Sony has finally released an official picture from Spider-Man 3. You can see the image on the IWatchStuff web site. Spiderman appears to have a black suit (rather than the normal red one). Spiderman fans may know that this could mean that there is an alien symbiote present and maybe a storyline to do with Venom.
Click on the image on the left for large version of picture.
You may remember last year George W Bush fell off his bike when in Scotland for the G8 Summit. It has now been revealed that he was waving to the police.
Its funny in one way but scary in another – as I have said before – he is worryingly the most powerful man in the world.
United won the Carling Cup beating Wigan 4-0. From what I saw (watched highlights), heard (listened to 2nd half on radio) and read it could well have been more but the took the foot of the accelerator with about 20 minutes to go. It could and maybe should have been a hatrick from Rooney and Gary Neville was maybe a little unlucky not to win a penalty.
Rooney was brilliant (he won Man of the match). Saha played well. Giggs also did really well for the second goal. Ronaldo did well and seems to be starting to play more as a team. He still now and then do too many tricks and loses the ball but when it goes right it is very entertaining. However he did take the mickey towards the end and was given a telling off by Giggs 
Alan Green on Radio Five Live said it was “disrespectful”. I personally thought it was great – as long as he does it when we are 4-0 up. Doing tricks like that is part of football and I am sure we would love to see the likes of him, Ronaldinho and Messi do it in the World Cup this summer (as long as its not against England). He got a yellow card for his celebrating (he took off his shirt) but it meant a lot to him to score – before the match he said he wanted to win it for his Dad (who recently died).
I have also read that Wes Brown (who is in the England squad for this Wednesday) played well too and has a chance to be in the World Cup squad especially with Sol Campbell being off form and also Jonathan Woodgate always being injured. (Still think he needs to get his hair cut properly!!) The rumours that Ruud would not start were true and he didnt even get to play in the match. Saha deserved to score because he has been playing well recently. He seemed happy when we scored and celebrated with the team behind the goal for the 2nd goal. The TV showed him smiling after the 3rd and 4th goal too. I am sure he would have been happier if he was on the pitch though!
Amazingly this is Rooneys first ever senior medal. In fact the last medal he won was when he was 13!
It was a really nice touch that the players wore t-shirts at the end saying “For your Smudger” – of course referring to team mate Alan Smith who suffered a horrible injury last week. They had an interview with Rio after the final whistle and he said is was Silvestres idea. I have read somewhere that Smith will get a winners medal. I hope this is true.
United owner Malcolm Glazer once again wasnt at a United match but his 3 sons were. I wonder if he even knew the match was happening. Do you think he has MUTV?
There are some good photos from the United match including the celebrating on the BBC site and also on the Gettyimages Editorial web site (just search for “Manchester United v Wigan Athletic” if the link doesnt work).
In other football news, in the football match I played this afternoon (which is why I couldnt watch the United match) we lost 7-2 to FC Wirral. 
This was our first game as “GM Monkeys”. Wirral FC have been playing as a team for awhile as far as I am aware. The funny thing was thing in their team was 2 of my uncles and 3 of my cousins! I had played 5 a side with my cousins before so I knew they were good players. I played the first half and the last 10-15 minutes of the 2nd half. I think I did OK overall but it just shows that all this time I have been going to the gym I am still not that fit! I need to do more running in the gym I reckon. Someone is designing the official GM Monkeys web site o will link to it when its complete. I dont think anyone took any photos but there was a photographer there and he took a photo of the 2 teams and I think he said its going in some brochure or something ?!?!
Eric Cantona has filmed a Nike advert which is about playing football beautifully and not diving and cheating etc.
Its pretty funny.
Also, if you didnt see Match of the Day a couple weeks or so ago it showed a mascot taking to mic out of Gerrard. He went to shake his hand but then pulled his hand away and then putting his hand on his nose and making a funny gesture. LOL
More of these videos can be found on the excellent
www.nikefootball.com
The Winter Olympics is now over – I have watched bits here and there including some of the ice hockey, bit of the skiing and some of the snowboarding. I wanted to watch more but unfortunately didnt manage to.
As expected Great Britain didnt win much at all but Shelly Rudman did brilliant to win the silver medal for the womens skeleton. Our one medal hope at the start of the Olympics was for womans curling – we were the defending champions but only managed 4th. We also managed 4th in the mens curling.
The freestyle snowboarding with Shaun White (the flying tomato) was amazing. He is a professional skateboarder with 3 houses. I have seen one of the houses when it was shown on Cribs on MTV. He won the gold medal on his very first one so in his second run he was just showing off a bit and did some massive jumps. Very impressive. In other snowboarding worth mentioning was the womens snowboardcrossing (of whatever its called!). The US boarder was miles ahead and was almost doing a lap of honour but then fell over with about 50 metres to go and then the Swiss skater overtook her. She said she was happy with the silver but she must have so been lying!!
There was of course some controversy with the figure skating. The Chinese couple fell over and she fell badly. They went to the side of the rink and she got some treatment. She amazingly carried on and did brilliantly. They ended up winning the silver medal. The controversy was that she may have been off the rink for too long.
Also in the figure skating it was quite funny but also embarassing when the Italian couple were on but they fell over. It was all his fault and the look on her face at him said it all. He was in trouble when they get back into the dressing room.
Watching the highlight package is the whole Olympics showed some great moments. One thing about the Winter Olympics is that a lot of the sports are very spectacular and difficult (maybe not Curling!). Unlike the Summer Olympics with the likes of running and swimming, anybody can do that – of course not as well. However, if a member of the public tried something like Ski Jumping or the Skeleton they would properly kill themselves!!
