So last week was a bit of a disaster, but hopefully England can pick themselves up for this week's clash with Samoa. The Samoans haven't been in particularly good for lately, losing to a thirteen man Tonga, so it's fair to say that 'England expects'. Let's face it, if we lose this game, not only are we out of the tournament, but we're also out of the top flight of International rugby. I hope to God that the team can pull something out of the bag and put in a convincing performance, rather than just scraping a win. They'll need the psychological boost before they face Tonga.

Chariot derailed?

Okay, so my expectations for the England/USA game turned out to be a little on the optimistic side. Let's face it, England put in a pretty dismal performance against a largely amateur side. However, I think the referee has to take some of the blame for what was a scrappy, occasionally ill-disciplined game. Kaplan was pretty awful, bottling decisions and missing blatant infringements. Still, that doesn't excuse Phil Vickery's silly trip, which has rightly earned him a two week ban (and ironically allowed the superior Stevens to play). Good to see Paul Emerick on the receiving end of a lengthy ban for his spear tackle on Olly Barkley as well.

Now we face much stiffer opposition in the Springboks, without a proven fly-half. Will the 'great experiment' that is Andy Farrell pay off? As a fan of English rugby I sincerely hope so, but realistically I think that the team could be in for a very difficult evening.

Radom shit I found on my PC

If there's one problem with staying up all night and drinking 4 litres of cider, it's that you post crap like this at 5 AM. Anyway, here's some random stuff I found on my PC from years ago that I find hilarious now, but will no doubt embarrass me tomorrow (today).

Okay, so it's hardly the height of comedy...

The incredible Whore Cat!

If there was any justice this would be Johnny Vegas.

Argentina 17 - France 12

Well, the World Cup got off to a good start today as Argentina put one over on those cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Now let's just hope England can pile a mountain of points on top of the USA in their opening match...

Jailbait

It recently came to my attention that Hayden Panettiere just had her 18th birthday. This means that I can now watch Heroes safe in the knowledge that lusting after Claire Bennet in her cheerleading outfit is no longer going to sentence me to eternal damnation. Here's to legality.

‘It’s all in the reflexes.’

I watched an old 80s favourite last night, John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China. Fuck me is was good fun; much better than the majority of formulaic crap that's being churned out in Hollywood these days. In fact, I enjoyed it so much I've decided to post some of the most most awesome things about it:

1. It used wire-fu, years before anyone had heard of The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or Yuen Woo-ping.
2. At this point in her life, Kim Cattrall was still smokin’ hot!
3. It stars Victor Wong, playing a character called Egg Shen!
4. One of the other characters is called ‘Wang’. Snigger.
5. The Three Storms are cool, especially the bloke who looks like Raiden from Mortal Kombat.
6. The main villain has a giant neon-covered skull in his basement.
7. One of the Storms literally explodes after over-inflating himself!
8. Thunder speaks perfect 'Engrish'.
9. Miao Yin.
10. ‘It’s all in the reflexes.’
    

In the beginning...

I'm still not sure what form this blog will take—or if a bloke of my age should even have a blog in the first place—but if nothing else it's a place to vent my spleen or randomise about life, the universe and everything. We shall see. To be honest it'll probably end up focussing on my love of films and weird sci-fi crap, so expect the odd movie review and fanboy diatribe.