Michael J Fox reprises Marty Mcfly role!

The excitement around last week’s top ten details you missed in Back to the Future has left many viewers salivating at the return of Back to the Future.

Well for those fans, here is a very special treat. For the 2010 Scream Awards, Michael J Fox HAS REPRISED THE ROLE OF MARTY MCFLY. Despite his unfortunate illness, he has re-recorded the original teaser trailer to the film (slightly changing the dialogue at the end). Check it out here:

There have been constant rumours of both a Back to the Future IV or, horror of horrors, a remake with the likes of Justin Bieber of Zac Efron. This would undoubtedly be the single worst idea in cinematic history (although I will give Efron one bit of credit – he did say he wouldn’t star in the remake of Footloose as he “wouldn’t do it justice”. If he says that about Footloose, surely the same will apply to BTTF).

The greatest artists of our time were so good because they knew when they had applied their last brush stroke. You wouldn’t try to do a new version of the Sisteine Chapel or make the Mona Lisa’s smile broader. The train taking off and flying into the camera was undoubtedly the last brush stroke.

Let’s enjoy this trailer for the excitement it brings, but then not mess with perfection.

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What blokes really do in the toilet?

We have a first for you on The Goldfingers FC Blog today – a guest blog in the form of Coventry City legend, Dewesy.

One of life’s true mysteries is the following: what does the opposite sex get up to in the toilets when they say ‘I’m just nipping to the bathroom’. In a Goldfingers EXCLUSIVE we sent one of the two members who hold the keys to the castle that is the Goldfingers FC twitter feed to see exactly what happens in the bloke’s toilets on a normal night out. Please join me for “Pete Dewes Invetigates”.

The Invetigation Begins...

The chosen night fell on the evening of Satutrday 4th October in a highly regarded establishment in Wimbledon Village. This location was chosen completely by random. However our results were quite shocking and would make any male choose to nip into the female toilets for a quick relief or even the third option of the disabled toilet and we all know what “going to the disabled” really mean.

After a few southern comfort and lemonades, I was given the nod of all clear by the boss to start my investigation. As I walked towards the gentlemen’s toilets I was confronted by yobs that could only be described as the following: many drunken men with one dressed as a pumpkin, two blokes with masks, one with some trendy T-bird leathers, who was busy looking up Tudor on urban dictionary.com. One thing they all had in common; they all seemed to have an obsession with David Brent.

The investigation was quickly halted when a random walked into the lavatories however all female (and male) followers of the Goldfingers blog please watch the video below to answer one of life’s true mysteries.

A true example of invetigative (sic) journalism. Follow more of his invetigations here.

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Goldfingers FC 1 – 2 Claremont

Strange going on at Fortress Wandsworth ensued on Saturday as the nation’s favourite team, whose blog racked up over 2,000 hits last week, returned to take on the currently unbeaten Claremont FC.

We did the double of them last year, but both matches were keenly fought and in the end it was Goldfingers FC who ended up defeating the Nivea clad francophones.

The Cranager had quite the headache before the match, though whether that was through drink or selection difficulties remains to be seen. We were missing Charlie Nobber-lay, JB and Weird Ben, the latter of whom had succumbed to an injury that only Weird Ben could succumb to – his heart is on the verge of exploding.

With sk and Dewesy still also injured and Liam M having to withdraw as he had to go and decide how many doves to release and what shade of orchid should be at the wedding, The Cranager had to shift things round. He started as centre back with Bjorn. Kenwyne Jones filled in at right back, while Liam started on the left. Semipro Dave started on the right wing, with wholly unintelligible fiery Ulsterman Leroy on the left. Berry and Phil played in the middle and it was the first time the manc pairing of Diamo and Ketchup played this season. Pembo was naturally in nets, looking immaculately groomed (probs by Ben).

The match started at quite a pace, so much so that the live Twitter feed was in FURIOUS mode. Goldfingers created a few chances, but quite against the run of play, Claremont took the lead. Their centre forward, who was a very good player to be fair, managed to turn inside and slot a finish in to Pembo’s left. There was nothing he could have done about it, but it didn’t stop him thinking he would have got a hand there half a second quicker. Personally, I don’t think so. Their scorer had the number “01”. At first, we thought this was some attempt to be alternative and trendy, but it transpired it was just a printing error – amateur.

