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On Friday night, I took another trip to the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells to see Sara Pascoe. I had been impressed when I saw the show in preview at ArgComFest in July and was keen to see the finished article. The "vs History" part of the title refers to Pascoe's examination of her own past and biological history to examine why she is the person she is today at the age of 33. For example, she touches upon her parents' turbulent relationship that began when her mother started stalking her father Derek, the vocalist in 1970s pop act Flintlock. This gave the young Sara misguided notions of the idea of courtship, as her and her sister headed to The Big Breakfast studios in the hope of wooing Robbie Williams.  She laments the failure of Adam and Eve's relationship noting "If they can't make it in paradise, how am I supposed to make it in Lewisham?". Pascoe's relatively new relationship with fellow comedian John Robins underpins the show. Ther...

In my current capacity, it would be remiss of me not to observe the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral today. In the gym earlier in the week, one of the TV channels was showing a Churchill documentary with talking head contributions from his daughter Mary Soames, who passed away earlier this year. I had the privilege of meeting Lady Soames some time ago. Stephen Fry has discussed meeting Alistair Cook (the broadcaster, not the England batsman) and Cook informing him that he had shaken the hand of someone who had shaken hands with Bertrand Russell, whose aunt had danced with Napoleon. Following our handshake, I wondered to what extent I was now part of a chain that went back through the ages. The programme featured a Churchill anecdote that I hadn't previously heard. Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery once talked with Churchill over dinner and asked him if he considered himself "to be in the evening of life". Churchill threw his cutlery down in a rage...

I briefly touched upon my efforts to work on my assertiveness (and by extension, sense of confidence) earlier in the week. There still seems to be a lot of work to do. The touring production of "One Man, Two Guvnors" arrives at my local theatre next week. I went in to purchase a ticket for the back row of the circle, because I enjoy being in the same room as a performance without actually being able to see it.. One Man, Two Guvnors. The touring version of the West End show that's been a huge hit over the past few years. James Corden was originally in it. It's gone to Broadway. These are all things I knew. But the moment I stepped into the theatre foyer I had convinced myself of the following: that the show was not at the Churchill Theatre next week, the show was called "Two Men, One Guvnor", that there was no such show, that there was no such thing as Broadway and James Corden was a product of my imagination. I subsequently went to McDonalds (a rare occu...

Louis CK released his new special "Live At The Comedy Store" yesterday for download from his website for $5. CK first introduced this model for distributing his live shows in 2011 with his "Live at the Beacon Theater" special and it has been imitated by many other comedians since. It's an intelligent move that has paid off (the Beacon Theater show grossed $1.1 million in downloads in 2011), allowing fans to support their favourite comedians at a reasonable price level. The announcement of this release was accompanied by a long message to CK's mailing list recounting his history as a stand up comedian and the clubs he used to play. In the week where he cancelled a 4th performance at Madison Square Gardens in New York due to the inclement weather on the East Coast, he considers this special a return to his roots as he tested out material in small clubs around the country prior to this performance at LA's Comedy Store. It sees CK in a provocative mood, ...

Previous Weight: 20 stone, 12 pounds. New Weight: 20 stone, 8 pounds . Weight Loss: 4 pounds . Total 2015 Weight Loss: 9 pounds . Well, this is something of a surprise. Despite constantly writing about the importance of resisting temptation, this has not been a great week for me. I'm still eating pretty well at meal times but have snuck off to Tesco to buy a maple pecan plait, a vanilla creme crown, a cheese snack pack, 6 Kingsmill pancakes and a bag of mini Gingerbread amongst other things. I've also not been able to exercise as much as I would ordinarily do in the course of a normal week. Having said that, I am a lot more active than I used to be and I imagine that still helps. This loss still feels rather inexplicable, but I'll take it. I've got a pound left to lose before I'm back at my pre-Christmas weight but have just about succeeded in my goal to lose 2 pounds a week. On average at least.   Other stray notes from today. I am currently involved with ...

