<Hozza>

Just finished watching the previous week's "big" fixtures- Also, by the end of tomorrow night I will also have watched the EPL Saturday April 29 fixtures, because I'm only going to watch one or two of the matches in full.

Report- <Chelsea v Southampton> was more exciting than expected because the Saints came to win- probably due to some personal grudges by ex-Blues such as <Oriol Romeo and Juliet>, who was man of the match for me- because of how many players he obliterated with lusty tackles. Alas, it wasn't enough, because Chelsea would not be denied due to their undeniable quality. <Costa Gavras'> final goal was one of the best of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPX...

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On <Tottenham v TIN POT CROYDON>, they really had our balls in a salad shooter until <Onward Christian Soliders Erikkssenn> saved the day eh?

What a mensch! He's having a career season and he still has plenty of upside too.

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On the <Manchester DARBY>, I was disappointed by the lack of quality all round, but luckily <Gary Neville> was in fine form.

He spent almost the entire match complaining about how <Sterling> needs to learn how to strike a football, and about how he needs to do extra work on the training ground until he achieves any "real" quality lol.

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<Teem> So you actually did all of that research, including <Kitty Kat Kounty>?

<Hozza, Teem> and here's another <hozzelection> Brit Boy Band!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zer...

<Hozza> Thanks for introducing me to <PULP FICTION>, that's an interesting band on every level.

Britpop style, irony, and originality are not dead and <PULP> is living proof. This "Common People" track is full of quality, unlike <Raheem Sterling's finish>: https://youtu.be/qJS3xnD7Mus

<Hozza> Does <Pulp> support Wednesday or United?

<Hozza> Man did I miss the boat on <Pulp>- they were a 1990s band!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_...

Negatory, good buddy. This audiovisual aid will explain:

<Hozza> I forgot to mention, thanks for clearing that up for me aboot <Newcastle>.

Now next season I can watch <Jonjo Shelvey> play again!

Not so, my good man!

Spurs players subsist entirely on a diet of <potato tots>.

At the end of the 2014-15 season Lineker and Ian Wright were both summarising the season with Gary Neville and Robbie Savage. The Messi v Ronaldo debate came up and Savage and Neville were saying that Ronaldo has to be in the same league as Messi because of the amount of goals he scores. Lineker summed it up perfectly and found the words I couldn't..

"They're not in the same league. Ronaldo's brilliant but he doesn't <fill you with joy> like Messi does". Everytime I watch him I feel like a child again, he's just a special genius and a once every 40 years kinda player. My old man prefers Pele because of the WC's but says he's better than Maradona, I never saw Pele but from the games and footage I have seen I'd say even Brazilian Ronaldo was better. Just my opinion like.

Messi 4 goals v Arsenal in the Champions League quarters 2010... This is when I decided that at 22 years old I was witnessing indescribable genius, completely lost for words and I'm sure you can imagine that's rare, lol. Btw the atmosphere in this game is one of the most exciting I've ever heard, including WC finals and England games #GENIUS https://youtu.be/L1Gd8HfcU1A

Messi 5 goals against Bayern Leverkusen. 2012. One of those performances that you can't describe. Check out the quality of the goals and at half time 2 of the Bayern players had a fight over who got his shirt after the game! https://youtu.be/7wOj4jdKy-8

And in reply to your post on the Rogoff page, I agree with what the commentator said about him being the best there was, is and will be but I don't think that particular goal warranted the comment. Roberto did the hard work, I guess he's set the bar so high I expect performances like the two above ^^^ every week. Same English commentator too :)

<UHF> Thanks for those historical performance highlights!

Yes certainly I think <Messi> is the greatest footballer in history. This is my top 6 list all time great footballers:

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1. Messi
2. Maradona
3. Pele
4. Cruyff
5. George Best
6. Peter Crouch

Up, Stoke City!>

<Lineker> got it just about right, as you said- the difference between <Messi> and <Ronaldo> isn't something you can express just by counting statistics. It's the *way* that <Messi> plays that sets him apart, in the same way that it was the *way* <Cruyff> or <George Best> played that set them apart- set them apart not just in a different league, but on a different planet.

I think <Messi> may be unique in the way that he has totally mastered the finesse chip over the keeper, but he has also mastered leathering the bloody ball, as he demonstrates in the last goal in the <Leverkrausen> clip. There is no aspect of football skill or performance that <Messi> has not mastered, heads above the rest.

They are singing at the Gash Meme:

Did <Shaquille O'Neal> win the <Gasherbrum II Memorial>?

<Jim> I saw your spirited defense of the world's great mountaineers over on <I have a beef stroganoff> page.

Well said.

You may be interested in this short, but very fine <Werner Herzog> documentary about the almost unbelievable ascent of <Gasherbrum I *and* II> on the same trip by <Reinhold Messner> and <Hans Kammerlander>.

<Kammerlander> almost died on this climb- <Messner> had refused to use belay harnesses because that would give them an "unfair advantage" over the mountain. So sure enough <Kammerlander> agreed and when he fell into a crevasse, the belay rope just about cut <Messner> in half. It was a mighty struggle, but <Kammerlander> managed to jumar out. That incident is not mentioned in this documentary, though I think it should have been included. Goes without saying on a <Messner> climb, but they did it without supplemental oxygen as well.

A number of friends of mine worked on the cursed production of "Fitzcarraldo," which had all kind of troubles with natives, the government, and cast mebers being replaced (Mick Jagger and Jason Robards were filming at some point).

Yes <Werner> is the stuff of legend to be sure. He was a lot more eccentric in his early years. Long before he'd made a name for himself in European art cinema, he walked from his house in Germany to France solely in order to meet the already legendary filmmaker <Lotte Eisner>. He wrote a book aboot it which I read years ago. He was ineluctably drawn to, and horrified by, German Romanticism in those days, a love that served his own art well in later years- particularly in masterpieces such as <Woyzek>, <Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle>, and <Herz aus Glaz>.

Always with <Popol Vu> laying down the soundtracks.

Er.. just click on the link I posted <Jim> that's the entire documentary there for you to watch.

I just clicked on it and copy pasted the title here: <In The Dark Glow Of The Mountains>