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World's worst chess books -- and yet they are bestsellers

I have just found a group of utterly nonsensical chess books, by the same author, that have obviously fake positive reviews -- and big sales -- on Amazon.
John Carlsen is listed as the author of four chess books, all published in the last two months.
These books have gotten hundreds of reviews; nearly all are five stars.
But the books are totally unreadable, as if they were translated poorly from another language. And many of the reviews are similar gibberish.
Excerpts from the books:
From Chess Strategies:
"Another reason pedestrian is unusual is that if you receive one of the parts of the page, you can announce any part you want."
That is supposed to say something like "Another reason pawns are unusual is that if you get one to the last row, you can make it into any piece you want." Nobody reading that mess could possibly give the book a good review.
From Chess Openings (which, at this moment, is #8 on Amazon's list of best-selling chess books, no doubt because of the fake reviews):
"Champ is picked by whoever unravels the chessboard puzzle. Chess is played on a squared board with 62 high contrast rotating squares ..."
More gobbledygook, and a chessboard has 64 squares. I am guessing that "rotating" is a translation of a word that means "alternating", as chess boards don't rotate.
The reviews are similarly bad. Examples (from glowing reviews for Chess Strategies, supposedly written by people with names that suggest they are native English speakers):
I don't know what is most disgusting: that someone would publish such worthless books, that they would use fake reviews to popularize the books, or that their strategy is actually succeeding.
(I've reported this to Amazon, for whatever that may be worth.)
NOTE: I've made a separate post about more of the worst chess books, with similarly humorous excerpts.
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PSG - This Is England 2019

The plan is simple: Replace all of PSG’s pampered and overpaid squad with some English grit and determination. Who needs the likes of Neymar & Mbappe when you could have Andros Townsend & Jonjo Shelvey? Thiago Silva? Run that name through google translate and you get Phil Jones. And who could forget free transfer Daniel Sturridge? Cavani will be the first out the door when Sturridge signs.
All I need to do is avoid getting sacked. So I need to balance by pursuit of the entire England team with good results on the field. And eventually I will need to somehow sell Neymar & Mbappe without incurring the wrath of the fans and/or board.
First Summer transfer window.
IN
OUT
So, that’s half my pre-season friendlies sorted for next year.
Easily won the Trophee des Champions 3-0 vs Rennes. 2 Marquinhos goals and an OG.
Leading into the new season, I told Marquinhos that I was going to replace him as Vice Captain. He was fine with it. I picked Jordan Henderson as my new Vice Captain. Thiago Silva is still the main man... for now.
There are rumblings of a possible takeover. Could I be sacked before England FC has the chance to win the French League?
The bookies have me at evens to win the league. EVENS? If I could I’d bet the entire transfer budget on that. Evens? I’m PSG with Jack Wilshere. I’m basically unstoppable.
3 days before the opening league fixture, Jack Wilshere tore his ankle ligaments in training. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Good thing I didn’t make that bet. With Jack out I’ll have to rely on the likes of (check’s squad list) Neymar for creativity.
Won the opening game of the season 2-0 against Strasborg. This included Ben Chilwell scoring a screamer into the top corner from 25 yards and a Neymar tap in. Jude Bellingham also became PSG's youngest ever player as he started in midfield.
I forgot to mention that I am also hiring lots of English staff members. Terry Butcher is managing my reserves. Paul Ince, Teddy Sheringham, James Beattie and Tony Adams are coaching my youth team. Les Reed is my director of football. David Platt is coaching the first team. I’ve also got English physios and fitness staff, but I can’t be arsed to look up their names.
2-0 again in the next game, this time away to Marseille. For the 2nd game running Ben Chilwell scored, followed by a tidy finish from Jordan Henderson.
I'm currently playing with a half English team in the outfield. Fullbacks, CM, AM and Striker are all English. The wingers, centre backs, 1 CM and keeper are all non-English. Daniel Sturridge sits on the bench… brooding.
1-0 next up against Montpellier. Chilly Willy's run of scoring came to an end as Neymar bagged the only goal of the game. On the downside Mbappe pulled his ankle ligaments and will be out for a couple of weeks.
More rumblings of a take over. The PSG owner rubbishes these rumours. Looks like he’s behind England Rangers and their plans to restart the 100 years war.
4-1 win away to AS Saint-Etienne. A hat trick for Neymar along with Mason Greenwood's first goal for the club helped to mask the pain of finally conceding for the first time this season. Keylor Navas really shat the bed trying to pass out from the back. I can’t help but think that Jordan Pickford would have kept the sheets clean.
UCL Group drawn. The Media describe my group as “Tough” as I am drawn against Valencia, Napoli and RB Leipzig.
I don’t include Herrera or Munier in my UCL squad and they are both unhappy. I tell them to shut up and drop both into the reserves. Neither apologises and both are sulking. Luckily nobody in the squad likes them so nobody cares.
One of my young midfielders breaks his back whilst lifting weights. I think Jack Wilshere was giving him pointers.
Jordan Henderson scores his first ever international goal in his 53rd cap. I can’t help but feel that is entirely down to my coaching.
Jack Wilshere is back in light training.
Verratti, Neymar & Mbappe score in a 3-0 demolition of Toulouse. Henderson bags an assist. Daniel Sturridge still can’t open his account for PSG.
First UCL game is next up. Valencia at home. Verratti and Neymar are both suspended. I seem to remember this being to do with their reactions to losing in the knock out stages to Man U in the previous season, following that ridiculous penalty decision given against… Kimpembe? I refuse to look it up to verify. That’s the past. This is the present. Neymar is replaced by Angel Gomes for his debut. That’s easy enough. However, the lack of Verratti and with Herrera rotting away in the reserves, I may be forced to play Wilshere before he’s fully fit… but since he’s never ever ever been fully fit, this seems like the right thing to do!
Boom! We smash Valencia 2-0. Wilshere setting up Greenwood with a defence splitting through pass, and Tavernier crossing to the edge of the box for Henderson to drill home. Wilshere had to be subbed off at half time since he’s Jack Wilshere. Still. 1 game. 1 assist. I am fully justified in signing him.
Big game up next vs Lyon. 1st vs 2nd. For a game like this I need my top players. Wilshere is getting his league debut. Verratti will have to be happy with a spot on the bench.
Oh. Kehrer is set to play against me for the first time since I sold him. Apparently there is “no love lost” between us. I’d honestly forgot I sold him to Lyon. I tell the media that his was a shitbag and nobody liked him here.
A superb come from behind victory for The Englishmen! After trailing to an early penalty conceded by Silva, we turned things around to win 2-1 with goals from Mbappe and Marquinos, assisted by Maddison and Chilwell. Wilshere once again managed 45 mins of football. And that shitbag Kehrer didn’t even play.
Damn. Marquinhos is suspended for a game after 3 bookings in his last 10 matches. I didn’t know that was how the French League did things. Interesting.
Chuopo-Moting dislocated his jaw in training. I can only assume that Jack Wilshere was trying to teach him how to eat a Cornish Pasty in one go.
Holy crap. I almost lost to Metz! 2-0 down going into the final quarter of the match. Needed a 91st minute equaliser from Neymar to avoid defeat. Still, unbeaten so far. I really need some English grit to toughen my central defence. Silva is good and all, but he’s no John Stones.
Before every single game: Jack Wilshere may struggle to see out the match.
I know. He’s Jack Wilshere.
We beat Angers 3-1 with Tavernier (pen) and Angel Gomes both bagging their first goals for the club. Neymar gets the 3rd off the bench. Gomes gets the MOTM award to go with the goal.
Napoli away next. Wilshere set to start his 5th game in a row for probably the first time in his whole career. Neymar is still suspended, so Gomes will be able to build on his man of the match performance with another start.
The board have announced that they have decreased the percentage of transfer revenue available to be retained from player sales to 75%. What the fuck? I’M PSG!!! I want 200% of all sales to go back into the transfer kitty.
We beat Napoli 2-0 with goals from Greenwood and Marquinhos. Greenwood set up Marquinhos by heading a corner back across goal to him, whilst Wilshere set up Greenwood with another great defence splitting through pass, just like the Valencia game. Wilshere lasted 63 mins this game, having been subbed off at half time of every previous game. Still, those 63 mins were enough to win him the MOTM award. Go Jack!
Side quest unlocked: Somehow get Jack Wilshere back into the England squad.
Wilshere is grateful for my faith in him. Aw, Jackie. I love you too, boo.
The Montpellier manager says that PSG are amongst the favourites to qualify for continental football this season. No shit Sherlock.
Wilshere didn’t make the latest England squad. No worry Jack. Next time it’s a friendly I’ll pull Madison and Henderson from the squad. Then maybe you will make it? Or plan B, wait for Southgate to get fired then apply for the job.
Gomes keeps his place in the team, meaning that Neymar is on the bench for the 2nd league game in a row. We beat Amiens 2-0 away, with goals from Henderson and Mbappe. Wilshere picked up a booking before being subbed off . Still, no injury. That rejuvenating Parisian tap water is doing wonders for the boy!
International break. I give Wilshere a week off. I’m worried that if he trains his knees may fall off. Meanwhile, Maddison gets his first international goal.
More takeover rumours. I guess Wilshere is interesting possible investors.
The week’s rest did the trick! This is the first game he’s started where I haven’t been told that Wilshere “may struggle to see out the match”. My medical staff are certainly earning their wages.
Wilshere lasted the full match as an 87th minute James Tavernier penalty scraped us a 1-0 win at home to Nantes. That’s 10 in a row unbeaten in the league, with 28 points from a possible 30. Frank Lampard was spotted at the game. Apparently he is interested in signing Marquinhos. This could be a good way for me to sign Fikayo Tomori and/or Reece James. Watch this space…
Next up: RB Leipzig away.
Tavernier and Mbappe have developed a solid green link down the right side. This was unexpected. As was the result. RB Leipzig 4-6 PSG! A hat trick for Mbappe, 2 for Greenwood and 1 for Neymar. The defence was an absolute shambles this game. Luckily the attack bailed them out. I really need a couple of Englishmen to replace those 2 Brazilians in the centre of defence.
HOLY CRAP. Gareth Southgate was spotted at Red Bull Arena, casting an eye over basically half my team for the upcoming internationals. Jack Wilshere’s name is included among the players he was watching. GO JACK!
Next up we beat Lille 3-2 away. Take a quick 2-0 lead through Neymar and a Tavernier penalty. Switch off and it’s 2-2 at half time. Spend the entire second half throwing everything at them and finally in the 87th minute Tavernier pops up at the back post to tap in the winner. 2 goals for my right back. Not too shabby.
Side quest unlocked: Get James Tavernier his first England cap. This might be too difficult. Ahead of him he has Trent, Walker, Wan-Bissaka, Trippier & James. Heck, Tavernier never even got any youth caps for England. Still, if he keeps on playing as well as he does then even Gareth “I only pick players on form but actually fuck that let’s keep playing Pickford and Maguire even though they are having the worst seasons of their professional careers IRL” Southgate can’t ignore him forever.
Keylor Navas is injured. For absolutely no reason I set about signing 32 year old (and 1 time England U21 international) Ben Alnwick on a free.
PSG gain another sponsor. This is a 1 season deal worth £29m with a “European telecommunications company”. Totally not a FFP get around. Not at all.
I ask the board for more transfer funds. They say no. I whine like a little bitch. They give me £75m. Nice!
With the new funds available, Director of Football Les Reed recommends Sadio Mane as our top transfer target. Fuck that. I’m buying John Stones!
I have completely fucked up with a rookie mistake. With Navas injured, I forgot to stop Rico playing for the reserves. Now I’m about to play Brest (snigger) at home and both my keepers can’t play. With the Alnwick transfer yet to be completed, it looks like I’m going to have to rely on a 20 year old Pole called Marcin Bulka.
Relegation zone Brest manage to put 2 past him, but my attack get 3 to scrape a 3-2 win. Well, I say attack. Maddison, Sarabia and Tavenier (another penalty) get the goals. Mbappe and Wilshere (nooooooooo) pick up injuries in the game. Mbappe will miss 4-6 weeks with a twisted ankle, whilst Wilshere will miss just a few days with a bruised thigh. This does mean he will miss the RB Leipzig return fixture in midweek.
Ben Alnwick joins the club. I tell the press that he will be a massive boost to the entire squad. I quickly arrange a midweek friendly for the reserves so that he can get some game time before the weekend fixture in the league. I move every keeper (5?!) from the reserves into the first team to make sure that Terry Butcher has to play Alnwick. I’ll have to play Rico in the UCL, since I can’t register Ben… yet.
At home against Red Bull Leipzig we cruise to a 4-2 victory. A brace from Neymar, another open play goal for Tavernier, along with a goal for Greenwood wrap things up. I’m still concerned by my centre backs though. They need some English heart replace the Brazilian skill.
That win qualifies us from the group. So some players get bonuses paid. Including Alfonse Areola (snigger) who is on loan at Real Madrid. You still have to pay bonuses to players who aren't at the club?
DAMN YOU GARETH SOUTHGATE. He calls up Chilwell, Henderson and Maddison. Poor Jack and Jim. They feel so unloved.
Alnwick keeps a clean sheet for the reserves. That’s enough for me. 2 training sessions and 1 reserves game since the end of the previous season is enough to earn him a start at the weekend against 5th placed Nice.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. I forgot to put the reserve keepers back in the reserves squad, so Ben Alnwick played for the reserves today. Now he can’t play against Nice. I’ll have to play Johnny Rico (totally setting that as his nickname now) again. On the plus side at least Wilshere is back.
We absolutely smash Nice 3-0 away. An OG, another Tavernier penalty and a Verratti goal. Wilshere lasts the 90 and bags a MOTM award for his troubles.
I send Henderson, Chilwell and Maddison on holiday for a week just before they are supposed to join the England squad in the international break. Fuck you Southgate. Pick Wilshere you bastard. I also send Neymar, Marquinhos and Thiago Silva on holiday for a week, but that’s just for shits and giggles.
That’s the defence sorted! Once the January transfer window opens I’ve got John Stones, Rob Holding and Jordan Pickford all joining the club. That’s a Champions League winning line up if ever I saw one. Looks like Marquinhos, Navas and Thiago Silva will either have to leave or enjoy being benched.
Gaylord Kitenge is 12 months away from being homegrown. His parents are mean.
More takeover rumours. My owner quashes them. He is (not) quoted as saying that he is 100% behind his visionary manager and King Wilshere.
For no reason at all I am now training Ander Herrera as a left back. Double intensity.
Ah. The “send them on holiday” scheme didn’t work. They still played for their countries. Dang.
Neymar is hotly tipped to win Foreign Player of the year. He is up against the likes of blah blah blah and James Tavernier!
Next game is home against Dijon. Let’s see if Ben Alnwick can cut the mustard (snigger).
Another James Tavernier penalty as we beat Dijon 2-1. They managed 2 shots on target all game, and one of them went in. I am starting to think that Ben Alnwick is not the super human shot stopper that I bigged him up to be.
Oh, that was our 10th win in a row. That’s a new record for PSG.
I’ve sent half my first team on holiday for a week. They need a rest and since I’ve already qualified I’ll just play the likes of Verratti against Valencia. You know. Reserves.
Man U turned down my bid of a friendly in exchange for Phil Jones. I thought it was a more than fair offer.
Holy crap. We beat Valencia away 1-0, despite resting the entire outfield apart from Henderson. Both fullbacks were 17 year olds from the youth team. There’s only 1 explanation for it: Jordan Henderson is an amazing captain who led his troops to victory. It has nothing to do with the Valencia red card.
Ander Herrera has had a change of heart and no longer wants to leave. Tough titties mate. You’re a left back now. Train harder!
Nimes are brushed aside 2-0 away. Mbappe and Sarabia score. This takes us on to 12 wins in a row.
November ends. The board rate my performance as a B. What the fuck? I have literally won every single game and we are playing attacking football. Apparently they aren’t happy with Ben Alnwick’s signing. Fair point.
We are on course to pass the financial fair play regulations. Lol
Reims are demolished 6-0 at home. Another 2 goals for MOTM Tavernier (1 penalty, 1 from open play), Henderson, Sarabia & 2 for Mbappe. That’s 13 wins in a row.
Idrissa Gueye has handed in a transfer request. I think the fact that I forgot he even existed may be partly responsible for this. I accept the request.
James Tavernier is currently the joint second highest scorer in the league on 9 goals. DID YOU HEAR THAT SOUTHGATE? Call him up.
Monaco are smashed 3-0 away with an Icardi hat trick. On the down side Chilwell has reached his yellow cards limit whilst Neymar has sprained his ankle and is out for 3 weeks. When’s his sister’s birthday again?
Home game against Napoli to round off the UCL group stages. I’m going to rest everyone. Pre-match Gattuso tells the press how much he admires me. I tell the press that Gattuso is a wanker. I still remember him headbutting 100 year old Joe Jordan in the face.
My fans are confident ahead of the Napoli game. They haven’t seen the team yet… and I still win 2-0. MOTM Angel Gomes and Paplo Sarabia with the goals. This result was enough for Red Bull Leipzig to leapfrog Napoli and qualify 2nd in the group with 9 points and a goal difference of -2. They are one of 2 teams to qualify with a negative goal difference, the other being Dinamo Zagreb. I am one of 2 teams to qualify with 6 wins out of 6, the other two being Tottenham and Chelsea.
Bordeaux are swept aside next. 3-0 at home, with goals from Greenwood, Mbappe and Henderson. That’s 16 wins in a row in all competitions.
Ander Herrera has handed in a transfer request. I guess he doesn’t like being in the reserves and being trained as a left back. I accept the request.
I draw Ajax in the UCL first knock out round. That’s a very winnable tie for Wilshere & co. Meanwhile, Liverpool draw Real Madrid and Juventus draw Bayern Munich.
Next up is the Coupe de la Ligue BKT game vs Amiens at home. I will be fined £6.5k if I don’t pick 7 players in the squad who have played in at least 1 of my last 2 competitive games. Interesting idea, but a fine like that means nothing to me. I was going to rotate everyone to intentionally incur the fine. However, 2 games ago I played my reserves vs Napoli, so I’ve pretty much played everyone in the last 2 games anyway. We absolutely steamroll them 4-0, with goals from Kimpembe, Mbappe and MOTM Greenwood bagging 2. More importantly, Ben Alnwick kept a clean sheet. Also, Bellingham becomes the youngest ever Coupe de la Ligue BKT player.
Athletico Bilbao offer me £15m for Herrera, with me paying £83k of his wages every week. I tell them to stick that offer up their arse, and counter with a non-negotiable £15m and £100 per week of his wages being paid. They agree to this!
Rennes frustrate us with a 0-0 draw. Despite MOTM Wilshere picking out passes left and right, the finishing was poor. The run of 17 wins in a row is halted. Still, currently unbeaten this season.
The fans are reported to have hated Angel Gomes since he joined on loan. Bloody Anglophobes.
That’s it for Part 1. Just entered the winter break.
Next up: Part 2 - The Ballard of Rob Holding
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Martin Samuel On Trippier Ban

