That made me laugh.
Lads how tf do you enlarge those photos on an iPad?
Press full version at the end of the page. That is if Rocko hasn’t tweaked the fuck out of that function as well
Grand job. Thanks very much.
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this alternative view might concentrate Mac’s mind better
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[/quote]She strangely looks fat and anorexic at the same time. Nice boob though from what you can see of it
Not sure if anyone here has any interest in American Football but just read on the Irish Times that 2 brothers will be managing the 2 teams playing each other in that sports equivalent of the FA Cup, the Superbowl. Fair play to those boys’ parents. 
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/other/2013/0121/1224329117912.html]http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/other/2013/0121/1224329117912.html
American Football: When they were little, the Harbaugh brothers fought so heatedly that John, the older one, once recalled his mother wailing: “You’re brothers! You’re not supposed to act like this!”
John and Jim, the younger one, now have more in common than differences. They are the first brothers to be NFL head coaches, and last season they said they each sent game film to their adored father, Jack, a former college coach who inspired their careers.
And on Sunday, the brothers, separated in age by 15 months, grew that much closer, leading their teams - John’s Baltimore Ravens and Jim’s San Francisco 49ers - to conference championship victories on the road just hours apart, setting up a family feud twist on the Super Bowl in two weeks - the HarBowl.
“I don’t know if we had a dream this big,” John Harbaugh said. “We had a few dreams, we had a few fights. We had a few arguments. We will try to stay out of that business. We’ll let the two teams duke it out as much as possible.”
The Ravens’ 28-13 victory over the heavily favoured New England Patriots was their first win in three AFC championship game appearances in the last five years, and it returned them to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 2000 season, when they trounced the Giants for the franchise’s only title.
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was at the height of his career then, the defensive player of the year and the unquestioned leader of a defence-dominated team that dragged the offence behind it to the championship.
Several weeks ago, Lewis announced that this season would be his last. After he tore his triceps early in the season, the Ravens had kept him off the injured reserve list in hopes he could return for the play-offs.
A deep play-off run seemed unlikely, though. The Ravens lost four of the last five games in the regular season and John Harbaugh even made the dramatic decision to change offensive coordinators in the final month of the season, a move that mirrored Jim’s decision to make the inexperienced Colin Kaepernick his starting quarterback after Alex Smith was injured.
The Ravens’ offence has played nearly perfectly in three play-off victories - quarterback Joe Flacco has thrown eight touchdown passes and no interceptions - and so Lewis’s career will end on a fitting stage for one of the greatest defensive players in history, who has watched the transformation of the Ravens from a team that struggled to score touchdowns during their first championship run to one that outdueled the NFL’s best offence on Sunday night.
Last week, Lewis, in a passing-the-torch moment, said Flacco had grown up after he had beaten Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos in a double-overtime divisional-round upset. This time, Flacco outshone Tom Brady, who was hoping to become the first quarterback to reach six Super Bowls.
Brady and the Patriots have won three of them, but none since 2004. They lost their last two to the Giants, and now, with the rise of the Ravens, the Patriots’ dominance over the AFC has succumbed to a new challenger. It was the first time in 68 games that Brady started and the Patriots lost a game at home after leading at half-time.
To do that, Flacco led three sustained scoring drives - including one of 90 yards and another of 87 yards - with a mixture of no-huddle passing and timely runs by Ray Rice, undoubtedly aided by the early departure of Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib, who suffered a thigh injury and did not return.
But, in a nod to the glorious defensive past, it was a tip by the Ravens’ defensive end Pernell McPhee of a fourth-quarter Brady pass - launching it into the air, where it descended into the hands of Ravens linebacker Dannell Ellerbe - that effectively ended the Patriots’ season.
The Ravens were leading by 15 points, but the Patriots were driving into their territory. Brady looked stunned as he walked off the field, and that was to be expected. For most of his career, those are the kinds of mistakes the Patriots usually force on their opponents. Instead, their offence sputtered throughout the night, with dropped passes, bad throws and stalled drives.
They were shut out in the second half by, and lost three turnovers to, a defence that, for much of the season, had looked to be in decline. It was the first time since week two of the 2009 season that the Patriots were held to fewer than two touchdowns.
“Shut them out in the second half,” Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs screamed as he came off the field. “Tell them to have fun at the Pro Bowl.” Then Suggs called the Patriots arrogant and cursed them.
On paper, New England owned the first half, rolling up 48 plays to Baltimore’s 27. But thanks to a bit of botched clock management at the end of the first half -Brady scrambled with time ticking away, then waited too long to take a timeout - the Patriots had to settle for a field goal that gave them just a six-point lead at half-time, 13-7.
In the third quarter, the Ravens started a drive that lasted nearly nine minutes, and included no third downs. The Ravens specialised in a deep strike offence this season, but this was the kind of clock-chewing drive they needed - to give the tired defence a rest, and to keep Brady off the field. By the time Brady got the ball back, the Patriots were trailing - a short Flacco pass to Dennis Pitta on the right side of the end zone did the job - and the Patriots didn’t score again, the Ravens defence taking over, same as it ever was.
