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Just joined and I'm straight in at a respectable 8th place, though Carragher has to go as a priority

Yep, except nothing for 3rd place finishes. Not keen at all on this setup Results such as Aberdeen or Lech Poznan getting through to the last 32 just aren't going to happen - which means we'll see the same old teams in the last 32 year in year out, exactly what's wrong with the Champions League. Fair enough, it's better than the nonsense system of the last few years, but it's still designed to ensure that crappy teams don't manage to get very far - which seems completely counterproductive given Platini's vision of getting more countries represented. I'd have loved to have seen a return of the original Champions League format of having two leagues in the semi final stage with only winners progressing - maybe 2008/2009 wouldn't be such a great example, but taking the year before, you'd have had Bayern Munich, Getafe, Bayer Leverkusen, Zenit St. Petersburg, Rangers, Sporting Lisbon, Fiorentina and PSV Eindhoven all battling it out to get a spot in the final. If that's not enough spots, then they could add in an extra team - 8 games, 5 teams in each semi final league with just one team going through would produce some amazing football as they'd almost certainly have to go for the win in every game. As an aside, am I right in thinking that Rangers are now in Pot 2 for the Champions League draw as a result of Copenhagen and Panathinaikos going out?

My tried and tested tactic is to play for the draw, then beat them on pens. If you try and score against the CPU, they'll just brutally expose your back four time and time again. Mind you, if you can get a decent cross in, you should be able to score - it's as bad as FIFA 2001 for that :/

I'm not a fan, because they sometimes act as a trigger for migraines. Any idea if there's bulbs available that are as 'soft' as the old ones and don't emit such blinding light? Speaking of which, 100W bulbs are freely available here...yet another case of the UK following an EU directive to the letter?

Thank you Jim, that's a great article

Well, you've certainly adopted some of their ways....

I agree, and West Ham should play their next few cup games behind closed doors to boot. The pitch invasions are just inexcusable, especially as they happened twice! Five Live are hinting that the policing and stewarding wasn't up to scratch too. Why didn't the ref abandon the game though?

What's going on at the West Ham-Millwall game is just sickening When the BBC commentators can't even leave the stadium due to the violence going on outside, something is really, really wrong. What else can be said?

Their cover of Not Over Yet wasn't actually bad...

Phil using his size to scare everyone again?

Reading too much of those David Icke forums again? The fact that Obama was born in Honolulu combined with even a slight knowledge of US citizenship laws (anyone born on the soil is automatically a citizen) should've told you that it's complete rubbish.

Call yourself a music promoter and yet you don't know who Del is? Pah! Adam's bang on the money. Del's supported (and booked) Luke a fair few times if I'm right, and it wouldn't have been a huge shock if mistakes in animation came along for the tour too (Del's also a thoroughly decent bloke and comes highly recommended if he ever wants to gig up here...)

True, but wasn't this the idea behind the PS3 to make it a complete system?

Why on earth did Sony cripple the later models so badly? Fair enough, they did it with the PS2 as well, but you'd tink they would've learnt from their lesson?

I fell off that deathslide once when pissed in Kemnay, never gone on it since. (you lot will probably know Fat Rab, I assume?)

What, no Del as support?

He still wasn't giving 100%, he lost a couple of hundredths by looking left and right and lost some more by not dipping for the line - if you saw the photo at the finish, he was still upright when crossing the line. To think that he could take another tenth of a second off if/when he gets better with his starts is just intimidating. Scary to think that he's only 22 and could break 9.5. Tyson Gay threw his dummy out as well after the race.

I really don't want to know what he was searching for when he found that :/ (worthy of another mention, surely?)

Ugh, more bloody Polish people (hello!)

I'm speechless.

What about NECR ones?

NECR is where it's at :/

This one was pretty awful, and didn't they have a light purple strip round that time too?

Fucking hell, you've got my sympathy

What, featuring the teacher from Kincorth or wherever it was?