Lump on. That is what the Football Association would like you to believe Kieran Trippier told his friends shortly before his move to Atletico Madrid. It implies a ring, a sting and big, big rewards, hence his 10-week ban. It was nothing of the sort.
Transcripts reveal a more earthbound reality. The circle trying to win a few quid, the player trying to be a pal. One of Trippier's mates asks if he should 'lump on' — the first time the phrase is used — and gets the reply: 'Can do mate.' Later, pressed, Trippier adopts the same turn of phrase. 'Lump on if you want mate,' he advises. It is the tamest of endorsements.
Yet, as the friends swiftly discover, lumping on really isn't an option. Bookmakers don't want anyone lumping on a transfer bet because the only person who would enter such an unpredictable market with cash and confidence is in the know. Nobody is betting big money on a hunch.
So it's a win-win. If the move collapses the bookmakers keep the cash, and if it delivers they have the safety net of football's governing body to do their dirty work, if betting patterns indicate prior knowledge. So one of Trippier's friends had his stake 'massively restricted', and another got £300 on, but only at odds of 1-6, giving bookmakers a liability of £50 and a red flashing light.
Some of the other bets were laughable: £8.75 at 1-2, liability £4.37; £20 at 1-2, liability £10; £20 at 1-3, liability £6.66; £25 at 8-13, liability £15.38. The biggest bets were undermined by short odds: £100 at 5-6, liability £83.33; £120 at 5-6, liability £100. Another bet of £300 at 4-11 gave the winner £109.09, while £80.34 was wagered at 3-10, a return of £24.10.
The significant numbers here are not being made off book-makers. 'Levy just wants £500,000 more,' Trippier told his acolytes at one stage. According to FA evidence, the fee was finally agreed with Tottenham for £25m, which rather puts that £4.37 into perspective, or even the big hit, £109.09. As does the £482m Denise Coates was paid as chief executive of Bet365 across two years between 2017 and 2019.
And, yes, it's the principle that counts, not the profit. Trippier should not have been sharing privileged information with people he must have reasonably assumed were using it for gambling purposes.
Yet, why, exactly? This isn't a match. He isn't affecting the outcome and therefore the integrity of a competition. Bookmakers have chosen to make a market on his life, and in doing so have placed him in jeopardy.
Who makes significant career decisions without discussing it with family or friends, without taking counsel, or offering progress reports? Trippier did not ask for this book to be opened, and receives no revenue from it. Maybe that is what should change.
The only way these bans and fines would be fair is if book-makers had to seek permission from the individuals involved, who would receive a cut of the revenue as part of their image rights. Then, if a player was found to be manipulating the market, or offering the inside track, it would be fraud and he could be penalised accordingly.
This is just the FA acting as bookies' muscle. If they didn't pursue cases against players such as Trippier and Daniel Sturridge, the gambling houses would soon tire of losing and the problem would go away. It is the FA that facilitates this by acting as enforcer — as if the grubby charade is any of their business.
This is now being tested. Atletico Madrid have challenged the ban which is suspended, pending appeal. The club will go to FIFA and then the Court of Arbitration for Sport if unsuccessful.
Their case is simple. They bought a player. They had nothing to do with a betting scandal that took place when he was still under contract to Spurs, or a punishment handed down from a different country. Had Trippier served it as administered, he would have missed 13 Atletico matches including the home Champions League fixture with Chelsea. As he would not even be allowed inside the training ground before March 1 — or to attend a game — his place in the Madrid derby scheduled for March 7 would have been in jeopardy, too.
And this is a huge season for Atletico. They top the table with a two-point lead and games in hand on Spain's big two. They could win LaLiga for only the second time since 1996 — and Trippier is their first-choice right back.
Certainly, it did not escape Atletico's attention that his ban did not impinge on any international fixtures, leaving the FA and English football unscathed. Atletico protested and FIFA listened. It could mean, if the punishment is delayed but upheld, that Trippier misses the European Championship. That leaked this week as if the FA were trying to put the frighteners on.
Yet, so what? It's their trumped-up ban. Given the friend-of-the-right-back's-cousin's-best-mate's-cleaning-lady source of transfer gossip is such a familiar trope, how preposterous is it that the FA make passing information a crime? Equally, why are they prioritising protecting the sanctity of an artificial betting market created to separate mugs from their money?
Unless some mug knows somebody, of course. Then, they'll refuse to pay, turn the source over to the beaks, and the FA will prosecute as if they've cracked the crime of the century. Strange, isn't it, that they're so fascinated by £4.37 — but rarely with the part where the real money gets made?
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A look ahead to West Ham

With another midweek match, thought I'd make another pre-match analysis with all my free time at work on Tuesdays.
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Villa:

Feelings are still sky high at the club. The arrival of Sanson has been the cherry on top of a rather large cake which we seemingly can't stop gorging ourselves on. We are one win away from matching last season's points haul and all but confirming our survival in the Premier League - with 19 games to go...
Form: Defeats away to City and Burnley still bore reasons for positivity, while our wins against Newcastle and Southampton showed off the grit and defensive solidity we can possess too. Overall, the inconsistency of our recent results is overshadowed by the positivity surrounding the performances themselves.
6 points from 4 matches, 2 clean sheets, 5 goals for, 5 goals against.
Southampton Match: It has been a return to our 'normal' side in recent times - Barkley's recovery during the break has seen us play an unchanged starting XI in all four matches (aside from McGinn's one-match ban). The same was true in our 1-0 win at St. Mary's, with Deano keeping faith in his regulars after the Burnley match.
The notable changes we saw in this match were in the style and intent of the team. Rather than the fast, flowing attack we are used to, Deano set the side up against Southampton to be hard to beat. For a coach who has been criticised at times for his inflexibility and single-mindedness, this was almost refreshing in its own right. Although we (once again) saw absolutely no real utilisation of the bench or reserves, this was still a new look from a side that is usually focused almost exclusively on attack.
Martinez earned his 10th clean sheet of the season in this one, and while his heroics have saved us countless times (including in this one), it's also important to note how rigid we were as a whole. We conceded zero shots on goal in the first 70 minutes, and 3/5 shots on goal for Southampton came in the same phase of play (from this corner).
Team News: While Wesley and Hause are continuing their recovery, we came through the Southampton match with no new injuries. Crucially, Jack and Targett avoided a 5th booking, and therefore suspension, before the 19 match threshold.
Sanson will be with the team again after being included in the travelling squad to Southampton last weekend. No word yet on if Deano plans any changes against an in-form Hammers side.

West Ham:

West Ham have been flying in recent times. They remain in the European hunt, and their impressive unbeaten run has seen them rise up from midtable in the last month and a half. They have also made a number of moves this January window. Although most have been outgoing players, they did sign Jesse Lingard on loan from United. The youngster - still only 28 - has bags of potential, says the manager who twice shipped him off at United.
Form: West Ham saw their unbeaten run come to an end against an understaffed Liverpool team. Before that they had taken a maximum 12/12 points in 2021, beating each of Everton, Burnley, West Brom and Palace by a single goal.
Liverpool Match: West Ham continue to be dangerous from set-pieces and Craig Dawson has his second goal in as many matches. That said, Liverpool controlled this match despite a poor first half, and really never looked like they were under much threat of losing.
Team News: West Ham will supposedly look to rest some of their usual starters, although have no injuries or suspensions to worry about. There is potential here for Yarmolenko, Lingard or Lanzini to move into the side in the short week with Bowen, Benrahma or Fornals dropping to the bench.
Tomas Soucek:
The big Czech continues to be a problem for opponents, with West Ham relying fairly heavily on set-pieces. Soucek has scored 4 of West Ham's 11 goals from set-pieces. Along with Craig Dawson and Angelo Ogbonna, expect him to attack every corner and freekick.

STATS

  1. Style of Play
    West Ham are not a possession team. In their recent matches, only West Brom have ceded possession to the Hammers. They have one of the lowest possession percentages in the league with an average of 44% possession.
  2. How do they like to score?
    I already mentioned how much they rely on set-pieces, but where exactly does their threat come from? 11 of their 29 goals have been from set-pieces (38%), while 10 more have been crosses from open play (34%).
    West Ham have attacked the wings all season, and we can expect them to do so again against us. Hopefully their usual wingers will be rested with only 2 days between matches. Whether they are or not, Cash and Targett will have a lot of work to do down the flanks to defend against West Ham's major threats.
  3. History
    Before the meeting earlier this year, the head-to-head record in the top flight was dead even. This will be the 100th meeting of these two sides in the top division of English football, and the current record stands at:
    Villa 33 wins, West Ham 34 wins, 32 draws.
    Both sides have a significant home advantage historically, although Covid obviously takes away that impact somewhat.
  4. How can we score?
    Obviously to go along with their aerial threat up front, comes a decent solidity at the back too - they've only conceded twice from set-pieces all season. This does mean that they've been fairly porous from open play, however. Only West Brom and Sheffield United have conceded more goals from open play, and only West Brom have conceded a greater percentage of open play goals.
    This stat is to be expected when you look at their aerial ability, possession style and overall strengths as a side. But, it does bode well for us given our proclivity for goals from open play and counters.
Finally - we are the bookies favourites to win this one along with many of the early pundits' and sportswriters' predictions. This means nothing tangible, but it is a nice sign to be the favourites against the team currently in 5th place.