The match was open and in the space of a minute, Pembo pulled of a point blank save, while Kenwyne Jones floated in a pearler of a free kick that almost found Bjorn at the back stick. It’s fair to say lightning didn’t strike twice when, in the second half, presented with the same opportunity and eight Fingers heads to aim for, he managed to clear the bar and the subsequent pitch.

The match continued and the deftest of pitches from Ketchup allowed Diamo to burst through and cut across his man. He made it into thebox, but was scythed down as he was about to pull the trigger. Penalty and a yellow card – lucky not to be red. Northern Muser Mick Berry stepped up to take the PK from 12 and calmly stroked it past the keeper’s outstretched left hand.

The game resumed and it was all Fingers and some good football was being played with the exception of Berry attempting to execute a volley that dropped over his head from 40 yards. It didn’t go in. One excellent talking point was when a ball was floated into the area. Pembo caught it, but was fouled, which meant the ball dropped from his hands and someone poked it in. The ref gave the foul, but our keeper though he had given the goal and sprinted, and I mean SPRINTED, 30 yards to complain. Dewesy and I had never seen pace like it. 5 minutes later, Pembo was spotted clutching the goal post, still gasping for air.

Then, quite unexpectedly, Claremont took the lead. The ball wasn’t quite cleared and allowed their number nine, who one of their subs described as “usually gash”, to turn from 25 yards and rifle a great shot past Pembo – again, nothing could have been done.

Seconds before the break, Ketchup forced a good save out of their Keeper, who really was another definition of “Tudor“, as we saw at The Hope later. 2-1 at half time.

In the second half, both teams had chances to win the game – there were a comedy of errors at one stage where a rolling ball was missed by both Bjorn and then Cem, resulting in Pembo making a sprawling save. Nick came on for Dave and was full of running, but unfortuantely couldn’t carve an opening.

Berry found space with 10 minutes to go, but couldn’t quite get his shot across the keeper and then, with two minutes to go, Liam put a ball across the box which found Ketchup six yards, but he couldn’t quite wrap his plate around it and put it past the right post. Fortunately, this was captured on film, albeit grainy eastern european stock coverage:

The game ended 2-1 and we were left to lick our wounds. There were some bright moments, but we need to raise our game significantly if we are challenge for the league.

More random postings tomorrow – and this week, we have our first guest blogger and it’s a classic!

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Run Marty Run… The details you may have missed in Back to the Future

As you can see on the right, we link to Chief WAG Rayner’s blog, I Don’t Watch Cool Movies, a film review site. The irony of this is that said WAG has hardly seen any films and I found out that, until a few months ago, hadn’t seen a film that, let’s face it, should be on the National Curriculum – Back to the Future.

The greatest film ever?

For me, this is quite simply film perfection. And the fact that it has been digitally remastered for its 25th anniversary got me chomping at the bit, so last weekend I went with the “film expert” and our friend and gurning simpleton BTTF fan, SMB (who is helping to write this and collate what is coming) to see it on the big screen.

And it didn’t disappoint – it was just beyond immense. You still don’t know if he is going to make it back to 1985, there is actually a hell of a lot of swearing, Fox and Lloyd’s comic timing is still just as fresh as ever, and in today’s politically correct society, the plot of Marty’s mum fancying him!!, makes it even more ludicrous and fresh.

However, once again, I noticed something that I haven’t seen before about the character Red, so me and SMB have decided to list the top 10 details in the film that you may have missed. Enjoy:

10. The character Red, the tramp that is lying on the bench when Marty gets back to 1985, is the Mayor up for re-election in 1955

9. One of Biff’s goons is none other than Titanic bad boy and Kelly Brook boffer, Billy Zane

Billy Zane (top right)... goon

8. One that may be obvious, but some of the newer ones may not know – Johnny Be Good was recorded by Chuck Berry, meaning Marty is meant to be the inspiration for this when he plays in Marvin Berry (Chuck’s cousin)’ band.