Lots more information on the Winter Olympics can be seen on the BBC Sport web site. You can view some videos including the review of the Winter Olympics.
There have been a lot of talk about MySpace recently and a lot of Radio 1 DJs and staff have been setting up there own pages. I have got my own page but not much is on it since I have this blog!
Here are the links to the Radio 1 DJs and some others (these are real and NOT fake):
Chris Moyles
Chappers and Dave
Aled
Scott Mills
Jo Whiley
Laura (works on Scott Mills show) – famous for “Lauras Diary”
Mary (Laura’s sister – found the infamous diary)
Rachel (producer of Chris Moyles show)
Longman (friend of Chris Moyles – runs a sandwich shop)
Here are some which are properly fake.
Cheryl Tweddy (Girls Aloud)
Tina O Brien (Coronation Street)
Coleen McLoughin (Wayne Rooney’s girlfriend)
United play Wigan tomorrow in the Carling Cup final. Its not usually the highest priority for United but it is there only realistic chance of getting some silverware this season. We are 12 points behind Chelsea (actually we are 15 points behind after they won today and of course we didnt play today).
I have heard rumours that Ruud may not be playing tomorrow and its going to be Rooney playing alongside Saha. This would be abit of it a surprise but Saha is playing well. However, the forwards is the least of our worries with our lack of central midfielders. I am not sure if Giggs is fit but his experience will be important. I also hope Park plays. I also hope Ronaldo and Rooney are on form tomorrow. In the defence Rio is back from injury and so is O Shea.
Tomorrow I am playing in the first competitive match I have been in for years – properly since school!! Hopefully I can play well
As mentioned before, Chelsea unfortunately won today so it really is looking like the title has been sewn up. It is good however that Arsenal lost. Lehman is usual was his usual self. He just doesnt like people being in his own ‘personal space’ and had a go at Savage (well might let him off that!) and then pushed over Reid just after having a talk to by the ref. Its a real shame he was in the losing team!! LOL
The England squad has also been annouced for the match against Uruguay on Wednesday (at Anfield). Wes Brown is back in but unfortunate for Woodgate he is injured again.
The squad is:
Goalkeepers: Robinson (Tottenham), Green (Norwich), James (Man City).
Defenders: Young (Charlton), Bridge (Chelsea), Terry (Chelsea), Brown (Man Utd), Ferdinand (Man Utd), King (Tottenham), G Neville (Man Utd), Carragher (Liverpool).
Midfielders: Lampard (Chelsea), Beckham (Real Madrid), Gerrard (Liverpool), J Cole (Chelsea), Jenas (Tottenham), Wright-Phillips (Chelsea), Carrick (Tottenham), Richardson (Man Utd).
Forwards: D Bent (Charlton), Rooney (Man Utd), Crouch (Liverpool), Defoe (Tottenham).
The first 11 has pretty much been sorted (barring injury) but this is the last chance for players to impress and force themselves into the final 23 players for the World Cup squad e.g Darren Bent. The next game is at the end of May (World Cup starts at the beginning of June). It would have been good to see how the likes of Nolan and Barton would have done. I think they deserved at least 45 minutes. It now appears to be too late for them. If Sven picks them for the World Cup squad they could go to the World Cup without actually playing for England ever before. Oh well, typical Sven! Bring on O Neil or Hoddink (or maybe even Pearce – maybe too early for him though). However please no Steve McLaren!!
Currently listening to: Pussycat Dolls – Beep (Ft. Will I Am)
The votes are all in for the 2006 Bloggies. There are some links to some great blogs and is well worth checking some out.
One of my favourite blogs is called The Superficial which is nominated in the Best Entertainment category. The blog is updated all the time, sometimes a few times everyday and it is about showbiz. As it says itself it is about things which are superficial. “The Superficial is a brutally honest look at society and its obsession with the superficial.”
I have seen lots of peoples blogs have these list things so I thought I would fill one of these “Four” lists
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
Sales Assistant at a sports shop (this was for a 2 week ‘non paid’ work experience)
Software Tester
Technical Assistant
Working on Technical Support help desk for ISP
Four films I can watch over and over
Die Hard
Terminator 2
American Pie Trilogy
Toy Story trilogy
Four TV shows I love to watch
Top Gear
Most football programs such as Match of the Day
The OC
Smallville
(There are too many TV Shows I like watching to list!)
Four places I have lived
Taipei, Taiwan
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Warrington, UK
Manchester, UK
Four places I have been on holiday
US (a few places including New York and Florida)
Tokyo
Milan
Barcelona
Four of my favourite dishes
(Favourites include)
Lobster (with garlic and spring onion)
Fish and Chips with curry sause
(I like food too much to list them – I cant think of any right now!!)
Four websites I visit daily
BBC News web site
Football 365
Stylegala
Pixelsurgeon
Four places I would rather be right now
On a beach
Old Trafford
On holiday anywhere
An all you can eat buffet ….. just kidding, properly at Silverstone driving around it in a BMW M3
Finally got round to updating my web site look and feel. I was going to completely change the web site but ended up just changing the front page changing it to a 2 column design. I have added this to the right hand side so I can include the links to the different blog categories (I will have to sort the blog out at some point) and also things such as the Last FM and Riff.com info.
I am going to be working on the other pages such as the Photos page so it uses something called Lightbox. All these new changes will be uploaded properly next week.
