Could the World Fall?

The New Year has seen some top notch footyball. Not that I've seen much of it on account of my absurdly fucked up biological clock (I really need to sort that out at some point in the next week or so). However, a number of things have been getting in the way of that. Mostly TV and films, elaboration on that in a bit probably.

But yeah, I missed the first half of the United/West Brom game, and it sounds like that was a wise decision. It was actually partly by design, like a university lecture that you don't actually have to attend, don't really want to attend but feel in your gut that you have to. The easy solution? Sleep through it. The recent away matches have filled me with dread and everything I've seen of the first half suggested it followed that pattern. The second half was similar but at least the last ten minutes at 2-1 up didn't follow the pattern of about seven other matches this season and we didn't concede an equaliser.

I suppose it all works out in the grand scheme of things, what with the Lee Bowyer goal against us in the previous game, but whatever. If the game showed us one thing it's that Gary Neville's time is up, as it probably has been for many years. This season alone he's been torn apart by Matt Jarvis, Jerome Thomas and Matt Etherington. All are decent enough players, probably some of the better players in their respective teams, but Rafael is by far and away the first choice right now and I'd probably have Fabio and even Wes Brown ahead of Neville at this point, solely because they can run at a speed faster than glacial drift.

I did regret not catching the Villa/Chelsea game though, if just for the rollercoaster of emotions I can only imagine the Sky team were going through. Chelsea went from fallen champions to championship material back to fallen champions all in the span of about 10 minutes.

For now, I'm catching up on random movies and TV (while burning on with The Shield, obv). For now, Social Network. Then Shutter Island and Expendables. Also, Primeval on ITV. I've watched the first episode of the new series which was alright, especially the bizarre moment when they played that S Club 7 song while Hannah Spearitt was running around battling a dinosaur, but nothing remarkable. The CGI was more noticeably amusing but that might just've been due to extensive closeups of the creatures. So they should probably avoid that.