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'Der Tiger' on showing on Amazon was good. Modern-day Apocalypse Now. Irritatingly, they list the film as 'The Tank'.
Side note: the lead character has crushed his cap without removing the bloody stiffeners (the first thing you'd do if you wanted to crush the bloody thing!) No idea why I found that annoying - just did.
Side note (part 2): the mock up they did of a Tiger was outstanding! Genuinely brilliant. For armour-heads out there, check the track-width. It's actually an IS2 under that disguise! Compare it to the shocking T34 bodge they did in 'Private Ryan': it was like they'd got the props department from a 1985 Doctor Who to do that one!.
(Sorry - ranting. I have spent waaaay too long in the Tank Museum over the years. For reference, the Tiger in 'Fury' is the real thing. It's Tiger 131 from Bovington.)
Watch it in German with the subtitles - it's far better.
When I think of a 'boo boy', I tend to think of opposition players such as John fcking Terry or Eric fcking Cantona.
There are a few players we've had that have definitely been slow-burning, the most obvious being Paul Furlong 1.0 vs 2.0. Equally, there are those who've started like a rocket before dropping like a brick, say, Ledesma or Diakite. Either way, if they're in hoops, I wouldn't want to boo them, though I reserve the right to a cathartic 'for fck's sake!' or two.
No dog in this fight but surely if we got 'bummed in the gob 3-0 playing the game as it should be played', it could reasonably argued that this was not, in fact, the way the game should be played?
Sounds an awful lot like the Russell Martin perspective here: 'whaddya mean we're shite? We played the right way...'
Or Ange Postecoglu: 'Whaddya mean 17th? We won a cup...'
That game was the footballing equivalent of watching the entire Mrs Brown's Boys boxset. On a black and white portable telly. With only prawn cocktail crisps for snacks. And warm Carling. Served by Anne Widdecombe. In her pants.
Dembele has frustrated me this season. For me, it boils down to this: I can see he is a good player. I can also see what he is trying to do. The problem is that it never quite comes off. Once or twice, you say 'fair enough'. But every single time (apart from the Leicester match)?
Look, the Leicester game was excellent from him. Clive and others have said the same. He is definitely up to the job. It just never quite happens for him. Maybe he's trying to be clever; maybe it's a confidence thing. Whatever it is, he's shown us, in the style of Jim Bowen showing two balding, overweight sex cases the speedboat they could've won, what we're missing. And that is gripping our collective shit.
'The records say that the result was 0-0. We've checked this against the footage and can confirm that is correct. Now, let us all stand in a moment of silent reflection for those who's lives will never be whole again, after having witnessed the contents of the following video, trying to find more than 90 seconds of highlights from over 100 minutes of utter bilge. 'We shall remember them'.
The level of shithousery in this match is becoming dangerous. By my reckoning we're approaching point 7 on the Preston Scale, equivalent to 19 hours of watching Mrs Brown's Boys.
That Sorba Thomas fella looks pretty bloody good. Bit of a meh half, not helped by the ref being a bit odd. Still, not conceded and there is definitely something to play for here.
A number of recent studies show that the church is growing fastest in the men under 30 demographic at the moment. Maybe that is why we are seeing more footballers showing their faith?
In the main, it tends to be positive and celebratory rather than aggressive or exclusive. I mean, if players like Salah perform Du'a on entering the field of play or performs Sujud after scoring and nobody seems to be all that fussed, it gives you a better understanding of him as a person. I suppose we 'get' him a bit better and studies by Sheffield and Liverpool universities have noted the 'Salah effect' which has actually seen a drop in anti-Muslim incidents in the time he's been at Liverpool. In effect, Salah's openness about his personal faith has had a positive effect, at least in the short-term.
We also need to factor things like social media into the equation: in years gone by, we didn't have a fraction of the access / insight into the personal lives of footballers we have today. Players of the past might have been every bit as religious but we'd never have known. Furthermore, the religious landscape of the UK was a lot more homogeneous in the past, so 'religious' tended to be synonymous with 'Christian', so perhaps nobody felt the need to either comment or display what they thought everyone else already understood? Either way, the game's big 'characters' tended to be the ones that bucked the established way of behaving: our own Rodney and, later, Stan set the tone here.
I am not a huge fan of religion, at times, but faith is a different matter. The simple fact that they are comfortable enough to express their faith and be accepted by teammates and fans that might not share their point of view is, for me, really encouraging.
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