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They weren't spineless when they were winning all those matches for us.

Judging from footage of the finals in 1966, some wideboys made a fortune from selling masses of wooden rattles. No doubt that was claimed as a 'tradition,' too. The vuvuzela sounds okay as a musical instrument, but there's no way the organisers of this world cup can argue simultaneously that the actual football is captivating whilst defending most of the crowd turning their backs on it to honk on those plastic horns non-stop.

I hate them, but I can't help laughing at the twits who REALLY resent the very idea of so much noise at a footie match. Take these two eejits: [YOUTUBE]X-rKemC0QI0[/YOUTUBE] "I don't know if they take turns"!!:D

Talk about moving the goalposts!

I was reading just the other day in Sports Science Monthly how Sami used to be past his peak and as slow as a snail until he left LFC, when he suddenly became ten years younger and faster than Usain Bolt.

Well, Sami left with the warmest send-off possible and the possibility of a job when he retired, and Riera has behaved like a tit, so that's a bit of a forced list.

This sounds like a job for Craig Johnston.

Will it? We all want Pacheco to break into the team, don't we? Well, if so, Yossi looks like one of the most likely candidates to be sacrificed. (I know Yossi was often used out wide, but I always preferred him playing more central.) So, although I like him and don't want him to go, that looks to me the silver lining.

Wright-Phillips: beats a man nicely, then his brain freezes and he loses the ball. Sums him up. Go on holiday, mate.

Every time I see those boneheaded twats in the crowd with St George chain mail on and playing the Great Escape, I think of them saying how Americans don't get irony. They deserve to get a damn good kicking from Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Phillip Roth, Don Delillo, Larry David, Gore Vidal, Randy Newman and David Letterman. Bastards.

Lovely touch by Southgate: he appears to have rubbed lard on his head for the occasion.

If anyone remembers Venables' Engerlund in Asia before Euro 96, I don't know why they'd be surprised by this abject performance. Typical ITV: they invest in the match and then they get all uppity because it's neither important nor entertaining. Welcome to the grubby world of naff TV, Adrian Chiles.

She's saying: "Fuck off James Dean". (She sure as hell isn't saying "Where's the library?" the daft plastic bimbo)

Clive Tiddley's grasp of English is limper than Andy Townsend's Irishness. What the feckity feck does he mean by 'convictional purpose'??? As for the 'band': please shoot them.

What concerns me most is the idea that the Lib-Con balance seems to mean more than merit. A replacement cabinet minister ought to be the best available for the job, not someone from the same party who puts his hands up highest and shouts 'ooh, ooh, bagsy me!' If that's how the coalition is going to go on it'll end up as a shambles.

There's a story about Connery that loads of people have, er, 'adopted' for their after dinner speeches, so maybe it's this one: A bloke reported getting blotto with his mates in the clubhouse of a posh golf club after a morning round. At some point in the afternoon, Sean Connery passed through the bar on his way out to play. One of the guy's mates decided to ask Connery the big question : "Hey, Sean, what's the best sex you've ever had?" To which Connery just stared at him and muttered: "Fuck off!" But on his way back through the clubhouse some hours later, Connery came over again, tapped the guy on the shoulder and said: "Petula Clark. 1963. Up the arse." And then walked off.

What is this, the Daily Mail? He doesn't look THAT different, if you replace the 'I've just arrived' smiley pic with one of countless 'focussing on the game' pics from his first season. He's just grown a beard and put on weight.

Yes, even now, when he'd make some oil tankers look svelte and nippy, I wouldn't miss him playing a Masters' match because he still makes the game look so magically simple and elegant - he never wastes the ball. Him, Didi and Digger in his latter years were fantastic like that, but Jan was peerless at possession football and intelligent use of the ball. An absolute privilege to watch.

Memory lane: Reading and NHS failed Cech, claims Mourinho - Premier League, Football - The Independent

Even his bollocks have a paunch by the look of those kecks! Hilariously surreal scenes!

What can we learn from this poll? I guess one thing is: some fans on here appear happy for those who spoke to The Times, rather than those who logged on to RAWK, to speak for them. And Avram Grant ('a relegated manager') is very popular with Pompey fans: who would've thunk it.

Hi, I'm Michael Owen, international superstar and Real Madrid legend. I will sign commemorative mementoes at the door, which, as I'm sure you already know, there is a charge for. I'm sure you want to thank me for coming. You're welcome. This is a family club. It's a family club that would have made Charles Dickens write a frenzied critique of the immorality of commerce and then run and throw up over the hired aspidistra. But it's a family club by football standards. You see, whenever one new mercenary arrives, an old mercenary is happy to be hired to greet him. Look at little David Moores. He's only just out of leg irons. He doesn't want you to think he's a liar. But he has just been in leg irons. And he's not that well now. And he's not sorry but his tummy's awfully sore! Oh feck off! Look, Real Madrid have had loads - LOADS - of stats. Ask Code. And we've hired a cunt. Maureen. Our cunt now, not yours. That's all that matters, you outdated moralistic - ha ha! - dinosaurs! I can't tell you how much I'm going to enjoy - seeing other players - winning things now. Mainly because my brain has still a weird cell or two of conscience that's REALLY wrecking my bloody enjoyment. But that's football. And that's all about winning. Come on Maureen. Run down the line! Come ON!! Make it all better! RUN DOWN THE LINE!!!!

Thanks for the link mate.

And blind!

I know. I wasn't referring to you.