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 !.

OK my apologies Treb ... thank you Scotland for subsidising us (we're keeping our oil quiet til you lot run out then we may go it alone) :-)

thats better old bean :-0

Vell ?...the Arrish haave drawn the French...tough for both sides....I bet the french aren't happy....the Republic of Ireland have a great chance....just mark Henry out of the game and keep a close eye on Ribery if he plays...I'm glad England don't have to face them (Eire that is). Villa have given Chelski the blues....a very open premiership it seems !.

still digusted that it was seeded...i hope all the seeds get pumped out ...teach the greedy munters at FIFA/UEFA a lesson

The Portugese are lucky...firstly to have pipped the Swedes to the second spot and now they meet Bosnia....Greece and Ukraine might be tight...Russia should go through no problem....but France are going to have a very difficult task with Ireland...If the Irish get a 2-0 lead : that should be good enough...I don't think that away goals count double in this situation !.

Trig.I dont thank Scotland for Oil.or Rangers/Celticor haggis.or kilts.or bagpipes.or Pringleor Rabbie BurnsI dont even thank Scotland for Golfas the Chinese invented it?oooups.but I am eternally grateful for your Glaswegian genius Frankie Boylesome of his views including Rangers/Celtic >

Massive corporate entities leeching the soul out of their deprived communities. The area round Celtic Park is like Blade Runner without the special effects. In 1967 Celtic won the European Cup with a team where all the players were born within 20 miles of the stadium. If you tried to field a team from that area now you wouldnt find 11 people who still had both legs. Both clubs have profited massively from sectarianism. Personally, I think everyone involved over the years has shown that they dont have Northern Irelands best interests at heart and it should now be given to a third party, like Spain. Imagine how little the average Belfast citizen would care for the problems of religion if he could just get a nice bit of tapas on the Falls road. And it wasnt fuc*ing raining all the time. And he still had knees.

i hold similar views on rangers and celtic........

and going by rangers performance tonight...someone turn the lights out on scottish football

ps i thank england for the invention of slavery, morris dancing, football hooliganism and consitutionalised rape...so no biggy on yer comment above

Trigat least I found something in Scotland that I loveas well as family and friends of courseFrankie Boyleforget footballhe has the greater powerhe makes us laugh!and whats up with Morris Dancing?

Well done Jenson Button...and the Brawn team...and Miss Tweddle for the gold medal...anyway back to the soccer and what's happening to Liverpool ?....I thought they were going to take the season by storm....I think our best bet is now with the Gunners in the Champions league ....Chelsea are going through a bad patch as well.

Trigthe way I see morris dancing is blokes and chicks dressing upmoving rhythmically together and using sticks for funI can think of worst things to do.
watching the Accies?.

Tabasco : do you have 2 subscriptions and talk to yourself ?, perhaps treblewide is a doppelganger !.

Three....RFto be honest you started the silly talk suggesting Michel Owen for Englanddoppelganger trig ghosting in from the wing would even be a better betbeing Scottish he would definitely missbut he would miss closer than Owen!

Owen is a super striker from five yardsbut so is a beach ball..

I would like Joe Cole back in midfield....is he still injured ?....without him England are never as good as they could be...I think that England's biggest problem is to get all the players fit and up for the next world cup, we don't want a situation like in 2002 with everybody arriving tired at the finals or injured !...Scotland have to bring in some youngsters and learn how to defend...lot of passion in their game, but since the last outings in the previous European qualifiers they seem to be going backwards in terms of ability.

How about that goal that was awarded (hitting a beachball) ...crazy that ref and the linesmen...the game should have been stopped !.

This season looks like "the year of the Londoners" as a Chinese person might put it : Chelsea and Arsenal have both had bad patches already this season but perhaps that's it !....far better to go through bad spells in september or october than in march or april....Fulham are doing well, a little unlucky to have let in a goal in stoppage time against Roma...Liverpool seem to be getting their priorities wrong : they all went potty after their win over Manu but there is no point in going mad over one result when another succession of defeats now might be in the running....if they lose again to Lyon....it's early doors or the Europa league cup possibly.

Brazil coming up.....hope we are not going to have 6 changes at half time like we used to get.....if you know your team : you know your team.....what's the point of bringing some duds on ?....one or two changes is a must but not the whole team....England need to get into a winning mood now....good luck to Ireland : they will need a lead to take to France the following week !.....

Not a good performance by England the other day but with so many main players missing one should not be surprised...the midfield was not good and the defense was slow...Wes Brown's indecision has to be blamed for the goal....too slow and then makes up for it with a great tackle minutes later....no hesitation it must be... : "EVER" in the England side, a full side would beat that Brazil, not at all impressed by them....too many sides give them too much respect...you have to go at them and please mr Rooney : have a few long shots on goal...one of them might just creep in one of these days....by the way what has happened to well worked free kicks nowadays.....remember the Argie goal against us in 1998 from a free kick...ball off to the right of the wall instead of the usual over the top and miss...and then a striker (forget his name) turned and fired a great low shot into our net : we should learn from these remarkable pieces of good play and use them ourselves....anyway good luck to Ireland tomorrow it will take some doing to turn the second leg around : the term gung-ho springs to mind !.

If the authororities can do a player for diving then they can surely do Henri for some equally cynical cheating.

What a joke (unless your Irish) , as a Welshman then Joe Jordan and Scotland spring to mind.

It's just unthinkable that fifa don't use television replays on goals.....muppets that they are.....my way of thinking is that there should be a replay !.