A bitter pill to swallow - that's my best description of this game for Manchester United.
I was confident going into this game but Spurs outplayed us. We were poor on the ball and made countless misplaced passes.
1-0 down after 10 or 11 seconds is the worst nightmare for any manager, team or fan and it happened today.
Our best period of the game was, in my opinion, the 5 minutes after their opening goal. We created chances and could have got a quick equaliser but we didn't.... instead Spurs got their second goal from a Phil Jones OG.
It was one of those days where nothing worked for us and everyone had an off day - apart from De Gea and maybe one or two others.
We are still second in the league and I feel confident that will be our position after 38 games.
Let's forget this game and this poor performance and keep putting trust and support into the players and the manager.
Game of Thrones. Proceed at your own risk.
Despite his limited time in the show, Bran has always been at the
centre of much speculation and wild theories, including one which sees
him warging into icy Viserion.
But — rest assured — the latest theory to make the rounds on social media is the most mind-blowing to date.
What if Brandon Stark is actually the Night King? What if everything that has ever happened in Westeros is Bran's fault?
Even if you hate Ned Stark's son, this theory — which has actually
been popular for a while — is pretty wild, isn't it? Let's begin by
piecing together all the evidence.
In Season 6, if you recall, the Three-Eyed Raven taught Bran how to
finesse his Greenseer abilities to drift freely through time — past,
present and feature — at will.
Bran has also the ability to warg into people's consciousness, just like he did with Hodor.
According to some fans, those two abilities — greensight and ability to warg — make Bran even more powerful to the Three-Eyed Raven.
However, the Three-Eyed Raven — that omniscient killjoy — promptly
warned Bran that "the past is already written" and "the ink is dry".
Also, he warned Bran that the more time you spend inside someone else's
body, the more difficult it is to leave.
"It is beautiful beneath the sea; stay too long and you drown," he says.
Now, if you remember the Tower of Joy flashback in Season 6, episode
3, it seems pretty clear that Bran has the power to influence the past
as well as watch it.
As explained by Mashable's very own Sam Haysom, just look at the confusion on Young Ned Stark's face after Bran calls out to him:
The Three-Eyed Raven certainly looked nervous in the flashback when
Bran yelled "father;" it was as if he knew what the consequences of the
boy's actions could be.
Other evidence, in both the books and show, point to the fact that
the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, became mad after Bran attempted to warn
him about the White Walkers.
"Burn them all," was the Mad King's final order, which might be Bran warning him about the White Walkers.
suggested he may in fact be one of the legendary Brandons he hears
about in Old Nan's stories (Brandon the Builder — who built both the
Wall and Winterfell to shield off the White Walkers, Brandon the
Shipwright, etc.).
In a nutshell, according to these theories, Bran keeps travelling
back and forth in time in a bid to fix things, and destroy the White
Walkers once for all.
But the most important piece in the puzzle is when Bran has the
vision of when the Night King was Born, as explained by YouTuber Game of Theories a few months ago.
Thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones take place, the Children of the Forest were at war with the First Men, who almost wiped them out of their sacred weirwoods.
In desperation, they captured one of the First Men and inserted
dragonglass into his chest with a ritual on a weirwood tree. That's how
the first White Walker, the Night King, was created.
As noticed by many commentators, Bran's real body in the Three-Eyed Raven's cave winces and clenches his fists. As if he's experiencing the pain. As if HE is in the Night King's body.
Bran warged into that man in an attempt to persuade them not to go
through the process that would create the White Walkers. But since "the
ink is dry" that means he cannot change the past through time travel,
only fulfil it:
Image: reddit/screengrab/turm0il26
From
that moment, Bran got stuck in the past and became the Night King,
while the future Bran keeps moving in time in a desperate attempt to
warn people about the Long Night.
The theory would explain how the Night King is always at the right place and the right time:
Image: REDDIT/SCREENGRAB/TURM0IL26
All the events happening in Game of Thrones,
then, just originate from Bran, and will lead to Daenerys and Jon Snow
fighting together to defeat him stuck inside the Night King.
This is how the show will end, according to the Redditor:
This theory also parts with Jon snow being the prince
that was promised, who eventually has to kill his little brother Bran
(Night king cannot kill Jon Snow at Hardhome then, can he?), giving us a
bittersweet ending.
The title of this year's Game of Thrones season finale has been revealed, sending fans into a flurry of excitement: The Dragon and the Wolf.
Fans have been quick to suggest that it could refer to Jon "the White Wolf" Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys "Mother of Dragons" Targaryen (Emilia Clarke),
with more than one guessing that it could mark the blossoming of a
fully-fledged romance between the characters following the build-up of
their relationship through the series. The fact that Jon is Daenerys's
nephew isn't necessarily an obstacle – Game of Thrones has certainly
never shied away from incest in the past.
