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 !.

"Redknapp, who is jointly accused with former Portsmouth owner and current Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric, could face prison if he is convicted. The charges relate to payments allegedly made by Mandaric to Redknapp via a Monaco bank account while he was manager of Portsmouth and which the Crown Prosecution Service say were intended to evade tax and national insurance."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1265101/Spurs-boss-Harry-Redknapp-Court-wont-distract-me.html#ixzz0kyRqAEj6

DilSir Philip Green has been doing it for yearsdo you think he will get nicked? "Offshore Tax Evasion has Costs U.S. over $100 Billion UBS did not appear to be helpfulif Harry is guilty of committing a crimehe will get punished the same as our Politicians wereand they know the law

Theres a vast difference between not prooving somebody guilty and declaring them innocent which is precisely what MP's, football managers/agents, run of the mill crooks all rely on.

The 2 are not the same

Sorry Joe but in this country you are innocent until proven guilty.

When's Harry in court ?

Guess you think MP's are honorable, that courts always reach the right decision (defending ones home, 1m damages for child care sex/race discrimination etc etc etc), the markets aren't rigged, and that OJ was innocent.

Me - I live in the real world, and whilst highly paid lawyers can defend the guilty, I accept that maybe many people are in fact really guilty, and it is the incompetence (or shortfall in funding) that prevents the counter argument being won by those making the accusations.

Joe
just about every mega rich PlayboyPoliticianBusinessmanActorSingerFootballer and so on..are not totally honourable with their hard earned?.we all have likeable/dislikeable villainsGuido Fawkes is my personal favouriteand Jeffrey Howard Archer is one I wish he had blown uptrust me Harry is a Gentlemanbut even if he dedicates the rest of his life.to starving children in Africayou would find a reason to dislike him?

Huge difference between honourable and innocent Joe and I too live in the real world but until someone comes up with something better then innocent until proven guilty will have to do.

In France : you are guilty until proved innocent !...anyway coming back to football....Liverpool and Fulham play tonight......Barca play some lovely, pretty stuff....but that will not always work....Inter are now favourites.....none of these defenses today impress me....gone are the days when behind 4 great defenders stood a great goalkeeper as well !.....so it's an Inter-Bayern final for me...whether both english teams can get to the final is a bit of a doubt....one finalist would be nice....

Come on Fulham!

Good job Capello and the media backed Stevie G eh ? and all those thousands of muppets that have jumped on the anti JT bandwagon.

Lets see if he gets the same treatment for you all

Once again the cottagers have surprised...I didn't think that they would get a draw out there....surprise of the season is Fulham...and that's for the whole of europe !....we could end up with an all english final or just one finalist or even nobody in the final at all....tough return games ahead...

Difference is Joe is that Gerrard deserves to be in the England team whereas JT has lost it.

... and can't believe he managed to find a 16 year old scouser that wasn't already banged up :-)

Well done the cottagers for getting to the final of the Europa cup....why change the name of that ?.....from the Uefa cup...ridiculous....Liverpool overcelebrated the second goal !...what was all that heads in hands about ?..pathetic !....I thought that : when they had the silly celebrations with bodies on top of each other that they would let a goal in....when will teams learn to keep their feet on the ground and get back into position after a goal scored...I'm dreading England doing that during the next world cup, if they do, they will let in goals, you can be sure of that !.....

Time for another req.f. tricky footie quiz..... : In one season, how many times can 2 premiership clubs possibly meet, that is the number of matches in all, official ones only, not friendlies, this includes all competitions, including europe, the highest total ?.....I'll put the answer after the bank holiday....

I know the suspense is killing you all....thanks for all the entries....I shall scoff the chocolate bar prize as usual....
Anyway the answer is 10 :
1, Charity Shield as one won the title and the other one the cup,
2, Super cup as the previous season one won the Champions league and the other the Europa cup.
3,4, The Premiership home and away,
5,6, Both meet inthe league cup semis,
7,8 They draw the first game in the FA cup and then there is the return,
9,10, They get drawn together in the Champions league latter knockout stages
So that is a total of ten possible encounters in all....improbable but possible !.

Chelsea look to have won the title.....it's good for the sport that it's not always ManU...to me the Gunners could and should have done better this season.

Well....Crouchy got the all important goal.....what an asset he is becoming for club and country....(ManC v Spurs)...

Well done Chelsea.....now for the double !.

Zola sacked.