Frederick

Adorable!

Diane on the set of National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets in London

Her character was pretending to be 14 but is later revealed to be quite a bit older.

Before Sunrise is really awesome in a really awesome kind of way.

This film is anything but boring. If anything I'd have appreciated them slowing down a bit. Structurally it is a bit weak, you've got a lot of characters dipping in and out and yeah, they do drop the ball on the whole Cho thang by having her disappear in the third act. Then again, the book is a juggernaut so adapting it couldn't have been easy as the text has quite a lot of incidental stuff going on. Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman and all the bits where Harry's leading his troops more than made up for that though and I would rank it alongside Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkaban as the best of the films.

Looks like Pienaar's off to Everton on loan for a year. Fine by me!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - I enjoyed the completely unexplained transformation of Ron from whiny bitch to dull yes man.

Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!

Most of those are pretty good, if unspectacular. I'll probably get the new home Villa shirt and I'll try eBay and for one of those Lazio girls. That Bilbao "blood cell" shirt is plain nasty. The new BVB and Bayern shirts. Who said the Germans don't have...er...erm...style...?

So we've signed Marlon Harewood from West Ham. Why? Damned if I know.

Best. Cover. Lately.

Maybe I should buy some of the early years on DVD. But would I really sit down and watch them all?

Police have raided three clubs as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in football. And guess what? One of them is Newcastle. In other news, the Pope has revealed an interest in Catholicism.

Bardsley wasn't good enough for us so he definitely isn't good enough to be at Man United. I'm guessing he'll be at Sunderland before too long.

Happy birthday, DK!

Sylvie van der Vaart's pretty cute. The rest, meh.

Martin still has an effect, and as Ed says, he inherited a helluva lot of crap players, most of whom have now been shown the door. At the very least our body language is so much more positive than it used to be, we play football which is actually often decent to watch and we have a crop of decent young players coming through. So while we won't be breaking the glass ceiling of the top four, considering how things were a year ago, we're pretty satisfied with the new regime.

Ally McBeal is the television equivalent of a woman eating ice cream after her boyfriend breaks up with her and then spending the rest of the night on the toilet, realising that she's illurgic to pistachio nuts.

Villa and mediocre have been words keenly associated for about the last twenty five years. Welcome aboard, Nigel!

Do people still name their children names like Nigel? Apparently they do because Villa bought Reo-Coker for the pricely sum of £8.5 million a week or so ago.

Serpentine Gallery Summer Party, London

Going back a bit, didn't Carter have a drug addict cousin who ended up going mentaly ill? Or something. Am I making that up or scrambling memories?

Kristin Kreuk is the purtiest. But mad props to Sarah Carter, when she showed up for a few episodes, the camera was damn nearing melting.

Kruger Confidential. I don't get it, is there a pun in there somewhere?