CaaC (John)

Aye, @José what do you think?

Tomorrow is the 75th celebration of D-Day and they will be showing tomorrow one of my favourite WWII movies, The Battle of the Bulge, I will be watching that again also they will more than likely show another of my other favourites and that is The Longest Day, will have to keep an eye out for that one also.

James Rodriguez: On loan Real forward asks Bayern Munich not to buy him Real Madrid forward James Rodriguez is to leave Bayern Munich when his loan finishes, after asking the German club not to take up their option to buy him. Colombia international Rodriguez, 27, has spent two seasons at Bayern, scoring 15 goals in 67 games. He has won the Bundesliga twice as well as the German Cup with Bayern. Rodriguez, Golden Boot winner at the 2014 World Cup, joined Real from Monaco for £71m that summer and has a contract at the Spanish club until 2021. "The Colombia international asked the management at the German record champions not to take up the purchase option agreed with Real," the Bundesliga club said. "Bayern concurred with that request." He played 111 times in three seasons at Real, winning La Liga and the Champions League twice. His loan spell at Bayern ends on 30 June. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48527782

There are 11 players and if they are all out the innings closes or once 50 overs have been bowled.

Bloody hell, the old dear said to have suffered from dizziness and nausea after this, I would have shite myself then be sick as a dog.

Opportunity: NASA Rover Completes Mars Mission Drive along with the NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover and hear the voices of scientists and engineers behind the mission. Designed to run for 90 days, the exploration spanned more than 15 years from 2004 to 2019. Along the way, it discovered definitive proof of liquid water on ancient Mars and set the off-world driving record. For more information on the Mars Exploration Rovers and all of NASA’s Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A Galaxy Grouping in 2D and 3D: Stephan's Quintet In 1877, Edouard Stephan discovered a tight visual grouping of five galaxies located in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxies of Stephan's Quintet are both overlapping and interacting and have become the most famous among the compact groups of galaxies. Astronomers have long known that four of the galaxies (all of which are yellowish-white in this video) form a physical group in space, while the fifth (bluish) is a foreground galaxy. In addition, a sixth galaxy (yellowish-white and on the far left) is likely to be part of the physical grouping. Hence, this 2D quintet that is a 3D quartet may actually be a 2D sextet that is a 3D quintet. This visualization makes apparent the spatial distribution of these galaxies. The video starts with a view that matches our 2D perspective. As the sequence travels in 3D, the foreground blue spiral, NGC 7320, quickly passes by the camera. The possible sixth galaxy member on the left, NGC 7320C, is seen at roughly the same distance as the remaining four galaxies. The camera turns to pass between two strongly interacting galaxies, NGC 7319 (left) and NGC 7318B (right), with each galaxy's spiral structure distorted by the gravitational interaction. In contrast, NGC 7318B overlaps in 2D with the more distant elliptical NGC 7318A but does not have a strong interaction. The other elliptical, NGC 7317, is also seen as more distant than the strongly interacting pair. In 3D, the four or five galaxies in this group are gathered together by their mutual gravity and may collide and merge together in the future. Credits: G. Bacon, J. DePasquale, F. Summers, Z. Levay (STScI)

Trippy optical illusion tricks your brain into thinking stationary diamond is MOVING

Women's World Cup: The lost lionesses - England's forgotten football trailblazers When a team of English teenagers walked out in front of 90,000 boisterous fans at Mexico City's Azteca Stadium for a crucial World Cup match in 1971, it was unlike anything they had ever known at home. In England, women's teams usually played in parks with a handful of spectators. Women's football had been banned by the FA for the previous 50 years. This is the story of that forgotten, pioneering team - and why they were decades ahead of their time. TAP HERE to read more. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-48509838

Club World Cup: Liverpool to play tournament in Qatar in December Liverpool will travel to Qatar in December to compete at Fifa's Club World Cup after the Gulf state was named as the new host. The annual tournament, featuring the champions of six continents, will take place in the winter with Champions League winners Liverpool entering at the semi-final stage. Qatar will hold the next two editions of the tournament in 2019 and 2020. It will also host the World Cup in 2022. It had previously been reported that the Club World Cup would not take place this year after Fifa approved changes for the tournament. One of those changes was to replace it with a 24-team tournament which would take place every four years instead of the Confederations Cup. Liverpool's last appearance in the Club World Cup came in Japan after their Champions League triumph in 2005. They lost 1-0 to South American champions Sao Paulo in the final. Real Madrid won last year's Club World Cup, beating the United Arab Emirates' Al Ain 4-1 in the final in December for their third title in as many years. Earlier on Monday, the organising committee of the Qatar 2022 World Cup released its latest workers report, in which it said it was "extremely proud of the progress made over the past year". However, it also gave details of the work-related death of one employee, which resulted in the "removal" of "several key staff including senior health and safety managers". It also reported the non-work-related deaths of 10 workers, including one who was struck by a car. Hassan Al-Thawadi, the secretary-general of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, told the BBC that "every death is a tragedy". "In relation to workers' welfare, while progress has been made in the state of Qatar, there's still a lot more to be done," he said. "Within the Supreme Committee, we're working very hard with NGOs, medical institutions, and with universities to do everything we can to address these issues. "In relation to death, no matter what we say, it's never going to be enough. But we are doing everything that we can, and working towards ensuring that whatever solutions we put in place also aren't just solutions that address the spotlight, they're solutions that remain beyond 2022." In February, Amnesty International said there could be as many as 4,000 deaths before the 2022 World Cup begins. According to a report by the International Trades Union Confederation, more than 1,200 workers have already died since 2010. Stephen Cockburn, deputy director of global issues at Amnesty International, said at the time: "Time is running out if the Qatari authorities want to deliver a legacy we can all cheer - namely a labour system that ends the abuse and misery inflicted upon so many migrant workers every day. "The Qatari authorities have been taking some important steps to protect labour rights, but much more needs to be done. Holes in the reforms to date mean many workers are still stuck in harsh conditions, vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, while those who return home do so empty-handed, with no compensation and no justice." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48504200