7. The bit where the terrorists shoot Doc and you see Marty from behind diving into the DeLorean – Marty in this bit is still Eric Stoltz who had the part before Michael J Fox

6. Lea Thompson, who plays Marty’s mum, is actually only 10 days older than Michael J Fox, while Crispin Glover, who plays his dad is actually younger than him

5. If you pause BTTF III when the camera pans back to Doc after he shoots Marty down from where Biff’s gang hangs him up by the lasso, his left testicle is visible protruding from his trousers for around 0.75 seconds.

This was based on a bet between Lloyd and Fox that both of them could get at least one bollock shot past the notoriously strict censors, which Lloyd won after the scene Fox had gone ‘ball out’ for was edited out of the final cinematic cut of the film.

4. The cinema marty crashes into on arrival back to 1985 is the same one used in Gremlins

3. In the opening scene of the movie, as the camera pans across the clocks, one clock in the foreground has a small figure of Harold Lloyd hanging from the minute hand

2. The man who auditions Marty’s band, “The Pinheads” at the beginning of the film, and then halts it, telling him he’s just “too darn loud” is none other than “The Power of Love” Legend Huey Lewis

And the number one fact….

1. At the beginning of the film, Marty goes to meet Doc at the “Twin Pines Mall”. When he returns, it is called the “Lone Pine Mall”. The reason? Marty ran over one of Old Man Peabody’s pines when escaping when he first goes back to 1955. Lovely detail.

Old Man Peabody's Legacy... An Angry man..

Hope you enjoy this list. It truly is film perfection. I have just bought a Hill Valley hoodie – am trying to get SMB to model it. Big up to her for helping with this – follow her on Twitter here.

(Admittedly one of these facts may have been made up. Nod to JBHK)

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The Football Tube Map

Just very quick post today after yesterday’s record breaking effort, and for once it is actually about football. From the people at FSF, they have put together a Tube Map of football (click on the pic to see it full size).

London Balling?

Acton Ferdinand and Clear Cut Chancery Lane are the ones which stand out for me…. As a Sunderland fan, always good to see Bolo Zenden in there as well…

What’s your stop?

Special treat coming tomorrow hopefully…

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Punching above your weight…. The Top 5 Tudors

In our team, we have one player, who shall remain nameless, who is sometimes cruelly referred to as “Tudor”. The reason behind this is that he is married to a lovely lady, who these harsh critics believe is significantly easier on the eye than he is. The fact that he is sometimes known as The Ogg Monster does little to dispel the neutrals’ thoughts.

For those that don’t know who Alex Tudor is, he hit the headlines in 2003 for hitting 99 not out as a nightwatchman against New Zealand. For a bowler this gave him a ridiculously high average and therefore was “batting well above his average”.

Now yesterday, I was reading the story about Crown Currency Exchange collapsing and I saw a story on the BBC about a couple who had had their wedding dreams dashed and it gave me the inspiration to do a top five Tudors. In the interest of fairness, I have split this between male and females:

5. Wayne Barton and his fiancee Stacey

Anyone got a grand?

From the aforementioned BBC story on Crown Currency Exchange. Apparently they have lost £1,000 on their wedding to Disneyworld. Wayne is 29 and Stacey is 21 and he proposed two years ago. It’s fair to say that Wayne realised very quickly he had to get a ring on her finger. Rumours are that Nuts and Zoo will come in for the £1,000, in return for a favour obviously….

4. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony

Me gusta Hennifer Lopeth....

The only woman to win FHM’s Sexiest Woman twice, La Lopez has remained an absolute beauty for years. Yet, she is married to a man, who was easily cast as slimy spiv in Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. I guess he does a lot of charity work…

3. Mark Webber and Ann Neal

Bless, he brought his mum to the races...

