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Talk Football 365 in the style of Phoenix nights @HoneyNUFC aka Brian Potter @Rab AKA Kenny 'Dalglish' Senior @Cannabis AKA DJ Ray Von @DeadLinesman AKA Jerry 'St. Clair' Dignan @Tsubasa AKA Young Kenny @Batard & @Romesh AKA Ant & Dec @Bluebird Hewitt AKA Max Bygraves & @The Rebel CRS AKA Paddy O'shea @Dan AKA Spencer

@SpikeYour behavior when talking about Barcelona is disgusting. You have become a bigger hater than me these days!

hahahahaha The character you've posted for those that are too young to know is the mascot of the World Cup in Spain 1982. His name was "Naranjito" which is a diminutive of "Orange" (small orange). My nick comes from a very famous Spanish kids football magazine called "Don Balon" which in essence means "Sir Balon" or "Sir Ball".

I almost changed my avatar and signature to Xavi and Puyol to really wind up Balon, but I decided against it.

I know Spike loves his tasty digs and trying to arouse some heated upheaval in terms of an almost troll like scenario. Spike is no troll, he's too intelligent to be one but he does like to fabricate a bit of a sensationalist sensation. Infact he'd make a great member of a marketing team in my view and I know because that's my forté. I like the guy a lot but yesterday I found myself taking him serious under the reasoning I've just mentioned in this post... I mean... Look at Spike's avatar and signature... If that isn't called coaxing (something I find easy to look past because I'm indifferent to that) then I don't know what is. Naming Xavi and Puyol was extremely provocative and I fell for it because I let myself fall for it. Those two are sacred (with Iniesta being the Holy Grail of perfect human ethics where a footballer is concerned) and I will defend them to the hilt because not only are they footballing legends, but the way they managed to keep out of the hatred involved within the Barça v Real Madrid battles especially in the Mourinho era takes almost a valid acceptance as an option to be canonised. Anyway... I have no problem with hatred toward a club but where individuals are concerned I do like some substance that includes a bit more than what drunk men do as a stupid prank in front of over a million people on the streets. A hated player has to be about the way he conducts himself as a footballer.

I also don't watch wrestling. But the arguement for people who do is sound. It's just another tv show, scripted, testosterone fueled and fun. It's a lot like game of thrones has become. Shit intrigue and plots, hammy violence and tits. Think of it like that.

He should get 'concha de tu madre' framed as well.

Spoilers - Don't read if you still intend to watch Wrestle Mania. Overall that was a very good showing, but unfortunately a lot of people judge a Pay Per View by the final match and for me that could have been scripted a lot better. I understand why they did it as now the legacy of Roman Reigns is cemented forever. Even if they lay off his push as the leader of the company he will never drop as Lex Luger did because he has a convincing victory over the Dead Man to his record. He's the Guy that will forever be known as the person who retired The Undertaker and is now in a position where he can be justified as the unstoppable force in WWE. The only thing that annoys me is how they've done it. Since he won his Slammy after being injured for a third of the year people recognised what was happening. He was going to be chosen over the other Shield members and Daniel Bryan to be the person to lead the company after John Cena. I wasn't against it as he looked the part and could hold a half decent match but when you have as many fans at live shows revolt on the multiple occassions that they did you have to alter the approach. Making him heel with Heyman as a Manager would have been perfect, but like John Cena they were content on getting him cheered and I think that still harms him. Because of that his weeknesses are highlighted more. He hasn't got Cena's charisma or likeability factor, and he's also showed himself to be absolutely terrible at selling a match. The whole main event was pretty painful to watch. They teased a whole 'new era' bollocks with AJ Styles and the NXT guys last year but when it comes to the big events, the ones that people remember, the ones where everybody around the world takes notice, the inner politics involing Roman Reigns and the part timers always seems to take centre statge. Unfortunately nothing will change any time soon as the script writers did a very good job in ending it so Roman Reigns wouldn't turn heel and hurt his merchandise figures (anybody who goes to a live event will know why him and Cena out sell everybody else), and the fans wouldn't be able to do a WCW revolt by the way The Undertaker left the ring. To focus on more positive the return of The Hardy Boyz was probably one of my favourite Wrestle Mania moments of all time. Everything from how they were announced, to the flow of the match, to the moves they performed, to the stunt Jeff Hardy did to how they got the crowd going at the end was played out magnificent. If you want to bring somebody back from the past that's how you do it. I was plesently surprised how much I liked the Lesnar / Goldberg match. We knew it was going to be short and lack moves but jesus it was as intense as it could have been. Then there was the Shane McMahon/AJ Styles where Shane really did surprise me. AJ Styles can work against anybody. I know he's not got that Roman Empire build but if he was in the ring against an ageing Undertaker I imagine the match would have been of a far better quality. As expected the womens matches and the crusierweight match didn't disappoint. I think all those matches had the right outcomes too. Infact I think every match apart from Roman Reigns and Mojo Rawlley's wins had the correct outcomes. If The Deadman was allowed to go out in to the sunset I would have said this has been one of the best Wrestle Mania's ever. I did have a couple more gripes. The ending to the Randy Orton / Bray Wyatt and the Kevin Owens / Chris Jericho matches could have been a lot better given how good the matches were. I anticipated that they were rushed on time with that. John Cena and Nikki Bella's moment was cringe as hell. I would have liked to have seen Samoa Joe and Finn Balor interfere in the Triple H / Seth Rollins match instead of having a similar finish to the year before too Then there was the kick off show. I have no idea what Dean Ambrose / Baron Corbin was doing on the kick off show. They must have been fuming to make way for Pitbull. The Andre The Giant Battle Royal was a complete waste of time again. Anything that screams problem with decision making the most in WWE it's the attitude of 'let the former football player with celebrity friends win a big match'. I'd give it an 8/10 overall. Better than last year, but not as good as the year when Seth left as The Champion.

SirBalon.

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