Wordle 1,867 3/6*

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

About 20 seconds.

Wordle 1,866 5/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Couple of minutes; changed my mind from the correct answer for guess four.

Bravest Face
Good News First
Rivendell
Rivendell
Rivendell

Wordle 1,865 2/6*

⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Pondered guess two for about a minute; time well spent!

Wordle 1,864 5/6*

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A minute.

Wordle 1,863 4/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

About 40 seconds.

Wordle 1,861 3/6*

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

20 seconds; third guess felt much more like a punt than a Eureka moment.

Wordle 1,860 4/6*

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Several head-scratching minutes; good one.

Wordle 1,859 4/6*

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Couple of minutes - really wasn't expecting guess four to be correct.

Wordle 1,858 4/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A minute.

Wordle 1,857 5/6*

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

90 seconds.

Argentina's team and staff full of fcking shithouses finally getting their comeuppance.

Argentina have been a fucking disgrace in this tournament from start to finish.

Their game plans were mostly to be dirty, cheating, shithouse bastards, knowing they would get the rub of referees' decisions to assist them in their task, which worked until they came up against a side superior in overall technical talent who preferred to let the football do the talking.

They should have been down to eight men, never mind ten, and for MacCallister to receive a yellow card in extra time when he should have walked before half time was a(nother) scandal.

And as for the despicable scenes at the end, Perades in particular should be banned from playing professional football for at least a year.

Set of cynical, cheating, classless cnts that deserved to lose and finally got their comeuppance to most football fans' immense satisfaction.

The Furious

Saw this on a long overdue trip to Bradford's marvellous Pictureville cinema, which is housed in the National Science & Media Museum.

As mentioned in my re-review of The Raid, this Hong Kong martial arts action thriller has been widely touted as the best example of the genre since Gareth Evans's now cult classic, so I went into this with high expectations.

And while the numerous combat scenes are indeed "batshit insane", technically impressive and at their best when the main character starts using a hammer (one of many reasons for the 18 rating), they do become quite repetitious and, for all the bloody carnage on display, sometimes verge on becoming quite...boring.

This will land much more satisfyingly for hardcore fans of the genre I'm sure, but for more casual observers like me, overall it just struck me as okay...ish.

Rating: **

The half-time show idea is utterly ludicrous enough without putting on has-beens Madonna and Shakira and the execrable Bieber.

If it really has to be done, Lady Gaga and Benson Boone would gave been much better choices but I suspect they'd refuse because they actually have some credibility (and talent).