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It's no use now, but for future sporting events where you want to avoid giving your hard earned to Rupert Murdoch, google 'name of sport', 'streams' and 'reddit'. There's a subreddit for the streaming of just about every sport that more than half a dozen people are interested in watching. So I've heard anyway, from a mate. I wouldn't steal income from those hard-working athletes. No chance.

I think you just described this whole website. And yes. I come here for the celebrity death puns. They are mildly amusing.

JK Flesh - New Horizon I'd only heard the first JK Flesh album, which was sort of like a Godflesh-lite, which is no bad thing, I generally dig anything Justin Broadrick releases, but I'd slept on the rest of the JK Flesh catalogue. This one came out last week. It's nothing like the one album I'd heard. This is proper grimy techno. I'm on a major filthy electronica kick right now, so I'm totally in to it. Impossible to find via the usual means, Bandcamp, Spotify, Soundcloud etc, but it's streaming here: https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen-to-a-full-stream-of-the-new-jk-flesh-album

Speaking of terrible pundits, here's the relentlessly embittered Graeme Souness ranting about Paul Pogba (again) about a game he didn't even watch as he was doing punditry on the Watford/Spurs game (United won, Pogba played well). Bellamy does a little chuckle as soon as Souness mentions Pogba's name, because the guy is like clockwork. The face at the end though... (Ignore the tweet. Whoever uses cry-laugh emoji's is pretty much always a bell-end) The hatred is real. He is one wayward Pogba pass away from having a Frank Grimes-esque meltdown, dabbing around the Sky Studio, before launching himself through the glass. I'm chipping it out for a goal kick! Give me a raise!

Good article. Reading some football forums, usually populated by knuckle draggers of many varieties, they all still champion Andy Gray as being the best. Probably because he was so enthusiastic. Even when he was on Sky, what did he offer other than shouting the loudest? This is the same man who's soundbite is continually quoted, when he claimed Messi couldn't do it on a cold night in Stoke. And then, you know, the deplorable sexist jibes. On the article specifically, I do kind of agree with Paul Robinson on how the top coaches and managers can't educate their players on taking throw-ins themselves, but whilst it might seem funny to some, foul throws have become far, far too common in the last few years. Personally, I think the foul throw rule is dumb anyway, and as long as you throw the ball in with two hands over your head, how you release the ball, or not having both feet on the ground doesn't seem like it should make much difference, but it's the rules and players seem to be forgetting them and carelessly taking throw ins. Also, how often does possession turn over from a throw in? All the time. You will be coached on set pieces, and not just expected to kick the ball towards an opponent, so coaching throw ins doesn't seem all that ridiculous, but it does seem ridiculous that coaches that are in place aren't already able to do this. Richard Keys is one of the worst people involved in football, but he seems to do well to stay on topic, whilst Andy Gray reverts to type.

It will be tame by Mourinho standards (he won't throw a physio under the bus) but he won't see out the season, unless he miraculously goes on a run of wins akin to City last season, but that is incredibly unlikely. He just can't make a team formidable enough to do that anymore. It seems clear he was sending a "look what you made me do!" message to Ed Woodward by playing Ander Herrera as a centre back (though I actually thought it worked quite well, particularly in the first half). It's a battle Mourinho is destined to lose. He wants Martial out and he doesn't seem to care whether Pogba goes. Woodward was the one who bought Martial and doesn't want to give him up, nor the face of the club in Pogba. Though Woodward could lose as well by losing all 3 of them. This season's gonna be a right laugh.

r/Nosleep is good. Creepy short stories, written in rather believable prose. It can be a little hit or miss, but you can easily pick out the good ones, usually the ones that already have the most comments. r/Comics is another I usually check, cos webcomics are great.

I e-mailed the council about something last week. Then yesterday, the person who responded to my e-mail (accidentally) included me in a non-work related e-mail she was sending to colleagues, possibly to another person with the same first name as me, and Outlook auto-completed it as it often does. Long story short, I ended up with an e-mail full of pictures of Fiona the Hippo

Oh man, patches and everything, and the jeans hem around the back edges. Badass.

Just blitzed through Better Call Saul. I watched the first 3 or 4 when it first came to Netflix and it didn't grab me. Saw a trailer for the new season, and it made me go back. Man, Netflix know how to put together trailers. Trailers for Jessica Jones and Orange is the New Black also had the same effect despite them not interesting me initially. Better Call Saul is good, but I find myself just wanting to watch the Mike and the Salamanca/Cartel storylines. The stuff involving Jimmy and his brother was a bit of a drag at times. I loved Saul in Breaking Bad, but I wish it was Mike who got the spinoff prequel.

