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 !.

diddly squat country against another.......suppose that will be a big game then

ha ha still following me about...where did you say you are from marni?

iraq......i am saddams sister seeking refuge in your silly country

oh that footballing superpower...lol...all the best

Big game for the Scots and not a bad game for England...the Dutch in Holland : difficult, time for our forwards to score....no Gerrard, no Crouch and no Owen (though he will be back soon).....I hope we don't get the whole side changed at half time....I hate that....might be time for Defoe to score, he did get a great header against Andorra, but last season was a disaster for him.

gerrard should be in jail as that is what would happen to ordinary man in the street for his disgraceful antics......and he cant even speak english.

crouch looks like a lamppost and has the football ability of one.

owen is a dwarf and scores about once a season.

Scotland match live on BBC2 at 5.45 this afternoon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8193604.stm

As there are 2 Burnley players starting and 1 on the bence I will be supporting the Scots for this one -):

stan...good man

marni...you are not a very positive person...were you bullied at school or are you not very tall?

sometimes i hate being scottish

Switch channels Treb and watch Holland stuffing England, that should cheer you up :-)

that offers me little comfort PTH

british are rubbish at sport so why keep up posts expecting to win.

marni, please don't take this personally, but you clearly know f*ck all about anything, so why do you post at all?

lol...so many things to respond to that marni...iraq...world champions in flip flop throwing :-)

England played pretty well against the 3rd rated team in the World and probably shaded the game overall. Two stupid errors in the first half deservedly punished by Holland, but even so England didn't seem overly fazed by finding themselves 2-0 down.

Main plus point for me was the performance of Carlton Cole in the second half who surely must displace Emile Heskey. Cole brought the rest of the team into play with superb old fashioned centre forward play and gave the Dutch defence a torrid time.

Negatives were Glen Johnson and Wrght-Philips, neither of whom can perform at this level on a consistent basis.

pt...did not know england were playing tonight as it was a friendly....a 2-2 draw over there is a great result...it pains me to say it but holland and england are the two best teams in europe just now.

i am a massive scotland fan and was not in norway tonight only because my son was born recently.....watching the disaster tonight was horrible and we will now not be in the world cup again which is hard to take...we have gone from competing with italy and france to getting beat by macedonia and norway in the space of 2 years.........bizzarely it is why international football still resnonates with me...no one can buy their way out of it.

alex ferguson for next manager of scotland (ok i will take him part time)

back to the beer and depression!

come on marni....do your worst.......

Trebs

It's a real shame Scotland are unable to compete at the higher levels of international football. With the exception of a few blemishes at club level (Manchester for one) their supporters have always been a great addition to the World Cup competition. I'd love to go to South Africa this year, but it won't be possible :(

pt....manchester was an embarassment...it was rangers fans..unforgivable

despite the tabloid press not many scots really want england to do badly...ok it is great banter and that is part of the whole thing if your team does feck up.

all the best.. however if you ever do win the world cup i will move to a desert island.

take it easy...bed time