Ramblings of an Englishman

 "There are two countries in Europe with professional referees, Italy & England. Not one English referee will go to the World Cup" - Arsène Wenger, 2018 Another day which has been riddled by erros not from players and managers but the highlights from the Professional Game Match Officials Limited once again getting so many decisions wrong to a baffling degree. From Brentford's offside goal standing and the VAR official 'forgot' to draw the offside line (so doing his job), West Ham's Tomáš Souček getting away with a blatant handball against Chelsea, Brighton's Pervis Estupiñán having a goal ruled out because the VAR official looked at the wrong player in the offside call and finally Mario Lemina sent off for running towards the referee. These will all be wiped off as human error and the officials given a week off before coming back no punishment at all. It continues to be a point of contention for fans that no accountability is seen from these officials,...

The balance of power at DC has changed. James Gunn & Peter Safran are the co-Chairmen and co-CEO's for DC and their film efforts. What came next was a strong reboot of all, we saw cancellation of film and actor contract before a big announcement at some point soon for how this cinematic universe (or is it now a multiverse with how the MCU is moving). One thing we know that hasn't been cancelled is that of The Batman 2. Matt Reeves directed a great film and it got me thinking, with a reboot of DC as a whole will everything be moved into that Batman universe or will Batman be on his own. On the later as per the post title I was wondering does Batman have enough to sustain a cinematic universe in his own mythos and will look how to break that down now. I am not basing this in Matt Reeve's film and tv series which is why I won't mention any large film ideas but just characters and as such this is something that would take a good while to develop all the characters you c...

Now with Final Battle out of the way we know about the future of Ring of Honor. With an on demand weekly show on Honor Club now is the time to see what the roster will be going forward. I am excited for this as now you can build towards shows with a card fully focussed on Ring of Honor. The irony of the report that it will be taped at the former Impact Zone does make me laugh but we will see how this looks when it happens and once we get a date for the first ROH on Demand TV Show I will be subscribing. However, this post is about the roster. We don't have a full idea as of yet so I wanted to speculate. Judging by what we have seen from Tony Khan's ROH I imagine those on the roster for sure are as follows: ROH World Champion: Claudio Castagnoli  ROH Women's World Champion: Athena  ROH Pure Champion: Wheeler Yuta ROH World TV Champion: Samoa Joe  ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes ROH World Six-Man Champions: The Embassy Dalton Castle & The Boys  Mercedes M...

Another year brings another Pokémon game which seems to be the case now (that or DLC expansion) with multiple teams working on multiple games at once it seems the content, content, content approach is being taken which has hurt the performance of the game. I played Scarlet with my switch docked and the only issues I had were some lag and frame rate drops. I understand these are issues but to me it didn't hurt my enjoyment of the game, in fact I would say the free roam aspect was really fund and a great addition, I think it is something to keep but also improve. Whatever Generation Ten holds (which I can see as the first modern day Japan region since Generation 4 and Sinnoh as a big 10 generations of Pokémon celebration) I do think that we need level scaling for this format otherwise the game isn't maximising how free roaming it is you still really have a path to follow you can get your starter to level 10 and then go and beat gym 8 you are likely bound by the levels of your opp...

Spoilers for God of War 2018 & God of War Ragnarok to follow Having just finished God of War Ragnarok I have been wondering what can the series go. After God of War 2018 I thought we would be getting a Norse trilogy which I do not think is the case anymore. I wanted to look at how God of War Ragnarok sets up any potential future for the series. You could say Ragnarok is the end of the series it wraps up this story well but with sales figures for the game booming you can bet we will get another game. It broke records, it won awards (well deserved for Christopher Judge and his performance as Kratos) it is almost guaranteed we will get another game.  So where is the world of God of War now. Odin is dead, Thor is dead, Asgard has fallen and Loki is off on his own adventure to find his people, the lost giants. A lot has changed in the realms and with that they seem peaceful. Kratos becomes a God worshiped by the realms but what now? I don't think it is a controversial take to say No...

With Japan winning the Football Frontier International all seems quiet in Japan. However, a new threat will soon emerage looking to wipe football of the face of the Earth. This will be the third and final season for Protagonist and all his friends and rivals so we will look to pull out all the stops in tribute to them when it comes to the world and teams created. Before we begin it is important to note two things. With the evolving landscape and win in an international tournament the general look to Japan and how popular football is there has an effect, the amount of school with football teams has grown massivly and even those beforehand with them and not in the Path to Glory (or that we have seen) that have been added to this tournament is huge to deal with demand so if we make reference to players from other school appearing suddenly when those school didn't exist in the first season. Secondly if you are starting at part eight please see the links below to the rest of the series:...

2022 is coming to an end in a year I cannot decide if it has done quickly or slowly but regardless of that on Saturday 19th November AEW brought it's final PPV of the year to New Jersey for Full Gear. I have to be honest going into this show I have been checked out of wrestling for a little while I don't remember the last time I fully watched a Dynamite or Rampage (let alone any other company). Going into the show I was hoping AEW could hook my back in and over this we will see if they did or not.  Zero Hour Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta and Chuck Taylor), Rocky Romero and Danhausen vs. The Factory (QT Marshall, Aaron Solo, Lee Johnson, Nick Comoroto and Cole Karter) Would've preferred Orange Cassidy defending his title but oh well, I like The Factory (not as a group but as individuals it's odd). I had my doubts about Danhausen when he was signed but he won me over quite quick it is one of those things you need to understand and once you do it's great....