Man Utd vs Liverpool

MANCHESTER UNITED VS LIVERPOOL

Liverpool hosted their rivals in a tight game at Anfield; Manchester United were 4th in the Barclays Premier League table- 2 points clear of 5th place Liverpool.

Manchester United kicked off the match in their white away kits. 14 minutes later, Fellaini plays the ball to Herrera, who spots Mata's run from the right and plays an excellent pass through the channel. Mata collects it perfectly and slots a right-footed finish past Mignolet and into the corner! Manchester United were in front!

Right after Liverpool kicked off- with the scoreboard at 1-0, Ander Herrera went into the midfield area and Allen dragged him back. The Referee instantly took out the yellow card: Allen was booked.

Just after half time, 46 minutes and 2 seconds into the game, Steven Gerrard was brought on as a sub for Adam Lallana. Instantly, after being subbed on, Gerrard received the ball, before losing it to Ander Herrera in the midfield area. The Liverpool and ex- England skipper stuck his leg out in retaliation- appearing to stamp on Herrera's leg. The whistle was blown by the Referee and he instantly brought out a card. But what colour was it? IT WAS RED! Steven Gerrard had been sent off! It was 46 minutes and 40 seconds into the match- that meant that Steven Gerrard had lasted 38 seconds before being sent off!

Ander Herrera was booked due to the reaction to Gerrard's tackle. Mata played the ball square to Di Maria, who returned it with a lovely chipped pass, and the Spaniard fired it past Mignolet with a stunning acrobatic finish, scissor-kicking it past the Liverpool keeper. The scoreboard changed to 2-0 with just over half an hour left.

With over 20 minutes left, Coutinho was allowed to run in towards the middle before playing a lovely pass right for Sturridge, who sneaked a low shot just inside De Gea's near post thanks to a deflection off Jones. Sturridge had scored! The score was 2-1.

There were 5 minutes of injury time. 3 minutes into added time, Blind played a one-two with Di Maria before racing past Can, who barged him over and the referee pointed to the spot. Penalty! Wayne Rooney- the Red Devils' skipper- stepped up to take it. The United man fired it to his left but it's a good height for Mignolet, who guessed correctly and parried it away. Rooney had missed and the scoreboard remained 2-1. The Referee blew his whistle and Manchester United had beat Liverpool for the second time this season.

Despicable Me 2 Review

Despicable Me 2

Despicable Me 2 is a hilarious movie directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. It is about the story of Gru and his minions. Gru is an ex-villain who works for the Anti-Villain League who tries to stop villains from committing crime with his partner Lucy.

The minions are the comical yellow slaves that work for Gru; every scene with a minion in will get you rolling on the floor with laughter. Gru has to find  out who is in possession of the PX41 Serum (a liquid that turns an animal or person into a fierce, evil, purple monster). Gru's minions were being used as dummies to test it on.

The Anti-Villain League found out that there were traces of this serum in a mall, so Gru and Lucy went to find out where the traces were, being disguised as a cupcake-shop owner. There are many twists and turns in this movie, alongside the humour by the Minions and Gru's cute daughter Agnes!

Despicable Me vs Despicable Me 2

Despicable Me is about the life of Gru when he was a villain and his attempts to 'steal the moon' (it will become clearer once you watch the movie). Despicable Me was also hilarious where Gru adopted Agnes, Margo and Edith. However, I would think that Despicable Me 2 was slightly  better than Despicable Me despite the fact that Despicable Me had a really good story and it was also funny. Comment below your ideas!

I would strongly recommend both movies as they are both very comical.

iPhone 6 Review

iPhone 6

The iPhone 6 has really increased the expected standard of phones all over the world. It was released in September 2014.

Apple did something we’d been looking forward for a number of years - announce an iPhone with a bigger screen.  An iPhone 6 is made of curved aluminium, gold or light/dark silver as its colour and it is 6.8mm thick, rather than the iPhone 5s which was 7.6mm thick.

