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Benfica 1 - Liverpool 0

Nuts! Liverpool have it all to do at Anfield now! A nightmare with only 6 mins to go. Report card says 'could have done better'.

Clerks 2

Kevin Smith is back with Clerks 2 later this year! Ten years later, the story of Quick Stop convenience store employees Dante and Randal continues...
In 1994 Clerks became for many an instant Cult Classic. I say many 'cos Kevin Smith movies are love them or hate type things. My lasting memory is that it was filmed in B&W and we didn't know that so we thought our VCR was on the blink! But we watched it and loved it anyway.

A Bittersweet Life

A Korean movie directed by Ji-woon Kim, who also directed A Tale of Two Sisters. Described as a violent thriller by some and an action/noir by others I found this to the latter. Perhaps I’m getting a little desensitised to violence but I really didn’t find this that strong, but it does have its moments, but you do have to wait for them.
The story centres on Seonwoo, a cold blooded ‘enforcer’ for a crime boss. The boss goes away for three days and charges Seonwoo to look after his latest flame, Heesoo, a young cellist. Seonwoo also is placed with the added task of finding out if she’s cheating on the boss. The story then follows Seonwoo as when he finds that she is indeed cheating he’s unable to kill her and her boyfriend without having a better reason. He then also manages to become entangled in a mysterious rivalry between his boss and another gang leader. This all leads to Seonwoo being wanted by all and his only way out is to kill them all first.
All of this doesn’t sound too ground breaking in terms of story line but I think the style of the film and some of the action is different from the norm and well worth checking out.

Liverpool 1 - Man Utd 0 (FA Cup)

Great result today for Liverpool to knock Man-Utd out of the FA Cup. First time we've beat them in the FA Cup for 85 years!
Again a very strong first half performance and we could have scored more but didn't capitalise on all the opportunities. Howerver, Crouch's come back goal was enough to put us in a very strong position, but Man-Utd had nothing to put us under pressure today. Long may it continue!

Liverpool 1 - Arsenal 0

Another win for Liverpool to put them 10 points ahead of Arsenal and 6 ahead of Tottenham. Looks like things are getting back on track. Fingers crossed for the FA Cup game against Man-U on Saturday. They looked like they were getting back to form too in their last game. Jesus! Listen to me! I’m starting to sound like a real football fan! How laughable this probably is to so many people back home in Ireland.
My commiserations to Yolanda for Real Madrid getting knocked out last night even though they won 4-0 they needed it to be 5. Sorry Babe!

Middlesbrough 3-0 Chelsea

What a result! Rafa better study the video of this game closely to see what we have to learn.

I'll be keeping a close eye on Portsmouth v Man-U later! Clearly anything can happen now!

Wigan 0 - Liverpool 1

Thank god for that! See the difference when Liverpool scores first. It's all about the mental attitude of the players. We can go into the game against Arsenal with more confidence now.

Paella @ Jordi's

Last night we were invited round to Jordi and Nuria's flat on mathew street for Paella. Jordi has a restaurant in Spain but they close for 4 months over the winter so he's come to Liverpool to work in La Tasca and improve his english. BeBe is from Nigeria and isn't in the picture as he was the one taking it! This will make a change for him because he's a model and spends plenty enough time in front of a camera.

Anyway, the paella was great and we had a few vino's to help it down. It was a good laugh and good to meet some new people.

Charlton 2 - Liverpool 0

I'll leave it up to Mr Benitez to comment on last nights events....

"It was unbelievable we have lost that game," said a bemused Benitez. "For the first 40 minutes we were always attacking and it was one-way traffic. Then what happened was just crazy. It's clear to see it wasn't a penalty but when you concede a goal you then can't concede another."

"We've got to learn from our mistakes and we've got to learn soon," added the Reds boss. "If we want to win trophies we can't concede a second goal straight after the first. We've been talking about mistakes after recent games and tonight we have made another two.

Hopefully it's just a bad patch that won't last too long.

There's Wigan, Arsenal, Man-U, Benfica to come next and it's not any easier after that. Things must be fixed before the next game or we could see Liverpool drop down the premiership table very quickly and get knocked out the champions league too!

MacGyver Returns!

priceless.com - Film Festival has the new master card advert with MacGyver as the star! Absolutely classic!!!

