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I do love how seriously they're doing the whole Aces and Eights thing - you know they're bad because, up against them, Bully Ray and Gunnar are good guys.

That being said, I'm not sure setting them up as a rebel motorcycle gang is a good idea.

Also, since I assume his absense is due to an injury, welcome back Gunnar.

Miss Tessmacher vs Tara was worth a watch. There was a women's match, where they told a story in the ring! Thank you TNA. Keep it up. And I like the idea that Brooke Tessmacher wants to beat her mentor. It's an old wrestling standby but how often do the female wrestlers in the US majors get to play it.

No Sting, the best possible way of dealing with Pope being out is to take any points anyone got against him away from them and zero him.

Daniels and Kazarian are being adorable evil, again.

The worst thing about this angle is that all of them are giving it 100 per cent. All 3 promos tonight were good.

Daniels and Kazarian have done enough good evil-doing that the Impact crowd are cheering for a lawyer. And the legal representative needs to stay. She and Joseph Parkes can be awesome together.

Although after all that, it being an unbaby is a bit of a let down. Even if Claire Lynch hadn't bailed, I have to assume that they would have to have gone down this road, which does lead me to wonder what they're going to do next.

I knew it could be done, but I've finally seen an Anderson match I liked. I'll put the "blame" for that on Bully Ray.

And then brawl. And a poorly choreographed one. I mean, the minute Aries, RVD and Jeff Hardy were standing around in the ring looking like they were waiting for something, I pretty much guessed where it was heading.


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Football

Juve - are you just going to be lurking sinisterly for the one remaining day of the transfer window or are you actually going to buy anyone? Later edit: Nicklas Bendtner is not the forward we were hoping for

Dear Brendan Rogers - A pox on you. You are being mean to Andy Carroll. May West Ham beat you both home and away.

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Cycling

ITV's Vuelta coverage just came up with the best bit of word play. "I'm not sure what the opposite of a pilgrimage is, a grim pilage maybe".

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Paralympics

I know he's a judoka and therefore there's a limit to the tv programmes that will have him on but Ben Quilter needs to be on all the programmes, all of them.

Actually, if you ignore the ad breaks, the Channel 4 coverage is pretty decent. They've had the sense to import an anchor who knows what she's doing (Claire Balding), so there's a central point that steadies the ship. And OMG, they also (sensibly) have ex-paralympians as pundits, and oh yeah, unlike the BBC, don't go in for "brave individual" (condescening pat on the head), they go for the proper line of "sportspeople" (so tactics are discussed, results aren't treated 'oh they tried' but in terms of who the Brits were competing against).

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Technology

Dear Dell, do you want to know why people resort to the cheap, non-branded replacement batteries/power cables? Because they do the same job as your replacements for 1/6th of the price. That is of course if you still do replacements parts for certain models. For instance mine, which is merely 3 and 1/2 years old, you no longer make parts for it. And when I call for advice, you don't even give me the right number for your parts line.