Is that an amp with denim tolex?

Why does hip hop have weak clicky beats now? That snare sounds like arse. I don't get the love for that 808 sound.

The major reason would be that it would be deeply unpopular this side of the border. The football league clubs don't even want the B teams of English clubs in the Football League or even in the EFL Trophy and have vehemently voted against it. No chance they'd vote in favour of Scottish clubs coming aboard. It's true that there are Welsh teams, though Cardiff and Swansea didn't go from being established in the Welsh league over to the English league, they started within it as it was professional, and the Welsh football league was amateur and regional at that time. (Wrexham started in the English football league because their formation predated a Welsh football league system). Moving from being the best clubs in one country's league to another, for what will be for financial gain and exposure, would be unprecedented. The knock-on effect of a 22 team Premier League would ripple down the football pyramid. Every division would need to have more relegations as well, and the end result is two English clubs being punted out of the Football League and into the Vanarama Conference to accommodate two Scottish clubs. If that happened, fans would be majorly pissed. If the Old Firm were to join English football, they should have to start much lower down the pyramid, as a newly formed club, like AFC Wimbledon did. There's no real reason they should get a free pass into the Football League because of their reputation at the expense of clubs who have been a part of the system for the best past of the last 100 years. But I don't think it should happen at all. A cross-border cup competition involving all professional clubs from England and Scotland, at the expense of each country's League Cup would be pretty good, but the two best teams from Scotland leaving Scottish football forever would be weird. And from a long term perspective, with Brexit and whatnot, I envisage Scotland not being a part of the UK in the not so distant future anyway. At that point, it wouldn't just be a cross-border league, but an international one. TL;DR we don't want Rangers fans travelling to England and kicking our sandcastles every fortnight.

The Football League wouldn't but I'd bet the Premier League wouldn't scoff at bringing both the old firm down, if there was a way to do it, for the £££. I hope not though.

I got a Bass Station 2 recently. Still getting my head around everything it's capable of, but I knocked together this drum n bass/breakbeat thing with it, just to give it a bit of a test drive: It's a bit sloppy, because the BS2 isn't great at tracking external midi clock, so it's all live overdubs over drum samples, no programming or anything, cos I don't have the patience for that. I just need to get tighter at playing.

Do it. Barely anyone here lives in Aberdeen anymore anyway. We are all in various Polish territories.

I wish they'd have just left it at Season 3 though. The two most recent seasons aren't up to much. adult Michael Cera is weird to look at. I don't like it.

Apparently James Wilson is still alive and has joined Aberdeen on loan. I'll wager that he'll score less goals than the amount of games he'll miss through injury. Guy's got knees made of biscuit. He's also not very good.

Remember when Charlie Nicholas predicted Cameroon would win the 2010 World Cup? I bet he couldn't even name a player in that Cameroon squad. He just went for a lazy 'African soil' angle. Fanny. Mersons criticism of Marco Silva when he got the Hull job was hilarious too. He was adamant it should have been Dyche because he "knows the league" (he'd just gotten Burnley relegated a few months prior) . Downplayed Silva winning the title with Olympiacos, claiming "even I could do that". The two worst pundits on TV.

Only the one pair of camo shorts in a metal promo shot? Posers.

Twitter is a cesspit of dickheads. An accumulation of the worst people on earth all under one roof. Especially if they're posting about football. The thread of comments isn't too surprising. Bizarre how hundreds of people who weren't even there are just blindly saying "Nope. Didn't happen". One saying that it couldn't possibly happen because Stonehaven is some way off the A90. But it's like, 2 minutes, is it not?

It was great seeing Rangers's piss 3 points up the wall after they were timewasting from the 20th minute mark. At one point in the 2nd half, the ball went over the byline, so I got up and went to the loo, when I came back, McGregor still hadn't taken the goal kick. Small time. Jon Flanagan is the exception to the the age old expression 'a face only a mother could love'. He is a nightmare creature.

I made this glitchy beat using just a Pocket Operator KO sampler, and synced it with a Chali 2na acapella from Youtube, recorded via my mixer's line out into my phone, cuz if you ain't lo-fi, you no-fi. PO's are the business.

Baggie Bird is dead. West Brom's new mascot is a combi boiler, called Boiler Man. Look at him, warming up the crowd.

They didn't get dicked, and that penalty was incredibly harsh. No way was that deliberate, as the rule implies. Burnley had all the best chances however. Lewis made some great saves. That equaliser though.