So what are your predictions for this match? How will Deano set us up, and will Sanson earn his first appearance?

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Bookish dilemma

Long time peeker, first time poster.
Hey, firstly I wanna apologize for my english, its not my native language
This happened one week ago.
Backstory: I run a small bookstagram in my native language (for those who dont know what bookstagram is, its basic instagram account where you post photos of books youve read and rant about them in stories). Because I am poor student and pay rent and food and etc, i dont really have a lot money to spend on books but Im managing. (getting lot of books for christmas, birthdays, sometimes buy them myself and I go to library alot). So when theres some book competition (i guess, idk i mean like where you can win book, i hope you get me) I always join in. Its fun and you know I can get a book for free.
The encounter: One of the bigger bookstagrammers made this christmas competition and the main price was special editioned book signed by the author and made specially for Fairyloot (very expansive bookish mystery box which i deffinetly cant afford but absolutely need). I was amazed when she contacted me and said that i won. She made the draw of the winner public tho.
So I got this message not even five minutes after me knowing that i won. This girl (CB) seemed very nice but you know it was weird for her to message me.
CB: hi, congrats on the winning in /this/ competition from /that/ person. I was curious if there was any possibility if you could trade the book you won with me for something else.
This made me feel weird. First of all, i didnt even held the book in my hands, she doesnt even follow me and if I would not like the book i would probably just make a competition myself to give back to my amazing small booky family.
Me: hey, I think Im not planning to do such thing but just for the info what would you like to trade it for?
CB: starts naming basic books that I could definetly buy for cheap online
Me: still trying to be polite cuz I hate drama Haha yeah sorry, I think Ill hold on to my prize. You know I never won anything and it makes me happy. Its like a christmas gift
CB: well what about my christmas gift?? I just need the book you got it for free anyway. I was trying to buy it online but it was sold out everywhere (you already know that its a special edition and you cant find it anywhere at least in our country)
Me: okay well thanks for your offer but no. Have a nice day and happy new year!
Tl/dr: me winning special edition signed by the author book, choosing beggar tries to trade for cheap books, then goes livid when I refuse.
Hope it was readable. Have a good one guys and stay safe ☀️
Edit: Thank you all for all the recomendations for cheap and free books 💞 Ill check everything out and if you have some more you can definetly comment them too so everyone can take a look ☀️❤️
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LPT: If you have a lot of free time at the moment, you can generate a little income on the side by doing online work like teaching english, transcription, microtasks or surveys. It's not a fortune but if you have time to spare anyway it's a good way to pay a few bills. (list of sites attached)

Here is a list of sites for online work that anyone can use:
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Appen - Paid Projects, up to 20 hours a week. Decent pay of about $14 dollars per hour but depends on the project you can get
Lionbridge - Paid projects, great projects on offer
TeamWork - Paid projects, good site.
ClickWorker - Surveys and Writing..payments vary per task....Very good site.
Neevo - Tasks , up to $1 per task approx
Vipkid- Teach English to kids online, $15-$25 per hour or so
QKid- Same as vipkid teaching English online- I think this pays up to $20 per hour
gogokid- Teach English Online $14-25 per hour
Prolific.co - Surverys, pays very well!
Mturk - Microtasks- Pay is ok, haven't used it myself but seems fine
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Qmee- Surveys, varying payout on each one...pretty good site.
Swagbucks- Surveys, good paying.
Timebucks - Various surveys, good site.
GG2U- Surveys, good site with good payout, probably average of 1$ per survey
Serpclix - Good one for tasks/surveys...intall on your browser and it will let you know when there are some available
BrandedSurvey- Surveys
20Cogs - You complete 20 offers to get the payout, you will have to cancel a few subsciptions after some tasks but it's a good way to make about £200-£300
Panelbase.net - Surveys, Mostly they pay £1-£4
YouGov - Surveys, good site and pay is decent.
populuslive.com - Surveys, pay is decent.
Ysense - Surveys and other tasks
Prizerebel - Surveys and other tasks
Microworkers - Various tasks
HideOutTV- Watch videos and get paid
HoneyGain- You get paid for browsing the internet every month , maybe $40 or so
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This got a very positive response when I posted a few months ago so I thought I'd put it out there again, Personally I use a combination of these sites to earn around £1000-£1500 a month. Hopefully it can be of help to more people, shoot me a message if you have any questions
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EDIT: Ok so the reason I said I use a combination of these sites is because I have used all of them at one time or another, but here is my current combination:
Appen/Lionsbridge- Most recently worked as a social media evaluator which payed $15 per hour and gave me around 10 hours per week
Clickworker- I use the UHRS section,“Universal Human Relevance System”. It’s a partner website that can be accessed over clickworker.com and where you can process additional jobs. You can earn a lot more this way
Neevo- Various tasks , up to $1 per task approx
VipKid and other english teaching sites- I also put ads on a spanish site called tusclasesparticulares offering skype classes. Here is a link to a lot of different English teaching sites you can use from different countries
GG2U- Surveys, good site with good payout, probably average of 1$ per survey
20cogs- A good way to earn £200+ in a relatively short time
Serpclix - Good one for tasks/surveys...intall on your browser and it will let you know when there are some available
Qmee- Surveys, good site
Prolific- Surveys- Can pay very well
HoneyGain- You get paid for browsing the internet every month , maybe $40 or so
These would be my go to sites, and I sporadically check for work on the others too if I have the time.
I spend 2 hours a day doing this to earn £1000 per month but it's usually higher than that. You have to earn £33 per day in order to hit the £1000 per month mark, which is very doable when you have 20 or so sites to work with.
For me at the moment it's usually a one hour class which makes me £15 and then a combination of projects from Lionsbridge (which currently pays about $15 dollars for an hour) and then a couple of random short tasks or surveys from one of the other sites, or more if I don't do a class...Takes a while to fine tune it and I'm always modifying the combination but believe me it's more than doable. As I say, you just need to hit that £33 a day, which is actually even easier to hit in dollars if you prefer to think of it that way.
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Also, and this is only useful to people in the UK, I am currently doing "Matched Betting" because the Premier league is on now and more and more sporting fixtures are making a comeback. Match betting is where you bet on one outcome in the bookies and then bet against that outcome in the exchange, with both bets at almost the same odds.
So for example, If you bet £10 for Real Madrid to win at odds of 2.5 on the betting site, and then bet for Real Madrid not to win(i.e bet against them) on the exchange at the same odds, you are covered in all outcomes, win lose or draw.
This means you have fullfilled the requirements of the betting sites offer (for example, Bet £10 and get £40 in free bets) without actually gambling, since there is no risk of losing the £10 you bet since it's matched. You then do the exact same thing with your £40 free bets, and this is where you make the profit since you're not using £40 of your own money.
Yes It's totally legal, just a loophole in the system really, although I was very suspicious of it at first. I wrote a guide explaining how to do it, you can find it at the top of my profile if you are interested. I have made about £700-£800 per month from doing this, on top of the money from other sites, but obviously this means putting in more time!
I hope this is of some help, If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask!
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Which Director had the best run in the 70s?

Best run in terms of anything
Robert Altman: Nashville, MASH, Images, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Buffalo Bill, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Brewster McCloud, A Wedding, Quintet, and A Perfect Couple.
Hal Ashby: Shampoo, Being There, Coming Home, The Landlord, Bound for Glory, The Last Detail, and Harold and Maude.
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, New York, New York, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy,Italianamerican, The Last Waltz.
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.
Steven Spielberg: Duel, Jaws, 1941, Sugarland Express, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Arabian Nights, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons, Despair, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Germany in Autumn, Chinese Roulette, Shadow of Angels, I Only Want You to Love Me, Martha, Effi Briest, World on a Wire, Rio das Mortes, Mathias Kneissl, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The American Soldier, and Gods of the Plague.
Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Electric Horseman, and Bobby Deerfield.
Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz.
George Lucas: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.
Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, Bananas, Love and Death, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
John Huston: Fat City, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, Independence, The Mackintosh Man, and The Kremlin Letter.
George Roy Hill: The Sting, A Little Romance, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
Milos Forman: Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Visions of Eight.
Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Wiz, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, The Offence, Lovin Molly, The Anderson Tapes, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Child's Play, and King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis.
Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Macbeth, Tess, What?, and The Tenant.
Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Gauntlet, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, and Play Misty for Me.
Ridley Scott: Alien and The Duellists.
Brian De Palma: Carrie, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, The Fury, Home Movies, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Hi Mom!, and Dionysus in '69.
Ingmar Bergman: The Touch, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Face to Face, The Serpent's Egg, and Autumn Sonota.
William Friedkin: The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, The Brink's Job, and The Boys in the Band.
François Truffaut: The Wild Child, Day for Night, The Green Room, Small Change, The Man Who Loved Women, A Gorgeous Kid Like Me, Bed and Board, and Two English Girls.
Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange.
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon, Daisy Miller, Saint Jack, and At Long Last Love.
Arthur Penn: Night Moves, Little Big Man, Visions of Eight, and The Missouri Breaks.
Bob Rafelson: Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, and Stay Hungry.
Monte Hellman: Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9, Liberty 37.
Paul Mazursky: An Unmarried Woman, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Alex in Wonderland.
Alan J. Pakula: Klute, All the President's Men, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Parallax View, Comes a Horseman, and Starting Over.
Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris.
Peter Yates: Breaking Away, The Deep, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Hot Rock, For Pete's Sake, Murphy's War, and Mother, Jugs & Speed.
Akira Kurosawa: Dodes'ka-den and Dersu Uzala.
Terrence Malick: Badlands and Days of Heaven.
Mike Hodges: Get Carter, Pulp, and The Terminal Man.
Nicolas Roeg: Performance, Don't Look Now, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Glastonbury Fayre.
Federico Fellini: Roma, The Clowns, Amarcord, Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, and Orchestra Rehearsal.
John Cassavetes: Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and A Woman Under the Influence.
Robert Bresson: Four Nights of a Dreamer, Lancelot of the Lake, and The Devil Probably.
Robert Benton: Bad Company, The Late Show, and Kramer vs. Kramer.
Bertrand Blier: Going Places, Calmos, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, and The Devil.
Werner Herzog: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fata Morgana, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, and Nosferatu the Vampire.
Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Dario Argento: Suspiria, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Deep Red, and The Five Days.
Arturo Ripstein: Tiempo de morir, The Castle of Purity, Foxtrot, The Holy Office, La Viuda Negra, The Place Without Limits, and La tía Alejandra.
Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
Ken Russell: The Music Lovers, The Devils, The Boyfriend, Savage Messiah, Mahler, Tommy, Lisztomania, Valentino.
Jean Rollin: La Vampire Nue, The Grapes of Death, Fascination, Lips of Blood, The Iron Rose, Le Frisson des Vampires, Requiem pour un Vampire, Les Démoniaques, Lèvres de Sang, and Les Raisins de la Mort.
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Passenger, Zabriskie Point, and Chung Kuo, Cina.
David Cronenberg: Shivers, Crimes of the Future, Rabid, Fast Company, and The Brood.
Elia Kazan: The Visitors and The Last Tycoon.
Robert Mulligan: Same Time, Next Year, The Other, Summer of '42, The Pursuit of Happiness, Blood Brothers, and The Nickel Ride.
Elaine May: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, and Mikey and Nicky.
Paul Schrader: Blue Collar and Hardcore.
Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, Summer in the City, The Scarlet Letter, The Wrong Move, and The American Friend.
Jacques Rivette: Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, and Noroît.
Bahram Beizai: Safar, The Ballad of Tara,Stranger and the Fog, Downpour, and Kalaq.
Peter Watkins: Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, The Trap, Evening Land, and The Seventies People.
Mark Rappaport: Casual Relations, The Scenic Route, Impostors, Local Color, and Mozart in Love.
Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia, Zorns Lemma, Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate, Drum, For Georgia O'Keeffe, Less, Banner, INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Noctiluca, Pas de Trois, Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Straits of Magellan, SOLARIUMAGELANI, Noctiluca, Autumnal Equinox, Yellow Springs, Tiger Balm, Remote Control, Special Effects, Public Domain, Poetic Justice, Ordinary Matter, Hapax Legomena, Given: . . ., Appartus Sum, Travelling Matter, Critical Mass, and Clouds of Magellan.
Lino Brocka: Insiang, Nail of Brightness, Weighed But Found Wanting, Manila in the Claws of Light, and Jaguar.
Ousmane Sembene: Emitaï, Xala, and Ceddo.
Martin Ritt: Sounder, The Great White Hope, Conrack, Norma Rae, Pete 'n' Tillie, The Front, and Casey's Shadow.
Kinji Fukasaku: Tora! Tora! Tora!, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai, Message from Space, Bloodstained Clan Honor, Sympathy for the Underdog, Street Mobster, Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss, Violent Panic: The Big Crash, Cross the Rubicon!, Cops vs. Thugs, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head, Yakuza Graveyard, Doberman Cop, Hokuriku Proxy War, and The Fall of Ako Castle.
Fernando Di Leo: Caliber 9, The Italian Connection, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, Il Boss, Loaded Guns, Shoot First, Die Later, Kidnap Syndicate, Nick the Sting, Bloody Friday, Young, Violent, Dangerous, Mister Scarface, and Mister Scarface.
Elio Petri: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Todo modo, Property Is No Longer a Theft, and Good News.
Robert Aldrich: The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid, Hustle, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Too Late the Hero, Emperor of the North Pole, The Choirboys, The Grissom Gang, and Ulzana's Raid.
Luis Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Tristana, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire.
Youssef Chahine: The Choice, Salwa the Little Girl who Talks to Cows, The Sparrow, Alexandria …Why?, Forward We Go, and The Return of the Prodigal Son.
Bill Douglas: The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Lina Wertmüller: Swept Away, The Seduction of Mimi, Seven Beauties, Love and Anarchy, All Screwed Up, A Night Full of Rain, and Blood Feud.
Michael Ritchie: Smile, The Candidate, The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, Prime Cut, and An Almost Perfect Affair.
Jean-Luc Godard: Wind from the East, Vladimir et Rosa, How's It Going?, Number Two, Here and Elsewhere, Tout Va Bien, and Struggle in Italy.
Djibril Diop Mambéty: Badou Boy and Touki Bouki.
Louis Malle: Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe, Lucien, Black Moon, and Pretty Baby.
Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cars That Ate Paris, and The Last Wave.
Alain Resnais: Stavisky and Providence.
Eric Rohmer: Claire's Knee, Love in the Afternoon, Perceval le Gallois, and The Marquise of O.
Theo Angelopoulos: Reconstitution, The Travelling Players, Days of '36, and The Hunters.
Alfred Hitchcock: Frenzy and Family Plot.
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Which Director had the best run in the 70s?