Mark Webber currently leads the championship in the sport of Playboys, Formula 1. The glitz and glamour. The pit girls, the girls on the boat at Monaco, Lewis going out with Nicole Scherzinger. It’s all there. He’s at the top of his game and I’m not embarrassed to say this… He’s a handsome chap. Yet when “partners” are invited to the pit lane, the first reaction is “Aaaahhh, he’s brought his mum…”. Am sure she is lovely though.

2. Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmmi

Fatwa this!

Best known for his slightly controversial tome “The Satanic Verses”, it’s no wonder Salman is smiling. He’s undoubtedly a very intelligent man, but no wonder he is smiling. She’s an actress, model, tv host…. etc…

1. Michael Mols and his wife, Mrs Mols

One of the fitter girls at Ibrox...

Could only find the one picture, but it’s a beaut… nothing else to say really…

To all the Tudors out there, we salute you

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(I am clearly a Tudor too)

The Pumpkin at the Races…. STAAAAAAG!

As regular followers know, Monday is usually reserved for match reports, but the “match” on Saturday was rather different to normal. So instead of the team’s exploits at Fortress Wandsworth, instead it was current Captain, Michael Berry’s UK stag at Epsom Races and Wimbledon.

Having had a full weekend in Riga month ago, Michael decided to hold this so that the likes of his dad, father in law to be and other members of the lovely Katie’s family and friends could come along.

Unbeknownst to the Stag, Best Man Woody had organised a knew game “Eat It, Drink It or Wear It”. For those that do not know, Mick hates two things in life – eggs and Pigs. He also looks remarkably like a Pumpkin. These were the three themes.

I met @Selleckta at Party Superstore at 11am, where we were meant to have a budget of £3. However, there were outfits that were just too good to resist. As a result, our stag ended up looking like this:

Pumpkin eats Pigs Brains.... Old ladies behind take cover...

We got to the Derby Arms just after midday where the drinking began and Berry’s “lucky dip” began earnestly with a bacon and egg sandwich, which he duly wretched up. That wasn’t the worst though, as rascal Goddard had made Berry “Chips’ Special Mix” – an egg based cocktail. This was drunk (momentarily) later on in the hall at the races, conveniently next some absolutely grotty middle-elderly aged women. As you can imagine, they were over the moon when the Egg based cocktail made a reappearance all over the floor next to him.

Races were won and lost although the kitty did hit £360 at one point. A strange thing happened towards the end of the meet, as someone found a cane. A game of “who can jump over the cane while still holding it” ensued, much to the amusement of an onlooking Soccerette.

Crucially, Selleck and I spotted a treat for some of the other Goldfingers who weren’t able to make it. We recorded the video for you:

The 28 strong party headed back to Wimbledon, where the Raspertron concluded his ever popular Flue Quiz ’10. Games of fives ensued with the IceMan necking an insubordinate amount of shots for constantly losing.

I honestly can’t remember too much about the rest of the evening, so please feel free to add in your highlights too below. Or if you have any other photos to share, please put them up here.

Great day out and great effort by Woody and The Cranager for organising.

Few more highlights have come in:

Everybody reaching over to eat Chilli Brains with their fingers.

Standing to win £1,450 quid if a three legged horse at 20-1 came in.

Getting turned away from a night club for being “too wet mate” after the bouncer had kept us waiting in the queue for 20 minutes in the lashing rain!

Assaulting a 73 year old woman with chips.

Woody and Cat finding themselves in “Savannah’s” 18th Birthday party and staying there after convincing them we were “Gloria’s next door neighbours sons”.

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San Spumari, The Sith, Belnor and the ultimate…. ICE DRAGON

Today I hoped to share a video of the Goldfingers Crossbar Challenge, which features amazing cameos from the likes of @TheHod, The Lovely Bex and Chief Wag 2005-2009 Alice. However, we’ve had a bit of a mix-up and it means we will be showing this next week now.

So it got me thinking about what to write today and the main reaction I’ve had from yesterday’s blog post was the kind of things you actually used to drink when you went to these nightclubs. It got me thinking about these drinks and nowhere did you drink worse drinks than at university. The advent of the Ryder Cup also reminded me of the Brookline tournament where we attempted to play Centurion with Carling – much harder than it looked…

I’m 30 now and am reaching the stage where the majority of my male friends drink ale (although my friend The Warrior has been drinking it out of a “noggin” since he was 15), while the ladies drink wine or a sophisticated vodka and tonic. This could not be further than what was being “imbibed” (points with elbow) ten years ago.

