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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.
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It's 1966, little Bernie is about to graduate into manhood, and the highlight of his life, his
bar mitzvah, is due on 30th July. Hmmm, why does that date sound familiar? Well, OK, it doesn't, I'm bluffing. But if
you're a footie fan you'll know that was England's finest hour, the day of their one and only World Cup triumph. Sixty Six
follows little Bernie and his dysfunctional family as they struggle in vain to put on a party for him to rival arguably
the greatest sporting event in this country's history. Helena Bonham Carter and Eddie Marsan (you'll recognise him when you
see him - he's been in everything from 
There really isn't much in the way of plot in Sixty Six. More and more people drop out of the party as England get closer
to the final, more and more calamities hit the family, further threatening the success of the bar mitzvah. Quite why they
couldn't have had the bar mitzvah on another day is not fully explored - but according to the credits it's a "true-ish"
story so I guess that was out of the question. After the rather ordinary trudge through the meat of the story, the ending
comes alive a little, which really helps with your overall impression when leaving the theatre. Throughout, the period
atmosphere is superb, particularly during the final scene itself - you'll understand when you see it but I shan't destroy
the surprise. There's nothing really to criticise, it's just that the whole effect is less of a movie and more of a couple
of episodes of Where The Heart Is - and you wouldn't pay six quid for that, now would you?