Best run in terms of anything
Robert Altman: Nashville, MASH, Images, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Buffalo Bill, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Brewster McCloud, A Wedding, Quintet, and A Perfect Couple.
Hal Ashby: Shampoo, Being There, Coming Home, The Landlord, Bound for Glory, The Last Detail, and Harold and Maude.
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, New York, New York, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy, Italianamerican, and The Last Waltz.
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.
Steven Spielberg: Duel, Jaws, 1941, Sugarland Express, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons, Despair, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Germany in Autumn, Chinese Roulette, Shadow of Angels, I Only Want You to Love Me, Martha, Effi Briest, World on a Wire, Rio das Mortes, Mathias Kneissl, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The American Soldier, and Gods of the Plague.
Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Electric Horseman, and Bobby Deerfield.
Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz.
George Lucas: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.
Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, Bananas, Love and Death, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
John Huston: Fat City, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, Independence, The Mackintosh Man, and The Kremlin Letter.
George Roy Hill: The Sting, A Little Romance, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
Milos Forman: Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Visions of Eight.
Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Wiz, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, The Offence, Lovin Molly, The Anderson Tapes, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Child's Play, and King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis.
Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Macbeth, Tess, What?, and The Tenant.
Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Gauntlet, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, and Play Misty for Me.
Ridley Scott: Alien and The Duellists.
Brian De Palma: Carrie, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, The Fury, Home Movies, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Hi Mom!, and Dionysus in '69.
Ingmar Bergman: The Touch, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Face to Face, The Serpent's Egg, and Autumn Sonota.
William Friedkin: The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, The Brink's Job, and The Boys in the Band.
François Truffaut: The Wild Child, Day for Night, The Green Room, Small Change, The Man Who Loved Women, A Gorgeous Kid Like Me, Bed and Board, and Two English Girls.
Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange.
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon, Daisy Miller, Saint Jack, and At Long Last Love.
Arthur Penn: Night Moves, Little Big Man, Visions of Eight, and The Missouri Breaks.
Bob Rafelson: Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, and Stay Hungry.
Monte Hellman: Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9, Liberty 37.
Paul Mazursky: An Unmarried Woman, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Alex in Wonderland.
Alan J. Pakula: Klute, All the President's Men, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Parallax View, Comes a Horseman, and Starting Over.
Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris.
Peter Yates: Breaking Away, The Deep, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Hot Rock, For Pete's Sake, Murphy's War, and Mother, Jugs & Speed.
Akira Kurosawa: Dodes'ka-den and Dersu Uzala.
Terrence Malick: Badlands and Days of Heaven.
Mike Hodges: Get Carter, Pulp, and The Terminal Man.
Nicolas Roeg: Performance, Don't Look Now, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Glastonbury Fayre.
Federico Fellini: Roma, The Clowns, Amarcord, Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, and Orchestra Rehearsal.
John Cassavetes: Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and A Woman Under the Influence.
Robert Bresson: Four Nights of a Dreamer, Lancelot of the Lake, and The Devil Probably.
Robert Benton: Bad Company, The Late Show, and Kramer vs. Kramer.
Bertrand Blier: Going Places, Calmos, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, and The Devil.
Werner Herzog: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fata Morgana, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, and Nosferatu the Vampire.
Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Dario Argento: Suspiria, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Deep Red, and The Five Days.
Arturo Ripstein: Tiempo de morir, The Castle of Purity, Foxtrot, The Holy Office, La Viuda Negra, The Place Without Limits, and La tía Alejandra.
Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
Ken Russell: The Music Lovers, The Devils, The Boyfriend, Savage Messiah, Mahler, Tommy, Lisztomania, Valentino.
Jean Rollin: La Vampire Nue, The Grapes of Death, Fascination, Lips of Blood, The Iron Rose, Le Frisson des Vampires, Requiem pour un Vampire, Les Démoniaques, Lèvres de Sang, and Les Raisins de la Mort.
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Passenger, Zabriskie Point, and Chung Kuo, Cina.
David Cronenberg: Shivers, Crimes of the Future, Rabid, Fast Company, and The Brood.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Arabian Nights, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales.
Elia Kazan: The Visitors and The Last Tycoon.
Robert Mulligan: Same Time, Next Year, The Other, Summer of '42, The Pursuit of Happiness, Blood Brothers, and The Nickel Ride.
Elaine May: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, and Mikey and Nicky.
Paul Schrader: Blue Collar and Hardcore.
Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, Summer in the City, The Scarlet Letter, The Wrong Move, and The American Friend.
Jacques Rivette: Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, and Noroît.
Bahram Beizai: Safar, The Ballad of Tara,Stranger and the Fog, Downpour, and Kalaq.
Peter Watkins: Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, The Trap, Evening Land, and The Seventies People.
Mark Rappaport: Casual Relations, The Scenic Route, Impostors, Local Color, and Mozart in Love.
Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia, Zorns Lemma, Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate, Drum, For Georgia O'Keeffe, Less, Banner, INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Noctiluca, Pas de Trois, Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Straits of Magellan, SOLARIUMAGELANI, Noctiluca, Autumnal Equinox, Yellow Springs, Tiger Balm, Remote Control, Special Effects, Public Domain, Poetic Justice, Ordinary Matter, Hapax Legomena, Given: . . ., Appartus Sum, Travelling Matter, Critical Mass, and Clouds of Magellan.
Lino Brocka: Insiang, Nail of Brightness, Weighed But Found Wanting, Manila in the Claws of Light, and Jaguar.
Ousmane Sembene: Emitaï, Xala, and Ceddo.
Martin Ritt: Sounder, The Great White Hope, Conrack, Norma Rae, Pete 'n' Tillie, The Front, and Casey's Shadow.
Kinji Fukasaku: Tora! Tora! Tora!, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai, Message from Space, Bloodstained Clan Honor, Sympathy for the Underdog, Street Mobster, Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss, Violent Panic: The Big Crash, Cross the Rubicon!, Cops vs. Thugs, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head, Yakuza Graveyard, Doberman Cop, Hokuriku Proxy War, and The Fall of Ako Castle.
Fernando Di Leo: Caliber 9, The Italian Connection, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, Il Boss, Loaded Guns, Shoot First, Die Later, Kidnap Syndicate, Nick the Sting, Bloody Friday, Young, Violent, Dangerous, Mister Scarface, and Mister Scarface.
Elio Petri: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Todo modo, Property Is No Longer a Theft, and Good News.
Robert Aldrich: The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid, Hustle, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Too Late the Hero, Emperor of the North Pole, The Choirboys, The Grissom Gang, and Ulzana's Raid.
Luis Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Tristana, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire.
Youssef Chahine: The Choice, Salwa the Little Girl who Talks to Cows, The Sparrow, Alexandria …Why?, Forward We Go, and The Return of the Prodigal Son.
Bill Douglas: The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Lina Wertmüller: Swept Away, The Seduction of Mimi, Seven Beauties, Love and Anarchy, All Screwed Up, A Night Full of Rain, and Blood Feud.
Michael Ritchie: Smile, The Candidate, The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, Prime Cut, and An Almost Perfect Affair.
Jean-Luc Godard: Wind from the East, Vladimir et Rosa, How's It Going?, Number Two, Here and Elsewhere, Tout Va Bien, and Struggle in Italy.
Djibril Diop Mambéty: Badou Boy and Touki Bouki.
Louis Malle: Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe, Lucien, Black Moon, and Pretty Baby.
Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cars That Ate Paris, and The Last Wave.
Alain Resnais: Stavisky and Providence.
Eric Rohmer: Claire's Knee, Love in the Afternoon, Perceval le Gallois, and The Marquise of O.
Theo Angelopoulos: Reconstitution, The Travelling Players, Days of '36, and The Hunters.
Alfred Hitchcock: Frenzy and Family Plot.
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Which Director had the best run in the 70s?

Best run in terms of anything
Robert Altman: Nashville, MASH, Images, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Buffalo Bill, Thieves Like Us, California Split, Brewster McCloud, A Wedding, Quintet, and A Perfect Couple.
Hal Ashby: Shampoo, Being There, Coming Home, The Landlord, Bound for Glory, The Last Detail, and Harold and Maude.
Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, New York, New York, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, American Boy, Italianamerican, and The Last Waltz.
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather 1 & 2, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.
Steven Spielberg: Duel, Jaws, 1941, Sugarland Express, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons, Despair, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and His Friends, Satan's Brew, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Germany in Autumn, Chinese Roulette, Shadow of Angels, I Only Want You to Love Me, Martha, Effi Briest, World on a Wire, Rio das Mortes, Mathias Kneissl, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, The American Soldier, and Gods of the Plague.
Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were, The Yakuza, The Electric Horseman, and Bobby Deerfield.
Bob Fosse: Cabaret, Lenny, and All That Jazz.
George Lucas: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.
Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Interiors, Bananas, Love and Death, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
John Huston: Fat City, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, Independence, The Mackintosh Man, and The Kremlin Letter.
George Roy Hill: The Sting, A Little Romance, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, and Slaughterhouse-Five.
Milos Forman: Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taking Off, and Visions of Eight.
Sidney Lumet: Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, The Wiz, Equus, Murder on the Orient Express, The Offence, Lovin Molly, The Anderson Tapes, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Child's Play, and King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis.
Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Macbeth, Tess, What?, and The Tenant.
Clint Eastwood: The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, The Gauntlet, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, and Play Misty for Me.
Ridley Scott: Alien and The Duellists.
Brian De Palma: Carrie, Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, The Fury, Home Movies, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Hi Mom!, and Dionysus in '69.
Ingmar Bergman: The Touch, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Face to Face, The Serpent's Egg, and Autumn Sonota.
William Friedkin: The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, The Brink's Job, and The Boys in the Band.
François Truffaut: The Wild Child, Day for Night, The Green Room, Small Change, The Man Who Loved Women, A Gorgeous Kid Like Me, Bed and Board, and Two English Girls.
Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange.
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon, Daisy Miller, Saint Jack, and At Long Last Love.
Arthur Penn: Night Moves, Little Big Man, Visions of Eight, and The Missouri Breaks.
Bob Rafelson: Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, and Stay Hungry.
Monte Hellman: Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9, Liberty 37.
Paul Mazursky: An Unmarried Woman, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Alex in Wonderland.
Alan J. Pakula: Klute, All the President's Men, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Parallax View, Comes a Horseman, and Starting Over.
Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker, Mirror, and Solaris.
Peter Yates: Breaking Away, The Deep, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Hot Rock, For Pete's Sake, Murphy's War, and Mother, Jugs & Speed.
Akira Kurosawa: Dodes'ka-den and Dersu Uzala.
Terrence Malick: Badlands and Days of Heaven.
Mike Hodges: Get Carter, Pulp, and The Terminal Man.
Nicolas Roeg: Performance, Don't Look Now, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Glastonbury Fayre.
Federico Fellini: Roma, The Clowns, Amarcord, Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, and Orchestra Rehearsal.
John Cassavetes: Opening Night, Husbands, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and A Woman Under the Influence.
Robert Bresson: Four Nights of a Dreamer, Lancelot of the Lake, and The Devil Probably.
Robert Benton: Bad Company, The Late Show, and Kramer vs. Kramer.
Bertrand Blier: Going Places, Calmos, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, and The Devil.
Werner Herzog: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fata Morgana, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, and Nosferatu the Vampire.
Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Dario Argento: Suspiria, The Cat o' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Deep Red, and The Five Days.
Arturo Ripstein: Tiempo de morir, The Castle of Purity, Foxtrot, The Holy Office, La Viuda Negra, The Place Without Limits, and La tía Alejandra.
Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
Ken Russell: The Music Lovers, The Devils, The Boyfriend, Savage Messiah, Mahler, Tommy, Lisztomania, Valentino.
Jean Rollin: La Vampire Nue, The Grapes of Death, Fascination, Lips of Blood, The Iron Rose, Le Frisson des Vampires, Requiem pour un Vampire, Les Démoniaques, Lèvres de Sang, and Les Raisins de la Mort.
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Passenger, Zabriskie Point, and Chung Kuo, Cina.
David Cronenberg: Shivers, Crimes of the Future, Rabid, Fast Company, and The Brood.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Arabian Nights, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales.
Elia Kazan: The Visitors and The Last Tycoon.
Robert Mulligan: Same Time, Next Year, The Other, Summer of '42, The Pursuit of Happiness, Blood Brothers, and The Nickel Ride.
Elaine May: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, and Mikey and Nicky.
Paul Schrader: Blue Collar and Hardcore.
Wim Wenders: Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, Summer in the City, The Scarlet Letter, The Wrong Move, and The American Friend.
Jacques Rivette: Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, and Noroît.
Bahram Beizai: Safar, The Ballad of Tara,Stranger and the Fog, Downpour, and Kalaq.
Peter Watkins: Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, The Trap, Evening Land, and The Seventies People.
Mark Rappaport: Casual Relations, The Scenic Route, Impostors, Local Color, and Mozart in Love.
Hollis Frampton: Nostalgia, Zorns Lemma, Magellan: At the Gates of Death, Part I: The Red Gate, Drum, For Georgia O'Keeffe, Less, Banner, INGENIVM NOBIS IPSA PVELLA FECIT, Noctiluca, Pas de Trois, Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Straits of Magellan, SOLARIUMAGELANI, Noctiluca, Autumnal Equinox, Yellow Springs, Tiger Balm, Remote Control, Special Effects, Public Domain, Poetic Justice, Ordinary Matter, Hapax Legomena, Given: . . ., Appartus Sum, Travelling Matter, Critical Mass, and Clouds of Magellan.
Lino Brocka: Insiang, Nail of Brightness, Weighed But Found Wanting, Manila in the Claws of Light, and Jaguar.
Ousmane Sembene: Emitaï, Xala, and Ceddo.
Martin Ritt: Sounder, The Great White Hope, Conrack, Norma Rae, Pete 'n' Tillie, The Front, and Casey's Shadow.
Kinji Fukasaku: Tora! Tora! Tora!, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai, Message from Space, Bloodstained Clan Honor, Sympathy for the Underdog, Street Mobster, Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War, Under the Flag of the Rising Sun, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss, Violent Panic: The Big Crash, Cross the Rubicon!, Cops vs. Thugs, New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head, Yakuza Graveyard, Doberman Cop, Hokuriku Proxy War, and The Fall of Ako Castle
Fernando Di Leo: Caliber 9, The Italian Connection, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, Il Boss, Loaded Guns, Shoot First, Die Later, Kidnap Syndicate, Nick the Sting, Bloody Friday, Young, Violent, Dangerous, Mister Scarface, and Mister Scarface.
Elio Petri: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Todo modo, Property Is No Longer a Theft, and Good News.
Robert Aldrich: The Longest Yard, The Frisco Kid, Hustle, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Too Late the Hero, Emperor of the North Pole, The Choirboys, The Grissom Gang, and Ulzana's Raid.
Luis Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Tristana, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire.
Youssef Chahine: The Choice, Salwa the Little Girl who Talks to Cows, The Sparrow, Alexandria …Why?, Forward We Go, and The Return of the Prodigal Son.
Bill Douglas: The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Lina Wertmüller: Swept Away, The Seduction of Mimi, Seven Beauties, Love and Anarchy, All Screwed Up, A Night Full of Rain, and Blood Feud.
Michael Ritchie: Smile, The Candidate, The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, Prime Cut, and An Almost Perfect Affair.
Jean-Luc Godard: Wind from the East, Vladimir et Rosa, How's It Going?, Number Two, Here and Elsewhere, Tout Va Bien, and Struggle in Italy.
Djibril Diop Mambéty: Badou Boy and Touki Bouki.
Louis Malle: Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe, Lucien, Black Moon, and Pretty Baby.
Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cars That Ate Paris, and The Last Wave.
Alain Resnais: Stavisky and Providence.
Eric Rohmer: Claire's Knee, Love in the Afternoon, Perceval le Gallois, and The Marquise of O.
Theo Angelopoulos: Reconstitution, The Travelling Players, Days of '36, and The Hunters.
Alfred Hitchcock: Frenzy and Family Plot.
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Leaving Ahmadiyyat: The Islah Pasand Incident

