It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Fantastic stuff from Chelsea.....and Spurs have overcome Blackburn......what with Newcastle up there with a chance...quite an end to the season for the fourth champions league spot...I fancy the blues myself.....they have a double chance......I see that odds favour Bayern Munich......well they are playing on home turf......when the game comes round : perhaps a £20 bet on Chelsea might come handy.....to lift the trophy.....might be extra time again with that one again....good thing Torres is coming back to form.....

Roy Hodgson and England: Talks to start with the FA

Roy Hodgson is set to start talks with the Football Association on Monday and expected to be appointed England manager within days.
The FA says the West Brom manager, 64, is the only person it has approached about succeeding Fabio Capello.
He has already spoken with FA chairman David Bernstein and will meet with the four-man panel.

Paxman tackles Joey Barton on new England manager job

Let's hope for a decent syle of play...and not :" euhhoh...it's ball...hell...what do I do with this...oh I know I'll kick it as far upfield as possible....that'll fool 'em...(15 seconds later)...aggghh...it's coming back...ohh..no....".....you know that sort of thing.....and endless substitutions bringing on god knows who at half time...never to be seen again....

Got my ticket for Cardiff v West Ham play off tomorrow , wonder if that plonker tabby will come down.

Wish I hadn't bothered.

Previous two seasons we've had good teams but how the hell we got into the play offs and the Carling Cup final with this lot is beyond me.

One class player , Whittingham , and he was the worst player on the pitch last night.

Continuing to play a 4-5-1 with Miller up a front as our lone striker who must be at least 2'6" small is so lacking in ambition plus the fact it takes him five shots to get one on target.

We lost 13 players at the end of last season , need to see something similar this year.

One glimmer of hope , last two seasons we haven't conceded a goal or lost an away leg in the play offs.

Clutching at straws I think.

Premier League televised football packages up for grabs

The Premier League has issued an invitation to tender for the domestic UK broadcast rights for the 2013-14 to 2015-16 football seasons.

It says 154 matches will be shown live on TV each season from 2013-14 - 16 more than currently broadcast and more than 40% of all top-level matches

Scousers booing the national anthem, swearing at kids going to the game etc etc

and still the naive armchair supporters look favourably on those vermin

That will have been the London branch of LFC supporters Joe, don't confuse the blue half of Merseyside with Kopite Gobshites pleeeease! :O)

Well done Chelsea.....I hope for their sake that DD stays on next year.....Carroll looks like a player that can get even better....what a save by the way...and now for that RF trick question time again : what was the name of the first british manager to coach (or manage) a side against a british side in the european cup final ?...

Roy Hodgson is the answer....thanks for all the entries....as there are none ....the chocolate bar gets scoffed by yours truly !......

the irony being that these scousers want gerard as the england captain - the team whose national anthem they love to boo

the armchair fans should pay more attention

Is that right you total muppet, I suppose you prawn sandwich guzzlers would prefer Terry to wear the armband for England, what a great example of morality off the pitch and champion of fair play on it. Dead leg anyone?

great logic -

lets see - shall we go with the fighter (the one of about 10 that got off with a scouse jury !), or the drug cheat etc etc, or someone who once got sent off.

You started it, Nah Nah De Nah Nah.

Anyone know the score of the Liverpool v Chelsea match.....Mr Say?

yep - we won the one that mattered - the murderers won the league game

I would have thought attempting to finish 4th was pretty more realistic, cause lets be honest your dreaming if you seriously think your gonna win the European Cup. Murderers is that the best you can come up with ?

seeing as we're 5 points behind tottenham, the odds certainly do favour a CL win over 4th