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A good time to remind everyone that at all parties, no matter where in the world, there's always one clammy handed Rafa Benitez fan sitting alone quietly mumbling about Valencia's 2004 pass completion percentage! Rafa's divisive reputation in full effect this past month. From potentially showing Carlton Cole the door at Upton Park to welcoming Cristiano Ronaldo back for pre-season training. The same game, but in name only.

It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if, somewhere down the road, Old Man Sepp still tried to renege on his pledge to resign. You'd hope that the FIFA rebuild would start now, although I suspect it'll only happen if and when he eventually gets around to actually going. The International Olympic Committee was able to make the necessary changes after the Salt Lake City scandal, and that reform is one that perhaps football can look to as an example.

Long time no see, Michele! Thanks again for posting, Mahi!

What a jaw-dropping ed. Thanks for posting, Mat!

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At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if that were literally the case. So while the British media were busy laughing about their attitude towards 'our' game and trying to belittle them with crap gags, turns out that the Americans were actually doing what nobody else would - properly investigating FIFA and acting upon the evidence. Who saw that coming?

Twelve feet at the last count (0:49). Although this was four years ago, she may have grown since then.

Whoops.

Not sure, but I can look into it. Most of the time, the delete requests come from folks who’ve simply moved onto other things and no longer want old and potentially embarrassing pictures floating around the internet. Their topics are untouched for years and unlikely to be missed. This was a bit of an unusual case because, to the best of my knowledge, Marjorie is still modelling.

We received a message from Marjorie via the BZ Facebook page asking for the topic be removed. We were sorry to lose it, particularly with it being active as recently as this month, but unfortunately there's not a lot we can do when model delete requests come in.

Mine too. In my mind.

Excellent, thanks for the info. Leave it with me and I'll bring it to the attention of the boss.

It is quite soon for another MCU effort to drop. From what I hear, the movie was originally meant to arrive in November, but Feige wasn't keen on the idea of it going up against the new James Bond. Plus, given its troubled production period, he'd probably prefer it if 'Civil War' became their gateway into Phase 3 instead.

Thank goodness for that. In typical Sunderland fashion, after months and months of nervous anticipation, checking every detail and statistic of games happening elsewhere and praying for the results to go our way, we did just enough to get ourselves across the line with time to spare. The job Advocaat has done in ensuring our safety has been quite remarkable, now the only bit of anticipation left in our season is whether he will or won't stay. I hope he does - I've had enough of taking chances on supply teachers, this is a job for the headmaster. Roll on Survival Sunday!

I'm a bit dense when it comes to Instagram, to be honest. By any chance could you provide me with a link of some kind, or maybe an example of how the embedding is done elsewhere?

Topic reopened. For any male model ID requests you may have, do me a huge favour please and refer to this section of the forum instead. Thanks for your cooperation.

If I were Feige, I'd totally kill off Peter Parker. For no other reason than to troll Sony. Seriously though, it's 99.9% certain to be exactly who we're expecting, and I think the other aforementioned reveal will happen at the funeral. It'd be the perfect way to bring everything full circle. As for the rest, I can't really see anyone but Steve, Tony, Natasha, Falcon, Bucky and (at a push) Black Panther getting much in the way of significant screentime. I imagine Spidey will be in the movie for about the same amount of time as Vision was in 'AoU'.

A lot of people online seem to think that the above pic is a piece of fan art, possibly depicting the character's alter ego June Moone. Great name, I know. The group shot at the top of the page (post #22, Cara is the one between Jai Courtney and Joel Kinnaman) is apparently how she's going to look in full Enchantress getup.

Decent opening episode, I thought. There's really no getting away from the fact that it's a Shyamalan product (it's very heavy on plot and very light on characterisation) but he's adapting from source material this time and not coming up with his own stuff, which should at the very least prevent another 'Happening' from, well, happening.

Hello, good evening and welcome.

Is it wrong that I was a little bit relieved when Chris Smalling escaped punishment for pulling Giroud's shirt up to his neck, just so we were spared the Mike Dean crouch and point to the spot? That referees have their best games when they're not noticed is one of the oldest cliches in football, but 'Deano' clearly hasn't heard it.

Here's Frank Grillo on set in full Crossbones garb.

Not quite the result we were after, although given the circumstances I suppose a tight, edgy affair was always on the cards. Can't help thinking that the occasion got to the players just a bit, with Danny Graham fluffing what was easily our best chance in the first half. It's hard to picture Newcastle and Hull both winning next week, but ideally we'd sneak a point at the Emirates on Wednesday night and avoid the dreaded last-day jitters at Stamford Bridge.