After a goalless first 120 minutes, Manchester United have been dumped out of the Capital One Cup by Middlesbrough at Old Trafford.
Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and Ashley Young all missed penalties in the shootout, and then the abuse started.
Meanwhile, the draw for the quarter-finals has been made and Liverpool - who beat Bournemouth on Wednesday night - will travel to Southampton.
Manchester City host Hull City, Middlesbrough play Everton and Stoke City will welcome Sheffield Wednesday.
Manchester City may have booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup following a 5-1 demolition of Crystal Palace at the Etihad, but the result pales in comparison when measured against the traumatic week that the Shaw family had to endure.
You may have heard the tragic news about Chris Shaw, a 35-year-old City fan who tragically died at the weekend following a brave battle with cancer.
The father-of-two from Droylsden, Tameside, passed away after being diagnosed with the disease just six months ago.
Man City fans decided to pay their own tribute to one of their own with this warm round of applause during the 35th minute of the match against Alan Pardew's men.
The club also deserve some credit because the Shaw family were their guests of honour for the game but one player went the extra mile to make the trip a little bit more memorable.
Take a look at Man City's Argentinian goal machine Sergio Aguero sitting beside Charlie Shaw, Chris' oldest son.
Aguero is currently unavailable for selection after suffering a hamstring injury but it's nice to see that he's still a brilliant ambassador for the club after he helped to make a grief stricken child's evening that little bit more enjoyable.
What makes the game work is the two protagonists and their interplay between each other, the setting of Victorian London is fantastic and the various side-missions (child liberation, gang strongholds, templar hunts, etc) are always exciting. I also love the rope launcher and it minimizes the slog of having the constantly climb and seek out ledges to grab onto. Is it a 9/10? By AC standards, I would say so. People who dislike the series have no reason to look sideways at it, since it does do enough different to win you over. Series fans, it's an easy purchase. Former fans who have lost interest, I think this might win you back. It improves on some of my core complaints about the series and delivers the best game in the series since AC2.
Thursday, 6 August 2015
Messi throws a headbutt and escapes with just a booking
Leo loses it.
Yeah, he's probably the greatest player that has ever lived, but in
last night's 'friendly' match for Barcelona against Roma at the Nou
Camp, he showed a much darker, more sinister side.
He gets involved in an altercation with Roma's French defender Mapou
Yanga-Mbiwa. He clearly throws a headbutt which doesn't really connect
and then grabs the player by the throat.
He went on to score a few minutes after this incident so it obviously
didn't put him off his stride. Barcelona won the match 3-0.
Not nice to see from the little maestro...
The Rugby World Cup is just around the corner.
The Irish jersey at the ready and we're counting down the minutes until the first game kicks off.
In case you're not quite up to speed, here's the low-down of the groups and the games which are simply unmissable.
POOL A
England start the tournament in Twickenham against Fiji on Friday, September 18.
However, the Twickenham game which will garner the most attention is England v Wales on Saturday, September 26.
These two sides are very evenly-matched, as was demonstrated when the English scraped a 5-point win in this year's Six Nations.
The next titanic battle comes when England welcome Australia to
Twickenham on Saturday, October 3. The Aussies then play Wales in the
same venue on October 10.
JOE's prediction: We fancy Australia to come out on top in this group. The Wallabies have been excellent in the Rugby Championship and should be closer to their peak entering the tournament.
We're backing the Welsh to come second. We think they're superior to
England and they were caught cold when the sides played during the Six
Nations.
POOL B
South Africa should come out on top in Pool B and we'd expect the big battle to be between Samoa and Scotland for second.
These two sides clash on October 10 in St James' Park, Newcastle.
Although Samoa played some enthralling rugby in this year's Pacific Nations Cup, we still expect Scotland to go through.
JOE's prediction: The All-Blacks and Argentina to go through without too much bother.
POOL D
This group should be a shoot-out between France and ourselves for top
spot. The two sides face each other on September 19 in Twickenham.
The release dates for the new Bad Boys movies and more have been announced
Sh*t just got real...
Sony have announced the dates of 16 movies including two new Bad Boys
sequels and a remake of 'Jumanji' as it moves to cement its 2017 film
slate.
The first Bad Boys sequel is set for Feb. 17, 2017 while Bad Boys 4 has been pencilled in for July 3, 2019.
There is no word as of yet whether Will Smith and Martin Lawrence
will once again take up their roles in the movie, but we can only hope
they do.
The pair starred a two cops who go over the top on all their
adventures all the while shooting guns from the hip and arresting all
the baddies...
The following is the full list of releases:
“Money Monster” – 4/8/16
“The Shallows” – 6/24/16
“Ghostbusters” – 7/15/16*
“Patient Zero” – 9/2/16
“The Magnificent Seven” – 9/23/16
“Underworld 5″ – 10/21/16
“Passengers” – 12/21/16
“Jumanji” – 12/25/16
“The Dark Tower” – 1/13/17
“Resident Evil 6″ – 1/27/17
“Bad Boys 3″ – 2/17/17
“Baby Driver” – 3/17/17
“Barbie” – 6/2/17
“Uncharted” – 6/30/17
“The Lamb” – 12/8/17
“Bad Boys 4″ – 7/3/19
Video: These women might be the worst gameshow contestants of all time
Do you know what a thesaurus is?
Christina and Tania, a mother-and-daughter team, blew the chance to
make more than $100 when they failed to answer one of the most
straightforward questions imaginable.
Host Eddie McGuire asked the restaurant-owners which of the following is not a dinosaur: brachiosaurus, stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus or thesaurus.
We feel safe in assuming that everyone in the English-speaking (and
ancient Latin-speaking, for that matter) world knows the answer to this
question, considering that the audience literally laughed upon hearing
the word 'thesaurus'.
Christina and Tania proved that their lack of dino-knowledge is
matched only by their lack of deductive reasoning and decided to 'Pass'
on the question. The host is clearly surprised, repeatedly asking the
contestants if they're sure they don't want to guess.
God, how embarrassing. Still, at least it was a bit more dignified than this.
