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 !.

who cares about what dirty bints players pump...got nowt to do with the game......the Euro draw has

Trig I didnt say the Euro draw has nothing to do with the gameI simply said John Terrys participation in the World Cup had more to do with the thread than the Euro draw simple fact that some seem to struggle with u no listen

his antics may affect him being captain..no mention of him not playing...so lets move on...am bored of it.

cracking merseyside derby at the weekend wioth some decent feckin tackling for a change

Saw that one differently personnally - thought Everton were poor, especially when playing against 10 for so long.

Ironically though, I'm not looking forward to our imminent visit there.

Former Wales captain Gary Speed says drawing England represents a great opportunity for a promising young Wales team to qualify for Euro 2012

Your input please Dil!

Message to England from Gary Speed

By the way, has anybody put any bets on England's chances yet for this summer ?, I was thinking of putting something on them reaching the semis....not sure what odds I would get or if it's possible ?.

Cole almost certain to miss the world cup....probably will never play again in the finals....shame....because he's a sharp defender and puts in good fast crosses into the box....thank god it's not Joe Cole who to me is a crucial part of the England side....nothing going right for Ashley Cole at the moment, going from bad to worse...and I'm not too surprised because he was on the slippery downhill slope...

RF - As you probably know JC rarely gets an outing nowadays, so whilst many CFC recognise his abilities, a lack of active playing is bound to cost him/England dear

I hope he's selected.

Beckham against ManU, coming up.....well that should be interesting...

RF - You forgetting Rooney v Beckham, is the issue and as much as I admire Beckham, no contest :o)

I dont quite see it that way ChrsBeckham.is getting on in yearsbut he is a massive influence on any teamhe has been all round the World and succeededa feat not many English players have achieved Rooney is like a Sherman Tanktough tries extremely harddon't always hit the target... and not that pretty to look at.Beckham is like an exocet sleek.lets the ball do the workeloquent in motionand finds the target on most occasionsEnglands greatest player in my lifetime all IMO..

Just watched the Bolton/Spurs matchKevin Davies was superband what a great finishjust what I was saying about Defoe in previous postsDavies hit the goal impossibly earlyhad to watch the replay several timesMan of Match should have been Bale thoughhe is a lad going places.anyway a great gamelook forward to the replay

prodman ... not enough of our players are playing in the Premier League for us to have any realistic hope of qualifying for Euro 2012 but who knows ???

ref post 696....you must be very young.....Kevin Keegan and ......a certain Chris Waddle spring to mind though the latter was never properly used !......Trevor Francis and a few others....Bryan Robson....to me all better than overrated DB....

RF.as the Old Churchill dog would say.OH NO NO NO NO NO!and I do remember your proposed candidates.Chris WaddleFFS.we are two months off of April?its only opinion though?

Trying hard to make sense of previous post...but can't...

Sorry RFmy reply to you was cryptic and poorly writtenthe gist went something likeyour choices are imo a Cosmos awayand to mention Chris Waddle in the same breath as Beckshad to be April 1st .I attempt too many things at once my friendhence write total bo**ocks at times

Chris Waddle was fantastic..... a million miles better than "always on the telly Beckham", even if we take the goal against Greece that permitted us to leapfrog the Germans for qualification in 2001 for the world cup 2002.....instead of celebrating for ages the team should have got back ready to try to score a third goal as the other game was still ongoing...it's things like that that, that were the letdown........ManU looking very strong and the Gunners looking like their usual "not going to get far selves".....why on earth are there not more British players in that side ?...the best two, just now were Theo Walcott and a very good Sol Campbell...the goalkeeper is a muppet....what a mess.....the Gunners will never win this without a lot more UK players !.

tabby 702 , too true but you make your own mind up which bit .... :- )

Father came visiting yesterday and chucked a dart at the paper (imo) and had one bet and a 11/1 second (got a bit better than that for him on betfair).

3.30 at Ling I think ... you wanna borrow his darts ?