However
others have pointed out that it could just as easily refer to Rhaegar
Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, Jon Snow's parents. The finale could
see another flashback, revealing more of the events surrounding Jon's
birth.
There
would be a precedent for this: the finale of season six featured a
flashback to the Tower of Joy, in which the truth about his parentage
was revealed.
On the other hand, it's possible – though unlikely – that
the title has a more literal meaning. This week's episode saw the death
of Daenerys's dragon Viserion, which has since been brought back to
life by the Night's King. If ice-dragon Viserion (or one of its
siblings, Rhaegal and Drogon) is the dragon of the title, could the wolf
be an actual wolf? After all, the whereabouts of Jon's direwolf Ghost
are currently unknown. One thing's
for certain: this season finale will give viewers plenty to get their
teeth into. HBO have announced that the episode will clock in at a
weighty 79 minutes, making it the longest finale in the show's history
With
their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of
Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the
United States known as Statesman. In an adventure that tests their
strength and wits, the elite secret agents from both sides of the pond
band together to battle a ruthless enemy and save the day, something
that's becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy. Kingsman 2: The Golden
Circle is the second exciting chapter in the Kingsman trilogy.
American
Assassin tells the story of legendary CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Long before
he began hunting terrorists, Rapp was a gifted college scholar/athlete.
Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation's most
elite covert operations program. After completing training designed to
teach the kind of lethal skills necessary to target our most dangerous
enemies, here and abroad, he is a man reborn with a mission of
retribution.
In
Stephen King's IT, when children begin to disappear in the town of
Derry, Maine, neighborhood kids band together to square off against
Pennywise, an evil clown whose history of murder and violence dates back
for centuries.
In
Death Note, Light Turner, a bright student who stumbles across a
mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he
writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the
streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself
pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L.
It's been a tricky few weeks for one of the world's hottest TV shows.
Another episode of "Game of Thrones" was released on Tuesday, the second confirmed leak to hit season seven.
Production company HBO said the episode was mistakenly made available on its streaming platforms in Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
"We have learned that the upcoming episode of Game of Thrones was accidentally posted for a brief time on the HBO Nordic and HBO España platforms," said Tom Nielsen, a spokesman for HBO Europe. "The error appears to have originated with a third party vendor and the episode was removed as soon as it was recognized."
Episode six is due to air on Sunday. It has reportedly been copied and shared online on multiple sites.
The fantasy series is one of the most popular and acclaimed shows on television. Over 16 million viewers tuned in for the season premiere in July, according to HBO.
Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested four men suspected of leaking a different episode of "Game of Thrones" before its scheduled release on August 7. The suspects were connected with Star India, which has the rights to air the series in the country.
The man all worked for Prime Focus Technologies, an independent firm that handles Star India's data, police said.
According to Star India and HBO Europe, neither leak was connected with a cyberattack on HBO last month.
HBO, which like CNN is owned by Time Warner (TWX), said in late July it was investigating a hack targeting its shows.
HBO CEO Richard Plepler said at the time that the attack resulted in "some stolen proprietary information, including some of our programming."
It's unclear what information the hackers stole. According to Entertainment Weekly, which first reported the attack, hackers published the alleged script to a new "Game of Thrones" show and episodes of two other shows.
Season seven is not the first to be blighted by leaks. In 2015, the first four episodes of the fifth season were leaked shortly after the premiere. The leaked episodes originated "from within a group approved by HBO to receive them," HBO said at the time.
At the Nail Artisan of Manatee County salon in Central Florida,
five diverse, hardworking manicurists try to make ends meet in a staid
economy while managing perilous personal lives awash in drama. Amidst
all the silk wraps, pedicures and polish treatments, salon owner Desna,
who lives with and cares for her mentally ill twin
brother, leads a staff that includes best friend Jennifer, now sober and
raising two kids from a previous relationship; enigmatic Ann, who
provides security for the salon; mild-mannered preppy and ex-convict
Polly; and Virginia, who becomes easily bored and impatient with her
job. Also hanging around the salon are shady redneck Roller; ambulance
coach Bryce, Jennifer's husband who is also newly sober; and Uncle
Daddy, a dangerous, deeply Catholic and actively bisexual crime boss.
Ray and his salesman Pinky are trying to make it through the
biggest shopping day of the year, again. Two decades ago, their camera
store was a thriving neighborhood business. Now, they barely keep the
store alive for their wealthy, amoral, and absent boss, Mr. Bibideaux.
With the arrival of an old friend, Ray gets word of a
big change coming to the business, and he must act immediately to save
himself from the sinking ship before he loses the little chance he has
for a better life.
