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 !.

Money.

Yes, take away the money aspect, and I would remain at Chelsea....they might win things this year.

The "greed" at the top of football is not sustainable.

Well the thing with ManCity is that they are back by wealthy middle east people (not middle East Anglia).....so it will be interesting to see how they perform on the pitch this coming seson, I don't think that they will do any better than last season...perhaps an uefa entry (Europa cup thingy).

Couldn't agrre more but at the end of the day JT remains at Chels and Owen say moved for footballing reasons

Manwhile Tevez and Ronnie have done their Lloyds/HBOS and gone cap in hand to the powers that be.

RF - Dyinf to see how city compete against their peers - still think they will only get 50% of the points gainst the likes of Villa, Everton, Spurs, Wet Ham etc

And I think that Real Madrid might find it hard as well in Spain...it takes some time to blend famous players into a team..

Just looked at the cricket scores and Strauss has hit a century...well done him, and well done Cook out at 95 unlucky not to get to the 100 mark...it's always around that mark that it gets tricky......England doing fine at the moment.

Wrong thread RF...this one's about football -):

Well, yes but not much football this summer....just a little distraction now and again...

Celtic have drawn Dynamo Moscow....that's a tough draw, right at the start of the season.....they will struggle to beat them....in fact I don't think they will...with the first leg at home.

Peter Crouch now with Spurs....should be interesting.....and Manchester City....I still don't think that they will make the top 4 at the end of the season !.

Celtic lose at home 0-1....not at all surprised....it would have been difficult for anybody.....; a bit unlucky the Bhoys..bumping into the Russians so early in the season.

Excellent news - lets hope they can lose the away leg as well.

Come on the blues north and south of the border

Motherwell and Aberdeen both going out....terrible start to the year for the Scots...standards dropping up there..

Poor old Bobby Robson...he came very close to winning the world cup for England in 1990...I'm convinced if we had got past the Germans we would have won it...and incredibly sporting in 1986 when we were robbed of a semi-final place....me in his place : I would have gone bonkers at the final whistle....a great trainer...!.

hows that for standards.....2-0 away in russia effectively pre-season......great effort celtic.....did the scottish league proud

hows it scottish when according to my sports website, the 2 guys that scored were aussie and greek! are there any brits left playing football at top level in either england or scotland?

marni....most of the team playing were scottish and some english....u got a problem with that? u racist?

no.......but i find it irritating when english or in your case scots pretend to talk of "english or scots" football when lets face it the vast majority playing are people from outwith uk..........or is it that brits cant play football.

personally, i couldnt care about silly football

ps: i checked with a friend who knows football and he says celtic are mainly foreigners...........can u tell me from starting line up of team how many out of 11 are scottish........if its less than 5 then i cant really see you calling celtic as scottish.......but its same as chelsea, arsenal etc.