The iPhone 6's battery life is the best that an iPhone has ever seen before (joint with its big brother, the iPhone 6plus). The iPhone 6's resolution is also better than the iPhone 5S'. Also, the iPhone 6 and 6plus came with IOS 8- a new software that has so many helpful changes to IOS 7.

The iPhone 6 is a must-buy phone!

Billionaire Boy Review

BILLIONAIRE BOY

Billionaire Boy is a hilarious book written by the comical author David Walliams. It is about a boy called Joe Spud who is exceedingly rich- and fat. Imagine something that you really want, and he's probably got twenty of those already. His father, Len Spud, started off being a poor man who worked in a toilet roll factory. Until one day, an idea came to his mind that completely changed his life: he invented a toilet roll that is wet on one side and dry on the other; he called this toilet roll Bumfresh.

He sold this for 10p each and he approximately sold 1 million a year, so you can see how much money he was earning. Joe went to a ridiculously posh school where he had no friends at all as everyone was very rich as well. He wanted to go to the local school, where all middle-class people went because he thought he had a chance of making a friend there.

His father agreed to this idea and on the first day of school he made a friend called Bob (who was just as overweight as Joe was). He also met a girl called Laura who Joe really liked. There are many twists that come along the way, though!

The Lego Movie Review

THE LEGO MOVIE

The Lego Movie Videogame is the culmination of a surprising series of unlikely events; it is rated 7+ by PEGI.

If you've played previous Lego games, you have a general idea what to expect. The Lego Movie Videogame doesn't deviate from its successful predecessors' formula. As always, you must lead a band of merry plastic characters around a vibrant world filled with rudimentary puzzles and enemies who fall to pieces when they meet their demise. Some basic ingenuity allows you to advance to the next set piece with minimal difficulty, and level hubs tie the action-oriented stages together while offering incentive to explore. You collect various doodads and in-game currency, which activate cheats that let you play completed areas the way you like, or unlock a slew of additional characters, and sometimes you get to assemble special vehicles or structures by playing a minigame.

You work through the movie with levels including parts that need you to find some things, make something, kill some robots or even hack into a system (if you are Benny). And once you have completed the game, there is loads more to do, like go back to one mission and try to find a golden manual, you could purchase characters and you can also just roam around on the streets.

Big Nate Review

BIG NATE- THE BOY WITH THE BIGGEST HEAD
IN THE WORLD REVIEW

Big Nate- The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World (written by the hilarious Lincoln Pierce) is about an 11 year boy called Nate Wright and his adventures in school with his friends: Francis and Teddy. Nate believes that he is Destined for Greatness . He receives a fortune cookie that states that his fortune is that he will 'surpass all others today'. Throughout the day he tries to surpass all others- even in a speed-eating competition.

However, he does have many enemies that do get in his way:

·         Gina (the nerd in Nate's class)

·         Ellen (his annoying sister)

·         Arthur (going out with Jenny- Nate's crush)

·         Teachers (that constantly give out detentions)

·         Randy (a bully)

It is a great, must-read book!

Minecraft Review

MINECRAFT REVIEW

Minecraft is a PEGI 7 rated game published by the Swedish company Mojang. It is a game about building stuff with cubes. It’s also a game about survival, discovery, community, loneliness, creativity, and despair. When you first start the game, you are dropped straight into the wilderness. But it won’t be a wilderness quite like anyone else’s - the game’s environments are randomly generated from the word go, and will continue to expand until you’ve travelled enough to make the game generate a world three times the size of Earth. Which, of course, you never will.

Your starting point could be a forest, a desert island, or the peak of a snow-covered mountain. And to begin with, it’s all very peaceful. But what most players don’t initially realise is that monsters can appear from any unlit area in the game. During the day, this generally just means that caves and tunnels are unsafe. But after your first 15 minutes with the game, the sun begins to set.

