Anyone seen Split? Thought McCavoy was brilliant. Given the kind of role any good actor would relish but think he did it better than most. Really enjoyed it, Shyamalan's best film since Signs in my opinion.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38663851

Stay of execution according to SAM.

For all his faults, he's excellent at equally swiping the left, right, and centre of politics. Very funny!

How on earth he ended up with someone as fit as Konnie Huq, I don't know.

Faults? As a comedian you mean or in his personal life? I'm terrible on celebrity culture, never know anything. Didn't know he was with Konnie Huq, I agree done well there, just shows being funny does work with the ladies apparently!

Yeah I agree, he's good at taking the mickey out of both sides (bit like the Southpark creators). The fake news bit at the end that Bowie isn't dead and has revealed Trump is it latest persona and he's going on tour in 2017

Anyone watch Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe last night? The bloke always has been in absolute stitches.

Was gonna go to that Pixies one, just couldn't find any takers.

Does nothing really for the game does it a pitch like this. Still, good to see England matching India as a minimum which is something I think was beyond a lot of peoples' expectations after the draw with Bangladesh. Great to see a Lancy lad getting his first test 50 as well!

Squad isn't a relegation one but Wee Coyley will likely positive-bull**** his way to relegation. We've seen it before...

Makes me laugh that a lot of the same people who insist we have virtually open borders (which in practical terms means insisting we have an ever accelerating population) are also vehemently opposed to the very few realistic options we have for providing energy for that population.

Apart from a small percentage of absolute die-hards who totally shun the modern lifestyle and it's high-energy demands, there's a heck of a lot of hypocrites on this. Yeah I want my mobile phone, dishwasher, oven, central heating, kettle, tv, computer, microwave. Yeah we should have no immigration restrictions, child tax credits for 5, 6, 7 kid families. Yeah we need more roads, trains, hospitals, schools. But fracking? Nuclear plants? Over my dead body!!

How do square the circle then? We don't, not if people are expecting a wind turbines (not next to their house) and solar panels to do it.

He was unrepentant because he was absolutely right. The American golf crowds are a baying rabble. Their team is not treated like that in Europe who's golf followers are much more appreciative and fair minded. USA deserved their victory but I can't believe that British citizen wanted his team to lose.

"Willett starts innocuously enough, saying that American fans are "brainless." But from there, he says they're "pudgy, basement-dwelling irritants, stuffed on cookie dough and pissy beer, pausing between mouthfuls of hotdog so they can scream 'Baba booey' until their jelly faces turn red."

It goes on from there, with ample veiled references to Donald Trump and American gluttony."

I made one comment in the cricket thread that was 0.00001% as critical as the above about Pakistan's fans and provoked the ire of the P.C. gang on here. Can you imagine if I was say Joe Root's brother and I'd tweeted something on the same level as Willet's comments prior to the match? I'd have recieved death threats from Muslims and left-wingers alike, Twitter would have closed my account, the PM would have probably been obliged to make a statement on how this intolerance does not represent British culture and I'd have been charged with inciting racial hatred.

You can say a lot about the drivers of political correctness in this country over the past 20 years. You could say it was hugely necessary and has massively reduced racism and intolerance. You could say it's eroded free speech and created a victim culture. Either way it's here and personally I can live with it. But what gets my goat is the massive, massive hypocrisy. Do it to one group and it's apparently funny/true, do it to another and you're a xenophobic bigot.

Not that into golf but was quite pleased America won. The Ryder Cup seems to be used as a good excuse for America-bashing that the liberally minded in this country are always so fond of. That idiot brother set the ball rolling tweeting abuse about the American fans, for which he was totally unrepentant even after the media storm it created. Wasn't surprised to hear he's a teacher, big lefty stronghold. And the general tone on 5 Live was quite patronising and snide about America's chances and recent record, but then it is a BBC station. I thought their fans were brilliant, maybe breaking with golf tradition by being very raucous but the passion was superb and they were still 10 times better behaved than football fans are in this country.

These people have every right to support England or Pakistan.

What is sad is that yet another thread has been brought down to having a pop at a certain ethnic section of our community.

No, what is sad is that you can't make any kind of neutral, non-threatening and simply curious observation about certain topics in society without the P.C. witch-hunters descending like some slavering, pompously-righteous jackals.

It is literally censorship. There's no logic, balance or intelligence shown. You mention nationality or race in anything other than the most positive and glowing terms and the social justice warriors go into loud virtue signalling mode.

I don't know whether it's motivated by the true belief of practically religious zealotry or it's such a mostly thoughtless, bad habit, like an unavoidable tick. I'm inclined to believe the latter considering its applied when there's absolutely no need whatsoever (as in this case) and it has blatant holes in consistency. For example, as Jim continually shows, racism towards Americans, English and other easy Western targets is acceptable if not encouraged.

