Michael*

I'd like that too. I fear Pond may be going the way of Martha these days. Her role seems somewhat unclear at this point and although I'm hoping it'll be business as usual after the Christmas special, I wouldn't be surprised if she and Rory only returned on occasion, like when Freema came back in S4.

Would you credit it? City and United drop into the Europa League on the same night. The people who run Channel 5 must be beside themselves with joy.

If that's the case, then it's kind of put me off paying for the extra content - there are already enough challenge maps that I can't win all the medals on. I do enjoy the stealth sequences but some of the straight-up fighting ones (particularly the later rounds) are a little too hectic for me.

Short prequel to this year's Christmas special...

Model: Ruslana x3 Actress: Monica x2, Angelina x1 Pose: Laetitia x1, Crystal x2 Original: Abbey x3 Group: Italia '93 x3

Cintia Dicker [4] Behati Prinsloo [4]

Edita Vilkeviciute [9] Cintia Dicker [9]

Amber Heard [9] Natalie Portman [6]

Kaley Lips: 3 Smile: 4 Hair: 3 Eyes: 4 Nose: 3 Body: 4 Paz Lips: 4 Smile: 4 Hair: 4 Eyes: 4 Nose: 2 Body: 4

Europe: 2

Model: Snejana x1, Dioni x2 Actress: Aishwarya x2, Fan x1 Pose: Cameron x3 Original: Iris x3 Group: Harper's x3

^Yes indeed, it's been a done deal since Saturday - it's just that the obligatory news conferences and press shots are for some reason taking place this afternoon. Whether it was by design or dumb luck, Short did a great thing in pushing the deal through prior to the Wolves game - O'Neill may have thought twice about taking the job if he'd sat through that nonsense without first being committed to the club. The fact that we've come away from games against Fulham, Wigan and Wolves with just one point to show for it should finally prove to all Bruce's lovestruck media mates that we couldn't have persevered with him for a moment longer. On current form, I doubt if there's a poorer squad in the Premier League. So it's over to you, Martin - even in light of the rather fantastic gif posted above, I promise not to complain if you sign Heskey in January.

Finding out about this pretty much made my day - a new tune from School of Seven Bells...

Yep, that's the one. That part and the Ra's Al Ghul stuff were just so gloriously creepy - I love the fact that they made the effort to try and 'outweird' the Scarecrow segments from AA. Catwoman still appeared in some of the cutscenes but luckily, it didn't seem to put the game out of whack in any way. It sent me to a seperate menu screen to play through the additional levels, and it was only then that I could see where the sequences should have slotted into the main storyline. Short trailer featuring Nightwing in action. Something about him just screams 'Raiden from Metal Gear'...

After almost 100 matches and two and a half years in charge, I think it says a lot that Bruce was still asking for time from the board and patience from the fans. The current team is almost exclusively his own, and it's also one that is fundamentally unbalanced, woefully short in several positions, devoid of genuine width (especially on the left), pedestrian in midfield and sadly lacking up front. Now I'm sure Steve didn't intend things to pan out this way. I mean, he may have thought Fergie would give us Danny Welbeck for another year. He probably thought he could get Charles Nzogbia. He didn't plan on Fraizer Campbell being out for so long, and probably didn't expect to lose Gyan and Bent in such quick succession. With even one of those players available to us, things could have been very different at this point. But that's the problem with Bruce - the only Plan B he seems to know is the Michael Oliver lookalike singer. Of course, Short could have stuck by Steve in the hope of developing a siege mentality until reinforcements were signed in January. However, given the lack of concentration and tactical discipline shown by the players in the latter stages of recent games (hello Wesley), grinding out scrappy results seemed unlikely. Bruce did seem to be something of a lucky manager in that we would often scrape victories in do-or-die games but a neverending cycle of the occasional fortunate win followed by five or six surrenders really didn't appeal to me, nor would it have appeased the fans in the long term. So, while I've no real animosity towards the man and will even admit to feeling ill at ease with some of the vitriol shown towards him by certain sections of our support, I'm afraid his position had become untenable. Short had to act - not doing so would most probably have seen us relegated by February.

Amusing stuff from Serie A - Napoli's Marek Hamsik is ordered to retake a penalty after initially 'scoring' then celebrating in a rather exuberant fashion. I don't know why there are stairs behind the goal either.

^A universally popular guy - there aren't a whole lot of people in the footballing world you could honestly say that about.

An unexpected but most welcome discovery - the 'Anna Calvi Attic Sessions' in which she and her band cover David Bowie, TV on the Radio, Elvis Presley and Leonard Cohen (in that order).

A very cool song indeed.

Round 17: 1. Sui 2. Bregje 3. Chanel Round 18: 1. Candice 2. Alessandra Round 19: 1. Toni 2. Miranda

Amber Heard [8] Jessica Alba [8]

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Deborah Lips: 3.5 Smile: 3 Hair: 5 Eyes: 4.5 Nose: 2 Body: 3 Eva Lips: 2 Smile: 3 Hair: 4 Eyes: 2.5 Nose: 2 Body: 3

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