Thought I'd start a football blog, we might keep this going until 2010.....England doing well....did not see the match or even the goals....I'd like Michael owen back in the squad though....and I think Peter Crouch would make a very good substitute...remember against Argentina in Geneva a few years ago....with Michael Owen and some very good movements on and off the ball...they caused havoc.....did see Scotland's missed chance....that could be very costly losing those 2 points !.

Unbelieveable, some eagle eye has noticed that Germany fielded an illegal player for the last two games, which means they could actually be disqualified - this would make either England or Argentina semi-finalists by default. Check it out on the bbc wesite. Its true England appealed to fifa only 6 hours ago. If their claim is upheld it will mean they face a penalty shoot out tonight.
































Carlsberg dont do texts for deluded English fans who STILL think they can win everything. But if they did, this would probably be the best text in the world!

For the final, we'd better ask Paul the octopus.....he's a genius !.

And ...... Y VIVA ESPA it was

Paul the octopus has done it again, well it was PUYOL who made the wining GOL
a Barcelona player ( one of seven players in Spain's starting line )

Sad for this guy

World Cup 2010 - Gambler places record World Cup bet - and loses

Eurosport - Thu, 08 Jul 12:12:00 2010


A British gambler placed the biggest World Cup bet of all time on Germany to beat Spain in the World Cup semi-final - and lost.
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The 417,000 wager - that's half a million Euros - was placed with William Hill's telephone betting service at odds of 10/11, meaning the punter would have walked off with just under 800,000 if Joachim Loew's men had prevailed.

But Carles Puyol's winning second-half header put paid to the punter's dreams - and we doubt any fan in the world was screaming louder at their TV sets when the referee denied Germany a late penalty.

William Hill spokesman Graham Sharp admitted before the match that a Germany win would be a disaster, with the nation having received huge backing throughout the tournament including a 67,000 bet being placed on them before the championship at 14/1.

But Spain have also attracted the high-rollers, with one man putting 50,000 on Fernando Torres and co to lift the trophy.

England's Howard Webb to referee the final.

Ah, I knew if we were patient England would reach the final.

Oh ye of little faith ...

Hope he performs better than your football team did.

For once I can't disagree with you.

Lets hope he performs better than Graham Poll in the 2006 World Cup!!!

       FUN OF THE DAY

Those Germans!

The Octopus that has correctly predicted the results of all Germany's matches in the World Cup
has received death threats for predicting that Spain would beat Germany.

The octupus is English , born in Weymouth apparently.

Paul the Octopus predicts : Spain to win the final and Germany for the third place......I'm not so sure.....if the Dutch take a lead, they will be far more difficult to break down than the Germans.....the Spaniards then to score twice ?...difficult.....would not put a bet either way until the final gets underway...on paper it looks like going Spain's way, but this could be a tremendous final with these two cracking teams....

Paul picks Spain!

The 'oracle octopus' makes his prediction for the World Cup final...
will he be right for the eighth time?

He predicts Germany will be Uruguay for third place
What has eight legs but no backbone? No, not the England team's lily-livered defence.

It's Paul the octopus - who, incredibly, has correctly predicted the outcome
of all six of Germany's World Cup matches.

Today, during a live television broadcast, Paul predicted Germany would beat Uruguay
in the third place playoff match on Saturday - his seventh prediction of the tournament.

And now he has made his eighth - and possibly the most important -
prediction: that Spain will win the final.

He looks like a pundit....

Who thought of asking the octopus in the first place!

Everybody is expecting Spain to win,.....I'm not so sure......if Holland can keep Spain at bay,....and then launch one or two counter attacks : it could be third time lucky for the Dutch.....also you rarely have a side that loses 3 times with no wins.....the Spanish play some pretty stuff but the sharpness of Robben and sorts might bring dividends....no bet for me either way until the game gets going.

Like to see the Dutch win but don't think their defence is that good, so it's Spain to win for me.

Spain

Has done it


    CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD

JUSTICE! Dutch were animals in first half. Result for football and I made a few bob to OLE :o))

Netherlands 0:1 Spain

Iniesta puts Spain on top of world

Champions of Europe and now champions of the world, Spain captured football's Holy Grail for the first time with a 1-0 victory over the Netherlands thanks to Andres Iniesta's 116th-minute strike at Soccer City.

Thank you Spain for winning the World Cup and proving that playing football the right way brings successHollandyou were lucky finishing the match with 10 playersand thank you Andres Iniesta for rounding off the most perfect week for meif only this coming week is half as good?
You see it was money in the bank Chris!