Chris Milne

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**Book and Movie spoilers** I watched The Tender Bar immediately on finishing the memoirs of the same name and was really curious to see how the movie would bring some of the characters to life. Unfortunately I think this is what is most lacking and why the movie adaptation just isn’t very interesting. The cast is actually very good, acting couldn’t be faulted. But big characters and personalities are found wanting. In the memoirs, perhaps the most intriguing characters are Steve (the bar owner), the barfly’s, and the bookshop duo; yet none of these characters feature in the movie and the characters we do get are very two dimensional, not resembling the great characters in the book. Uncle Charlie is probably the most exciting character, but he’s portrayed as a cliché superhero uncle which actually ruins the character for me and makes his relationship with JR very predictable. Sidney has none of the magic of the book and it isn’t clear why JR falls for her or why he keeps returning to her. If you’ve read the book you’ll no doubt be left wondering how it’s so boring. Good storylines like JR turning up to The Times with a black eye for an interview are replaced with JR turning up to The Times and being hired! I gave it two stars because it was nice to see faces attached to the names, even if in most cases they didn’t make sense. Probably worth a watch, but don’t expect any fireworks.

Holy moly this is truly awful. Not a documentary it’d be fair to say, not sure what you’d even categorise it as.. a 1hr 30m TikTok maybe? The endless moaning by these two is insufferable and they clearly have no idea how to plan ahead. I also found it kind of annoying when they would say things like ‘we know this is illegal, but we just went ahead and did it anyway’ Such a lack of respect for the countries you’re visiting. Luckily for them they visited the Americas and not somewhere like the Middle East where they’d be thrown in prison. Not worthwhile watching at all.

Utterly dreadful year for FIFA. This game would not represent value for money if it was given away for free. Goalkeepers are now incapable of catching a ball. They also pass to opponents 95% of the time. Teammates have apparently all lost their footballing intelligence. Nobody making runs... nobody... not even a single player ahead of you thinks of making some kind of move. Passing is terrible this year. I’m all for bringing in realism, but to see some of the biggest teams in the world unable to string 3 passes together? Nope. Unrealistic transfers in Career Mode again! Anthony Martial to Man City straight from Man Utd? No, no, no, no, no. Pesky players asking me for things every weekend in Career Mode! Sooooo repetitive and tiring. Allow me to turn off this boring feature. Unrealistic tables. Same problem every year. The Top 6 in the Premier League are called the Top 6 for a reason. So far I keep seeing teams falling way down the table who should be at the top. Training is so boring and repetitive as well. Masking ratings didn’t work out initially, yet in 5 years still they haven’t switched it back. Unless I hear of a REAL overhaul of Career Mode, I’m going nowhere near FIFA again. It’s a complete and utter waste of time and money.