I would like to start off with this: I have the utmost of respect for my parents. Although I do not agree with them theologically sometimes, I have nothing but appreciation for everything they have provided me with. Many of the things contained within are my own opinions. However, I never state an opinion without at least providing one source from the Holy Qur’an, Ahadith or Ahmadi literature itself. My intention is never to offend any person’s beliefs and if you disagree with what I have written, you have that right.
This is an account about our experience with Jama’at-e-Ahmadiyya Islah Pasand. Note: AGJ stands for Abdul Ghaffar Janbah.

Mother’s Experience

One afternoon, 3 years ago, my Mother was listening to a Friday Sermon of KMIV in which he spoke of the divorce of his daughter. Mum was confused as to what the meaning of his speech was but allowed AutoPlay to continue to the next video. The next video was of a man (AGJ) claiming that he had told KMIV about some prophetic dreams that he had. KMIV told him that if he wanted to continue this line of enquiry, he would have to do it on his own and that he was thus excommunicated from the Jama’at. She sat there and thought “who is this guy?” Bear in mind, Mum is blind, so she had no control over what comes on next. The next video had something to do with KMII and some very ungentlemanly accusations laid at his feet…
Days… Weeks… Months went by and my Mum was still listening to these videos. One night, my Dad confronted my Mum and said, “what on Earth are you listening to?”, my Mum replied, “you have to listen to this.” After a few minutes of listening to the video my Dad says, “what so you don’t believe that Hadhrat Musleh-Maoud was the Promised Reformer?” She said, “no that’s not it, but you have to listen to what this man has to say.” Then came the big claim that he made, “I am the Musleh-Maoud with whom the prayer of Hadhrat Muhammadi Maryam at Chilla Hoshiarpur was answered.” “WHAT???” said Dad. “He’s claiming to be the Promised Son? But Hadhrat Mirza Basheer-Ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad reformed the Jama’at as per the prophecy of Musleh-Maoud!!!” He told Mum to stop listening to ramblings of this Satanic person. That night, my Father had a dream about AGJ to the effect of him giving a sermon and Dad was sat on the ground listening, I don’t remember the details exactly. He had a similar dream the next day.

Herr Janbah and his claims

I want to say that my parents thoroughly researched his claims. But how do you research the claims of a man who hasn’t done anything yet? Could it be that he just found some loop-holes in the Ahmadi narrative and is exploiting them for his own gain? I want to briefly mention what exactly he claims to be. His most pedestrian claim would be that he is the Mujaddid (Spiritual Reviver) of the 15th Century AH. Okay that’s fair enough I suppose… (It gets a bit bookie from here on so put your seatbelts on). So, remember how Mirza Ghulam Ahmad received a revelation about a Promised Son? Yeah that’s him as well. But not only is he the Zaki Ghulam… as per that same prophecy it is told that this son will have messianic qualities, he is, as a result ‘Isa ibn-e-Maryam (the Second Manifestation of Jesus and the Messiah) as foretold in the Hadith. Okayyyy? I thought Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be that??? So, is he saying that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is a liar? Nope he says that his claims are in line with the writings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Okayyy then what is Mirza Ghulam Ahmad? He never claimed to be the Messiah he was simply the Mahdi described in the Hadith about the latter days or was confused by the signs of these two people. I have discussed this further in the section titled- Analysis of Claims.
Moreover, he speaks of how KMII created the concept of Khilafatul Masih to establish a Gaddi Nashin (hereditary successorship). Before this, there sat a group that made executive decisions together (called the Anjuman) but at the death of the first Sadr of the Anjuman (Hakeem Maulvi Noor-ud-Din), the succession problem created a split in the movement of Lahoris (under Muhammad Ali) and Qadianis (under Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad). Of course, most people joined the son of the founder for the old Gaddi Nasheen traditions.
There are other supplementary claims, like the standard “Allah speaks with him” so that makes him a prophet too. He had a series of dreams in which Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is walking with him in the gardens of heaven and told him to pray more and have taqwa. Allah informed him in one night during prostration about his fate. He says, something to the effect of ‘the Ghaffar that went into prostration was not the same Ghaffar who arose’. I believe this is a reference to the following Hadith,
It was narrated from 'Ali that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"Mahdi is one of us, the Ahl-ul-Bayt. Allah will rectify him in a single night." (Sunan Ibn Majah 4085; English translation: Vol. 5, Book 36, Hadith 4085)
Which doesn’t make sense because this Hadith is about the Mahdi and not the Messiah (he claims the latter).
I guess by the style of that last paragraph, you may have gathered that I don’t buy this. Well the last (almost) three years have been rough for me. In my own time, I had continued some research about Ahmadiyyat, but I was still following the same message. I thought that, “if Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is true, then I will remain in his Jama’at if it means paying the chanda, attending meetings and giving speeches in defence of the Khilafat”. No matter what I think of individual Ahmadis or my feelings about the glorification of Huzoor and his being surrounded by guards 24/7 and driving around in a supercar… These are simply the worldly rewards of leading a pious life.

Credit where it's due

The one piece of credit that I can give to AGJ is that he led me to a path of questioning Ahmadiyyat as a whole. My parents started to listen to his lectures and watched his Friday Sermons. They gained enough confidence to accept his Bai’at. My Dad attended an Islah Pasand Jalsa in the UK on his own. Along the way he managed to convert my grandmother, Uncle and Aunt to this sect. When my Dad came back, he told us stories about intellectuals in this new Jama’at. Around this time, I had been going through a bit of a crisis of faith, but I still respected Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as an extremely vital scholar of his age.
Later, I became a bit of a religious zealot and wanted to read the books of the Promised Messiah. In June 2018 I started with Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya. I finished parts I & II in one night (it is a very short volume). In these volumes, I found many references to three hundred incontrovertible, rational arguments for the divine origin of the Holy Qur’an which was just a bit annoying to keep reading if I am honest. These parts are like 137 pages long and part II is literally a preface to the entire rest of the book. Continuous mention of a Rs. 10,000 reward for anyone who can produce a book of the same standard seemed a bit ostentatious to me. Given that the quality or standard of literature is extremely subjective. If someone did, for instance, produce three hundred incontrovertible, rational arguments for the divine origin of the Baghavad Gita – I’m not so sure he would have given away his estate.

The Jalsa

I was encouraged to visit Germany for their Jalsa. I flew there with my family. We visited his place and it was about 1am in the morning. It was like going to some distant relative’s house who you don’t know too well. This continued for an hour and then we left for the hotel. Around 9am we were dropped off at this centre and there were a few people there. Over time, this increased to 30 or so. There was this one older guy (I won’t name his out of respect for their privacy) who kept talking with me about how Ahmadis are so illogical etc. I felt like I had no right to be there. All these people had joined because they had extensive readings of the Promised Messiah. But all they talked about how great it is that I’ve joined the true Jama’at of the Promised Messiah.
There was a Q & A session which was 3 hours long. When I was listening to the questions, it felt like the people asking the questions had full knowledge of the answers. One guy even asked about the Musleh-Maud prophecy and prefaced the question with something like “we already know the answer but…” So, I was thinking that this is literally an echo chamber to substantiate their pre-existing beliefs. This isn’t a very healthy kind of environment to be in. Though asking questions was very much encouraged, I wasn’t sure about the kind of response that I would receive. I was sat with my Uncle and I was speaking with him about his views. I said to him “I’m not so convinced about this stuff”. He said, “what do you mean?” I said “Well he’s saying that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s Jama’at was messed up only like 6 years after his death. So, what’s the point in all of this?” he replied, “that’s a good point and started talking to me about Victory of Islam and how he is working on some plan to unite the entire Ummah.” I sarcastically said, “sure”. So, I got the courage to get up and ask him a question along the lines of:
“If corruption was spread throughout the Jama’at of the Promised Messiah just 6 years after his death, then what kind of protocol or plan do you have in place so that after you, your Jama’at stays on the path of Allah, the Holy Prophet and the Promised Messiah?”
He said that my question was valid, and that these problems would continue throughout human life so long as Nafs (ego) continued to exist inside the people. So, Allah sends his prophets, but the problems are the fault of the humans who don’t receive clear instructions. I would say that his answer was honest. But really… hearing that, made me doubt religion more. Isn’t Messiah supposed to cancel the Jizya, break the cross and kill the swine? Don’t these people exist as signs for the end times? Isn’t the world supposed to end after the Imam Mahdi and Isa arrive? And yet the Imam Mahdi has arrived over a century ago and Isa himself is back on the Earth and all he is doing is posting YouTube clips about how the false Promised Son has loads of money and it upsets him. This is the kind of thing that puts me off prophecies. There is so much legroom to interpret, that any single thing could allow the prophecy to be fulfilled.
No one can doubt that the Jama’at had its Golden Age under the auspices of Khalifatul Masih II. But the glad tidings of a Promised Son problem that I had could not be reconciled to be honest. And I didn’t see AGJ as a suitable replacement.

