Who is this and why is she in the news?

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Later.

I can't remember her name, but she is the first women to be head coach at a French league club?

They showed the 1st 2 episodes at the same time in the UK as the US, so were "live" at 01:00 yesterday morning, but sky are showing it every Wednesday night.  They did the same with GoT when that started a few weeks back.

Chelsea set up with their normal formation.



And at 1-0 the bus looked parked.



But that man Costa scored again.



Leaving Jose's bus somewhat smashed to pieces.

Elsewhere, Boris Johnson's Son had a good evening.



100 100's if you know what I mean?

These have managed 10,000.



But they've been going a tad longer.

Two legends and Roy Keane meet on the touchline.



Not sure how recent this is?



And who is this, what is he doing and why?

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Later.

P.S. Nice job Mere, where would we be without you?

Rodney Marsh, cleaning football boots as he lost a bet made on MOTD about Stoke i think

I think he said on twitter that stoke were boring and that if they were ever the first game up on MOTD then he would clean their boots.  Fair play to him, think I read somewhere he had to fly over from the USA to complete his side of the bet!

-£132.50 on the Marathon

No pressure, ****** ****** at Augusta

Gen not sure if Martin Mathathi started.

Am looking for an official start list.

http://results-2014.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/2014/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=9999990F5ECC8300001455CC&lang=EN_CAP&event=ELIT

seems he did not start according to that website

Stupid questions time

Only 12 of the 30 horses in the Scottish Grand National are "in the handicap"

http://www.oddschecker.com/horse-racing-betting/ante-post-racing/national-hunt/scottish-grand-national/winner

so the other 18 are carrying more weight than the handicapper estimates they should


Is it common that horses in big handicaps win from "out of the handicap"?

 presumably they have to improve a lot, realtive to the form on which they are handicapped, to win under these conditions and with horses of 7-8-9-10 years old this is less likely than 2-3-4 year olds where amturity can be an issue?

if not, then does this help us find value in a race of this type where many can be discarded?

Of the 18 outside the handicap about 14 are no more than 6lbs wrong. With a step up in distance, drying ground etc etc, I expect there are one or two lurking in there that easily have that improvement in them. From memory the SGN is nearly always a good race for those at the lower half of the weights.

Its a good spot, but probably not enough to think its a standout, sadly.

Merry King

Me and Adz agree on something.  Wonders will never cease!

Oi oi arbboy are you on any draws in tonight's darts?

4 very competitive games tonight and MVG's.  Boyles 8/15 a draw in any match is too big.  Recommend £75 for fred if we can get on.

Chis v Barney £50 4/1 coral/betfred
wright v ando 4/1 skybet (fred can't get on) but would recommend £50.  15/4 at 365 is worth £30 if fred can get it
barney v wright 15/4 bet365 £30 recommended

Happy to see this, I also threw in the taylor/lewis match to make it up to a nice lucky 15 =)

Ulul whoever is was that needed Katgary.

Think we need to be snapping up 10-1 Lewis Hamilton for SPOTY, as recced by someone earlier?

I don't really agree with this

think I prefer Rory at 16/1, four majors and a Glenegles ryder cup to go at

Rory is popular, and Lewis very marmite. Didn't win it in 2008 when he won an exciting championship, all on terrestial tv.....

Long time Lurker, first time poster (hate that its to do with SPOTY).  

Lewis only lost it in 08 because the Sir Chris of Hoy got 3 golds in Beijing (first time for a Brit to get 3 Golds in 1 Olympics), looking at previous F1 contenders for SPOTY and you see that Button(09) lost out to Ryan Giggs when he had what most thought would be his last season in the prem league (and so a massive crowd favourite).  Before that then you have Lewis again in 07 when he came close but was pipped to the championship by the alcoholic Finn.  Going back further and we start talking about Hill, Mansell and Stewart, all of which won it.

Rory looked vulnerable the other week when massively clear and he clutched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Unless we win the World Cup, I don't see anyone else winning SPOTY this year.

Plus, I'm pretty sure I saw Lewis at 20/1 e/w 1,2,3 in the laddies shop today.