Opened an invitation to Wrexham to join us at White Hart Lane

[London Irish]

That 90 per cent is a terrific effort - and, to think, it would have been much higher but we've just struggled to offload tickets for the visit of 2 or 3 of the more unfashionable teams of the division, the Rotherhams, the Prestons, the Cardiffs.

More Brighton fans actually wanted to see Crewe than those three. I guess you can't blame them.

 

[Hungry Joe]

....but what about Unforgiven LI? Do you rate it?

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

That 90 per cent is a terrific effort

90% of 6,973. The money must be rolling in. I bet Dick Knight is just itching for the European transfer window to open.....

 

[Hungry Joe]

90% of 6,973. The money must be rolling in. I bet Dick Knight is just itching for the European transfer window to open.....

Not as much as he's itching for Poundstretcher and Cash Converters to open. In fact Ernest told me he'd seen the tight bastard in Wilkinson's the other week.

 

[London Irish]

....but what about Unforgiven LI? Do you rate it?

I think I actually had to review that film for one of the shitty local rags I used to work for.

The only thing I remember about it is the constant hype telling you even before you went into the cinema that it was a "modern classic". Naturally enough, that was the line I took in my review for fear of people pointing at me in the street and laughing if I took the contrary view.

I can see why the western had some sociological importance in the 30s/40s/50s when the myth of the making of America was being propagated by Hollywood, and you can watch a film like the Searchers and feel the importance of a great film like that still today.

But what was the point of making a revisionist western like Unforgiven as late as the 1990s? Wasn't it 30 years too late for it to say anything interesting like Peckinpah, Little Big Man and Soldier Blue did at the time?

Didn't America just yawn and say, "yeah, great stuff, you're brilliant Clint. Now when's the next Arnie film out?"

Now, Hungry Joe, please feel free to point and laugh at me in the street.

This is ambling somewhat off topic but as much of this crappy, paranoid "the Welsh are to blame if I don't get a Spurs ticket" thread pisses on the whole idea of Fans United, that's probably a good thing.

 

[Hungry Joe]

Now, Hungry Joe, please feel free to point and laugh at me in the street.

Not at all mate, that was just the kind of critique I was after in order to question my enjoyment of the film. Apart from that unless you really are that bloke from The Divine Comedy I wouldn't know who to point at anyway.

Peace y'all.

 

[Rougvie]

Thought you'd be the first to bite

I know, I am becoming way to predictable