McFaul

They're trying to buy Bury so they can play in England next season, all over tomorrows papers.

If Rangers purchase of Bury goes ahead so they can play in League One, it's the biggest disgrace in English footballing history.

The main concern about Italy for me, is their cheating bastard nature which has been part of their culture for 2000 years. The referee will be conned by an Italian at least 5 times on Sunday, I only hope it's not in the box or 5 yards outside so Pirlo can put one in the top corner.

Walcott's the quickest player in the full thing, Rooney is no slouch, Oxlade if he comes on, the full backs are quick, Welbeck's like shit off a stick too, although shit would describe his showings so far like other than his goal against Sweden, as it would Young who also has pace.

He missed an absolute sitter against Spain di Natale, he's alright though, not one to have sleepless nights about but a competent striker, and as for Balotelli everybody who's ever seen him knows that there's more chance of him being shite than good. Even the Italians acknowledge pace is one of their handicaps.

I don't think Italy are anything like France, couldn't be much less like them, will be a completely different game to the opener. I'm quite confident, it's a dream for England getting them instead of Spain. Completely different scenario to the first game, Italy have a tenth of the attacking potential of France, they're just too slow, in my view, and they don't have quality all over the park by any stretch of the imagination. We'll come unstuck against a side with lots of pace and incisiveness, Italy are definitely not that team in my view. Well that's yee. I'd rather have Gerrard than both, who if he keeps going the way he is will have a sneak for player of the tournament. de Rossi has been a decent player throughout his career, but he's also been vastly overrated, he's never been no where near the level of a Vieira, Keane, or even someone like Guardiola when he played. Now he's even slower, and while Pirlo is technically a good player he's without question not what he was, and it's noticable that Italy have tired in the later parts of games. Ireland were better than them for long spells, Russia demolished them 3 weeks ago 3-0 with their best side out, I've got far less worries about this game than the France game. Absolute result for us getting Italy, and as long as cockiness doesn't envelop us we'll be OK.

We'll beat Tottenham, I agree with most of the experts that they'll return to their natural level of 9th-13th eventually, worst thing they've ever done sacking Redknapp. AVB will be the biggest disaster you can see before it happens since, Dalglish was reappointed Liverpool manager. VDV will leave, Bale is on record as saying Tottenham aren't big enough for him, Adebayor won't take the necessary pay cut, Modric is away, we'll come above Tottenham next year, and so we should.

I think that might've been what I was thinking about to be honest. See that though, he was born, raised and lived on the Shankill, where literally there are no catholics, and he represented ROI as a boxer. As strange as those 15 muslims who are in the EDL imo.

Would just be like England to fuck it up and lose 2-1. Ireland 88, Sweden 92 and Romania in 2000 spring to mind as occasions we were equally confident of getting a result and we still fucked it up. Nee negativity though, if we attack like we did against Sweden in spells, this should present no significant problems. Me and J69 could mark Voronin. Their best players are old, Tymoschuk is a good player, and you saw how quickly the Ukranian crowd turned on them when France were on top, an early goal and we'll be sweet. We MUST play fast football, we can't play like Spain's dwarfs, we know how to play fast football, and we have quality, people saying we don't are fucking idiots, high tempo considered play is what won Man Utd the Champions League against technically superior sides like Bayern and Juventus, it's an English strength that is somewhat lost in the fact everyone tells you, you have to be tactically aware. You can be and play high tempo football.

I hope Sweden do us a favour the neet, because Italy are shite. I don't like how they play, their players are far from top class they'd be there for the taking. Spain on the other hand are much better than we are, and we'd need loads of luck to get through. That fucking goal at the end was significant because it would've meant Germany v Spain in the Semi if it hadn't have happened. FWIW I think the neet will be a shite game and we'll sneak it 1-0. Before a ball was kicked I said Sweden were one of the poorest sides in the tournament, what I've seen so far enhances that, and I don't hold much hope for them against France but you never know. The thing with France sometimes, I don't think it's the talent, it's their formation and actual desire that holds them back. Man for man I honestly believe they're better than Germany, but have half of their application.

This post. Some sort of break down has occurred. "Match gowers" David? "Biggotted conotation" I'm the thick one apparently, and he ends off by saying I'm a Celtic fan no one on here is more critical of Rangers and Celtic than me . My philosophy is if I don't know enough about a subject, I don't talk about it. My advice to you is don't talk about football, the level of your knowledge has been bitterly exposed three days running now.

This cunt is clueless to be fair it's all but gone from Hibs but Hearts fans remain the third bigots of Scottish football, hence why everyone calls them the wee huns. Even many of their own fans (below) acknowledge they have a problem, but literally ANYONE with half a clue would know this, he'd have got away with it unchecked on skunkers. Talk about accountacy, and the financial times, not things you don't know about i.e. football and football culture. http://www.hmfckickb...s-and-football/

The yids will think they're important if they come on "faakin heww 224 weplies abaht Hawwy and the mighty Spurs", when the reality is 140 of them have been people taking the piss out of J69 and him writing his views.

Alreyt surely.

Stick to coming across like Frank Spencer and playing Tetris on your fucking PS10 son.

We beat them 6 month ago in a friendly quite easily. We didn't win at Southampton for 40 year, then Dyer goes down there and gets a hattrick. Records are for doilums. If we don't win tonight we're officially shite.

I must mention "my mate in the OB" quite a bit.

It's been there for about 18 months you glakey cunt.

It's not Wacky. Don't get paranoid.

Is AnnFrankDrumkit an old poster off here?

As I said before a ball was kicked Sweden are shite. The changes they're making for the game today make them even weaker but, I've got no confidence in England, we should win, but we might not. See when we played Croatia in 2004 we were 1-0 down for 40 minutes, but I knew we'd come back and win because we were class, and we did 4-2. See even if we went a goal down to shitey Sweden, I'd be panicking, we need the first goal the neet.

Well do you want me to say Man Utd are a wank club, or Colleen Rooney is a scouse cunt despite making millions in her spare time for charities, or Redknapp is a shit manager?

They finished in what in any other season is a CL spot. Levy is a cunt. Like most jews, brilliant with money and it's everything to him.