RateMyTeachers.ie

This is an interesting one! RateMyTeachers.ie is a site where pupils can tell it how it is from their point of view. Not too many teachers from my era remain but it looks to me that things havent changed that much since I left. Facinating reading for about 5 mins for me but I bet It makes for good conversation in the parents/teachers meetings.

Chelsea 2 - Liverpool 0

What a farce! Again we started out as the stronger team in the first half and failed to capitalise on the opportunities, of which there were many. But then, Chelsea gets one opportunity and they score straight away!
The second half is a bit more of an even handed affair but Chelsea capitalises again and we are left 2-0 down and frustrated. What are we doing wrong?
Generally in defence Liverpool is as capable as anyone else but they seem to be getting caught out by all going for the ball and not sticking to their defensive zone. You can get away with this when playing against lesser teams, but against the Chelsea’s and the Man-U’s of this world they will take advantage of any opportunity they get.
In the middle we are great.
Up front? Well… we are not scoring goals it’s as simple as that! We have plenty of strikers and they are supposedly world class players but they just don’t seem to have the same aggression as the strikers from Chelsea or Man-U. Our guys are too nice! It’s a tough one for me this, because I hate players like Crespo who is a macho asshole and has a huge head. But on the other hand when you are in front of the goal you need to have that confidence that you are unbeatable and strike the ball like you mean it. This is what is missing from Liverpool at the moment. We are just too nice up front! (Just my theory)
As for the sending off of Pepe Reine…he should have kept his cool but it also should not have come to what it did. From my point of view there was nothing wrong with his tackle on Gudjohnsen, who seemed to me to have handled the ball. Reine should not have raised his hand to Robben, but his swan dive was sickening. That a grown man would resort to such tactics is disgusting. Nothing was made of the Chelsea players who raised their hands to push Reine away from the scene and there was a severe lack of consistency in the referee’s decisions throughout the match, in both directions.
However, at the end of the day (got to get that in there when talking about football), Liverpool lost because of their own faults. There was nothing spectacular about Chelsea’s performance and we could have come away with a victory if these faults had been removed. Benitez warned about these problems in the days before the match but it just didn’t sink in for the players it seems.
Chelsea is a runaway train again this season. But we still need to keep working towards second place and a good result in Europe. Next year could be our year in the premiership but we need to start strong and figure out what we are going to do about getting a serious goal scoring machine.

Good Night, and Good Luck

I loved this movie! Great script and cinematography complemented by strong performances all round. Directed by George Clooney, it was all filmed in B&W. The film is set in the 1950’s and centres on the main character Edward R Murrow and his quest to stop Senator McCarthy’s Communist witch hunt. I couldn’t help feeling the morels of this movie are very relevant to the current political climate.

Edward R. Murrow:
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

The point here is that it seems clear that America sometimes could do with looking in the mirror before pointing the finger. That said, the same could be said about lots of other countries. But I’m not opening that can of worms.
The main story is supported by some sub plots and although I’ve heard other people say that they go nowhere, I feel that they do help in showing the cultural climate in which people were living at that time. We have come a long way in terms of human rights since the 1950’s through out the world be lets face it we have a long way to go yet!
It’s alleged by IMDB to have been a greyscale set filmed in colour and touched up but I’m not convinced that this is true. Someone in IMDB having a laugh maybe?

Underworld - Evolution

Went to see this with Jon ‘cos he had some free tickets. Probably would have waited to see it on DVD otherwise. I know this because I’ve still not seen the first movie. Anyway...It was more or less what i expected, but the story was a little over complicated for this type of movie and it wasn't always clear who the characters where straight away. This may be less of a problem if you have seen the first one.
The special effects were of a high standard and plentiful. The sets were good too, all very dark and there was a good atmosphere to it all.
Of course there were the obligatory gratuitous shots of Kate Beckinsale’s rubber clad body and there was a sex scene too but too but it wasn’t particularly steamy and didn’t give the censorship board much to worry about.
The rest of the supporting cast are an ensemble of British actors of a high standard like Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, and Tony Curran, which helps to make the whole thing a bit more…well believable isn’t the right word…but you know what I mean.
Well worth checking out on DVD but only go to the cinema if you are a fan of this type of thing.

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