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Monday, February 12th, 2007 by Eoin

It seems Alex Ferguson is miffed with Spurs. Last weekend, when Ronaldo, ehm, won his team a penalty, Spurs replayed the incident at half time. Yes, I know they’re not supposed to do that but Ferguson is saying they were out of order for risking “inflaming the home support during a game.”

Is it not Ronaldo who inflamed the home support with his diving, sorry his winning-ness-ism? Am I wrong?

Here’s the incident for yourselves.

Ocean’s Thirteen

Sunday, February 11th, 2007 by Eoin
Ocean's Thirteen

Despite the awfulness of Ocean’s Twelve they’ve made an Ocean’s Thirteen. You can view the teaser trailer here. Oh go on you know you’ll have to have a look when the film opens anyway. The good news is that this will be the last one.

Oscar winner at Trinity

Friday, February 9th, 2007 by Eoin

Anil Kokaram, an expert in the restoration of films, who is currently a senior engineering lecturer and fellow at Trinity College Dublin, is to receive an Oscar in the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards on the 10th of February.

Unlike the main prizes, which are to be given out on the 25th, the Science and Technical awards are announced in advance.

Mr. Kokaram is to win for the design of Furnace, a set of visual effects software tools. He is to receive the award, along with his colleagues, Bill Collis, Simon Robinson and Ben Kent, at a gala function at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

The ceremony will be hosted by Maggie Gyllanhaal.

Liverpool agree takeover.

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 by Eoin

While I needed a bit of time to digest this information the real reason I’m a day late with this post is because I couldn’t decide if anyone who frequents this site would be interested in reading this. Please let me know if you would like to read more posts like this or if you never want to see the word football on the site again. Thanks!

Liverpool 5 Star Crest

Yesterday Liverpool Football Club was sold to a company called Kop Football Ltd. Kop Football Ltd. are American business men George Gillett and Tom Hicks.
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For over 50 years Liverpool have been under the ownership of the Moores family, but outgoing chairman David Moores felt he no longer had enough money for the club to challenge in the modern game.

Moores has endured much criticism during the three years Liverpool have been looking for investment as the former Prime Minister of ThailandThaksin Shinawatra, Steve Morgan, Robert Kraft, the L4 consortium – who kept a low profile but were headed by Goal writer/producer Mike Jefferies along with Stuart Ford and Robert Kraft (with unconfirmed links to Liverpool Legend Kenny Dalglish), and Dubai International Capital , came and went.

This latest development looks like a good deal for Liverpool FC. Unlike the Malcolm Glazer takeover of Manchester United the Kop Football deal will not put any debt on the club, they have agreed to fund the development of the new stadium, they have taken on board the club’s debts of £44.8m and have promised to back the manager, Rafael Benitez, in the transfer market.

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Across The Universe

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 by Eoin

I’ve always had the idea in my head that it would be good to do a good musical (note – I hate musicals) and one idea I had was to write a standard love story and then insert the music of The Beatles where appropriate – ie. not singing while pretending to talk. Well I dithered too long and figured I’d never get the rights and now it’s too late.

Across The Universe is directed by Julie Taymor, who brought us Frida in 2002.
It isn’t released in the US until September 28th and there’s no official release date for this part of the World yet but I’d guess late October early November. Could be good.

Reminds me a bit of the work of Dennis Potter, mostly The Singing Detective.

If you’re wondering that’s Bono singing Hey Jude in the trailer and both himself and Eddie Izzard are in the movie.

In related news. Apple and Apple are friends again.