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Sports Gambling Podcast
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The Balls.ie Guide to Life
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Down Set Fight
Chris Sims, Chad Bowers and Scott Kowalchuk
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* One man versus every mascot in professional sports - THEY WILL ALL BE PUNCHED! It's kick-off time...

The Case Against William
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
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Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) have compromised their careers to raise 12 children....

David McK (3600 KP) rated Early Man (2018) in Movies
Dec 27, 2020
Football. (or, as our American cousins call it, soccer).
Two quintessentially British things.
This is the first non-Wallace and Gromit Aardman claymation film since 'Chicken Run' (from the year 2000, I think), introducing a whole host of new characters and setting: prehistory, with a Stone Age tribe merrily doing their own thing hunting that most dangerous and elusive of all creatures (rabbits) in their valley, until they are forced out of the valley by their most sophisticated bronze age neighbours.
To get their own land back, they challenge said neighbours to a game of footie, despite not knowing how to play the game ...
Like I said at the top, quintessentially British.