I'm currently studying for my first AAT exam this coming Friday. To my delight, I noticed that many of the Kaplan textbook's example questions referred to characters from Futurama, a show that I've loved since I was about 12. Mentions of "Fry Ltd", "Leela Ltd", "Zoidberg" (probably my favourite supporting character in any TV show), "Wong", "Rodriguez", "Hermes", "Brannigan", "Kiff", "Hubert" basically cover the entire central cast. Even Scruffy (very much a tertiary character) and the evil "MomCorp" gets a nod. In some ways, it is unsurprising that number crunchers and maths afficiandos gravitate towards Futurama. It's a science fiction show with strong academic influences which are discussed in more detail here . My discovery was also a timely one with the last ever episode of the show, "Meanwhile", airing on Sky One last night. It was a fitting farewell to t...

Another trip to Tunbridge Wells last night, this time to the Assembly Hall Theatre for Ross Noble. It's a solid venue to watch big comedy names with a capacity little over a thousand, even if the theatre has recently been declared not fit for purpose .  It's admittedly difficult to overlook the fact that many of the seats at the back are frayed and held together with gaffer tape. I had seen Noble take on a rowdy Friday night crowd at the Hammersmith Apollo last month and was curious to see to what extent the material of this famous improviser would differ. In the opening half, I identified five minutes of recurring gags in a whirlwind set featuring a mischievous take on the Prophet Mohammad, Chas and Dave at CERN and goodness knows what else. I'm normally drawn to comedians with a strong persona or point of view. With Noble there is none to speak of. But his shows are a celebration of all that is daft, silly and fun. He makes every show feel like a unique event involvin...

Last night, I headed off to Tunbridge Wells to see Mark Watson at the Trinity Theatre, a 350 seater in a converted church. It's also an altogether more civilised place to watch a comedy show on a Friday night even if the locals enjoy playing up to their local stereotypes a bit, bristling at the notion of people attending from Maidstone or Gillingham. Such tidbits were gleaned from an enjoyable section of audience banter with the affable Watson, seamlessly integrating threads involving a solitary American in the crowd and an off kilter laugher in the first few rows into the remainder of the show. The American revealed she had been to see Stewart Lee and not understood his act. Watson elected to keep the peace over Lee's public condemnation of his appearance in a cider advert, though not without a jab at his status as "the moral arbiter of British comedy". As a comedy nerd, I do love this sort of thing. At the show's conclusion, Watson delivers an absolutely top...

I headed to the Duke of Wellington in Dalston last night for my second gig of the year, to be greeted by 15 women who had almost all come to see Joel Dommett. Regrettably, Joel had pulled out to go to Norway. Fortunately, they all agreed to stay and were rewarded for doing so with a strong show, with assured performances from Tony Dunn, Stephanie Laing and Jay Cowle. I had to dash during Richard Todd's headline set in the hope of getting home before the morning, but he'd gotten off to a strong start too. The night was ably hosted by Stephen Bailey who got the whole audience up on stage for a photo to send to Dommett at the interval.  I did a little bit shy of 15 minutes for the first time in a while. I think the niceness of the audience led me to experiment a little with mixed results, not least by divulging the contents of some of my online dating messages. Throwing some new material into the mix seemed to have about a 50% success rate which isn't bad but there were a ...

Previous Weight: 20 stone, 10 pounds. New Weight: 20 stone, 12 pounds . Weight Gain: 2 pounds . Total 2015 Weight Loss: 5 pounds . Urgh. If my tales of Five Guys and Krispy Kreme in the past blog weren't a clue, I have lost my way. I've had too many fattening things this week, including two Tesco duffins (a combination of a doughnut and a muffin that ultimately satisfies no-one) and a sausage baguette on Monday. I had a breakfast roll from a Tesco Express hot counter on Saturday and I think we can naturally assume that nothing from there is healthy. I believe I've also had a sausage roll, a pasty, two chocolate meringues and a bag of Rocky Road bites in the past week. I've gone off the other end of the treat scale and I'm paying the price now. In the moment, I feel like I want the food more than I want to avoid scrutiny at Slimming World and the prospect of disclosing a gain in this blog. The glutton inside of me who wants to eat and eat and eat hasn't g...

