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New "BT Europe" channel due to be announced tomorrow, for all Chumps League and Europa League games, with Lineker joining them (still staying with BBC also). Sounds like it might be a £5 a month for the new channel.

They won't disappoint, I thought they were oustanding at Rockness a few years ago.

And also spot on about the Iraq war. Sad news. I've sat next to him at a charity dinner in Inverness once. Thoroughly engaging chap.

BT or Sky?

Anyone got any experience with BT TV/Youview? Moving house in a couple of weeks, we have ditched Sky which was a very pleasurable experience, and have no intention of returning. Looking at BT TV as an alternative - we'll be getting "fibre to the door" in the new house. You don't get as many channels but looks like a decent service and the TV/Broadband/Phone would be half the price I was paying for current Sky + BT phone/broadband. As an aside, I wonder if Sky's days are numbered, the latest price rise was a joke - upping the family package just to pay for the premiership rights? Surprised more folk are not ditching it.

Hot Chip - decent but far from being one of their best albums Django Django - loving this, a far more consistent album than their debut

Agreed, it's time for UEFA to quit FIFA, or at least threaten to quit unless (a) elections are postponed and (b) Step Ladder resigns. The charges coming out of the US investigators are quite something, although perhaps not surprising.

So we'll just sit back and let FIFA continue as it was? It's a shame it's taken the yanks to sort this out but so be it.

This is a good day for football.

Anybody still watching this so called sport!? I think I'm going to give up on it, it's a pale imitation of the adrenaline fuelled edge of the seat racing that I grew up watching. Used to get up at 4am to watch a race from the other side of the world - nowadays it's a struggle tuning in for a 1pm start! Apathy may kill F1.

Ancelotti binned. Benitez favourite to take over. No surprise.

Ooft.

Leighton was an awesome goalkeeper, one of the best Scotland has ever produced. Good luck to him in the future but it was probably for the best given that the goalkeeping position has long been an issue. I bet the same folk slagging him off were the same clowns who turned on Miller when his director role at the club was being questioned

With King talking about investing £20M and the cunts now favourites to come up, it might soon be time to lock this thread

That's probably more-or-less correct but they're just known as "rolls" in my local (city centre) baker.

Huge game at Montrose today. While I'm usually all for Highland League clubs stepping up to the SFL, I don't think I want to see Montrose go down - could be a very tough experience for them on and off the park if they go out of the SFL.

Dare I say it but it's time to get Nike back.

Or badly packed. Back on topic, always found the Dam tricky for food, but I'm sure if you wander away from the touristy areas you must find some gems.

You get a good coffee in Foodstory on Thistle Street. I'm quite partial to a Nero's though, way way better than Costa and Starbucks. I refuse to set foot in the later now anyway.

Called up to the Ireland squad

More details on his new role:

Awesome performance tonight to hump Nadal. He's in cracking form at the moment!

Obviously they stood in more seats than the SNP but they got more than the double the votes but won 1/50th of the seats that SNP won. FPTP is a joke, but at least it's a joke at Farage's expense!

Many voted because there was a chance that they could be in a coalition and actually have a say. But now we have another 5 years of austerity, unless Cameron reaches out to the SNP which he really has to do. English voters have rejected the SNP. If they wanted a coalition of Labour/SNP they would have voted for it.