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 !.

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.

Atletico...a little lucky at the end...but Forlan has improved since leaving ManU.....might be going back there if he carries on scoring like that...at one time with the red devils : he used to miss everything all the time....excellent player now...hard luck Fulham...

Maybe England should get Cardiff City to teach them how to take pens before they leave for SA.

Que sera sera .... :-)

Missed that one Dil....against Leicester wasn't it ?...

The other day, I heard that the Lib-dems whoever they are, : are talking to Torres....I bet those Liverpool fans went mad !....

Congratulations to the Blues, shame about Ballack....how many times have I seen bad tackles by players this season..loads of times....a few extra red cards would be better.....weird thing is that the final on wednesday is between 2 teams that can both win the treble....in 1999...Bayern were on a treble but lost also the german cup after losing to ManU...they will be very difficult to beat....down to penalties ?

It's on Saturday evening rf , only found out myself yesterday.

Main match is at Wembley earlier in the day :-)