I'm currently watching Tottenham Hotspur vs Sheffield United, fearful of experiencing some sort of traumatic flashback to the events of the weekend. Yesterday I continued my work on the Processing Bookkeeping Transactions module of my AAT Level 2, which is somewhat laborious work but I'm starting to wrap my head around double entry bookkeeping. Which I'm led to believe is an important part of accountancy. After the session, I took a leisurely stroll into Angel, where I was due to meet local character and legendary fishmonger Darren Maskell. Having balked at the cost of £12.65 to watch a film at Vue in the interim, I then proceeded to spend £25 on food, a book and and a Jagermeister ski hat. On the plus side, you have been spared my attempts to remember then articulate my feelings about a movie for another week. On the downside, I have very little to offer in the rest of this blog in terms of content. I fell off the wagon here. I headed to Five Guys for a meal consisting...

In the basement of a pub near Tufnell Park, it was an inauspicious start to my comedy year. 15 acts, zero audience members and several punchlines searching for a laugh that was proving elusive. One of them asks if any of us want to borrow his hair gel. I do not. I decided to do a five minute set that I've been taking around a few open mic gigs for the past couples of months. A generous interpretation on the result would be a 25% success rate. My biggest laughs came from a couple of pieces of improvisation whilst my crafted jokes went down to nothing or very little. I still find it infuriating after this time, which at least proves I still care. Although it also suggests that I don't learn, having been down this road many times before. It's a familiar thought process. The stand up comedian who needs to apportion blame everywhere except his own door to get over a disappointing performance. On the other hand, pre CBT I would have quit stand up on the way home, ...

I thought I would share with you a trio of my favourite podcasts in a blog that is quite clearly filler because I have nothing else to write about. Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown Recently returned for a fith series, PFS is one of my favourites. It involves Pappy's (Matthew Crosby, Tom Clark and Ben Parry) and two guests from the world of comedy and entertainment battling it out in a loosely household themed quiz show. Even if you're not on board with the in jokes (The ridiculously long introduction to the Quickfire round, Fanshaw Standon providing and indeed presiding over cases in Beef Brothers, inexplicable references to Cuba Gooding Junior), it's great knockabout stuff with a high laugh quotient. Listening to the three of them negotiate the line between shambolic genius and a shambolic shambles is always a joy. I went to the recording of the one that's been released this week with Ivo Graham and Adam Buxton and it's a great deal of fun to be in the audience ...

I badly needed to decompress today following the events of White Hart Lane on Saturday. Mostly sandwiched a quiet afternoon in watching Super Sunday between work on my Level 2 AAT course. My exam is in 12 days and I've spent the last 2 hours working on practice questions. I've got something like a 60% success rate with the answers currently and I've called it a night. I suppose I didn't really expect to go back into education at this point in my life and I'm struggling with the readjustment at the minute. Up early tomorrow to head into Old Street for more of the same. I'm also getting back on the stand up comedy horse tomorrow with my first gig of the year at an open mic somewhere further up the Northern Line. In the main, I'm concerned about getting back into the swing of things but my ambition for this year stand up wise (other than to keep performing well) is to try out more new ideas to stop myself from stagnating creatively. On Thursday I'll be at...

I mentioned Alex Edelman in my previous blog and his recollection of the time his father told him "being a Jew means you'll never be happy". There are days when I feel similarly about being a Sunderland fan and this was one of them. In the morning I had enjoyed 90 minutes revisiting "Tree" at the Old Vic. The 90 minutes at White Hart Lane felt like it was never going to end. It's invariably the hope I can't stand. So Sunderland surrendering the opening goal after three minutes actually did much to relax me. A comical attempt at a clearance from Santiago Vergini fell to Jan Vertonghen, whose shot deflected off John O'Shea passed a helpless Costel Pantilimon.In a predictable state of affairs, Jermain Defoe did not continue his run of scoring on his debut. But he was a nuisance, if a nuisance that was frequently caught offside. He also created the opportunity for our goal. I do love a free kick on the edge of the box. Particularly when Sebastian Larss...

I've spent most of this week buried under new information from my accountancy course (debits, credits, balance sheets, cost centres, investment centres, you name it, i'm struggling to understand it) and my life coach (I still feel hugely uncomfortable using that term). I have to pass an accountancy exam in a couple of weeks and that remains pretty terrifying. But for the most part I'm feeling good and there's an opportunity on the horizon which although not life changing would keep me ticking over for the moment. I saw Alex Edelman's show "Millennial" at the Soho Theatre on Wednesday. Edelman picked up the Best Newcomer award at last year's Edinburgh festival and it's not difficult to see why. In reviews of the show, the most frequently used adjective to describe his performance has been "assured". It's certainly an impressive debut outing that resonated in particular with me, as he explores where he fits among the "Millennial...

