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 !.

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 !.

Yes an extratime replay behind closed doors is the only right decision at this moment and Fifa are going to end up with egg on their faces if they don't do something about it......then they are going to on about fairplay and all that crap....they are setting a great example here !.

fifa got what they want ...france go through

France should set an example by offering rather than being ordered to replay the extratime....I would expect England to do the same in the same circumstances.

RFyou are dreamingTrig is spot on!

Somebody has to rock the boat or wait to I get in front of goal against Brazil in the world cup final and the ball comes towards my hand with 30 seconds on the clock and...

.. yep he's dreaming all right -):

....I headed it in...goal !....we won !.....apart from this, there are quite a lot of big countries that have been knocked out : Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Sweden, Egypt and a few more...

The trouble with playing some of the very talented latin sides is that they will resort to bad tactics if the game doesn't go their way ...tripping, shirt pulling, arms round attacking players..etc...In the event of England winning against one of these sides next summer, our players will have to be on their guards for this sort of happening....look at the match against Argentina in 1986...no way they were going to get past that very good England defense and we all know what happened next !.