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I can see why, they´re delicious when prepared the correct way.

Yea, the Mercedes employee and the English man, with their totally unbiased opinions.

@nudge

https://streamable.com/jyyyb Wingmanning at it's best.

You simply can't beat Hamilton's luck and wingman.

engine failure.

Hopefully, Lewis will be disqualified. Disgraceful.

Since we were fishing mate, takeaways and cooking greasy shit on a stove is what we pretty much lived off. But it's probably for the best that we didn't go in any restaurants anyway when you consider the prices of the "cheap food" down there . The prices in tescos and places like that weren't any different though. We go specimen hunting, which is why we go for days on end as you have to due to the fact that these fish are tricky to catch and become wise. It can be frustrating to sit not catching for long periods, but when that bite alarm starts screaming off and your reel starts smoking, there is a massive buzz and thrill. I also don't mind doing a bit of lure fishing on canals as it means you end up walking about 3 miles while covering areas and you get to see things which you wouldn't normally see. Sitting there float fishing for smaller fish(but ones which give you a fight) such as carp from 5-10lb or something is also great fun and for some, sea fishing or fly fishing is the one. So there are many different aspects to fishing and thre may be a style out there that would interest you. But it's definitely not just about sitting on a box all day drowning a worm. If I was @Danny for example, I would be doing some deep sea fishing in Australia, or atleast hitting some lakes as the fishing out there will be unreal. The only downside to fishing is the amount of money you spend. It's not a cheap hobby by any means . As I've said up there also, the amount of wildlife you see, that you wouldn't normally do so is amazing. How many times do you see a grass snake randomly swimming in the margins? It was brilliant. I actually have a small video of that, but it was hard to get as it started swimming away quickly when it saw me.

It's all that juicy Northern meat we feed them mate....

You meet tons of Southerners up north but I didn't come across a single Northerner down there. It's not the first time I've been south of course, but it's the first time I've been to that part of the South and it was beautiful. The countryside and woodlands up there are incredible. As for the fish(which was the reason for going there), I caught a 60lb Catfish, it was fucking huge and about 5 feet long, I will upload a picture later. I only caught 2 carp and lost 6 big ones, which pissed off as most would have broken my personal best but that 60lb Catfish is the biggest fish I've ever caught by a mile. My mate had a blinder. His old personal best carp was 22lb and on that trip he had a 31,27,25 and 24, along with a 37lb catfish. Good on him. As a lover of wildlife I also got to see a Red Kite for the first time, in fact I saw 4, there was a Tawny owl making noises at night in the tree behind my tent, which I also saw flying one evening, saw a dead badger and another badger running across the road, I saw a Grass snake swimming for the first time and also ended up making some new mates:- 4 little ducklings. There were also a lot of bats at night that were eating all the mosquitos from in front of our faces, they were brilliant. And it's the first lake I've fished on where there are no rats at night. Plenty of mice, but no rats. 9 quid for burger, chips and a can of coke in a takeaway is an absolute joke though. Everything is overpriced down there . The fish and chips were also shit, especially the batter and no gravy is just silly. You get better chippies in touristy parts of Spain! I'm surprised at how quickly we got back last night, it only took 5 hours as opposed to the 7 it took to get there. The only downside was not visiting more places down there, as it was a fishing holiday and we spent 5 days camped out on a lake, which was a great experience though. We are going again next year, probably in May. As for speaking French in France, we were all supposed to do that when on a school trip there back in the day. It never worked out that way though. I think I only used Bonjour...different in Spain though now as my knowledge of Spanish is very good, albeit not as good as a few years back when I'd been doing some hard-core studying for years. @carefreeluke you are right mate, Andalucians have always seemed friendly to me.

The crest on your profile is practically that club mate. as for this debate, it's an ongoing one we've all had plenty of times. We all know commercialism fuelled by marketing is what changed the face of football because no club with a relatively decent status that isn't one of the elite (elite because it also comes into the what's a "big club" depiction) can hold onto any young talent that's starting to make recognised progress. Media coverage and a more professional and detailed football dedicated journalism (professional in their field) doesn't let any club hide anything so as to build what was once known as a golden era. Clubs used to be measured by history. Not only on what they won but because football association clubs anywhere in Europe had a massive local identity, well history was also marked by great deeds believe it or not. You mentioned not too long ago a simple recognition Internazionale in Italy made back in the day that marked them as different and progressive which is something historically recordable while for example Arsenal Football Club's deeds in WWII. Many clubs have stories to tell and although I'm not up on Chelsea's history, I'm sure they have too! None of many clubs are a Paris Saint-Germain who for me are a genuine Mickey Mouse football club. They have absolutely no association other than their crest and positioning to the this torn of their local demographic. Obviously going onto win trophies and marking footballing eras adds to all of this which can be then looked upon to be nostalgia mixed in with glory and historical pride. Clubs all over Europe have a kind of mythical status like in Spain where for example Recreativo de Huelva is known as "El Decano" because they're the oldest official Spanish football club started by English steel workers (as were most clubs in Spain especially in the north of the country). Athletic Bilbao are recognised as a big club in Spain and yet they haven't won a major trophy (let's ignore the Supercopa de España they won a few years back against Barça) in decades... But you won't find anyone anywhere in Spain trying to refute in an argument that they aren't a massive club... Add all their history attached to their identity and local pride (as I mentioned in the previous paragraph) to that status, but it isn't just that. Here in England people are very proud of the history attached to the game with the clubs. It's as if everything has a meaning, everything has an important story to tell with characters that in many cases made a mark not only for the associative local club but to the local demographic. It's for this reason, the knowledge behind all of this that you have such a defensive stance when getting into these types of debates. It's as if when someone from outside the walls of the league shows a passion for one of their clubs that those that are within the walls also want some respect for the past and also the global significance behind the national game and how it came to be and grow. It's as if someone is telling you "you can't just support my club without knowing its history and learning to love and understand that history" but that they then set you some more homework once you've done that and ask you "please learn more about our game and how things came to be which is why all of these small details from rivalries to the characters that moved somewhere else to then feed their melancholy". It's all very detailed and extremely complicated. When you are brought up in a country with a rich football culture and you in turn are interested and want to join the fold... You automatically lap up every small detail that in most cases ends up taking you on a travel around the nation's football and it's history. I have to say that you being someone from overseas, you always make an effort to learn and understand what all of this is about. All of what I've just said... You join the dots! I've noticed this and that creates a big modem of respect amongst football fans. It's an unsaid thing that this is a requirement if you get my meaning. Football is old and it has a hell of a lot of meaning behind it. It's the reason it's so important to football fans and so different to any other sport. It's like a never ending novel but unfortunately that novel has now been turned into a blockbuster popcorn movie without anyone having ever asked those that cherish it's meaning if they wanted this. Let me just finish with this... We all get possessive about many things in life. Humans are like that even in matrimony with their spouse unfortunately. We think we own things but most of the time this isn't actually true. It's worse for men too!