Me: I saw Foxcatcher yesterday. Dad: Is that the one about the American sniper? Me: No. Dad: What's that one called? Foxcatcher is loosely based on the true life story of Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), brothers who both won gold medals in wrestling at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Mark is contacted by John E Du Pont (Steve Carell), the eccentric heir to one of the largest fortunes in the USA, who offers to train him at the family's Foxcatcher estate in preparation for the 1987 World Championships and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. This year's Oscar nominations were announced today*. Foxcatcher received nods for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Screenplay. Tatum and Ruffalo provide strong support as the Schultz brothers but this film is dominated by a superb performance from Steve Carell whose recognition by the Academy is well deserved. As indeed is the make up nomination, as a great ...

A quieter day today. Mainly been getting on with some admin and a gym workout, culminating in a blinder of an FA Cup tie between West Ham and Everton. But I had the time to watch Bill Burr's latest special, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way. For the past couple of years I've been broadening my horizons and getting into American stand up. I began to hear Bill Burr's name being mentioned quite frequently, an act who is critically lauded and admired by my contemporaries. I found his last special, You People Are All The Same, to be comedically underpowered and misogynist in places.    But armed with a generosity of spirit (and the nagging sense that I'm not getting enough out of my Netflix subscription), I decided to give Burr another go. The 46 year old, cynical, world weary Bostonian certainly has a strong persona. And he starts strongly too with an appealing riff about giving up vegetarianism and that as a meat eater "something has to die to keep me alive". H...

It's Slimming World day . Previous Weight: 20 stone, 10.5 pounds. New Weight: 20 stone, 10 pounds Weight Loss: 0.5 pounds Total 2015 Weight Loss: 7 pounds   I feel rather fortunate frankly. Having talked last week about needing to get some consistency and avoiding sugary snacks, I have indulged far too much over the past seven days. I've mostly eaten well at meal times (fish, pasta, ratatouille, roast chicken, eggs, lots of vegetables, the aforementioned vegan Japanese meal) and had a couple of decent workouts. But outside of that I've consumed: 6 Waitrose maple pancakes, a butterscotch yum yum, 8 brownie bites, a pecan/toffee cookie, two portions of sticky toffee pudding with custard, a bowl of ice cream and 2 mince pies. One or two of those in a week might be permissible but that's far too much. Still, a loss is a loss and it's positive to get two in a row, however small. I need to lose 3 pounds to completely get rid of my Christmas weight and that will b...

I find myself in a bind this morning. No topic for a blog immediately comes to mind. But having set out to do a daily blog in 2015 (and uncertain whether I will have the opportunity to return to a computer today), I feel I cannot renege at this point. Anyway, it's a busy week by my standards. I'm heading into London for the first full day of my accountancy course today. On Wednesday, I'm going to see a life coach. Thursday, I'm back on my IT course at my local adult education centre. Friday, I will mostly be reflecting on the fact that I'm now the sort of person who goes to see a life coach. But I'm trying to keep an open mind about the whole business. Oh and Slimming World tomorrow. I've had a terrible week food wise and expect that to be reflected in the weigh in. My friend Chris and I went to Idataki Zen in King's Cross on Thursday, which bills itself as Europe's only Japanese vegan restaurant. Their menu is precisely as limited as you would e...

Yesterday, my tour of the London clubs continued with a trip to Brentford for the visit of Rotherham. It was a "Pay What You Can" match and what I can pay is a fiver. With a capacity of just under 13,000, Griffin Park is a proper old school football ground with terraced areas at both ends and not a corporate box in sight. I understand plans are underway to build a new 20,000 seater stadium at Lionel Road near Kew Bridge in time for the 2016/17 season. This is unsurprising, particularly given how quickly Brentford have established themselves as a second tier side having been promoted from League 1 last season*.  I went to Griffin Park for a pre-season friendly against OGC Nice in August, during which the only five away supporters in the ground were serenaded with the chant "You're just a shit type of biscuit". On that day, Alex Pritchard (on loan from Tottenham Hotspur) excelled in a 3-2 win. He was also in fine form yesterday, unfortunate not to score with a s...

