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 !.

Sorry, I'll try and think up another one soon !.

Ashley Cole arrested drunk ...!, I bet Cheryl is right up the kilimanjaro with that !......euhh...!, come to think of it : I think she is !.

Crime of the century - glad our police force have nothing better to do.

Mind you saves dealing with real criminals, like those thousands based in Liverpool

Here goes with the required field football trophy question : On the condition that a club has been playing in the championship for 2 years or more, how many trophies can that club possibly win in a season ? I'll wait until the correct answer comes up !. Loads of soccer coming up FA cup, League and Champions League...I'll have a job following all this (loads of work to do !)...important time of the season coming up and internationals to be played !.

Oh ! hang on : I forgot to put the telephone number to ring : ring rip off xxxx xxxxxxx, calls to this line cost 5 per minute, you might not win anything, prices can go up and down, terms and conditions apply !.

Answer 4.

1. FA Cup.
2. League Cup.
3. Playoff Final Cup.
4. U.E.F.A Cup.

Even with the Prima donna outfits putting out reserve sides now, very unlikely though -):

Add the Charity/Community (or whatever its now renamed as) Shield

The answer is 6......it is unlikely.....you would need an outfit like the Nottingham Forest of old, who were in the old second division before gaining promotion and then taking Europe by storm !, and even then....but anyway here are the details....1, The championship trophy itself, 2, The FA cup, 3, The Charity Shield as they were FA cup winners the previous year, 4, The UEFA cup as they won the FA cup the previous year and qualified for the uefa cup, 5, The Super cup as they won the uefa cup and 6, The League cup......all this very improbable.....but there you go......!.....so nobody won and I shall therefore scoff the bar of chocolate destined for the winner.....hmmmm ! delicious ! .

MU versus Everton...lucky Sir Alex.....I can now see them getting to the final....if it had been Chelsea or Arsenal : it would have been a lot more difficult !.

Tremendous performance overall by the premiership sides in the champions league, shame that the wannabe "up there" uefa sides don't take the uefa cup competition more seriously (with the exception of Manchester City)......fielding lesser sides....what nonsense that is !, anyway 4 sides out of 4 in the quarter finals of the Champions league .....one can only congratulate them......2 premiership sides are bound to bump into one another in the draw, I can hardly see them being all kept apart ....anyway we shall see !.

RF - Don't think that's premitted now as home country and fellow group teams have to be avoided.

So unless we have a very unusual grouping its one of 3 possible teams for each english club (and the french representatives l'arsenal)

Are you sure of that Joe Say ?, I thought that they would avoid each other in the the round of 16, but in the last 8, any matching was permitted !.....bizarre that Manchester City keep on bumping into Danish clubs...3 and 1 from the Faroe Islands I think...weird that ...!.

RF - I stand corrected - my fault.

Apparently, you're spot on - the protection stops now so we could end up facing pool again.

Mind you they have a week to heat one ball up and freeze another for the opponents they want.

Man U taken apart......probably an accident, but like I said before their weakness is players running at their defence one on one with the ball, if they come up against the likes of Barcelona with Messi, etc... they will have to watch that and keep Barca's own defence on the backfoot to try and avoid this...anyway looks like the Gunners-Villa battle for 4th place has resumed....will be neck and neck until the end of the season by the look of things !.

Manchester Utd losing again....that doesn't happen very often.....when they are on top of their game the other teams have to watch out, but a few doubts are starting to set in....with Porto in mind they will have to watch their tricky players and not concede a goal at home, Sir Alex's team will have to be in tip-top form otherwise they could struggle if they go a goal down at home.....I bet Barcelona are cursing bumping into Bayern Munich, if there is one team that can beat them : it's Jurgen Klinsmann's outfit.....which brings me to the question ; Who will win the Champions League this year...I have not got a clue.....Arsenal-Liverpool final for a change....another all English encounter ?, strong possibility again !.

The media have gone into overdrive following 2 freak liverpool results.

At the end of the season it is virtually certain (imo) that the mancs will be parading the Premier League trophy.

In response to your, who will win the CL question - I too don't have a clue, but would write-off Porto's chances, and potentially the spaniards (the real ones - not the catalans). Beyond that its verging on a lottery/luck on the day etc etc

Predicting the FA Cup too seems to be difficult - 4 good teams, particularly given the fact that the opposition in each tie may well have higher priorities.

All good for the neutral

Found a little bit of time to comment here as we approach the busy qualifiers.....England take on Slovakia (friendly) and Ukraine....2 wins out of two ?.....the Scots have an impossible task.....a draw for them against the Dutch would be a mighty result, you never know with the Tartans..in easy games they seem to falter, and in "backs to the wall" games : they thrive !.

PS,I must congratulate the Irish rugby team in a tremendous grand slam.....well deserved as well !.

Good win for England,........I going to stick my neck out and say that apart from Wales (where the hell is that?), all the home sides and Eire will be in the world cup next year......so come on the Scots, pull yourselves together and grab some points, look at northern Ireland...and Eire....all of these sides can make it....what giant killers the Northern Ireland side are !, incredible.....nobody likes the trip to Windsor park !.

especially that useless polish goalkeeper......what a howler!