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13 / 05 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the fifth F1 race at Barcelona are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monaco in two weeks on 27th May - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 25th.

30 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Argentina are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Greece and starts on 25th May. Cutoff for edits is midnight GMT on Thursday 24th May.

23 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Jari-Matti Latvala has been injured, so he is being replaced by Dani Sordo for Rally Argentina. If you have Latvala on your team, you'll automatically score for Sordo instead. Cutoff for edits for this weekend's rally is midnight GMT on Thursday 26th April.

22 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the fourth F1 race at Bahrain are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Barcelona in three weeks on 13th May - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 11th.

15 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy F1: Now we have a few races under our belt, the weightings have been changed to reflect the early season performances - see the the league page to see what changed.

15 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the third F1 race at China are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is (probably) Bahrain next weekend on 22nd April - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 20th.

02 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: The results have been updated to reflect Mikko Hirvonen's exclusion from Rally Portugal.

01 / 04 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Portugal are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Argentina and starts on 27th April. Cutoff for edits is midnight GMT on Thursday 26th April.

28 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Last call to pick a WRC Academy driver! Teams will be locked from midnight GMT on Thursday night - if you haven't picked one by then, you'll get Christopher Duplessis by default.

25 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the second F1 race at Malaysia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is China in 3 weeks on 15th April - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT on Friday 13th.

18 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: The results from the first F1 race at Australia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Malaysia this coming weekend - cutoff for team edits is midnight GMT Friday.

15 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: LAST DAY! Teams entered after midnight GMT tonight won't count for Melbourne - this is your last chance!

13 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Mexico are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Portugal and starts on 29th March. Remember to pick your Academy driver before then! Anyone who doesn't pick an Academy driver will by default get the first guy on the list - Christopher Duplessis.

05 / 03 / 2012
Fantasy F1: It's here! The 2012 Fantasy F1 championship is open for entries! Read the rules or dive straight in and Pick your team. You can change your mind as often as you like until midnight GMT on Thursday 15th March when teams will be frozen for the first race.

23 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: The Mexico entry list has arrived and is available on the rally page.

14 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Due to Mini's recent hoo-ha, if you have Mini as your WRC team, you will score for the Mini Portugal team instead (currently Araujo/Nobre) from Mexico onwards.

13 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Teams are open for editing again, though the entry list for Mexico isn't yet available.

12 / 02 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from Rally Sweden are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The next rally is in Mexico and starts on 8th March. Teams will reopen for editing on Monday.

23 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Teams are now open for editing again. Ogier and Mikkelsen are entered into Sweden in S2000 cars, but they're not eligible for the SWRC championship. You can choose them as WRC drivers for Sweden if you want.

22 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Results from the Monte are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. The second rally is in Sweden and starts on 9th Feb. Teams will be frozen at midnight GMT on the night of Thursday 9th Feb.

18 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: Rally teams are now frozen for the Monte. You can still pick a team and it will start scoring from Sweden on 9th Feb.

11 / 01 / 2012
Fantasy Rally: The 2012 Fantasy Rally season is now open for entries! Read the rules or dive straight in and pick a team. You can change your team as often as you like so you may as well create one now in case you forget later. Cutoff for the first race in Monte Carlo is midnight GMT on the night of TUESDAY 17th January.

27 / 11 / 2011
Fantasy F1: The results from the final F1 race at Brazil are in and the championship has been decided! Check the results or see how your team did. First race of 2012 is Australia on 18th March. Entries for the new season will open a week or two before that date.

14 / 11 / 2011
Fantasy Rally: Shock rally drama! Martin Semerad was excluded from the PWRC, so our results change too, which gives us a new champion! Check the results or see how your team did.

13 / 11 / 2011
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally GB are in and the season is over! Check the results or see how your team did. The 2012 season will be open for entries in early 2012 in time for Monte Carlo on 17th January.

A Cock and Bull Story

Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Kelly Macdonald, Gillian Anderson, Jeremy Northam, Dylan Moran, Stephen Fry, David Walliams, James Fleet, Ian Hart, Ronni Ancona, Greg Wise, Mark Williams, Naomie Harris. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Story: Coogan and Brydon make a movie of the book Tristram Shandy. Running Time: 1hr 34 minutes. UK Certificate 15.

Duped again! The reviews were good, the cast was good, the omens shone clear and bright. I persuaded my mates they'd much rather see a good comedy than Kate Beckinsale in latex and what happens? It turns out to be a big fat serving of sewage soup, so they'll never trust me again, and I can't blame them.

It's hard to imagine quite how A Cock and Bull Story fails so badly. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have ample chemistry together, happily taking the mickey out of themselves and each other - this is all very well for a chat show, but this is a movie - where's the comedy? Some of the early moments gave me a quiet chuckle - when Brydon impersonates Coogan, for example - but they're far too sparse and, fatally, just not funny enough. The story itself is of Coogan and Brydon making a movie about a movie of the book of Tristram Shandy (or something like that). It quite simply doesn't work. Coogan's partial narration is actually extremely effective and is very similar to that of his earlier and infinitely superior 24 Hour Party People (also directed by Winterbottom), but it's wasted when none of the stuff that's being described is either entertaining or amusing. I nearly nodded off more than once in the second half - and I never do that in a movie.

The cast is like a who's who of British TV comedy supporting actors, so you'll have plenty of star-spotting to do to while away the boredom. None of the talented cast bar the stars are allowed enough flexibility to shine though - Stephen Fry is lumbered with some particularly asinine lines and Dylan Moran (from Black Books and Shaun of the Dead) is rather wasted as the forceps-bearing Dr Slop. The ending is particularly bizarre - it ended so suddenly that I was fully expecting Coogan to pop back up and say, "well, not quite the end," before carrying on - but no, the end credits rolled and that was it, leaving us with a sense of disclosure, albeit tinged with the relief of being able to go home. The fact that everyone in the cinema got up as soon as the credits started, despite there being dialogue over them, shows that I'm not alone in my disappointment, so how is it getting good reviews? Who are these people writing reviews who aren't in the cinema-going majority? I truly believe that no-one can possibly rate this as a 5-star movie without a huge backhander. Why didn't I get one?

This movie is a Cock, no Bull. Avoid it at all costs and spend your money on a bargain-bin copy of Alan Partridge instead. I can't remember ever seeing a movie that I expected to be so good and ending up being so bad.

I enjoyed this film: 2/5

I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: 1/5

Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: 2/5 - We get a shot of Keeley Hawes' bum and plenty of cleavage, but a kid gets his willy caught in the window and the birth scene is quite graphic, so they kind of cancel each other out. Several f-words.

To enjoy this film you should be: on the payroll.