On Tuesday evening, I headed to the Old Vic with alternative comedy legend and create-your-own-pizza technician Darren Maskell to see Tree, Daniel Kitson's latest offering. Stephen Fry once described Peter Cook as "the funniest man to ever draw breath". I feel similarly about Daniel Kitson. I first saw him perform live in 2008 and was absolutely blown away. Here was stand up comedy as I'd never seen it before, eloquent, intricate, touching, moving, hysterical. In the years that have followed I've endeavoured to catch all of his shows, often twice. I remember going to the release gig for "Meeting Your Heroes", the second Gavin Osborn record. I walked into the toilets at The Albany and heard an unmistakeable voice from one of the stalls. "I'm having a lovely time in the toilet", Kitson mused. I used one of the urinals. He came out and began washing his hands. I could have said anything to him. That I enjoyed his recent show at the Union C...

I took advantage of a free afternoon to go and see Birdman. The film largely focuses on Michael Keaton as Riggan Thompson, a washed up Hollywood actor primarily famous for his role as the titular Birdman in a popular comic book trilogy (obviously inviting a comparison with Keaton's own career). In what feels like a last ditch attempt to reestablish himself, he makes a number of financial sacrifices to fund a Broadway adaptation of a Raymond Carver story. The action predominantly takes place behind the scenes at the theatre with the cast and crew. The plot sees Thompson grasping for relevance in the modern age whilst being tormented by his superhero alter ego. Keaton's role in this film is being discussed in relation to awards season and it's not difficult to see why, as he provides a complex performance of real depth. Edward Norton's arrival as lunatic method actor Mike Shiner drops a bomb into proceedings and the scenes of conflict between the two men (at one point l...

It feels difficult to write about anything other than the tragic events that took place in Paris yesterday, where Muslim extremists stormed the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people.  I am unfamiliar with the work of Charlie Hebdo but I have attempted to familiarise myself over the past few hours. The cartoons I have viewed are puerile and childish in the best possible way and the magazine has had a long history of flaunting the Islamic prohibition of images of the prophet Muhammad. They appear to be equal opportunity offenders with regards to religion with front pages mocking Judaism and Catholicism. My only real point of comparison is with the crude, vulgar, brilliant South Park. They originally attempted to satirise the issue in "Cartoon Wars". A typically malevolent Cartman attempts to get Family Guy off the air under the guise of protecting the American public from seeing Muhammad. The two part episode prompted a real life censorship ...

In the hope of providing some additional motivation for what Slimming World would doubtless describe as my "weight loss journey", I'm going to post my weight up here on Tuesday or Wednesday each week where possible. I had not factored in the fact that the first Tuesday after Christmas sees a huge spike in attendance/new member sign ups. Waiting in the queue to be weighed for 40 minutes certainly added an additional sense of tension to the experience. Previous Weight: 21 stone, 3 pounds. New Weight: 20 stone, 10.5 pounds Weight Loss: 6.5 pounds Total 2015 Weight Loss: 6.5 pounds I am chuffed with this although I have to add the caveat that I put on 10 pounds over the Christmas period. Nonetheless it feels good to put a sizable dent in that gain. I have on a couple of occasions lost that amount of weight in the past 6 months and while it is a pleasant surprise, it's an unrealistic expectation. I would be delighted if I could continue losing at a steady rate and I...

The fourth series of the Undateables began tonight. I have been a frequent viewer in the past although often through my fingers. As someone who has a very limited dating history and who finds it an ongoing struggle, the programme resonates strongly with me and I find it an interesting if occasionally very uncomfortable watch. As with all of the subjects of this type of documentary series, I am concerned about the impact of being under the microscope. A friend of mine works with Ray who appeared in a previous series and I briefly met him on one occasion. He seemed a nice guy who coped well with the occasional attention he received in public. I suspect it would take a certain kind of bravery for the participants to search #theundateables though. I identified most with 21 year old Alex, a car fanatic with autism who feared the prospect of "my heart being thrown in a giant shredder". He had never asked anyone out and when describing his situation said "Confidence has bee...

