The Sigla Blog

More sparse blogging of late due to the wonky arm situation, but it’s vastly improved this week, thanks to some green mussel lip extract (thanks Simone!). I’m trying to avoid the computer when I can but I have some posts I wanted to put up today, as well as some bits and pieces, so I’ll […]

Via the brother, this is addictive: find your Brazilian football name.
Mine is the less than spectacular ‘Gleesa’.
The other half’s is Shannaldo!

It seems that seems that no one, not even the Ann Summers sex shops, are averse to jumping on the World Cup advertising bandwagon. They’re currently using a version of the famous shot of Bobby Moore holding the World Cup aloft in their Irish shop windows. Except it’s advertising their Rampant Rappit vibrators. And it’s […]

Some sad football news. No, not the fact that I got a Cisse-less France in a work World Cup draw, but the news that Roy Keane is to retire from the game.
I’ve been distracted from blogging by the same reasons - football (I’m glued to the World Cup despite the presence of one over-whelming, impressive […]

I don’t have time today to review Once in a Lifetime but Harry Guerin has a spot-on review over on the RTE site. The documentary charts the ephemeral life of New York soccer team The Cosmos. Built from scratch as a result of the vision of one man - Warner Music boss Steve Ross - […]

Are Middlesbrough the ultimate comeback kids?
Three weeks ago, they were 3-0 down to Basle in the UEFA cup and managed to bash in the required four goals to win the game. In tonight’s semi-final, they were in exactly the same situation against Steaua Bucharest - and again they knocked in four goals and bagged […]

As a combination of work and pleasure, today I’m listening to the following:
- Just Like The Fambly Cat by Grandaddy (sadly, it’s their farewell album)
- Juana Molina’s superb, sublime album Son
- The debut from Jack Black’s new outfit of pals, The Raconteurs
I’ve also just watched PJ Harvey’s Tour DVD Please Leave Quietly and the […]

If like me, you’ve been mostly burned so far at Cheltenham (what’s with all these 33-1 nags having the cheek to win?), there may soon be an alternative. According to Popbitch, there’s a new pig-racing craze in Russia - and it’s getting very serious.

“Piglets are being trained to run and swim by coaches
in Moscow as […]

It’s bad enough that United’s abyssmal performance last Saturday put them out of the FA Cup. Worse still, was that it was to Liverpool and that Alan Smith suffered a horrific broken leg and dislocated ankle which even hard-boiled Alex Ferguson described as “some of the worst I’ve ever seen”. Not only will these injuries […]

God bless Roy Keane’s knees. According to today’s Guardian, Keane is about to sign an 18-month contract with Celtic. In doing so, he will take a massive weekly pay cut (of £70,000) but will still become the highest paid player in Celtic’s history according to The BBC because Denis Desmond is prepared to subsidise […]

Further to yesterday’s mini-rant about Alex Ferguson, this comes courtesy of United Rant who outline their 10 Reasons For Fergie To Go. Ferguson, of course believes that United’s current stricken run is all the fault of the media.

Mulitiple deadlines this week so I haven’t had a chance to blog at all. I’ve got a lot of TV/Radio stuff on the moment but I hope to be back tomorrow, but I wanted to mention a a couple of things in the interim:

Cillian Murphy has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his […]