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I agree about the Swiss - however, Italy have extensive form in being mince at the start of tournaments they go on to win. Spain v Germany screams "final everyone wanted to see between sides who don't win the actual final".

Currently having a go at Freshly Frosted, which is free on Epic Games Store until the 27th of June. You're the friend (I guess) of some lassie who likes to stare into the clouds and daydream about donuts. It's basically a puzzle game in the style of Pipe Mania - you lay out the conveyor belts that transfer donuts from the fryers past the various decorating stations on their way to the sales counters. You're told how many of each type of donut is required, so it's up to you to fill the order. It's quite a chill experience, with no time limit and laid-back audiovisuals; more something that you play to think about and tinker than to furiously wrestle with. If that's your kind of thing, you could do a lot worse for £7.99, but for nothing it's a total no-brainer. As well as the aforementioned Pipe Mania (which younger games will remember more as the hacking game from Bioshock), it also reminded me a little of a game from the same period - Night Shift. It was also more of a frantic action game, but put you in control of a giant machine that assembled LucasArts toys (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc), and you had to make sure it was producing the right toys, assembling them correctly, painting them the right colours, etc. Not available on any modern platforms, but you can play the PC version in browser here, and here's Yahtzee Croshaw giving it the Let's Play treatment:

I loved watching the 2002 World Cup on Univision. Their commentators actually sounded excited about what they were watching. Definitely would've learned Spanish if I'd stayed. "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL GOL GOL GOL GOL!!!"

I was wondering what they were planning on being punted for on this account.

Has there been any mention of what the issue is yet? None of our business, obviously, but it's unusual for the press not to print all the lurid details, including attempts to get photos from inside their hospital room. I'm more interested in why they haven't, considering it won't be anything to do with decency.

I don't know that he's that much different to Davidson TBH. The party realised they're done in Scotland a while back and so it's just all about keeping the core audience on high alert now in the hope of eking out a few more seats every now and then until a Tory Jesus figure can be found that appeals to a broader audience. Or maybe until Labour and the SNP implode simultaneously, while the Lib Dems, Greens, Abla, the Family Party, the Scottish Socialists and everyone else are all caught in some kind of mass orgy scandal (never rule it out). Unfortunately for the Scottish Conservative and Unionists, it would likely turn out to have been hosted at one of their country estates.

Always followed by a haughty "oh, I'M sorry" when the people behind bang into the back of them, as though there's anything at all they could have done to prevent that happening. @TxRover - you must be allowed to shoot people for this in Texas, right?

Just found out that I'm going to be working on a site with no phone signal, so there'll be no listening to the game on the radio.

It's all been downhill since you had to learn an obtuse text parser to use a computer. DOS users like us got ALL the bitches. At least if they're going on holiday, they're not clogging up the high streets here. Who decided that busy shop doorways were an excellent spot to stop and have a think about what you're planning to do with the rest of your day?

Well, at least we'll still have England to support. @Barry Ferguson's Hat - you can have that one for free

When my uncle died, I had to clear out the old family home and discovered a stack of hand-printed VOTE LABOUR posters on hot pink paper. Going by the age of everything else in the cupboard they were in, they were likely from the mid-Sixties. Kept one and I'll be getting it framed at some point.

I definitely don't want to dismiss any of this, but I'm sure Rheinmetall headlined the Download Festival in the 2000s.

Mordaunt once arranged a meeting of disabled people from all over the UK, some of whom had severe mobility issues, then dingyed it at the last minute for party business, so she'd make an excellent Conservative Party leader. Presumably her address would've involved asking when everyone was going to be getting back to work, so probably just as well in the end. She's also got exactly the kind of buxom mumsy-ness that would have the boarding school elite drooling with thoughts of nanny, so she's perfect.

What do the Lib Dems do when they don't have enough MPs for a full frontbench team? I'm assuming they actually bother to assign roles, of course. Not much point, really.

Anyone complaining about the amount of random references to England will be quite dismayed next time they don't actually qualify for one of these things. Nothing changes except for the updates on England's non-existent training camp. USA 94 was just wall to wall mournful "...once had a two-day trial at Torquay United fifteen years ago", "...have never beaten England, of course", and "I don't know why rubbish like this lot are here while England have to stay at home". Added bonus for finding random English players to report on how other nations are doing because their grandparents were born there.