Last week, I took advantage of the post-Christmas sales and picked up Frank Skinner's latest show on DVD, Man In A Suit. There's a pleasingly timeless feel about the show, save for an obligatory reference to Operation Yewtree and a nod to Lady Gaga. Skinner excels at universal truths and the 57 year old is reliably entertaining on the subjects of ageing and relationships. In between, there's surreal skits about Robin Hood and King Arthur, in addition to the best joke about eating a Toblerone you're ever likely to hear. Filmed in the intimate environs of the Leicester Square Theatre, Skinner demonstrates his complete control of the audience, riffing superbly on an early heckle. When the audience cheer his revelation of sobriety, his admonishing response is in gloriously poor taste. He may have left his laddish image of the 1990s behind but one of the main joys here is watching him wander the line between eloquence and filth.  A joke referencing Skinner's early st...

Today saw Manchester United and Sunderland's FA Cup Third Round ties. United stumbled to a 2-0 win at Yeovil, Ander Herrera and Angel Di Maria briefly lighting up another poor performance. Sunderland played Leeds in a repeat of the 1973 final, where the Wearsiders pulled off one of the all time great shocks courtesy of a Ian Porterfield goal and a frankly extraordinary double save from Jim Montgomery. Montgomery was in attendance at the Stadium of Light today to witness the same outcome, a 1-0 win for the Black Cats courtesy of a strike from the returning Patrick Van Aanholt. My Sunderland FA Cup memories are not quite as fond. 2004 saw Sunderland drawn against Millwall in the semi finals. My Dad had a contact at the club at the time and got us tickets for the match at Old Trafford. Manchester United had beaten at Arsenal at Villa Park the day before and we headed up to Manchester dreaming of the perfect final. The events of that match are something of a blur now. Tim Cahill ...

It's FA Cup Third Round weekend and today I headed to the Valley to watch Charlton play Blackburn. The tournament has been devalued by many in recent years but I still believe in "the romance of the cup", where  minnows take on the giants of the game. Or in this case, a second tier side play another second tier side. But I find myself priced out of attending matches most of the time and it's difficult to argue with £10 tickets. Blackburn caught Charlton cold after just four minutes when Chris Taylor rose highest to head home. The hosts took a while to build momentum and a 12 minute delay when the floodlights failed proved a blessing in disguise. Charlton regrouped and looked the more likely side to score heading towards half time, with Andre Bikey unable to capitalise on keeper Simon Eastwood spilling the ball. Blackburn were undone from a set piece when Johann Gudmundsson curled a fine 25 yard free kick into the net in the 55th minute, though Eastwood would have ...

I had my first workout of the new year today. Situated above the treadmills at my gym are a bank of TVs. Ordinarily most of my viewing choices are uninspired. E4 is only vaguely palatable when How I Met Your Mother or The Big Bang Theory are on. Most recently I have watched a new sitcom on there called Melissa and Joey. As a child of the Nickelodeon era, I'm pleased to see Melissa Joan Hart again but from what I've seen, the show doesn't make the best use of her talents. 4 Music is frequently on and has merit, if only in demonstrating that if you strip away the music and add subtitles, the entire vapid and soulless enterprise of modern pop music is painfully exposed. While illustrating the extent to which most pop stars appear to be in cahoots with Dr Dre and his Beats headphones. Thirdly and most curiously, I have the option of Al Jazeera. Who are mostly (and unsurprisingly) reporting on the unjust internment of three of their journalists in an Egyptian prison. As I wr...

I've seen in the new year with two football matches featuring my teams. The first, a 1-1 draw between Stoke and Manchester United that might generously be described as "turgid" and accurately described as "absolutely sodding atrocious". The second, a 3-2 defeat for Sunderland at Manchester City, another worthy edition to a fixture that has proved compelling over the past few seasons. Prior to this season, Sunderland had beaten City 1-0 in four consecutive home fixtures in a run that only came to an end last month in a 4-1 Sergio Aguero inspired pasting at the Stadium of Light. The most dramatic of those took place on this day in 2012. City dominated the second half with 59% possession but a spirited Sunderland rearguard action kept them at bay, with a particularly impressive contribution from Matt Kilgallon as a 24th minute substitution for Wes Brown. In the 78th minute, Ji Dong Won comes on for Nicklas Bendtner. It's the last minute of injury time. City...