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 !.

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 :-)

Oooops Mars Bar wrappers adorned with the England flag, that's going to go down a bomb in Aberdeen LOL!

Saturday it is, my mistake...

Euro final tonight.....impossible to bet either way...could be a very tight one...penalties at the end ?...put a small punt on the welsh this afternoon...

World Cup No 1 I reckon...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7Ty5KsYds

Well done Jose and Inter....just like the old days....sit back and catch them on the break...Inter used to play like that back in the sixties.....still, they are the beat side this year : treble like Barca last year.......Blackpool up for one season only ?....possibly....

England very fortunate to be leading 2-1 at HT.
Two set piece goals, one of which should have been ruled out for offside.
Green having a good game, defence, especially King looks hopeless, no creativity from midfield. Crouch and Rooney having solid games, but with little service. When will Walcott fufill his potential and learn to capitalise on his pace and provide that killer pass on a regular basis? Apart from that all well in the world. Good job the Chelsea boys have yet to return, Lampard, Cole and Cole will add some much needed class.

Much better 2nd half performance. Gerrard much more involved and effective when moved to the centre and clearly Capello told them at HT to close down more with greater intent, which took the pressure off the defence. Great goal from Johnson, quite pleased that some of the so-called supporters were still having their prawn sandwiches and missed a cracker :)

England are good when they are getting at teams....around they're own penalty area : it's a muddle...somebody gets hold of the ball and bangs it upfield, that's not defending , that's desperate stuff.....hardly anybody can seem just to chest it down, pass it to another player and build from there without losing the ball....anyway Glen Johnson was fab....better that England side attack the other sides rather than go to sleep...if that was Brazil : they would have put four past us...must not let teams get balls across our penalty area...

Been checking the draws....and found out that there is a very strong chance that if Brazil and Holland win their groups and second rounds that they could meet in the quarters....ouch !...very, very strong possibility.....you never know but the dutch might win that one... 2 of the favourites could bump into each other.....In the group stages : Ivory Coast might just take a point off either Portugal or Brazil.....could come down to the final group game with Brazil needing to beat Portugal....or the reverse.

Be lucky to get out of the group if today was anything to go by.

Not the starting 11....but they have got into the winning habit...that's a very good thing to pick up.
Now, if England win their first game, and that might not be easy against the USA, but I think they'll do it....then, they should come top of the group,...from there I would be very surprised if we bumped into the Germans who should win their group, so Ghana perhaps ?....We would be favourites to win that !...
So who in the quarter finals ?....France....perhaps not.....this is not the best french side put out by any means....and they have a difficult group to qualify from....they might not find any of the other teams easy..Mexico, Uruguay who they struggled to beat in 1998 and South Africa who they also met that year and they will be a lot more tricky this time around, so we might not bump into them....and I fancy England's chances against "les bleus" if they do get there.
Crikey !, a possible semi final this year ...and it might be the Dutch and not the Brazilians who are overrated in my opinion....you have to have a go at that shaky Brazilian defense....and don't let them play and I reckon that the South Americans will be on the back foot at times against Robben's boys....
So here we are in the semis and anything can happen then.....who knows ?...we might go all the way to a fantastic final this year....against one of the other lot : Spain, Italy or even Argentina who are looking pretty good now that they are in the finals but who struggled in the qualification process, but should top their group ; the good thing is that those three should knock themselves out in the build up to the final out of England's way....those last three would be incredibly difficult for our team to knock out, so avoiding them is a plus (We could bump into the Argies if they came second in their group)....so we are on the right side of the world cup draw....
Good luck to Capello and the Lads...hey !,... Guys you can do it !....and keep the yellow card count down to a minimum !.....
(and the Wags locked up for the next month)....

If this is correct what a big mistake fabio has made with walcott......

THE FINAL CUT
No official announcement yet but the rumours are swirling. Walcott out, Bent out, Adam Johnson out, Warnock in, Wright-Phillips in, Joe Cole in are the best.

"shaky Brazilian defence" rf .... how about England's ???

Didn't they say England had only kept 6 clean sheets in 20 odd games under Fabio and most of those games were against teams that Wales could have beaten !


If true gf then I think it's a big mistake not taking Walcott.

If lennon gets injured we wont have any speed merchants and have to revert to the usual crab football we have played for the last 10years.

Yep - looks like he is out. BBC Sport.

Jamie Carragher? That,s your yellow card count xucked RF :o)