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  1. www.crownandanchorlv.com or www.mcmullansirishpub.com are a good bet to be showing it live, if you're looking for a boozer.
  2. Next booking gets him a 1 game ban, so he should be looking to take a tactical booking in the closing stages of the Lithuania game, so he can sit out against Malta at home, and not risk either of the Slovenia/Slovakia games.
  3. It's simple, we need to win the next 4 games or we're relying on other results, and that never works for Scotland. You have to go back to Euro 2008 qualifying for the last time Scotland won 3 in a row, never mind 4, but as Saturday has proven again, anything can happen in football. Slovenia aren't that good a team, and the fact they've played Malta twice already, and had a surprising win against Slovakia, puts them in a "false" position in the group. If we go there on the last game needing to win, I'm confident it will happen. Slovakia are the only danger to our play-off hopes.
  4. Wines that have fermented again in the bottle can develop spritz and bubbles, if that's what you're describing. If that's the case, you should be looking for a refund.
  5. I've been three times and always stayed at The Chancellor. http://www.chancellorhotel.com/ It's in a prime location, right on Union Square. If you don't decide to actually stay at the hotel above, I'd recommend staying on Union Sq. It's where all the shopping is, and all public transport (Cable Cars, BART, MUNI) either runs directly through it, or 2mns away on Market St. If you're going to Alcatraz, do the night tour (if it's on at that time of year). You go out just before dusk and return after dark. The place definitely has a different atmosphere at night. Only book through https://www.alcatrazcruises.com/index.aspx They're the only official website for pre-booking tickets. The Cable Car Museum is good. Golden Gate Bridge obviously. Bike over to the bridge Sausalito, and get the ferry back. I would have recommended you go to AT&T Park to see the Giants play baseball, but it'll be the offseason. You may still be able to get a stadium tour if that's your sort of thing. Coit Tower is worth a visit. Wild parrots live in the trees on the side of the hill it sits on. Great views of the city from here also. There's plenty to see in Golden Gate Park - Japanese tea Garden, Academy of Sciences etc. I'd recommend one of these also - http://www.sfcityguides.org/ - free (although you can tip if you want) walking tours around most parts of the city. You just turn up at the specified time and place, and you'll get a tour of a specific area by an SF local. Just walking through some of the different neighbourhoods is great. They each have their own vibe. Go and see Pier 39 if you must, but it's full of tourist tat. You wont need a car. The San Francisco public transport system is brilliant, and everything is pretty centralised anyway. If you want to get out of the city for the day, there are plenty of companies who run bus trips either North to see the Giant Redwoods/State parks, or South to Carmel/Moneterey (Monterey Bay Aquarium is something else!) San Francisco is a totally foodie city. Plenty of great restaurants to eat in. If you really want to impress the Mrs, take her to Gary Danko - http://garydanko.com/ - Your talking about $100 for a four course meal, but it's worth every penny. Pre-booking essential. My other favourite SF restaurant is Flour & Water - http://www.flourandwater.com/ - It's out in the Mission District, but is very much worth the journey out from Union Sq. It's Italian-based food and quite hipster, but the food is amazing. Pre-book if you ant a table on your own, as walk-ins usually get seats at the communal table, so you'd be sitting at a table with about 12 strangers, although it's not as bad as that sounds. The Slanted Door, which is inside the Ferry Building, is also very good. It's Vietnamese Cooking. Plenty good Italian restaurants in North Beach and loands of good Chinese/Dim Sum places in Chinatown, as you'd expect. The newspaper runs a yearly best 100 SF restaurants list - http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/category/guide/ Just a quick work of warning, San Francisco has a massive problem with homeless people. There's the combination of a temperate climate, which makes it easy to live on the streets; "Greyhound Homelesness", being the theory that other cities give homeless people a bus ticket West, to the sunshine, and SF is usually where they end up; and the fact that San Francisco is a fircely libertarian city, meaning that if they're not breaking any laws, they're usually just left to get on with it. Rudy Giuliani's New York, it is not. I've never had a problem on any of the times I've been, but I think it's something to be aware of, as it's on a scale we're not used to here. If you have any other questions, fire away. San Francisco is a great city.
  6. The Mrs and I toured round California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada over the space of a month. We limited ourselves to about 100-150 miles of driving each day, though, as it can get tiring and you also want the opportinuty to actually get out and see things. Although we had certain places we needed to be at certain times, a lot of it we could just make up on the hoof, and that's probably the best part. I'd never have known beautiful Springdale, UT was; or how scarily steep Old Priest Grade in Coulterville, CA was; what the best preserved section of Route66 looked like between Seligman and Kingman, AZ; or how you could go from the burst couches on the street and bail bond shops of Long Beach to the bleached teeth and poodles in handbags of Palos Verdes so quickly. If you were offering me the Slovenia game or a tour across America now, I certainly wouldn't be picking what may well be a dead rubber in Ljubljana.
  7. I'd go Gordon Paterson Martin Berra Wallace Brown Mulgrew Burke Snodgrass Ritchie Griffiths Strachan will pick Marshall Paterson Martin Hanley Wallace Brown Fletcher Snodgrass McArthur Ritchie Martin
  8. A good decision. He absolutely bossed the midfield against ROI at Celtic Park, so should be given a chance to do the same against England, alongside Brown. Strachan won't play him, though.
  9. Sherps

    Cubs

    LOL. You've got a bit of a thing for that post, haven't you...considering you've quoted it twice now. Here's another gem from last year where I managed to be both incorrect and correct in the same post, about the same two subjects which I'm now incorrect about this year. Such is the ways with predictions, though... In any case, congrats to the Cubbies and all their fans. It was a great series and an amazing game 7.
  10. Marshall Paterson Martin Berra Wallace Brown Mulgrew Burke Naismith Ritchie Griffiths Marshall is Strachan's choice to play keeper and he won't change that. There is no better option at RB than Paterson, Hutton's just bad. Berra in to replace Hanley, who doesn't warrant a start after the last couple of games. Wallace is the best option at LB. Mulgrew in with Brown as we haven't laid a glove on anyone in the last two games, and that can't be the case against England. A solid, hard-working base to play from. The front 4 are in there for pace, ability and work-rate. The 3 behind Griffiths can play in any of the three positions, meaning they can move around to find space, or in Burke and Naismith's case a height/heading advantage if Danny Rose plays LB. Griffiths is our best chance for a goal at the moment.
  11. Sherps

    Cubs

    I was pleased to be proved wrong about that.
  12. Sherps

    Cubs

    I picked the wrong opponent in the NLDS and the Cubs ultimately went through, but even then, it was predominantly because the Giants bullpen threw it away. There's still plenty of time for the curse of the goat (or even Steve Bartman!) to strike... Although they're going back to Chicago with a lead, they've still got to overcome Kershaw and Hill.
  13. My theory about Westworld is below. I apologise for my inability to just watch the bloody thing and find out what really happens later.. I obviously may not be correct, but don't click below if you don't want to see any potential spoilers. Fortitude was exactly like any number of modern T.V. shows, Les Revenants being another good example, brilliant at feeding the fire of a storyline for hour after hour to keep you watching, and then hopelessly inept at delivering any kind of satiating climax - the televisual equivalent of going to the jack the rippers.
  14. Bielsa is a good shout. We certainly have the players to suit his high tempo, high press style. The SFA should just ask Lars Lagerback what he wants, though, and get it over and done with. The team needs a structure and organisation that can get the best out of them and Lagerback has proved he can bring that.
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