RIGHT SAID FRED - TOO SEXY FOR MOSCOW

Quotes from the Daily Mail :

"Police stood and watched as two British gay rights campaigners were kicked and punched by neo-Nazis at a demonstration in Moscow.
Former politician Peter Tatchell and pop singer Richard Fairbrass had travelled to the city to join a protest demanding the right to hold a Gay Pride parade there. "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458017&in_page_id=1811...................................................................................................................................................................
I certainly don't condone people beating up anyone but look at the dude with the moustache. I mean, out of all the crowd even before he's thrown his punch he'd be my number one suspect. The only guy not holding a camera/camcorder and wearing a camouflage t-shirt. Moustache + camo t-shirt + retard look = Russian neo-nazi. It's a bit weird the way neo-nazis and Russian Orthodox Christians are on the same side. ..............................................
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Reading the article it seems some people in Russia are still stuck in the dark ages. Although if Moscow's Mayor called gay marches "Satanic" something like this was probably always likely to happen. And lets be honest, wherever Peter Tatchell goes the punches follow. I just hope Dale Winton isn't planning a cheap Easy-Jet weekend in Russia anytime soon.

TED BOVIS IS SUPER PORKY

..............Ted Bovis ..............................Super Porky

I was watching a bit of Smackdown yesterday and it mentioned a UK tour. It was the usual biggish arenas (with 10,000 to 15,000 capacities I'd guess) but it also had Butlins in Minehead. My idea of Butlins is obviously stuck in a Hi-De-Hi time warp because I was thinking they'd probably have knobbly knees and glamorous granny competitions during the wrestling intervals, with people sitting in deck chairs picking the winners. But that was before I saw pictures of the Skyline Pavilion which is pretty damn impressive.

............................................................................................. Looking at the names mentioned it's got Finlay but no Regal. Maybe he worked one too many crap Butlins or Pontins shows back in the 80's so he's taking a day off. Or maybe in 1989 he lost a loser leaves Butlins match against Skull Murphy and they've still got pictures of him at the front gate. Apparently that's why no male northerner with blonde highlights has been allowed in Butlins for the last 18 years, just in case he's Steve Regal. I'm sure he'll be on the tour and Dave Taylor will be there as well but they're just not as big a name as Ashley. I bet she's only there to win the glamorous granny competition.

http://www.butlinsonline.co.uk/index.cfm?page=10341&wt.svl=1988574

ALF STEWART QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Alf: You know, when I was in Vietnam there was this orphanage in Saigon for the er... children of rape victims and nobody ever wanted to take them you know, poor little tykes. It was like they were unclean or something. They certainly got pretty rough treatment for something that wasn't even their fault.

Joel Nash: So whats that saying, you can't blame the child for the sin of his father?

Alf: Something like that, although sometimes it seems like there's no one else to blame.

Joel Nash: Sorry Alf you've er.... you've lost me here, I might just erm..........

Alf: Yeah yeah sure. Don't listen to me, I'm just waffling. I'll get you that coffee.

THIS IS WRESTLING

This picture of Arn Anderson and Buddy Landel is wrestling, simple as that. The old wrestlers always mention about it saying wrestling on the marquee, well you could just put this picture on the marquee and people would now what was going down .They'd come from miles around to see it. Of course they'd probably be pissed if when they got inside instead of seeing Arn going against Manny Fernandez or Buddy and Terry Taylor fighting for the Southern Heavyweight Title they saw some no selling kids doing triple somersaults and stuff, dressed like they should be in N-Sync. I guess as it was my idea I'd have to be the one to apologise. They'd probably sue me and stuff too. OK, forget my idea but still, this is wrestling right. Right?

FA CUP FINAL THOUGHTS

Today at the cup final I noticed that President of the FA, free mason, future King of England and all round good egg Prince William is going bald. And because he’s a royal I don’t think he’s allowed to shave his head. My reasoning for this is because if he did creepy people in middle England who collect Queen Mum & Princess Diana mugs would be outraged. I want to see him turn up one day with a killer weave. I remember someone mentioning on TV once that Eddie Jordan had a wig and if that’s right that’s a killer wig. Maybe Prince William could just do what Vince McMahon’s done since he lost his hair match with Donald Trump and sport a doo rag. That’d be fantastic, I think a doo rag and crown combo could work in the 21st century. Henry VIII tried it back in the day but it just didn't hang in the 16th century.

Watching Zaragoza vs. Athletico Bilbao and Etxeberria’s a man who's been going bald for years but he’s still fighting the good fight and refusing to be beat. Etxeberria seems to have been at Bilbao for years just like Urzaiz. Just Like Julen Guerrero, who spent his whole career there, going from the great young Spanish star to the 10 minute over the hill substitute in the space of about 15 years. But it was beautiful while it lasted and I’m sure the people of Bilbao don’t care about his last couple of years because being a Basque there’s nothing more noble than playing for Bilbao and I’ve always liked that fact. I wonder if Howard Kendall even realised before he took over managing them that only Basque’s can play for them. Howie probably had Paul Bracewell and Neville Southall lined up as his first signings. Anyway, I hope Bilbao don’t get relegated (as I write this there 4-2 down to Zaragoza after my man Etxeberria has just dived to win a penalty.)

Oh, the FA cup final was absolutely terrible, probably the worst game of football I've watched this year. Except for England games obviously. Bilbao have just pulled it back to 4-3. Sometimes I wish I was a Basque. VIVA EL BILBAO

Snooker Loopy

"Now old Meo, we all know's got loads of dapper suits,London-bred and he keeps his head, though he's got Italian roots,Emotional when he keeps his cool, till he reaches the final,But whether he wins he whether he don't "I always pipe me eyeballs."

So I played snooker today. Where I play’s got all these old pictures on the wall of the 80’s players in classic pose. My game was played under the watchful eyes of Tony Meo and John Virgo. Virgo was in full late 70’s pimp mode, wearing a flared suit with one hand holding a cue and the other in his pocket, holding his balls. But I call it the Tony Meo table because Tony never spent what felt like five life times being Jim Davidson’s goofy TV snooker stooge. Although when I was a kid Virgo used to make me laugh when he’d arse around during his TV matches doing impressions of the other players. Also Meo was a boyhood friend of Jimmy White’s and one of the match room boys of the 80’s snooker boom, probably giving about 75% of his winnings to Barry Hearn in the process. But still, we’ll always have snooker loopy.

Here's a link to an article from one of my favourite writers Jonathan Rendall (looking forward to his Mike Tyson book later this year) mentioning Meo and White as travelling teenage snooker hustlers. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,708304,00.html My highest break was a prodigious 15 (red, pink, red, pink, red) and tomorrow I'm setting off on my very own UK snooker hustlering tour. If you frequent a working mans club, BEWARE.

One For The Ladies

Let's start things off as we mean to go on with a picture of the Jet Set. George Gulas is on the phone being congratulated by President Carter for a DQ win over Gypsy Joe & Tojo Yamamoto. "And where's that damn Jet Set shirt you promised me Gulas?". Is Bobby there, put Bobby on George. I need to ask him for some advice on the Middle East."