luckyluke

Cyprus gets my vote, providing the absence of cock.

Another factor (I don't know how significant) is that it's a fairly widely held belief that he helped attract and settle Cisse, and if we flog one Demba it might make us more likely to end up with no Dembas.

It's a sign of how shit England are that the clash of this match with Eurovision actually presents a dilemma for me.

True now as it ever was.

at your last sentence. Err no idea though. Hope so.

That was it.

What was that quote about him asking Pardew every week why he wasn't playing only for the gaffer to say something like "you just don't understand football" .

Yeah. First time in over two years! Er no thanks. I miss proper acutes though; my hospital only has acute gynae, ENT and eyes (+ potential second obstetric theatre) so most of my time is spent looking after ICU which isn't really my bag. What is it you do exactly again? Anaesthetic nurse isn't it? I'm still not exactly sure what that is. Where I work it's ODPs, theatre nurses or recovery.

Ambivalent. Should have started a run of four 12 hour days (would be finishing the first in half an hour) but I'm at home, although I can't enjoy the sun too much as I'm full of cold!

Blatter approves of those too, so long as they shake hands afterwards.

What people forget about that bobble is that he was entirely at fault for the first goal, caught entirely out of position, flat footed in no man's land as the ball looped gently over him into the net. Plus one of my abiding memories of the 2006 world cup is Robinson surrendering position by repeatedly punting it over everyone's heads to his opposite number.

2 or 3 cups a day, and always start the day with a triple espresso. Don't touch tea and I live in Leeds.

General standard of football looks pretty poor in those clips - weak, underhit crosses bouncing several times across the faceof goal before our lad bundles them in - he's hardly in danger of bursting the net. And the long range efforts are less powerful than my stream of piss yet the go through everyone. Still he obviously knows where the goal is, so there's hope.

I've been awake for the last hour (after only getting to sleep at 1am) coughing my guts up if it makes you feel any better.

I know, football fans in mocking opposition (especially as it's Man get their way all the bloody time United) shocker, ffs.

10 months old but

Shits all over Armegeddon (released approximately the same time iirc)

Agreed. Even if the referees are to blame, who is responsible for ensuring their standards are maintained?

I can't believe I was disappointed when he left.

You'll hear any number of Scousers complain "we dominated all these games, look how many times we hit the bar/post" as their finishing has been notoriously poor this season. Downing would have a lot more (or even some) assists to his name if his mates could hit a cow's arse with a banjo.

Or you could say he is the product of what the game had been allowed to become. Players will do what they can get away with. I'd say that diving has got a lot worse since I started watching football, and because it has gone mostly unchecked we now have Drogba, Ashley Young and Peter Crouch - who thought nothing of taking a tumble to win a penalty that relegated Bolton, when his team had bugger all to play for. Cath words to a man of course, but as you say in your second paragraph, if the officials did their job properly, either during the game or after with retrospective bans, then we wouldn't have this problem.

Boom!

Finn looked lively over the winter, hitting 90-95 mph regularly, which apart from wrist spin is the one thing England's attack lacks, express pace.

Not being picked for England due to lack of games could be a motivating factor for him to find a new club, would like to see us make an attempt. Only problem is he isn't French!

If you can't win it with three seamers...