Speak to anyone who’s played Minecraft, and they’ll be able to vividly recall their ‘first night’. Some spend it running across grassy plains, chased by skeletons and zombies. Some panic and dig a hole in the ground with their bare hands, and proceed to sit at its bottom all night, watching the stars passing overhead and praying for daylight. Some, like myself, dash into a nearby cave, seal up the entrance with blocks of dirt and think themselves safe, until a venomous spider materialises out of the darkness and bites them in the back of the head.

But you soon learn that it doesn’t need to be this way. The next day, you gather wood, build some basic tools, mine some coal, and hey presto - you’ve built a hut with some torches on it. Being permanent sources of light, the torches keep the monsters at bay. It’s not much, but it represents safety. And as each new day comes, you gather more materials. Your hut becomes a house. You add another floor. You attempt to install a fireplace, but a hilarious accident convinces you to switch from wood-based construction to stone. You build a ladder up to the roof, and every night you sit up there, watching the world turn hostile as monsters roam the land.

One night, you catch yourself sitting on that roof, gazing at the moon. Suddenly, the game’s soundtrack decides to make its debut. It is minimalist, and plaintive. For reasons you can’t really explain, you feel incredibly sad and alone. And you realise that, for better or worse, Minecraft has got its hooks into you.

Once you start exploring further away, you’ll catch yourself spotting certain geological formations, and getting ideas for new buildings. The environments actually begin to feed and inform your creativity, with every empty space prompting visions of how best to fill it.

There’s something oddly primal about it. In gameplay terms, there’s really very little reason to expand beyond a very basic hut. But the desire to experiment, create and tame the surrounding wilderness constantly propels the player towards new experiences and challenges. See that huge, gaping cave near your house? Terrifying. But if you gather a load of resources and kit yourself out for some cave-diving, you can clear the monsters out and line the walls with torches, illuminating it and making it safe. As an added bonus, there’s a good chance you’ll find some rare crafting materials while you’re down there - natural caves are more likely to yield rare ores than man-made mines, and some even contain treasure chests. The grim inevitability of your next cave-dive is something that punctuates most people’s Minecraft experience, but the sense of achievement and relief is largely unparalleled.

Still, let’s say you’re not the biggest fan of terror, isolation or impromptu moments of introspection. That’s where the game’s multiplayer capabilities come in.

The simple fact of having other people around to talk to and collaborate with obviously changes a lot of the fundamentals of the single-player Minecraft experience, but it manages to be an equally valuable and compelling experience nonetheless.

Minecraft servers - each one a unique, persistent online world that players can join - are incredibly varied. Some exist in perpetual daylight, and allow players to create and place any blocks they like without having to build tools or gather materials first. These are the servers where you’ll find accurately-recreated football stadiums, giant statues or cathedrals. Many, however, choose to retain the game’s survival aspects, although obviously the danger is lessened greatly by having a group of players working together. Instead of having your own little hut to protect, you’re often surrounded by an entire town.

Ratburger

Ratburger 

RATBURGER- written by  the humorous DAVID WALLIAMS and illustrated by the talented TONY ROSS- is essentially based on the enticing story about Zoe's (the main character's) adverse life; she has three pestering scenarios that occur, seeming to go on interminably:

1) Zoe's mother had faced a tragic passing when Zoe was 3. Consequently, Zoe's dad married Sheila ( Zoe's odious, overweight stepmother) and Sheila is so lazy that she requests Zoe to give her a massage.

2) Zoe has the most unpleasant time at school, being bullied by Tina Trotts.

3) Zoe possesses a hamster who passes away at the beginning. Nevertheless, she locates a rat perching in the corner of her room; this leads to her facing severe consequences...

Like every preceding book of David Walliams, this book also matched every expectation that I had as a reader.

I found this book exceedingly humorous and at times it could be very solemn too. However, I found the ending slightly peculiar although it was a great book overall.