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José offered Mata? I know he's loaded with creative genius midfielders and lacking a really top striker, but that's insane - or just deliberate mischief-making.

what a fucking bizarre game. hard to know which way most of the luck went in the end. one thing's fro certain - aus are gonna have to be a lot less cavalier with their reviews

One thing hasn't changed since last time - for a very ordinary bowler, Peter Siddle still seems to get a lot of English wickets.

1) What will the score be? 4-0 England. 3) Will there be anything as funny as Gary Pratt running out Ponting? Australia are no longer much good at cricket. So now is the time for them to be comically bad at it. I predict a brilliant team effort rather than one particular incident. Perhaps...

Thanks for all that and I'm glad you added the 2nd comment. I'm pretty awestruck by the secular/lib/left's ability to mobilise and their sticking power, if not to move beyond that into actual govt or serious non-street organised opposition. My friend was out there recently, working with some...

No thread yet? What's the point of Craner if he's not going to explain all this to us?

Police statement due some time in 2014: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/05/azelle-rodney-death-metropolitan-police

Those in 2nd line aren't crimes though - presumably just disciplinary issues. On libel, do you mean the OTR briefings they were said to have been giving that Brooks might have been involved?

And then wiped the knife clean of prints - something that none of this week's reports seem to have mentioned. Although old reports did say his DNA was on it, for what that's worth...

Also interesting how the 't' word has become too toxic to allow any nuance. edit: sorry, just realised that was a bit oblique. What I mean is: Mandela is good and terrorism is bad, ergo Mandela can't have been a terrorist. Even though technically the ANC endorsed terror (though without using it...

Think if mine absolutely had to listen to something he'd go for some Welsh choral music, preferably turned down quite low. But really he prefers silence, punctuated by the gentle clacking of snooker balls.

Which would make him the ideal age for NOT hearing of Velvet Underground. Pretty much no one beyond a very small, clued-up world heard of them before Reed started scoring solo hits.

There were hardly any records around the house until I started buying - my folks had about 30-40. The main one I remember being hammered was one of those Pickwick comps where they do shoddy cover versions - in this case of all the rock 'n' roll standards. My dad doesn't really like music...

If the US expects its whistleblowers to stick around and be tried it should stop pretending they're guilty under the Espionage Act and use something more proportionate, their equivalent of Official Secrets. Also probably best not to subject them to "cruel and unusual punishment" a la Manning...

If this is verified, have Francis's seniors broken any laws? All I can think of is wasting police time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/23/stephen-lawrence-undercover-police-smears?CMP=twt_gu

Reading between the lines, I'd say the Sunday Mirror aren't prepared to name the Sun in their story – tabloids generally don't snitch each other up like that – but he's spoken to someone there who's confirmed the Bollywood thing and the Sun thing are all just one thing.

Leveson has certainly made a difference to press ethics.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/early-signs-telegraph-suggest-metered-paywalls-are-becoming-no-brainer

I thought the whole reason W Ham paid that fine (& should really have had pts deduction) was cos these arrangements are illegal. But I guess not.

Ribery should be sent off in every game just for that face. And Dante last night for a double booking. Hard to argue Bayern weren't the better team from about 30 mins onwards though.