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...

Just out of interest ... where TF is Montenegro ???

Good job their one and only star(???) player and captain was ruled out through injury.

lol

Dil - Send us a pint of whatever your drinking mate :O)

Between Greece and Serbia.....somewhere there.....no imagination that England side ...what do I do with the ball?....long ball up front or down the side ..bang it in the middle...yuck style of play...crap !....frankly they are pretty hopeless.....and too many black players who haven't a clue as what to do with the ball.

I tell you what Spain were amazing to watch last night..it is simply the best team i have ever seen...their passing to people to their correct foot with the correct pace on the pass every time was amazing...however the thing that impressed me most was how they conducted themselves on the park...there was no complaining to the referee, a nice wee acknowledgement of a good tackle etc, no trying to get people booked or rolling around

They play the game and act the way footballers should...Gerrard, Rooney etc take note

Scotland at leats restored a bit of pride but we will not qualify...last Friday put us out and i will never forgive Levein for the tactics

and I cannot see anyone taking the title from Spain anyway.

Holland possibly......

nope...no chance they could not get near them in the WCF and nowt has changed...i tell you what though last night confirmed to me how far the home nations are behind the best teams...at times it was a footballing lesson last night and i think england need to have a think again if they think they will win anything soon...they are light years behind the spanish

I think you are forgetting how close Robben came to winning it for them.....but the Spanish deserved their world cup......good to see Scotland performing.....that English side ....not a clue as how to create chances or how to pass the ball in midfield, and if they do, they lose the ball....you need 8 white players and 3 black players in the side ....put 6 or 7 black players in, and the side will not perform...this lot are not Brazilians with flair....Wright Philps and Lescott should be dropped....the former is not a patch on his Dad....how we could do with Ian Wright now....Defoe should be in.....

LOL some wag has texted Liverpool Fc with a text, photograph of Hicks and Gillette in front of the Everton crest, arm in arm wearing Everton Fc ties. Love it! (BBC 24 hour news) :O)

I still think Germany are a very very good team and just got their tatics wrong in one game in the WC

Yes, they are excellent, they will be a force once again in the European finals....you can be a very good side and have no luck towards the latter stages of a tournament where you always need a little....the spanish had the good fortune that their goalkeeper just got a foot to what would have been a winner 4 minutes from the end for the dutch....so the best sides are Spain, Holland, and Germany in Europe.

Apparently the plaque under John Lennon's statue at Liverpool airport has been changed. It used to read "above us only sky" but now reads "below us only Wolves and West Ham".

Never thought I'd see Liverpool in the relegation zone.....

Why on earth don't they sell Torres for 90 million.....nuts....they are now a crap team, yet they hang on to players that are not worth their value...for that price...they could get 2 midfielders and 2 better defenders....

Obviously I am over the moon at the Merseyside Derby result. Hic! Liverpool's demise is a tonic to every Evertonian :O)

Pretty obvious there will be a mass clearout accross the park in January. The question is can Liverpool 2nd from bottom (How sweet the sound) and stuck with the players signed by 'The Fat Spanish Waiter' (Who incidentally was awarded for his noble efforts 5m and then walked into a top European managers job, you couldn't make it up.) escape the relegation zone, step forward the new benefactors (mugs) in order to pay off the contracts of the existing squad and replace them.

You have to question the mentality of SOME of the Liverpool fans calling for the head of the manager after eight games. Should have stayed at Fulham Roy is in an impossible position, hence his post match statement the gist being "Liverpool are playing well" Every credit he managed to utter those pearls of wisdom with a straight face. Anyone even with less than 20/20 vision or even partial vision with one eye could see Liverpool were, are shxte! He has to somehow motivate his players to get out of theire current position in order to wield the axe in January and allow the new owners (mugs) to provide the relevant funds to atract quality players. To admit they are crap would be suicide. What a ridiculous situation to be in!

At the last Liverpool home match the Kop, in their wisdom were chanting 'Dalgleish' The vast majority of whom were obviously not around in 1991 when he walked out having been knocked out of the FA Cup by guess who...Everton. Should have stayed at Fulham Roy needs those fans support now more than they realise.

Meanwhile back at Goodison thank goodness for David Moyes and a chairman (though skint) with a brain.

Good to see the Liverpool fans have'nt lost their sense of humour though. When the Everton fans were goading them with the inevatable chants of 'Going Down, Going Down' They responded with 'So Are We, So Are We' :O)

They need to give Roy more time.....I have to say even though I'm not one of their supporters....I'm a great admirer of the club.....the players have to pull their socks up and Gerrard is going to have to boss them around a bit !.

davy weir might be 40 but he can still move...taken from spain game the other night,,,made me laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLk1V6Cnlsc

THE SUN IS OUT!
THE SKY IS BLUE
WAYNE ROONEY IS ADAMANT HE WANT'S TO LEAVE MAN U !!!!!!!!!

Moyesy must be laughing his cock off :O)

away

Just came across that below, BAR almost double to next on the list

Most fans in Europe

CLUB MILLION FANS
BAR 57,8
MADRID 31,3
MAN. UTD 30,6
CHELSEA 21,4
BAYERN M. 20,7
ARSENAL 20,3
MILAN 18,4
INTER 17,5
LIVERPOOL 16,4
JUVENTUS 13,1
ZENIT 12,6
CSKA M. 10,5
SPARTAK M. 9
O.MARSELLA 7,8
AJAX 7,1
GALATASARAY 6,8
O.LYONNAIS 6,6
FENERBAHCE 6,1
ROMA 6
DINAMO KIEV 5,3

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BAR 44.1 million fans in 2009

study by Sport+Markt

Geez ramping Barca now RSI !


What a load of crap , bet less than 5% of each of those so called "fans" ever put a penny in the clubs coffers (excluding via sky sports subscriptions etc which per person would be miniscule anyway).

too right Dil - its the usual marketing nonsense.

These guys really live on a totally different planet to the rest of us.