Analysis of Claims

So, AGJ claims to be the Mujaddid of the 15th Century. I cannot really dispute this because it is a kind of general claim that anyone can make if they focus their work on the “true Islam”. But it is also confusing because previous Mujaddids didn’t really claim to be such before Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. This was something attributed to them after their deaths. Like “oh Shah Waliullah must have been the Mujaddid of the 12th century”. Perhaps there can be multiple Mujaddids in one age. Anyways, this is not falsifiable until we all die and find out.
Secondly, the 1886 announcement of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad states that the Promised Son will be from his progeny (tukham). AGJ claims this is a bit misleading because this means spiritual progeny (as opposed to physical). He justifies this by quoting the verse in the Qur’an:
“Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets; and Allah has full knowledge of all things.” (Qur’an 33:41 Ahmadi Referencing).
Which can be coupled with the Hadith in ibn-Majah which I will paraphrase: “…if [Ibrahim] had lived he would have been a Siddiq and a Prophet” (Ibn-Majah Volume 1, Book 6, Hadith 1511). He says that this illustrates that hereditary Prophethood in Islam has no basis. In the Mosaic dispensation a relative of the previous Prophet would usually take the mantle of Prophethood. An example would be the Prophethoods of Moses and Aaron (who were brothers). So, his apologists say that this proves that the Muhammadan dispensation of Prophets, mujaddids, Khalifas etc. cannot be hereditary because all the Holy Prophet’s sons died. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was merely the Muhammadi Maryam (Mary-like figure for Islam) who “gave spiritual birth” to the Messiah (AGJ). Surah Hud provides some insight into this idea as well,
“And Noah cried unto his Lord and said: ‘My Lord, verily, my son is of my family, and surely Thy promise is true, and Thou art the Most Just of judges’ (46) He said: ‘O Noah, he is surely not of thy family; he is indeed a man of unrighteous conduct. So ask not of Me that of which thou hast no knowledge. I advise thee lest thou become one of the ignorant (47).’”
Here, Allah consoles Noah that his son was not his family because he was a disbeliever and didn’t join his father on the Ark. And so a son is one that carries the legacy and not necessarily physical progeny. So, more definitions essentially. Again, this is not falsifiable so I will leave it at that.
The third claim is one that I can apply more analysis to because there are actual apologetics by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. AGJ’s most controversial claim is that he is the Messiah ibn-Maryam and that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was confused about his actual claim. He takes this claim back and forth sometimes (he mostly calls himself Zaki Ghulam Masih-uz-Zamaan probably through not wanting to be scrutinised harshly by non-Ahmadi muslims). I find this to be quite ridiculous. The following passage illustrates that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad had a full understanding of the concepts of Mahdi and Messiah. This is from a segment of Barahin V called “Laying to rest some doubts” which is a dialogue between Syed Muhammad Abdul Wahid (SMAW) and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad:
SMAW- “With regard to the Promised Mahdi, there are found in some ahadith words such as ‘from among the progeny of Fatimah’, and ‘from my progeny’, and ‘from among the people of my household’, and it is also written ‘his name will be my name, and the name of his father will be that of my father’. Please explain what is meant by each of them.”
MGA—"My claim is not that I am the Mahdi who conforms to the progeny of Fatimah, from my progeny, etc. Rather, my claim is that of being the Promised Messiah, and regarding the Promised Messiah, there is no statement of any muhaddith [scholar of hadith] that he would be from among the progeny of Fatimah etc. Nevertheless, at the same time—as every muhaddith says—I also say that all the ahadith regarding the Promised Mahdi are moot and suspect and not one of them is authentic. The degree to which fabrication has taken place in these ahadith has not taken place in any other hadith. During the time of the Abbasid Khulafa’ etc. the Khulafa’ were very fond of pronouncing themselves the Promised Mahdi. So, for this reason, some ahadith describe the Mahdi as being from the progeny of ‘Abbas and some from the progeny of Fatimah. There are some ahadith which also say that ‘He will be a man from my Ummah.’ But essentially all of these ahadith are not worthy of any trust. This is not just my word; all eminent scholars of the Ahl-e-Sunnah have been saying the very same. As opposed to these ahadith, this hadith recorded by Ibn-e-Majah is very authentic: there is no other Mahdi; ‘Isa is the very same Mahdi who is to come.” (Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya pt. V: English Translation, Laying to rest some doubts, pg. 477-478, 2018)
Which is interesting in many ways: First, practically every hadith that you read about Mahdi being from the Ahl-ul-Bayt and the progeny of Fatimah is graded either Hasan (good) or Sahih (authentic). It starts to get problematic when the hadith about Mahdi become more detailed, that’s where they become da’if (weak). Second, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad uses the following to justify with a physical sign that he is the Promised Messiah and Mahdi:
“For Our Mahdi, there are two Signs which have never appeared before since the creation of the heavens and the earth, namely, the moon will be eclipsed on the first night of Ramadhan and the sun will be eclipsed on the middle day, and these signs have not appeared since God Created the heavens and the earth.” (Sunan Darul Qutni)
We all know about this hadith. The hadith is talking about the Mahdi who, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad said, is a fabrication. But he says that the eclipses are a sign of his [Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s] truthfulness. Okay but in Barahin V he says he’s claiming to be the Messiah and not Mahdi. “Isa and Mahdi are the same”. Yeah but you just said that Mahdi doesn’t exist. Furthermore, this hadith is attributed to al-Daraqutni.
What’s the problem? Well... it is historically well-known that Daraqutni contains many da’if and moudu’ (fabricated) hadith. This is not at the fault of Daraqutni himself as his purpose for writing his Sunan was so that there was a reference book for these kinds of hadith so they could be spotted. But this makes it very difficult to separate the authentic from the fabricated. Looking more closely at the hadith, the Holy Prophet states that this phenomenon “has not appeared since God created the heavens and the Earth” and that this is a sign for the Mahdi. Although total solar and total lunar eclipses in the same month are extremely rare, they have in fact occurred in Ramadhan (rarer still) and on the appointed days as early as 283 AH.
So, was there also a Mahdi present at that time? If the Mahdi is a fabrication, the attribution of this as a sign to MGA is illogical because it’s not a legitimate hadith according to himself. If the Mahdi is authentic, the attribution of this as a sign for MGA is still illogical because he claims to be the Promised Messiah and not the Mahdi. One could say that the classical scholars mixed up the two characters and this was supposed to be a sign for the Messiah, but that would require substantial evidence. Interestingly, I read somewhere that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad said that he would pay so many Rs. if someone could prove that this hadith is fabricated. It is impossible to prove whether someone said something if that person is not present to verify it. But if you have multiple accounts of someone saying something, then that is more reliable representation of that person’s speech.
Finally, there is a strange footnote in Haqiqatul-Wahi where Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claims that he is not of Mogul descent but is rather Persian and some of his grandmothers were Sayyeds (Haqiqatul-Wahi English translation, footnote 1, sub-footnote, pg. 103-104, 2018). Well, what is a Sayyed? A Sayyed is one who claims direct descent from the Holy Prophet through his grandchildren Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn who of course were the children of… Ali and Fatimah. So, a Sayyed is one who claims to be from the progeny of Fatimah. Here lies an inconsistency. He could have easily used this to leverage his claim of being the Mahdi. So why didn’t he? He, in fact, did in many ilham and announcements which you can find in books such as Tadhkirah and looking at the original sources in the books he wrote. My preferred strategy is to download a pdf copy in Acrobat Reader and searching for keywords such as "Mahdi". A significant portion of Haqiqatul-Wahi is dedicated to refuting his interlocutors about why he is the Mahdi.
Essentially, there is a myriad of evidence which shows that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to be the Messiah and Mahdi, though I am not so sure why he retracted this later in Barahin V [Edit: u/SeekerOfTruth432 in the comments has clarified that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad didn’t redact the claim of being Mahdi in Barahin V but he claimed that some hadith are fabricated and so are not legitimate hallmarks of the Mahdi]. This shows, at least that, AGJ is in the wrong about Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and his supposed confusion. So there is a contradiction in his and in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claims.

Some supplementary beliefs

It is also said that Allah had told AGJ that he would marry KMIV’s daughter (the one referred to before) and if this didn’t happen then he would incur Allah’s displeasure. That’s why she was divorced according to him. So Muhammadi Begum pt. II. He also offered a Mubahila (prayer duel) with KMV & Co. and he was supposed to die or something (clearly didn't happen). He also has a cute slogan which is “Freedom for All, Slavery for None”. He has written this book called Virtue is God which is supposed to be a response to Socrates' Virtue is Knowledge idea. There is also a deadline on his reign to which he says he is going to unite the entire Muslim Ummah, live for a few years and then he will die in 2028.

Final notes

Anyways, this situation had fragmented my relationship with my mum quite a bit, even though she means the world to me. There was constant guilt-tripping about not accepting the Imam of the Age and it had a terrible effect of my self-esteem. Though we are in a good place right now and we constantly talk about religion and Ahmadiyyat and there is a lot more understanding between us. My mum is nothing but a pious and god-fearing woman and I have the utmost respect for the extent of her belief, but I have to call out logical inconsistency when I see it.
I really appreciate the support (from the ex- and questioning Ahmadis) and the scrutiny (from the well-intentioned Ahmadis) I receive here. It really helps me to look at my arguments more objectively to make sure that I am being representative in my analysis of people’s beliefs. I apologise for the length of this post, some of the quotes were quite long and the narrative and explanations of my views were probably long-winded but that is just what learning to be a writer is like. I would like to leave you with the following quote and parting words:
We take our inspiration, not from the sky and the unseen, but directly from life itself-- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Truly the only certainty in this life is that we are born and will one day die.كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ. But what we do in between is how we are remembered after we are gone and it is critical to the legacy and values we leave to our children.
Peace be upon you and thank you for your readership.
S.
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Why City are favourites to win 20/21 season

Amongst all the transfer news of late we are also bookies favourites to win next seasons Premier league. I agree and although I'm a lifelong fan I've tried to look at the league unbiased. There's talks that English football will aim to finish at normal time next season, which means that our already busy schedule will be made even busier with games every 3/4 days consistent over the season. Looking at our competitors squads I'm confident that City has, without a doubt, the most quality depth in rotation, and that's without any potential signings included. Teams have battled for 3rd and 4th this season whilst being a long way off the quality of city and Liverpool. With the massively increased physical demand that next season will bring I'm looking at other squads and none of them compare to city's depth in rotating players. So all in all I think next season is ours due to us having quality on the bench and rotation that other clubs just don't seem to have at the minute
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How to translate the Portuguese suffix -inho into English? Would you understand things like "fixy wixy", "teachery witchery", "priesty witchy"... ?

The suffix -inho (and others like -eco) is the diminutive in Portuguese, literally meaning that something is little, small. It can be used to express a small quantity or a small size, but also affection, cuteness, disdain, inferiority, irony... we would use -inho to talk to a dog or baby (cute child language), to make something sound funny, to try to make your listener smile, or to convince your listener that something serious is not so bad, etc.
I've seen a native English speaker saying we could perhaps make up words in English that would be close to that by putting Y at the end of a word, plus another word (not necessarily real) starting with W, plus an ending that rhymes. It's not a fixed rule, and doesn't seem to work with everything. It seems more like a play on words.
Examples the native speaker gave (link below):
dedinho do pé (little toes) - toesy woesy (for example, talking to a baby). livrinho (small book) - booky wooky casinha (little house) - housy wousy telefoninho (little telephone) - phony whony
I just invented the expressions below. Would you understand? Would that make sense?
  1. Wow! You found a good fixy wixy to make the machine work."
"We'll find a fixy wixy to our problem going through the security check".
2) He seems so ignorant and uneducated. But isn't he the teachery witchery of the best school in town?
3) He teaches his church followers to hate gays, but has secret gay lovers himself. He's just a "priesty witchy" (or priesty bitchy? Or priesty witchy bitchy? 😂).
4) I didn't buy this for you, you silly billy!
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In Portuguese we would use:
  1. jeitinho (little way, manner) = fixy wixy? A simple but clever way of fixing something or finding a solution using unconventional methods, which could be positive (ingenious) or negative (opportunistic). In Portuguese, we also have a funny word "gambiarra", meaning specifically very poorly made but very clever fixes or inventions around the house.
  2. professorzinho (little teacher) = teachery witchery? Used mainly derogatorily, to mean a bad teacher, a teacher you despise.
  3. padreco (little priest) = priesty witchy/bitchy? - an immoral and ridiculous priest.
  4. bobinho (little fool, imbecile, silly) = silly billy? It's a less offensive way, or even an affectionate way of saying that someone is silly. "Silly willy" sounds something else, willy = penis, right?
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Anyway... do you think that would work? Could you think of other words, inventions or translations? Or other ways we could express -inho in English? Do you have something like that in your languages?
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This is ridiculous

It is so much worse to be stolen from like this than the alternative. Are they stupid enough to kill mother earth? Perhaps. That's what worries me. This has to stop though. They are supposed to be Allies yet they are useless. People die everyday.
We have to end senseless violence. I am expected to die of so much bullshit. I'm supposed to be a Blood but where are they? I do not know.
Let's just stick to violence that makes sense. That means hitting your target and leaving bystanders out of it.
I hear the n-word around here. It drives me crazy. I could hear them laughing outside. "It's Mother Earth. It's an African American gang." (I say black.) I don't share the skin color but the truth is I'm treated much the same. (They were laughing cuz Mother Earth isn't racist and people are telling me to fear Black people. Which is silly.)
I have developed a lot of ailments. It looks pretty normal for the situation. I look like a bookie and that's the short version of what I do. Getting mistreated for so long I couldn't sleep. I was drugged to fix other people's problems.
Rico was the first person who helped me. I told him what to say to get a job and now he has got one. I'm getting screwed over by these Goddamn Homeless people. That place is fucked up there are so many perverts and gross people in there. And these poor women deal with nasty ads men all day. They follow me around. The Bloods were supposed to stand in the way but they sit there.
It's only a gun. That's the way I see it. If it happens which it won't I hope. It'll be over soon. The threats won't work anymore. I could die but I won't be threatened anymore. My friend does not deserve this treatment. It is dying of the wrong thing that scares me. Infections, embarrassment...it's the lack of a bathroom. They shit themselves cuz the homeless shelter LOCKS THEM OUT. Charles leaves them (me too) in the rain. They get sick and smelly.
Some poor man had to stand in the store in piss cuz he couldnt find a bathroom or clean clothes. That scares me. The kids are scared of my reds. There is a point to that but what concerns me is they are scared of ordinary people just as much. The man was too scared to ask for help.
Death by rudeness and annoyance is a death too slow. I got threatened by everyone I know. I was forced to take pills for years because I got "anxiety". My husband held an axe over my head one night and I didn't even report it. He tossed it in the sink. "I don't need it." As it clattered in the sink I realized I've only worried about one thing. How I die. I always hope for a gun. Then guillotine would work for me. He would laugh as he talked about suffocating me. He didn't do it but it was the talk that drove me crazy. He wanted to threaten me forever.
I laugh a lot. My friend sees it for what it is and she does get scared. I hate that but I don't blame her because it is frightening. Nothing will happen to her anymore. Someone would come at me and I would get drugged. That's how this happened. I'd rather be dead than treated this way. I will be respected for standing for something.
Do you believe me? I don't care.
It's awhile Mr. Physical Science teacher at the high school. Too much to do right now. I lied no documents. Haha you wouldn't give me an email anyway. About 3pm that day I'll start walking to Wal-Mart. I'll post early enough for you. It hurts to cuz the rapid breathing goes on too long. I can tell how much oxygen I have, you can't. I tell the truth as I see it. It's the oxygen in my brain it gets too high, I panic too long. But people don't watch me breathe. When you make your video please show the Navy Seals there has got to be someone. You'll need your phone and a mirror. I don't know how to hold it yet. It is 15 seconds at a time. I'm gonna have to do it longer because I've never been reddit famous.
15th street laundry man thanks. You are a legend. I got more work to do. Do what you want. He speaks Spanish and English so he told everyone. Things do get dark on here. Tell kids what they NEED to know. Next post is for a specific person. I don't want to write it but it needs said.
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I’m a new writer. Any advice?

