Glory Glory!!

Yes the Great Devils have been dumped out of the Champions League. It is hurtful to admit that we've got no one to blame but us as we've been quite depleted off the amazing start to the season that saw our free scoring team steam roll the opposing teams.

Now it is an unfamiliar zone to be in the Europa League for the 1st time since I've ever known the existent of the Devils (who by the way were the only team that existed while I was a kid other than Brazil and Bayern Munich). I've always been a United fan though there were tough times but I always knew they'd bounce back and they've never failed me.

It's been a tough season so far after humilating defeat at home by the Blue Half as well the 3-3 draw at home againts Basel. Add together the injury problems that seems to be extending as the season ticking away is worrying.

It would be wise if the Gaffer was to purchase some emergency players as cover up or Wesley Sneider atleast to bolster the Midfield which has a huge hole gaping since the retirement of Paul Scholes. Giggs might not have much football in his boots to carry on for another season so before the headache of replacing Giggs and Scholes, I would say it would be wise to atleast get 1 replacement for Scholes in Sneider.

Atleast lesser headache and no need to press any panic button to purchase potential flops. However, football now has changed alot thanks to those 2 morons Abramovic and Sheikh Mansour who have got all the stability of the game upside down. Because of their money, even a player who isn't worth a million pounds would cost atleast 5-6 million pounds!

This is bad bad situation but United have always upstaged the odds and am sure they would be able to do the same. Sir Alex wouldn't have been so succesful nor would have been there for 25 Years if he hadn't had that strength in him.

News, pundits, critics or whoever can question whether he has what it takes to run the club in this era however, nobody have ever upstaged the gaffer more than his ownself. So tonight againts the Wolves, I hope we would start our engines and wouldn't have to shift down our gears to edge closer to the pace setters.

Glory Glory Man Utd!

Ps: This post was meant in no harm to other club fans. This is solely based on my view of the club I have supported all my life. Cheers!

Real Steel

I watched this movie quite some time back and since due to my forgetfulness and also lack of chances to blog, I haven't been able to put this post up. Plus I was dying to watch this movie but didn't have a partner to watch it with. And it came randomly when a friend called me for movie in the last minute and I got what I wanted! As usual the storyline is below so those who didn't watch this movie, read it and go watch it! Those who watched it, enjoy this post guys!!

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PLOT
In 2020, humans have been replaced by robots in boxing. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a former boxer who owns such a robot, Ambush, competing in unsanctioned matches and in exhibitions with it. At a rural fair, Ambush is destroyed by Black Thunder, a bull belonging to promoter Ricky (Kevin Durand). Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now owes Ricky $20,000, which he doesn't pay before leaving.

Charlie is informed his ex-girlfriend has died, and that he must attend a hearing to decide the fate of his preteen son Max (Dakota Goyo). Max's wealthy aunt Debra (Hope Davis) and uncle Marvin (James Rebhorn) want full custody, which Charlie gives them in exchange for $100,000, half in advance, on the condition that Charlie take care of Max for three months while the couple are away on a second honeymoon.

Charlie and Max meet with Charlie's childhood friend Bailey Tallet (Evangeline Lilly), who runs the boxing gym of her deceased father, Charlie's old coach. There, Charlie buys a secondhand World Robot Boxing league (WRB) robot, the once-famous Noisy Boy, and arranges for it to fight the illegal circuit's champion, Midas, at a venue belonging to his friend Finn (Anthony Mackie). Partly due to both his inexperience with Noisy Boy's combinations and his overconfidence, Charlie ends up losing control of Noisy Boy and Midas destroys it.

Charlie breaks into a junkyard with Max to steal scraps that he can use to put a new robot together. There, Max falls over a ledge, where he is saved from doom by getting snagged on the arm of a buried robot. After Charlie pulls Max back up, Max digs out the entire robot, called Atom. On Max's insistence, Charlie takes it back to Bailey's gym, where they discover Atom is an obsolete Generation-2 sparring bot built in 2014. Atom has been designed to sustain massive damage, but is unable to deal much damage itself. Partly due to both Max's insistence and Charlie needing money, the duo takes Atom to fight an unsanctioned outdoor match against a robot called Metro, and Atom wins, earning back some of Charlie's money.
Max later upgrades it to take vocal commands using spare parts from Noisy Boy and Ambush and successfully convinces Charlie to train the robot. Atom's string of subsequent wins and high-speed maneuvers, which were rarely seen from a robot, attracts the attention of a promoter from WRB, who offers Atom a professional fight against a robot called Twin Cities. Charlie accepts, and Atom wins again, thanks to Charlie's boxing experience allowing him to locate and take advantage of a small tell in Twin Cities' punch. Revelling in their subsequent novelty attention, Max challenges WRB champion Zeus, designed by genius Tak Mashido (Karl Yune) and sponsored by wealthy Farra Lemcova (Olga Fonda), who before the match tried to buy the upstart Atom.

As Max and Charlie leave after the Twin Cities fight, Ricky and his men attack them, and steal their winnings. Feeling guilty, Charlie returns Max to his aunt and uncle, feeling Max will be safer with them, but Bailey convinces him that he can be a better father. Debra allows Charlie to take Max out for one last night, to the Zeus-Atom match. Zeus severely damages Atom while also getting injured, a first for Zeus. Ricky, who had bet Finn $100,000 that Atom would not last the first round, tries to slip away, but is cornered by Finn and his colleagues. In the last round of the five-round match, Atom's vocal receptors are damaged, and Atom must fight in shadow-boxing mode, copying Charlie's moves from the aisle. Zeus, now controlled manually by a furious Mashido, expends energy on trashing the defensive Atom, running low on power and turning sluggish as a result. Atom then begins to pummel Zeus, even knocking the seemingly invincible champion down once, but not winning before the round ends. The judges declare Zeus the winner on points, but that robot's reputation is tarnished, and Atom has become famous as the "People's Champion".

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These are some of the screenshots of the movie. Overall it was quite a predictable storyline however, the visuals were very good for this movie as the effects looked good. All the characters played their roles perfectly well. Though this movie might not be running for the Oscars or the Grammys, it was worth the money spent to watch this.

I wouldn't mind to watch it again provided a nice LCD TV and super good sound system! *wink* Basically a mini cinema at home. LOL!

Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this post. Would be coming with another update later in the evening or so. Till then, signing off for now is the one and only TY. (Always wanted to say that. LOL)