Kieran Trippier: Tottenham defender unsure on Spurs future Tottenham right-back Kieran Trippier says he is unsure if he will stay at the club and expects to discuss his future with manager Mauricio Pochettino after his summer break. Trippier is reportedly a target for Italian sides Napoli and Juventus, and Spain's Atletico Madrid have also been linked with the 28-year-old. He said: "I want to stay in England but what can you do? "I'll see what happens and what the club wants, most importantly." Trippier, who is contracted to Spurs until 2022, made 38 appearances this season as they finished fourth in the Premier League and reached the Champions League final. He impressed for England in their run to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia but was left out of Gareth Southgate's squad for this week's Nations League finals in Portugal. When asked about his future, the defender said: "I don't know. "I go home now, spend time with my family, just recover after a long, difficult season. Everybody's got a decision to make. "Obviously this club has been very good for me over the last few years but I'll enjoy my summer, come back in pre-season and that's when I'll sit down with the manager and have a talk about my future. "I see a lot of speculation about me not being here. I give everything, 100% every game, win lose or draw. So we'll see what happens in pre-season." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48494611

No disrespect to your current captain Henderson but whenever you see or hear the name Virgil van Dijk you straight away think of Liverpool, and he should be captain.

It's wake up time now for Josh now he has been beaten, great heavyweights of the past like Joe Louis, Ali, Lennox Lewis were beaten and lost their title(s) but they always came back as a winner and won their title(s) back, I am not saying that Josh is in the same category of the ones I mentioned because in their days there were a lot of good heavyweights around but nowadays there are not. There is only 1 heavyweight who was never beaten and that was the late, great, Rocky Marciano, 49 professional fights and 49 wins and he retired truly undefeated, he only lost one fight in his career and that was when he was an amateur so Josh can do it but if he was fighting in an era where you had the likes of the 3 above I mentioned plus the likes of Larry Holmes, 'Smoking' Joe Frazier, George Foreman, a young Mike Tyson, Henry Cooper etc he would have had to be something special in beating them. Anyone of the names I mentioned above would have beaten any heavyweight around nowadays, heavyweight boxing has never been the same since Lennox Lewis retired I am afraid to say, boxers of the past would have 15 brutal rounds to try and come out on top, nowadays it is 12 rounds only.

This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this latter moniker indicates, the galaxy is listed in the famous catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by French comet-hunter Charles Messier in the 18th century. However, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Koehler is credited with discovering the galaxy just days before Messier added it to his collection in 1779. Modern observations show that Messier 59 is an elliptical galaxy, one of the three main kinds of galaxies along with spirals and irregulars. Ellipticals tend to be the most evolved of the trio, full of old, red stars and exhibiting little or no new star formation. Messier 59, however, bucks this trend somewhat; the galaxy does show signs of star formation, with some newborn stars residing within a disk near the core. Located in the 2,000-strong Virgo cluster of galaxies within the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin), Messier 59 lies approximately 50 million light-years away from us. This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Messier 59 is featured in Hubble’s Messier catalogue, which includes some of the most fascinating objects that can be observed from Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. See the NASA-processed image and other Messier objects at: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-messier-catalog. Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency) Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote Last Updated: May 31, 2019 Editor: Rob Garner

Just saw this on the ITV Evening News, bloody hell, how the hell can you lose control of a ship that size!! Venice crash reignites calls for cruise ship ban A cruise ship crash in Venice has reignited calls for large vessels to be banned from the city's Giudecca canal. Four people were injured on Sunday when the MSC Opera - a 275m long (900ft) ship - collided with a dock and a small tourist boat after losing control. Critics say such ships pose a conservation risk to the lagoon city, pollute its waters and mar its beauty. Ministers said the crash proved the need for a ban on liners, and that they were working to resolve the problem. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48489158

I can just imagine you later on

Aye, just watched all the episodes, pissed my self laughing with the bit I put in the spoiler

Ghosts, episode 4, @Danny mentioned this series and it's bloody funny, even the wife is having a good laugh.

Congratulations all you lot, if you are anything like our son at the moment he has a raging hang-over but with a big smile on his face, he said to me "I won't be driving my Taxi for the next 2 days pops until I get all this booze out of my system"