I’m a newer writer I’m thinking of writing my books, how should I go about that
My wife and I recently had a conversation and I’d been telling her about some story idea I have, she liked the basic premise so I hope you do too!
Keep in mind I’m not great at writing, I’m just getting started, also my grammar isn’t very good, sorry
This is intentionally a bit comic booky by the way
AN INTRODUCTION TO NIGHTSHROUD WRITTEN BY TROY HEZEKIAH
Darkness, intrigue, mystery, adventure, loss, justice, action, horror, swashbuckling, this is Nightshroud. 4 Brothers, 7 isles, 1 battle. The brothers have seen it all, at least so they thought. They've lived a lifetime of adventure in their young lives and it’s only the beginning. In a place like Bravewood, one of 7 islands in the remote pacific, a once peaceful refuge for those who sought asylum from conflict, it has become a breeding ground for crime. From the once unthinkable murder, to the sinisterly mysterious and freakishly bizarre. The guardians and police protect the isles, some of which poses the power of Eden, a naturally occurring substance that gives the user the power to become beasts. When the body of a young boy is found washed up on shore The Guardians are called to solve the case. With push back from police it’ll be tough to work on the case as the higher ups see the guardians as an outdated relic of Bravewood’s long gone days. The community is divided with mistrust and fear, anyone could be the killer. It’s up to The Brothers to solve this mystery and close the case for good, bringing justice to the family of the young man killed.
Joseph Talman
Joseph is the oldest of the four brothers. He may very well be one of the greatest detectives in the history of the islands, solving nearly all of the cases he’s been assigned to, and his skills are certainly never overlooked by Bravewood’s finest. His adventurous nature and charismatic charm is what often attracts people to him. Being that he’s a member of the guardians he is often working with the police, though he thinks they are an unorganized lot who waste the talents of their best officers and him by assigning them to patrol duty.
Joseph is incredibly bright and brilliant, he knows the ins and outs of people, everything about them from their deepest fears to their most intimate dreams, he's very charismatic and others find it easy to confide in and trust him. He can influence others and sway them to his side with ease. He is a natural hunter, he always catches his prey, no matter the crime, no matter the means, no matter the motive, he always finds a way to bring them to justice. Over the years he’s earned himself the title “The Lion Of Bravewood”, as in Isle culture Lions symbolize relentless, unresting justice and bravery.
An articulate man with a dapper sense of fashion he finds it more advantageous to use his words rather than his fists to solve problems. As his father was a guardian he wants to live up to his reputation and grow beyond his shadow.
His recent untouchable and cocky attitude has led him to a humiliating defeat at the hands of a gang known as The Wildcards, so the Chief has assigned him to work with his brothers to keep him in check, to Joseph's dismay. Underneath all the bravado lies a darker side, a side most people don’t show. All that power can really get to a man, leaving him to be unmatched, such a powerful man who has everything to lose is not a good combination. Without the bravado and courage lies a man doing his best to be a good man.
Talion Creed Talyan Creed, a man with a dark past. Not much is known about his life before his time in Bravewood. He moved to the isles when he was a teenager and met the Talmans who took him in as if he were always one of their own. Over the years he's changed tremendously as a person, when he arrived in Bravewood he was rather hotheaded and conflicted but as he became an adult he developed into a more stoic man.
He's stern, but he has a dry sense of humor that shines through from time to time. Although caring he often shows tough love to those he cares about the most. He holds deep empathy for the criminals who have become desperate and taken up a life of crime, he understands their desperation, feeling like they have no other choice but to commit crimes to survive and provide for their families. His main goal when out in the field is to talk down his enemies and get them to stop, appealing to their humanity. Though he is stuck in the past, constantly reminding himself of his past sins and mistakes, never forgetting or forgiving what he’s done, believing he can never escape his past.
He has a sincere belief in the inherent good of others. To him deep down everyone knows right from wrong whether they expect The Truth or not. He’s not good with words, often finding it difficult to express his emotions. He enjoys time alone, he just likes reflects on things and think in a quiet environment, though that’s not to say he doesn’t enjoy time with his brothers, on the contrary. His brothers are some of the most important people in his life. Even when they argue and bicker they still have each other’s backs. Though all to often he finds himself being the most mature of them, feeling he has to babysit his brothers so they don’t get into trouble.
Talion and Joseph share and an odd relationship, the two brothers are very much alike in a sense, skilled problem solvers able to use their talent for crime fighting, deeply moral men with a sense of right and wrong, guarded and closed off, having an unwavering dedication to doing the right thing and bring justice to the innocent, their protective nature, and their deep love of others at the same time are completely different. Talion is exceedingly compassionate and lieniate and usually easy going. While Joseph is oftentimes cold and unematheic towards his enemies, charismatic and a master of influence, and appearing to be more energetically eccentric. Underneath the veneer of cold stoicism hides a sensitive and broken person trying to be better.
MOSES BETHELHEM
Moses Bethlehem was born in Providence as the illegitimate son of the business tycoon Edward Sinclair and a secretary Amelia Ramírez. At a young age he was abandoned by his father leaving him resentful and hurt but more than anything he blames himself for his misfortune. His mother wasn’t able to support him so she gave him up for adoption, he ran away from the orphanage but he was eventually taken in by The Talmans who caught him out in the cold during one of the worst storms in the history of the Isles. They gave him shelter and it was truly the first time anyone had ever truly shown him care. He grew up next to his brothers but he still held on to his past, something that cut him deeply for all his life. He originally planned to be a doctor and try to put the past behind him, he got married, tried to live a peaceful life but the thoughts still. He eventually became estranged from his wife and he was blacklisted from the medical field as his father in law was a huge voice in the field and became resentful of his son in law for hurting his daughter.
Unemployed and on the brink of poverty his brothers offered him a job as a detective in The Guardians and with no other outlet to support himself he joined. He’s calculating, methodical, and detail oriented, with a job that requires a heathy amount of skepticism he’s become more comfortable with his work. He demands a lot from his colleagues and does not tolerate incompetence. He is widely respected for his work but personally many see him as a unruly, harsh, man who is never satisfied. He’s distrusting, finding it hard to make connections with other and he alienates people with his rough and sarcastic personality. He has a dry sense of humor often coming off as rude. He is aloof, keeping nearly everything in his personal life cloak and dagger.
When the cards are down and his own life is in danger he has panic attacks, he’s unable to function with a fear of death. If even a stray bullet were to hit him, that would be it. Despite his many shortcomings and flaws he’s determined to help others, he wants to be a good father to his young son, though he hardly has a relationship with his son, he always does what he can to make a better life for him. He still wants to reconcile with his wife, Faith. The two still work together to solve cases but he still, though he keeps this to himself. His coldness is apparent as he shows little outer compassion or emotional feelings for others. He doesn’t like asking for help even if he could very well die, he pushes forward relentlessly. At times he has a fiery temper, he hates being compared to his father or when people speak of his wife and son. Deep down he still wants to be a good man. Even though his brothers fight and bicker he cares for them. He’s a hero through all of his downfalls and he does his best to be better than those who came before him.
Boris Talman THE SAMARITAN OF CLAN TALMON Boris is the youngest of his brothers. Little is known of his true origin as he washed ashore Bravewood as a young boy. He was soon found by the Talmans and adopted. He had to learn English and adapt to his new home while trying to befriend both a young Moses and Joseph. Naive but undeniably reliable. He’s a go getter, always pushing forward into the heat of danger with an old school sense of untamed courage. With every case solved he has learned a little something not only about combating crime but also something about himself.
He’s an unwavering optimist known by many by his endless mercy and tremendous empathy, both seen as strengths by some and a weakness by others. He trusts easily but always happens to get burned in one way or another, being unable to read others very well. He spends most of his time with his brothers, seeing them as his best friends, being the mediator and glue of the group, trying to keep peace between them all.
Perhaps the brother he’s closest to is Moses, the two are the nearly the same age and share a love of adventure and thrills. Moses looks to Boris as his closest confidant, someone he can confide in as the two get into wild situations. Through thick and thin Boris is always there for his brothers.
Eden A naturally occurring substance appearing in the deep caves of The Isles, found in glowing pools, it gives those who drink of it the power to transform into powerful beasts.
I have this idea where the users have heightened senses but along with that they can be overwhelmed by the outside world( sounds, smells, sensations in general) which is a target that can be exploited. With a higher metabolism than most people they have to replace that energy with a bigger diet because they burn it so much faster than the average man. Like everyone they still have a finite amount of energy so they need to be careful with how much they exert themselves. You can just as easily lose control of yourself if you’re not careful, the users have to keep their emotions in check or suffer uncontrollably causing chaos, though control can be learned, it is no easy task. Another drawback is the superhuman strength of the user. If not careful one could easily kill with their sheer strength.
Still working out the kinks, if you didn’t like it I don’t blame you, trust me it gets better!
What do you think and is there any tips and tricks for writing?
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Reasons Why I Still Play FM08 – The First Five Years (Year 1, Part 1)

Reasons Why I Still Play FM08 – The First Five Years (Year 1, Part 1)
WARNING: VERY LONG POST. READ AT YOUR OWN LEISURE.
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NB: This is part ONE of TWO. If you want to skip to part TWO, please click here.
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It’s time to roll back the clock and head on back to a bygone era of English football. As the real life 19/20 season is forced to drag its heels out to the end of July and beyond, 13 years ago the season was long done and dusted by now, and the transfer window was in full flow.
To quickly recap: Manchester United missed out on league and cup double as the newly crowned Premier League champions lost out to Carling Cup winners Chelsea 1-0 in the FA Cup final, AC Milan got their revenge on Liverpool, beating them 2-1 in the Champions League final after losing to them in 04/05 and the closest any British side got to the UEFA Cup was the final being hosted at Hampden Park in Scotland (NB: Tottenham were knocked out in the Quarter Finals by eventual winners Sevilla).
Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic and Watford would all be relegated from the Premier League, to be replaced by the three best teams of the Championship: Sunderland, Birmingham City and Derby County. I daren’t dive too deep into the Conference North and South, but the rest of the leagues were settled as per below:
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* NB: Altrincham would be spared relegation from the Conference Premier as Boston United were given a double relegation punishment for their financial situation.
As such, Boston United would be demoted to the Conference North. Altrincham would remain in the Conference Premier in order for the division to remain at 24 teams.
Which brings us round nicely to July 2007 and that burning question: what happened next?
Of course, having lived through the next 13 years, we all know what happened next: from backs-to-the-wall Champions League successes to unlikely Premier League champions and Spanish national team dominance, but what did the FM08 engine make of all this? Could it really happen? Is it more or less likely to occur in the game than in real life?
Having played the game religiously since its release (why change a good thing?) I have come to love and hate some of the most incredible glitches in the game engine, including physics-defying goals and eternal suspensions to fixture pileups and the entire league calendar disappearing (hello unplayable game).
[I’m not here to disrespect the newer Football Manager games, they’re brilliant in their own right, but every year they just get more and more complex for a casual gamer like myself and FM08 always had the perfect balance of “quick play” vs “in-depth analysis” which meant I could get as much out of it as I chose to. Sure, there’s still room for improvement, but I don’t want a perfect game, I want a playable game]
I have played FM08 is with so many different permutations: with attribute masking on or off, using fake players, playing in obscure leagues, with FM Genie, without FM Genie, with a custom database, with FM Modifier… and I still have plenty of testing I want to do (currently I’m trying to figure out a formula for CA/PA that allows me to create “the perfect player” in every position). FM08 is my sandbox.
But what happens if we put all that to one side and let the computer fight it out? How would it compare to real life? What do the RNG Gods have to say about it all?
So thus, I present to you:

Reasons Why I Still Play FM08 – The First Five Years (Year 1, Part 1)

