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The cynical side of me agrees, but given that Everton were handed a 6 point deduction after 1 breach and full cooperation, I can't see anything less than something seismic being acceptable. All other 19 clubs in the Premier League would riot.

From reports, there's little to no mitigation for City. They lied, covered up and obstructed for years.

Their next game is away at Liverpool, who will rightly feel aggrieved given their close run races with City. The atmosphere will be toxic for City. Cannot wait.

It will be interesting to see the balancing act from some Sky pundits (particularly Gary Neville) who continued to wax lyrical about City/Pep even when the magnitude of the charges/allegations were realised.

Of course, City deserved their day in court, innocent until proven guilty, etc, but Sky ran out of superlatives to describe how incredible City's achievements were season on season. In their eyes, does that now all change, is it all tainted? It should be - it was built on a rotten foundation.

In terms of punishment, it should be expulsion, but that wont happen because the PL wont have the bollocks in my opinion. The minimum should be enough of a points deduction to guarantee relegation; an ungodly fine; and as lengthy a transfer ban as can be handed down.

Honestly its the biggest scandal of the premier league era.

The prices for these gigs are absolutely insane, the slane prices are absolutely ridiculous. I could be wrong on this but will people pay out like they did the first time out. I know dynamic pricing isn't a factor this time but still.

I think you'd be surprised how many will.

Way out of my league price wise. Probably should have gone to one of the Croker gigs last year, it looked a decent buzz in fairness.

The Mary Wallopers are great craic. The two Hendy brothers, for anybody who doesn't know, are the two lads from TPM who had that tune 'All the boys on the Fás course, all the boys on the dole'.

As soon as I read that the voices/faces matched in my head! Thats a blast from the past 

I dont mind the Wallopers  to be fair, both name and tunes.

Hasn't happened on my account yet but thats cuntish.

Jesus that was some painfully unfunny stuff. Whiff.

Over the last couple of days I read a short work by Breandan Mac Suibhne on the Famine and the breakdown of morals in the face or starvation and deprivation. As you'd imagine its pretty harrowing stuff.

Had to google that cos I aint got my finger on the pulse, no mo'.   

Fair play to the lads, incredible achievement regardless. That being said, not enough of my cuppa right now to go much further than the few bigger tunes.

Primordial, Stereo Nasty and Celtic Legacy get decent playback in the gaff here.

I think I have a box of EPs, etc, somewhere collected from gigging over the years. Must dig it out for a trip down memory lane!

Smokey and the Bandit

Hadn't seen this since childhood and forgot how enjoyable it is. The whole cast are just hugely likeable, and look like they're having a lot of fun making it. It also got me into Jerry Reed as a side-bonus.

The parents had this taped off the telly when I was a child so must ahve watched it 20 times. Watched it again a couple years back and still class

I liked the book, not my favourite of Harris's but still enjoyable 

As said above it's the ending of Harris's book.

Spoiler

Also, the character in question is "intersex", possessing both male and female reproductive organs. Not a female transitioning to male or the reverse.

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Was late to the party but watched Andor recently.

I wasnt arsed to actually watch it because i dont give too much of a shite about Star Wars generally, but I thought it was excellent!

Grabbed a seated ticket there for €80.

In Flames will be grand, never really dived too deep into their stuff and can't remember what they were like with Slayer back in 2006 because I was 16 and had one too many cans of cider.

I grabbed it on the kindle for about 5 or 6 quid which was grand. If you come across it for a decent price its definitely worth a look.

Back to reading about the Nazis now - gonna kick off tonight with Evans "Third Reich at War"