Zlatan Ibrahomivic About four months ago the world of football was turned on its head by several massive transfers.  In fact the previous record for a sale of a player (Zinidine Zidane in 2001) was broken four times this past summer, and I find it unbelievable that no...

X-Factor songs revealed for Queen Week
on Nov 14, 2009 in Film & TV Music Freddie Mercury ITV Jedward John and Edward Lloyd Daniels Queen Television X-Factor QUEEN WEEK – 14th November 2009 Stacey Who Wants To Live Forever Joe Somebody To Love Lloyd Crazy Little Thing Called Love Danyl We Are The Champions Jamie Radio Gaga Olly Don’t Stop Me Now John and Edward Under Pressure Some good song...

A review of SOiL, 12th November 2009
on Nov 14, 2009 in Music Forever Never Margate metal rock Sentinel Soil The Defiled Westcoast Bar On the 12th of November 2009 I went to see SOiL at the Westcoast Bar in Margate, England, and decided to review the gig for my Last.FM profile.  As it’s been a while since I’ve made an entry here I thought I might as well post it here as...

Worlds Strongest Man set to kick ass in MMA
on Sep 17, 2009 in Sport KSW 12 Marcin Najman Mariusz Pudzianowski Mixed Martial Arts MMA Poland Pudzianowski Strongest Man UFC Warsaw Worlds Strongest Man This comes as interesting news for fans of mixed martial arts – the most decorated worlds strongest man in the history of the competition is scheduled to make his MMA debut in Poland at an event called KSW 12 in the near future. Source link The...

Football fans, able to dish it out but unable to take it
on Sep 15, 2009 in Sport Adebayor Agbonlahor Arsenal Emanuel Adebayor football Gabriel Agbonlahor Ian Wright John Barnes Manchester City Soccer Football fans are fickle.  Of course I don’t mean every single one of them, but a large portion of fans who support any club are fickle beyond belief sometimes.  It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and apologies to the literally...

Setanta replaced by a worse entity
on Aug 23, 2009 in Sport BBC ESPN football ITV Setanta Sky TV Soccer Apologies in advance for the inevitable spiral into rant mode that this blog post will no doubt turn in to, but when the sports broadcaster Setanta finally went belly up a couple of months ago after robbing sports fans of their viewing pleasures I mu...

Guild Wars 2 Trailer
on Aug 21, 2009 in Video Games Guild Wars 2 Guild Wars Guild Wars 2 Trailer Tyria Zhaitan Orr ArenaNet NCSoft A new Guild Wars 2 trailer was shown yesterday, which had several points of interest and looks pretty good.  Currently there is no scheduled release date for the game, but to wet your appetite a little the following was posted on the official websit...

Spurs for the title?
on Aug 20, 2009 in Sport Alan Hanson Arsenal Big 4 Chelsea England Team English Premiership Fabio Capello football Harry Redknapp Hull City Jermain Defoe Liverpool Luca Modric Manchester City Manchester United Premier League Soccer Spurs Tottenham Tottenham Hotspur It’s outrageous to assume the ‘Big 4′ clubs of the English Premier League could ever possibly finish outside the top 4 league positions by the end of the season, but if early performances are anything to go by it looks as though we...

I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
on Aug 19, 2009 in Video Games Arcade Game I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!1 Ska Studios Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Indie Games Xbox Live Zombies The unusually titled ‘I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1′ looks set to cause a bit of a stir among the Xbox 360 community, mainly because it looks to be an indie game that might actually be worth paying for.  Here’s the press release f...

Pay what you think Championship Manager 2010 is worth
on Aug 18, 2009 in Video Games Championship Manager Championship Manager 2010 CM 2010 Eidos Football Manager Kotaku Kotaku have picked up on the news that Championship Manager 2010 can be pre-ordered digitally for as little as one penny – you can name the price you think is fair. For some reason there is a transaction fee of some kind which will set you back...