'What ho! Stout Yeoman of the Bar, Pray thee Replenish my ample Noggin, for 'tis pitifully dry, or I shall smite thee with the force of a twelveweight of badgers

I’ve spoken to some of my friends from university and below have listed some of the things we actually used to drink. How we don’t have diabetes is beyond me. Some of the classics include:

San Spumari – sparkling “perry” that cost £1.99 for 1.5 litres

Belnor – similar drink, but with a plastic cork to give that authentic champagne feel

Royal Dutch Lager – four cans for 69p. 2.3%. Just a waste of space

Real McKenzie Whisky – also useful for stripping wallpaper

There really are two instances however that really stick out in my mind of plumbing new lows with student bants and drinking horrendous concoctions just for the hell of it.

The first took place towards the end of second year and a couple of people were leaving to do a year abroad, so we threw a house party. As part of the entertainment, one time finger Yeppy set up an Apple Bobbing / Bobbly Applaz (depending on your regional orientation) which contained White Lightning Cider instead of water to put your face into. That, however, wasn’t the worst bit. A drinking game soon ensued, but the penalty was to drink a slug from a drink which was only known as “The Sith”. No-one knows how it got this name and we should point out that this was a good six years before the Star Wars film came out. It was quite simply a pint of vodka with a dash of Guinness. Who thought this would be a good idea? Long story short, Yeppy woke up in the morning with his face in the Apple Bobbing tub. with the cider replaced with vom.

Da Da Da, Da da, da da daaaaaaa

However, that is not the worst experience I’ve had. About three years after university a few of us went up to see Veg, who was doing a PhD at the time. Now being a little older and wiser, we thought we would have a quiet one at his on the Friday, then go out during the day and night on Saturday. However, the buzz of being back in Leeds got the better of us and the “quiet” evening descended into games of Pyramid Snake and Ring of Fire, but with turbo shandies of pints of Stella and a worse version of White Lightning… Ice Dragon.

Imagine three litres of this... Never drink this

I strongly urge people never to drink this. Long story short is that all four lads were sick and it wasn’t til about 8pm the next day that two of them could have their first drink (of ale incidentally).

I also asked some people on a football forum and the SMB their drinks of choice at university. Some of the responses are classic:

Adebisi said: Snakebite and Black got banned after my first year so everyone moved onto ‘Weedkiller’ which was a tropical Reef mixed with a shot of Blue Curacao so it went bright green. The morning after, everything you produced was a bit green. Reminds me of Juicy Lucy’s in Jesters in Southampton…

Cup of Beans said: Blastaway – Castaway wine cooler and diamond white in a pint glass

SteveinLeeds said – A bottle of a Sugarry alcopop and a bottle of a different sugarry alcopop> in a pint glass. About 15 different varieties of this.

Great Odin’s Raven: Shot of sambuca, followed by downing a pint of snakebite black which contained another shot of sambuca

Immortal Technique: Purple Nasty – apparently this is a Loughborough thing

Bravissimmo – The Harlequin was: Red and blue aftershock, absinthe and goldschlager. Doubles of all. It was so potent that your body was p*ssed before your head

The Mighty Mackem – Pink Kangaroo – this one is popular, couldnt tell you exactly what was in it, but milk, strawberry, lemonade, babycham, vodka, martini and cider I think

oROSSo – zeppelin cider (bargain booze own brand) £1.89 for 3 litres 7.8%, tasted of eggs and made me shat the bed and flash a jogger!

Read more: http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?p=8552678#post8552678#ixzz1175x0WPu

Laog – In the Bop Manchester – Green Monster which was Reef with some port and other crap!!

The last chap sums it up well with the line “Why do we do this to ourselves!”

Would love to hear of any other concoctions that were made during the heady uni days.

So, er…. enjoy your weekends and we will have the video on Monday

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