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One thing over Christmas that did bother me though, and might help somewhat over this period: why aren't teams paired up geogrpahically to save on travel over this period? Fans and players alike don't want to travel from one end of the country for a match on Christmas day for Boxing day (or very early Boxing day). While some games were local, it seemed like a bigger effort could have been made.

They actually mentioned this on Football Focus or Soccer Saturday, can't remember which. Apparently alot of the lower leagues try to make derbies be played over the Christmas period so fans don't have as far to travel; and said something that the Premier League should look into doing it for their fixtures. Guess it's all about TV and money, but what would be wrong with:

Man Utd Vs Man City

Arsenal Vs Tottenham

Liverpool Vs Everton

Those games would all draw big TV audiences and large crowds at the games themselves.

The Christmas games are great, maybe drop one out and play just two if you have to, but ultimately it doesn't make that much of a difference. How hard it must be to perform for 90 minutes three times in a week.

It's the motivation. How would you feel having to get out of bed on a cold boxing day morning for a crappy 100 grand a week?

As if we didn't already know, Sony just spit out a press release announcing the availability of Skype on PSP courtesy of a firmware update due later this month. After the update, a Skype icon will be available under the Network menu, allowing users to create a new account or login with their existing one. Otherwise, it's Skype as usual: free calls between Skype users; SkypeOut to make calls to regular old phones; SkypeIn to receive calls on your PSP (just don't answer the phone in front of a potential mate). There is one notable caveat however: Skype will only work on the PSP-2000 (ie: PSP Slim, PSP Lite, PSP Petite). We're not sure if there's a hardware limitation preventing the original PSP from using the service but our best guess is that whatever microphone attachment is released may not be compatible with the older model. Also, no word if Skype functionality will be enabled in-game. More as we hear it, folks.

Annnd fail.

Bastards.

I have a PSP and barely play it as I have PS3. Don't really see much point in the remote play thing as you can't play games so all you can do is listen to music or videos stored on your PS3, but you can do the same with GoToMyPc or PCAnywhere or something like that.

Managers already complain about congestion later on in the season, where would a winter break assist that. You miss playing 4 or 5 games, and have to find somewhere else to fit them.

Its a stupid idea....playing such a rigorous schedule over Christmas is part of what makes the Premiership great. By January, it has really seperated the pretenders from the real deal teams.

Bingo. Only way they could bring in a winter break would be to make the summer break shorter. And could they really do that with players being involved in international competitions most summers? I can't see how taking a couple of weeks off in winter can benefit anyone.

And if there was no football on boxing day, what the hell would we do?

United always seem to get a fairly tough run against premierhip competition. Glad to see Chelsea didn't get a League Two team as they usually do.

Completed this tonight. Thought it was a bit short really but aren't all games these days? Playin it on PS3 with a HDMI lead and it looks amazing and the gameplay is very good. Love the "15 years earlier" sniper mission and "Death from above" where you're in the plane shooting on the people storming the church.

I'm SeanMcQ1986 on PSN & Pro Evo. Also got Motorstorm & COD4 so if anyone fancies a game then addeth away.

On a shit note, that french fuck Henry hits one shot all night and beats Republic 1-0. Who knows how to swear in french?

I hate how everyone lashes out at a manager when things go a bit shit. How is it the silly Swede's fault? On the night the players were shit. Blame them, not Sven

I hate how everyone lashes out at a manager when things go a bit shit. How is it the silly Swede's fault? On the night the players were shit. Blame them, not Sven

I hate how everyone lashes out at a manager when things go a bit shit. How is it the silly Swede's fault? On the night the players were shit. Blame them, not Sven

This episode was fucking great. Who was that guy at the end? Said something like "I used to be a lawyeeeer". I think he was in one of the previous eps but I don't remember. The perverted old man is gold, I remember him from the paper boy episode

I think it's clear for everyone to see; Tom sucks

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I hope you realise that except for about 4/5 entries, our scores we're pretty much spot on.

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You know I love you really

I think it's clear for everyone to see; Tom sucks

I've only started watching this new series. I know that two schools merged and the old teachers had to move to a new school, but what I don't get is why the new teachers seem to ignore and hate the other teachers. Can anyone enlighten me?

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I don't understand people who say they hated this series, I think it was probably the best series that they've done. I'm annoyed that it's all over now though as it had alot of life in it and I'd have loved another season to wrap it all up. Even Joss said the same thing, that he would have loved to go on with Angel and it's a big thing that it got cancelled, because with Buffy, he was ready to end it.

I don't really think it'll be back either. All this stuff about other networks picking it up is never going to happen and the TV movies look doubtful. Apart from anything, David Boreanz said he dosen't want to come back to the role unless they do a feature film.

The finale was great. The whole Illyria/Wes thing has been great and ended really well. I thought one of the best bits came from that when he said "Take your best shot" and his skill exploded lol. I liked the way it ended aswell, because now anything can happen. Lots of things have been wrapped up, but its never all finished. Now Joss can do what he wants, he could come back in 10 years and do an Illyria spin-off or something. He couldn't really do Angel or Spike with the whole age thing.

My only complaint about this whole series is that Hamilton wasn't in it from the start. He was much better than Eve who was just plain annoying. Anyway, great episode, great season, great series. I'll miss it

I thought this movie was pretty good. I don't think you can call the whole "who were we supposed to cheer for" thing bad. I think that was the whole real point of the movie. Unlike other films like LOTR or Braveheart, there was no big evil force that everyone hated.

I think it was much better this way, because you could decide who you wanted. When Hector and Achilles were fighting, I was rooting for Achilles. But if he had been portrayed as this really evil character, then this wouldn't have been the case.

Bloom was complete shit as usual. How this guy still gets roles in big movies is beyond me. He is stiff and....well, generally just shit. I thought Pitt and Bana were both good and Sean Bean was great as usual.

This movie is never going to be held as the greatest movie ever, but I still thought it was pretty good, and the action scenes were alot better than you say. Definitley higher than 3.5/10