Went tonight, England thrashed on the pitch. Off it, don't know what to say really. We were utterly surrounded, 5 rows up and down, 10-15 seats left and right. All Pakistan fans, all English in all probability. I mean the atmosphere they created was unbelievable but I don't know what to make of it in all honesty.

The Pakistan captain said it felt like a home game and that helped them win. Blummin heck it felt like a Rovers away game at Torquay we were that outnumbered around me. Maybe nothing should be read into it, but I couldn't help thinking is this a reflection of the success of integration in this country? Old Trafford filled with Englishmen all supporting Pakistan. The whole night was a bit depressing to be honest, but then maybe that was just the result!

Phenomenal from England!!! Hope they've saved some for OT!

Looks like we're gonna lose this one. Very dissappointing, know Pakistan is never easy but drawing at home with them is fairly poor in my opinion. Wouldn't say it's quite 1 step forward 2 steps back for England at the moment but we do seem to be struggling to build any momentum.

I agree on the whole excellent, find Ian Ward irritating though, just seems unnecessarily spikey and slightly aggressive the whole time. Don't know whether he's insecure being a nobody as a cricketer compared to the rest of them (except perhaps Bumble) or whether he's just like that.

Nice one!

Well, I suppose the England too brass could say not enforcing the follow on turned out to be the right decision. I suppose teams are just ultra-protective of fast bowlers these days and give them a rest whenever possible.

Pakistan's 2 innings together lasted almost as long overs-wise as England's first, and Pakistan bowled their spinner into the ground during that to protect their quickies, an England wouldn't have had. And what's to say whether without that break England would have struggled to bowl Pakistan out for 234 the second innings and they'd have ended up on 350 or 400 instead? Our lads would then have had to bowl for maybe 200 consecutive overs.

What with 2 fast bowlers coming back from injury and 2 more tests in the series to go, I'm starting to think the England top brass made the right decision.

Bizarre decision, not sure what Cook and the coach are thinking.

Probably taken him 90+ more matches but still good effort. Get past ponting and that would be awesome. Great crack today so far just wish I could get to more test matches. Roll on retirement in few decades

Did you contribute to the stand-spanning snake?

Phenomenal from Root and another very good knock from Cook. Feel privileged watching these 2, there can't be many better English batters throughout history.

This line worried me greatly. What's this exciting, entertaining brand nonsense? I want a manager who wants to win games, culminating in promotion. That's all any Championship clubs should be aiming for. Maybe his dumb Mourinho comment was designed to highlight his aim of playing exciting football rather than effective football. Have Venkys made this a requirement? Is our future a mere bauble to be pleasing on the eye - regardless of the win, lose or draw stats? Do they understand that the Championship has relegation as well as the PL? Or is someone telling them that it's just another name for the Champions League and we qualified again?

History is potentially repeating itself though:

Experience successful manager

Agency client nomination (allegedly)

- Relegation -

Wilderness short term managers

Promoted back room guy

It's interesting that some fans perceptions of the credibility of Allardyce and Lambert were able to be altered so quickly on both occasions. Each followed by an appointment which has been shrouded in speculation and rumour, and divided the fans. Follows a similar pattern to those who have tried over the years to deflect blame onto the WalkerTrust and even Williams, only to champion their (naive?) successors as doing their best with what they have inherited.

Totally agree with you, I'd rather winning was the only priority (maybe attractive football can be an extremely distant second). But obviously there's the growing school of thought that fans would rather see attractive football, although I do think in effect its more a case of wanting to see both, however unrealistic that demand might be.

I think Coyle knows that even the play-offs is practically a pipe dream, so the hazily defined "entertaining football" is an easier target so he's gonna go for that instead.

That interview was rubbish truth be told. It all sounded very good but there wasn't much substance. I got the distinct impression he isn't a very intelligent bloke. Trotted out the same old tosh over and over. The only positive I can take from it is he intends to play an exciting brand of football. But that's only any good if you're picking up results.

To be fair there's not much he really can say when he's been a failure in his last 3 jobs. He made the right noises but media talk off the pitch amounts to diddly squat, always has.

Absolutely magnificent from England. A performance that even the English media and England fans will struggle to find fault with. Which must mean it was perfect.

From a relegation point of view, the pleasing thing is PL is making us difficult to beat. We don't leak a lot of goals(I'm not counting WHam). And Burnley were very fortunate to take 3pnts off us.

But now PL has got us playing and goals are starting to come and spread amongst players, the tide is turning.

Its just a shame there's not 10 more points on the board otherwise we might dare to dream!

Next season. If Venkys give Lambert £10m+ to spend then next season is gonna be a good one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35657340

A case of the biters being bitten .

No excuse for the behaviour of the NZ supporters if Warner's accusations are correct , the last thing we want is " cricket hooligans" . However the Australians should be careful when they complain about over the top verbals

Its incredible his inability to see the hypocrisy in those comments. I'm amazed he managed to keep a straight face whilst doing the interview.