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#17184 Best Films About Football
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I haven't signed for anything yet so it hasn't crossed my mind. I .writing capital 'E'
#17168 Best Films About Football
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 16:03 PM
What royalties can I expect for coming up with the idea? Any kind of executive role?

I'll send you a signed picture of me.
#17150 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Because they applied for FIFA membership and no one objected. There are no set of strict rules to FIFA membership, it's all done on a case by case basis.
#17140 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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By Franck | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 22:08 PM
Greenland are not FIFA members because they don't have any natural grass pitches, they had an artificial pitch installed recently but before that all they had was gravel pitches.

That's a common misconception. They're not members of FIFA because they're a Danish dependency. They're in the process of becoming more autonomous.
#16860 Best Films About Football
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 03 November 2012 - 14:56 PM
Yeah. It's a sad story which lifts in the middle and then ends in tragedy. They could also use it to make a serious point about homophobia in football and by extension in society.
Or they could just make another film about geezers beating the shit out of each other outside a pub. Either or.

I've ordered the Fashanu biography. It would be a very difficult story to turn into film, but I'd like to give it a try. I'd need to contact Jim Read in order to get his permission to adapt it for the screen. There's definitely enough texture there to make it poignant.
#16793 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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#16699 National Novel Writing Month
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That really helps. I'm not going over it yet, just because I'm trying to push on. I've got some fun writing ahead, or at least it's planned out to be fun. I don't think I intended for the main character to be so morbid, but I'm going with it. I've been up since half six and only written 500 words. I really want to do another 5,000 today.
#16682 Real Oviedo - shares available to fend off liquidation
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This is a complete waste of time. Aside from the gimmick of being a shareholder at a club, what's the actual point for anyone taking part? Their share price is woefully overvalued, no one buying into this scheme is going to make money.

So then it comes down to novelty. Are they really looking to the football community to help them? Football isn't a charity and Oviedo are shit with money. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, it's like the Ebbsfleet deal, except with none of the mindless fun attached.
#16585 National Novel Writing Month
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maxevans60. I've added you as a friend.
#16542 Best Films About Football
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By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 18:15 PM
Yeah, my food was ready so I didn't finish my point.

The point was that it's pretty easy to make a mainstream audience feel good about a little kid playing baseball. The people who play football tend not to be gentlemen. The image that surrounds it is one of violence and thuggery so it's hard to shake that. I would find it interesting if they made a film about Justin Fashanu though.

You just gave me an idea.

Although with the Gareth Thomas film coming out it would be seen as direct competition. But you're right, that would be a great story.
#16525 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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Warnock is just tired of trying to excuse atrocious football. We all are.
#16458 National Novel Writing Month
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https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_r75w3H2NNqYy11ZkJmRzZ6Z0E

A daytime nap and some awful football upset my working rhythm, but I got there in the end.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/Cn2c4eSur2eA1xGXkFRRYKGQXgiCPnzFzF1y1LpM.png

I've set my target to be 5,000 words a day.
#16452 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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We need someone to link the midfield and attack better. Varney was shit. I'd like to see White moved out to the left side, where he belongs, and have Tonge alongside Austin. Diouf played very cleverly today.

We were extremely lucky.
#16417 National Novel Writing Month
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Want to be my writing buddy? I haven't got any buddies yet on the main site.
#16397 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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1-1, for no reason. We need to make a move now.
#16392 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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We're getting worked. Could be four or five tonight.
#16378 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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Lee Peltier at left back again. Fucking nuts.
#16369 National Novel Writing Month
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Emotional retard was the other choice I had. It's a working title.
#16353 National Novel Writing Month
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By Franck | Permalink | On 02 November 2012 - 13:24 PM
Sounds like you've found yourself a handful of potential customers already El Hadji.

God I hope so. I don't like working in an office or in a bar and I'm not pretty enough to be a whore.

Ali Lane kindly made me a better cover for the book:

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/ag5503hrD8o3lGrTQzE8RoptA68mJyOxPs8Rg0lE.jpg

Yes, I'm aware my name isn't Max any more.
#16117 Galloway, like a boss.
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I think he's terrific. One of the finest orators I've ever witnessed. He's a very principled politician which is extremely rare these days.
#16106 Best Films About Football
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It's not really when you think about it. Football and footballers live in world of cliche. Trying to write a story based in football that doesn't play up to the tropes of the genre is very difficult. That's why the most successful of recent films is the Damned United, because the audience is at ease with the character of Brian Clough because they enter the cinema with the knowledge that he's a real person. Writing Brian Clough without him having previously existed would be extremely difficult.

If you look at the most successful sports, in terms of making successful transitions to film, Baseball and Boxing are the runaway leaders. That's because there is so much romance attributed to the people that are associated with their respective sports that the writer has a much broader canvass to paint his picture with.

The trick with a good sports film is to not actually have the crux of the film being about winning or losing.
#16089 National Novel Writing Month
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8,000 words and not even breakfast time. Get in El Hadji.
#16029 National Novel Writing Month
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Some is, some isn't. I previously tried writing a book about a man who goes to prison, ends up being raped by his cell mate, the two fall in love and then towards the end he discovers that the man who raped him is actually his father who he has never met.

The clusterfuck of problems that opened the door to are obvious: I've never been raped. I've never been to prison. I've never been raped by my father. I met my father. I've never been raped.

I just read some of the dialogue between the two and it's horrible.

So I said fuck it, write what I know. Which is being an emotionally retarded adult male who has failed to shake hands with responsibility.
#16009 Galloway, like a boss.
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#15926 Best Films About Football
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The Two Escobars.
#15904 National Novel Writing Month
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Just hit five thousand words, fucking delighted. Might have a wank to celebrate.
#15808 National Novel Writing Month
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https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_r75w3H2NNqRUZzVUJER1ktbkE

That's the link to it.
#15561 Fuck Ken Bates - The Leeds United thread
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It's now been changed to Thomas Ince. Boring now.
#15542 National Novel Writing Month
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By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 13:11 PM
Just finished it and thought it was excellent. Dead funny, some of your descriptions were brilliant.

Cool. I've just been reading some stuff online and Pixar tell me that I should get my ending sorted out before the middle. Which scares me, because I have no idea what I'm going to do with that.
#15500 National Novel Writing Month
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By Mr Willy | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 12:51 PM
This is quite fucking riveting, I must say.

Thank you. I don't really know where it's going to end up yet. Some kind of failed romance and a chapter about ketamine are in my mind right now. Apparently 70% of people who do this write fantasy, which makes sense because if you write yourself into a corner you can just have a wizard save the plot.

By Telegram Sam | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 12:53 PM
I'll have a read if you send it my way.

Done.