For this experiment, I will be using the Default, non-patched database, version 8.0.0.
As this is my first run through of a simulated story, I will be running this on my old ASUS notebook so, in the interest of not killing it, I’m only going to run all the English leagues. Also, because I’m playing a separate game at the same time on my main laptop and I don’t want to disturb that.
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My manager will be Spanish hero Juan Carlos Perez Martinez. I’m paying homage to my friend’s old FM09 legendary regen striker who would regularly compete with my world-class striker Carlos Pinto for bragging rights.
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And so, onto the game we game. Real players and no attribute masking. The goal was to simulate every three months at regular intervals, but I messed up the first season a little so it’s slightly out of sync with the rest. I will be mostly focussing on the Premier League and the Champions League, as well as the World Cup and the European Championships, however I will be relentlessly scouring all the competitions for some of the big stories.
Even though my manager is Spanish, I will be keeping close tabs on the England national team because, you know, football’s coming home…
07/08 media league predictions + key:
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So, without further ado, we’ll skip ahead a few months and see how the season is going so far.
01 - Wednesday 31st October 2007
First off, let’s rewind back to the transfer window and see who we the big movers. July saw a few big names moving, with Andrea Barzagli and Maxi Rodriguez making moves to Barcelona and Arsenal for £12.25m and £17.5m respectively, however it was Chelsea who first broke the £20m mark signing Goran Pandev for £20.5m from Lazio. He’ll have strong competition for a starting place against Drogba, Shevchenko and Pizarro. Promising 22-year-old Jefferson Farfán makes a shrewd £6m move to Tottenham.
August was surprisingly low-key. Lazio replaced Pandev two weeks later with the £12m capture of Obafemi Martin. Arsenal snap up young Swiss winger Tranquillo Barnetta for a further £7.25m. Palermo continue to ship off players selling Cristian Zaccardo and Mattia Cassani to FC Bayern and Atletico Madrid on top of last month’s departures of Amauri to AC Milan and Barzagli. They replace them with a Mexican striker and a Portuguese centre-back. £41.5m sold, £9.75m bought, net profit: £31.75m. Tidy business.
As for Lazio, they’d replace £20.5m Pandev with Diego Benaglio, Lucas Biglia, Obafemi Martins, Pascal Chimbonda and a return home for their old wing-back César find a combined total of £21m. Two teams to watch next season in Europe.
The Community Shield season opener is contested between Chelsea and Man Utd and is won 2-1 by the latter. First half goals from Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs do enough to see off the Blues. Goran Pandev scores on his competitive debut but Florent Malouda’s straight red card 5 minutes later essentially ends the game as a contest, even if Chelsea somehow ended with 61% possession.
Back to the league, where we’re about 10 games in. Everton are surprise league leaders, unbeaten with a GD advantage over second-placed Man Utd. A fearsome strike partnership of Andy Johnson and Yakubu with 10 goals and 4 assists between them. A fearsome defence backs them up, with goalkeeper Tim Howard keeping 7 clean sheets in 11 games, conceding only 5 goals in the other 4 games. As expected, Tevez, Rooney and Ronaldo are causing havoc at Man Utd, 12 goals and 5 assists between them, but it’s Newcastle who lead the goalscoring charts thanks to Michael Owen’s 7 goals and £4.6m-signing Cani’s 4 goals and 5 assists.
3rd placed also-unbeaten Arsenal have 2 games in hand on Everton and also boast a mean defence, just lacking the team goal threat to go with it; Eduardo’s 7 goals does mean he joins Owen, Dean Ashton, Leroy Lita and Nicolas Anelka at the top of the charts though.
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I will talk about the lower leagues more as the season (and indeed seasons go on), but for most of part one I will be looking at the Premier League + Champions League.
02 - Thursday 31st January 2008
To clarify, I was still finding my way during the first season. Ideally, I wouldn’t have had a save slot on January 31st, but I learnt my lesson for future seasons. Temporarily using the 03 save file, I can tell you so more about how the Transfer Window would end up playing out. In truth, very little actually happened on Transfer Deadline Day, bar Michael Dawson moving from Tottenham to Bolton for £6.75m; they had already recruited Christopher Samba from Blackburn for £9.25m prior to this.
The bigger deals took place much earlier. Chelsea bolstered their strike force even further with the £15.75m signing of Giampaolo Pazzini from Fiorentina, whilst Tottenham picked up the versatile Gonzalo Castro from Bayer Leverkusen for £12.75m. Lazio offloaded Christian Ledesma to Real Madrid for £11.5m and allowed Inter Milan to purchase a co-ownership in Valon Behrami for £7.75m. A more comprehensive screenshot below showcases some “blasts from the past” and their moves.
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However, we should always expect some managerial casualties by this point of the season and looks like had to wait until December for our first ones, with Preston and Tranmere both sacking their managers on 8th December, Middlesbrough following suit by sacking Gareth Southgate a day later after a 1-0 away loss to Newcastle. His replacement, Tony Mowbray, has done little to turn their form around with just 1 win and 2 draws in his 9 games in charge, including an FA Cup 3rd round exit to Bolton, with the club languishing in 19th in the league, 3 points from safety.
Perhaps the biggest talking point though is the form of Chelsea, widely expected to be strong title challengers this season, they have underperformed badly, finding themselves in 10th place in the league. Avram Grant was sacked on December 23rd, the club being linked with Javier Aguirre, Juande Ramos and Louis van Gaal to fill the vacancy, as well as bookies’ favourite Marcelo Lippi. In the meantime, Steve Clarke will take charge of the club, being appointed manager on Christmas Day.
And Steve Clarke lasts all of one day in the job! A 3-1 Boxing Day loss away to Man Utd, with the team going 3-0 down inside 13 minutes, has led to the players to immediately lose confidence with him and he was sacked immediately.
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His replacement is indeed World Class 59-year-old Marcelo Lippi, whose reign begins on New Year’s Eve. Let’s see if he lasts a little longer…
Man Utd now lead the league by 7 points after 23 games with Arsenal in 2nd place on 48 points and Man City massively overperforming to claim 3rd place. Still a long way to go, of course. Sunderland’s hopes of remaining in the topflight are looking slim as they sit rock bottom with 13 points, 7 from safety.
Kevin Doyle is showing that he doesn’t miss former strike partner Leroy Lita as he storms to the top of top goal scorer charts with a 17 goals for Reading.
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No shocks in the FA Cup 3rd round as all higher league teams beat their lower league opposition; Liverpool, Man Utd, Bolton, Derby and Arsenal overcoming their Premier League opponents, but the 4th round is where it starts to get exciting.
Championship Wolves knock out Premier League Bolton whilst Arsenal are eliminated by Premier League strugglers Fulham. Newcastle do superbly to eliminate league leaders Man Utd away from home, 2-0.
League Two Peterborough do excellently away to Wigan to take them to a replay at their London Road stadium. Peterborough sit 1 point of the top of the League Two table with a game in hand.
The League Cup has been a mixed catalogue, with at least three Premier League teams falling at their first hurdle: the 2nd round. However, the 3rd round provides less upsets and business is resumed, Chelsea being the biggest casualty after high-flying Man City dump them out.
Not much more surprising in the 4th round. The dream for League 2 Bradford ends with a 3-0 away loss to Bolton Wanderers and League 1 Nottingham Forest fall at home to Everton. Is anybody surprised that the quarter finals are contested by eight Prem teams? Newcastle, Man Utd, Everton and Arsenal dispatch Bolton, Liverpool, West Ham and Aston Villa to reach the two-legged semis.
Everton vs Newcastle, leg 1
Incredible drama at Goodison Park where a dubious 9th minute Yakubu goal is wiped out by a simply untouchable Michael Owen who nets himself an unanswered hat-trick by the 69th minute. However, Everton rally late on and 2 goals in 70 seconds from Mikel Arteta and Tim Cahill ensure the spoils are shared at full-time, 3-3.
Arsenal vs Man Utd, leg 2
A dominant Arsenal might feel disappointed to only be leaving with a 2-1 win here. Paul Scholes slotted him in the 36th minute against the run of play but Arsenal would equalise on the stroke of half-time, a goal kick pumped upfield by Jens Lehmann is flicked on by Gilberto Silva into the path of Eduardo who smashes him on the stroke of half-time. Galvanised, they would take the initiative 10minutes into the second half, Barnetta playing a corner to the edge of the box where Maxi Rodriguez’s deflected shot would find its way to Gallas to fire home.
Newcastle vs Everton, leg 2
More of a formality this time round as Newcastle made no mistake putting Everton to bed. Two goals from Emre complemented Cani’s opener to see Newcastle win 3-0 and go through 6-3 on aggregate.
Man Utd vs Arsenal, leg 2
If the Everton vs Newcastle first leg was thrilling, Man Utd and Arsenal went all out to surpass it here. Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, Paul Scholes once again opened the scoring for Man Utd, breaking from midfield to slot home Ronaldo’s through ball, who himself would go on to put Man Utd ahead on aggregate after a one-two in the box with Rooney, smashing home from an angle. Gilberto Silva’s excellently guided finish in the 35th minute, after Patrice Evra’s poor clearance, meant the teams went in level on aggregate at half time.
Who knows what was said at the break, but both teams came out firing in a frantic 10 minute spell: Max Rodriguez finishing off a good Arsenal counter-attack two minutes into the second half but the lead was short-lived as Ronaldo fired in another wonderful finish from an angle barely two minutes later, Scholes threading the ball through after his initial free-kick was cleared back to him. Ronaldo then turned provider after a good run down the right, lifting to the ball into Michael Carrick to head home and lead 5-4 on aggregate, Carrick in turn injuring Bakary Sagna in the process.
Excellent trickery on the left with from Barnetta left Gary Neville for dead before a delightfully whipped ball into the box left it on a plate for Fàbregas to fire home his fifth goal of the season. Arsenal lead on away goals, but they don’t come into effect until after a spell of extra time.
(editor note: because stupid rules are stupid)
Indeed the game does go to extra time, both teams battle fervently until the very last. As the clock strikes 121:15, Arsenal are on the brink and Man Utd get a corner, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar joining the attack. A ball whipped across goal to the back stick and Patrice Evra climbs highest above William Gallas to nod home a late, late winner. Arsenal fans are furious! Where was the final whistle? Their time-wasting tactics came back to haunt them in the end. 5-3 final score, Man Utd win the tie 6-5 on aggregate.
Newcastle vs Man Utd is scheduled for February 24th.
A quick look at the Champions League now as the group stages are complete and nothing too shocking. Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd and Arsenal all top their respective groups. The biggest shock is that holders AC Milan crash out of the group stages after finishing bottom of their group behind Celtic, Benfica and Spartak Moscow. There will be no European football for them this season. They didn’t even have the consolation of a European trophy earlier as Sevilla beat them 1-0 in the European Super Cup, a solitary goal from Alexandr Kerzhakov enough to seal victory for Los Palanganas.
As if they needed further insult to injury, AC Milan would also go on to lose the Club World Championship final to Boca Juniors 4-2 on penalties after a dull 0-0 draw.
A summary of the group stage:
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Celtic’s reward for topping their group is a first leg away trip to Valencia, while Real Madrid’s second-place goal-difference finish means they play Chelsea in arguably the pick of the ties, despite Chelsea’s poor league form.
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We’ll look back at the UEFA Cup later on as there are too many teams to cover initially. The draw for the 1st round knockouts is here:
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In other news, Charlton and Sheffield United lead the way, aiming for an instant return to the top division, whilst Hull prop up the Championship table. Top scorers Plymouth would do well to plug their leaky defence if they want to make a push for the play-offs while second-lowest goal scorers Stoke City show that you can achieve success by keeping it tight.
QPR’s overachievements (predicted 18th, currently 4th) are largely overshadowed by Scunthorpe’s sensation form: predicted to finish bottom, currently lying in 5th place, Bradley Wright-Phillips and Martin Paterson with 19 league goals between them for The Iron.
Big shoutouts to Bury in League who are defying expectations from a 20th position prediction to leading the table, as well as Morecambe, up 16 positions to 5th. Conversely, automatic promotion hopefuls Brentford should hold their heads in shame at being just 3 points above the relegation zone whilst Exeter and York must be wondering how they’re going to turn their seasons around if they want to get back into playoff contention.
A summary of every league and their position relative to media prediction is below:
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The media always know best...
Notes: Crawley Town deducted 6 points due to ongoing financial irregularities. They would otherwise be top of the league on Goal Difference!
Leeds United also started the season with a 15-point deduction. They would be 7th currently if they didn’t have the reduction.
Onwards to April!
03 – Tuesday 1st April 2008
April Fool’s Day is here but it’s no joke in the Premier League where Man Utd have romped to a 10-point lead over second place Arsenal (albeit having played 2 extra games). Tottenham Hotspur continue to drop into obscurity as they hit 14th position (form guide, 20th: DLLLL) whilst Wigan have climbed out of the relegation zone, Fulham replacing them. Man City’s fine form continues as they find themselves 5th with only 1 point separating them and Liverpool and Portsmouth above them.
Leroy Lita, incensed at Kevin Doyle’s trash talk a few months ago, has come back with aplomb to claim top spot ahead of the Irishman in the race for the Golden Boot. Cani is staking a claim for signing-of-the-season at Newcastle, leading the assists chart with 13.
Middlesbrough’s poor disciplinary record is one of the reasons they’re 19th in the league – 81 yellows and 7 reds. Chelsea’s lack of fight for the title exemplified by them being the only team without a red card to their name this season. Too nice?
Mike Dean is staking a claim for most hated reference in the league – 102 yellow cards and 13 red cards issued this season so far, the most in both categories.
In the league leagues, Charlton have guaranteed a playoff place as they lead the Championship by 5 points, Leyton Orient are already relegated from League One, Bury have secured a play-off place in League Two and Farsley are relegated from Blue Square Premier. Otherwise, it’s very much all to play for across the board.
Onto Europe where the Quarter Finals of the Euro Cup are as follows:
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But the major talking points lie with the Champions League 1st Knockout Round.
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Cagey games like Ajax/Liverpool (Steven Gerrard missed a penalty) and Real Madrid/Chelsea (Andriy Shevchenko sent off) were very much overshadowed by the game of the round: Valencia vs Celtic.
Benoît Pedretti put Celtic 1-0 up after a lovely slide-rule pass from Scott Brown – his first ever goal for Celtic before they were undone 2minutes later by some simple play from Valencia. Cañizares pumps the ball long to Joaquín on the wing who skips past Lee Naylor before sliding in Nikola Zigic to equalise.
Some fine work from Shunsuke Nakamura and Maciej Zurawski slips in Scott Brown to retake the lead but their fine work is undone by a harsh decision as Mark Wilson’s tackle on Rubén Baraja is deemed a penalty to Valencia on the stroke of half-time. David Villa’s initial effort is saved smartly by Artur Boruc, but he reacts fastest the rebound to take the times in at half-time level.
That goal spurred Villa on as his 48th minute free kick took a huge deflection off the wall to wrong-foot Boruc but Celtic would respond well with Nakamura skipping past his man to slot home an equaliser. Iván Helguera, still reeling from believing Nakamura’s goal was offside, loses concentration and misses the interception on Nakamura’s through ball as Aiden McGeady follows in from the edge of the box and buries it high into the net for a famous 4-3 away victory for the Scottish team.
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Celtic certainly proved they were no one-trick ponies either by repeating the trick in the second leg, a first half hat-trick from David Villa not enough to stop Celtic’s four unanswered second half goals.
A five-star performance from Liverpool at Anfield saw them overcome ten-man Ajax, while Sergio Ramos’ away goal was enough to eliminate Chelsea. Rodrigo Palacio turned on the style for PSV with a hat-trick in a 4-0 home win.
Here’s how the Quarter Finalists line-up:
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The FA cup charges on and some more scalps were taken with Blackburn beating Chelsea away from home. However, the last of the Football League sides were all knocked out in the 5th round so it’s an all-Premier League affair from now on.
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The 6th round sees a late winner from local boy Shola Ameobi after Robbie Keane had cancelled out Michael Owen’s first-half goal. The 6th round was notable for not having any of the traditional giants of the English game in it. The FA cup will find it’s way to either Blackburn, Newcastle, Derby or Portsmouth this year, four very different corners of the country.
The Semi Finals, to be played at Wembley Stadium of course, will be:
Derby vs Blackburn
Newcastle vs Portsmouth
As Chelsea’s poor form has been a theme lately this season, we should probably check out how Marcelo Lippi is getting on…
Yep, you guessed it, he was sacked! A 2-1 away loss to Liverpool back in March and Abramovich swings the axe once more, replacing him with somebody that nobody at the bookies banked on: Javier Irureta. The former Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao midfielder leaves his post at Betis to take the most dangerous seat in English football right now.
Now, after leaving you all hanging after the dramatic League Cup semi-finals, I can reveal that the winner of the League Cup final is… Newcastle United!
The teams lined up like so:
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(editor note: I had a chuckle at Newcastle’s backline: Shay, Faye, Beye, Tay, Enrique*. Yes, simple things amuse me)
Still, this was a closely fought battle with both teams spurning great opportunities to score, but in the end first half goals from Michael Owen and Joey Barton proved too much for Man Utd, despite a bundled second half goal from Louis Saha. Final score, 2-1.
And so, into the final stretch we go before the players prepare for Euro 2008…
Please click here to read on: Reasons Why I Still Play FM08 – The First Five Years (Year 1, Part 2)
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If you have any questions thus far, I'll be happy to provide answers where possible, provided they're not spoilers for the end of the season.
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