The Patriots’ final gasp, long after the stands had emptied, ended with Brady intercepted in the end zone with about a minute to play. Brady trudged off the field and, with Patriots’ fans having fled to their cars, the seats closest to the field were left to the thousands of purple-clad Ravens fans who had made the trip.
Ravens players sprinted onto the field jubilantly. Flacco walked along the side of the Gillette Stadium field, greeting fans. Brady was long gone into the locker room.
The Patriots’ dynasty of the last decade seemed, at that moment, to be in decline. Perhaps it will rise again next season. But the Harbaugh family, their fights long behind them, might be about to begin one of their own.
With a bit more luck, the pair might have met in the Super Bowl last year but both came up short with the 49ers losing the NFC championship in overtime to the New York Giants and the Ravens losing by three points to the Patriots in the AFC.
The 49ers, one of the NFL’s most successful franchises, will be making their first appearance in the Super Bowl for 18 years.
They have never lost an NFL title game and if they maintain their perfect record they will tie the Pittsburgh Steelers’ record of six titles.
Their chances of just getting to the Super Bowl looked doomed after they fell 17-0 down in the early second quarter, a deficit no team had ever overcome in the NFC championship game.
With Kaepernick calling the shots, they rallied back with two touchdowns, briefly cutting the margin to three points before Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan connected with retiring tight end Tony Gonzalez to give the Falcons a 10-point advantage at half-time.
But the Falcons failed to score a single point in the second half while San Francisco running back Frank Gore scored two unanswered touchdowns to secure his team’s victory.
New York Times service
The Georgios Samaras Head and Shoulders advert.
What a guy.
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Link please.
BBC have axed that gimp Colin Murray as host of MOTD2. Mark Chapman will take over from the beginning of next season.
:o
He’s come a long way since he shot John Lennon.
U2 have given away the profits from their Irish concerts to charity, the band’s manager Paul McGuinness has revealed.
The band donated €5 million from their three Croke Park concerts in 2009 to Music Generation, a charity that provides funding for structured music education across the country.
Their three Croke Park concerts in 2005 would probably have generated similar revenues, while the band also played two concerts at Slane Castle in 2001.
Mr McGuinness said it had been the band’s practice “going way, way back” to give the profits away but it “was discreetly done in the past”.
He added: “Obviously we cover what the concerts cost to produce and there’s been a profit for a considerable time, and those profits have been distributed here.”
New album on horizon
He also confirmed that the band are working on a new album to follow up their last release, No Line on the Horizon.
“I’m hoping that they will finish the album soon and it will be out this year.”
U2 guitarist The Edge turned up yesterday for the announcement that the Government will co-fund Music Generation from 2014 with a view to taking over the funding of the project in 2016.
U2 stepped in after the government stated in 2009 it could not afford to roll out a pilot project nationwide. The band provided €5 million with an extra €2 million coming from The Ireland Funds, including a $1 million donation (€760,000) from Bank of America.
Music Generation schemes are operating in Cork city, Laois, Louth, Mayo, Sligo and Wicklow. The money will allow for expansion into a further four areas: Offaly, Westmeath, Carlow and Limerick city.
Some 5,000 children have benefited from it either through structured lessons or through the buying of instruments.
The Edge said U2 had decided to lend its name to Music Generation because it would “be enhanced by association” with the band. “In most cases it isn’t, and it is not appropriate. In this case we really wanted to put our names to this because we feel strongly about it.”
He said the band had benefited from having music lessons in Mount Temple school, where they had all met, and he hoped others would be able to do likewise. “We also had the encouragement to use the music rooms when we first formed the band,” he said. “At that stage none of the members of the band had an idea where it would lead. We were just doing it because it was fun. The chance to pass that opportunity on is important.
“There’s been a tendency over the years for music not to be a top priority. The great thing about Music Generation is that it is putting it back where it should be as a top priority around the country.”
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It certainly helped raise his public profile, mind. Besides, shooting that round-spectacled bore is a drop in the ocean compared to the antics of the rest of the BBC presenting crew. Murray probably got up to allsorts at the Lakeside.
Good old U2. I’m waiting for the first begrudger to come on here and make a comment like that if they didn’t pay any tax they’d be the real Billy Big Balls and donate €5million to charity. Like as if Rintintin wasn’t paying any tax he’d give €5million to pay for music lessons for poor children.
Still though. €5million was the profit from 3 Irish gigs. They must clear some amount of money on a world tour. €75 million net maybe.
Anyway they’ve struck a nice little bargain with us here. They pay for the important stuff like music lessons for homeless children and the rest of us look after all the other stuff like global debt relief and eliminating hunger and poverty.
I concur Fagan. You always get some clown banging on " they are artists they wouldnt have to pay tax anyway" TEH artist exemption is no tax on the first 40k you make (approx one week for Bono)
And most likely one of the same clowns that would defend Lance Armstrong due to the money that he raises for Cancer Awareness also.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXBDOxh5RtA
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Nuala Carey’s head of hair
Serena Williams getting knocked out of the australian open.