So much for the observation of AC Milan.

Was it a penalty?

Costinha is already free and signed for Atletico.

Maniche won't come back to Portugal, in Italy, 4 top teams could be relegated and the only linked with him so far, Inter, prefers Mascherano.

As for the spanish league, haven't heard of any links relating him to them.

Materazzi sent off. Hope Australia can take advantage of it.

At half time, me and my friends were trying to figure out what Scolari would do after Costinha was sent off.

It was clear that Petit was going in.

The options to go out were:

- Simao Sabrosa: had only a few minutes in the pitch so highly unlikely

- Maniche: just because he had a yellow card. Too stupid option.

- Figo: he is the captain, has been playing well so not possible.

- Pauleta: my choice. with 10 men, we would have to play in counter attack. Pauleta is not a player that can keep the ball and, with Figo and Simao counter attacking, the dutch defense would have bigger problems.

the following could secure prem moves :-

constinha

Costinha already signed for Atletico Madrid about a month ago.

I still believe Maniche could come to Blackburn.

From my personal experience in the Euro 2004, english fans are probably the best in the world.

However, some stupid ones are asking for trouble. When you visit another country and keep on singing some bad taste songs, you are not making friends, are you?

It's a shame that this small minority always ruins the image of others...

Big Phil, like you call him, calls this games "mata-mata" (kill-kill in english).

Basicly, in this games you either kill or be killed. So there's no way it would work if everyone knew that he would be England's next manager.

He has a very close relationship with his players, they respect him and do everything that he says.

News here already mention a possible new agreement between him and the portuguese FA till 2008.

Scolari has also asked that one of the Deco's yello card is turned down.

Cristiano Ronaldo might not recover in time.

So, out: Deco, Costinha and Cristiano Ronaldo.

In: Simao Sabrosa, Petit and Tiago.

I think the players didn't help much either.

Figo was an absolute disgrace. I was waiting for another Dutch player to get some revenge with the ref's back turned. It seemed to all start when the ref missed Costinha's foul on Ooijer that could have sent him off.

Or when Boulahrouz fouled Cristiano Ronaldo and should have gotten a red card.

But you don't like CR so who cares, right?

See you saturday!!

2-1 for England with a late goal from Walcott

Here in Portugal 2004 all was quiet, with the exception of some problems in the Algarve.

Which was interesting cause England's closest game was in Lisbon. So it was just a bunch of idiots that got arrested and were sent home.

Well, here is a recent update.

122 english people arrested yesterday in Stuttgart and today 200 in Stuttgart in the majority english.

BBC

Some mexican players like:

Omar Bravo

Pavel Pardo

Jose Fonseca

Carlos Salcido

Gonzalo Pineda

Argentina was in no way superior to Mexico. Great goal, yes!

But with a referee that constatly forgave yellow and 2 red cards against Argentina, it's impossible to win.

Hope UEFA does it as well. It's just fair.

It was Dabo, not Oddo!

According to italian news tv, here are the possible sanctions for the involved teams:

Juventus: seria B with points deduction

AC MIlan: seria A with points deduction

Lazio and Fiorentina probably Seria B

Juve will probably lose the last 2 titles but it is not sure AC Milan will win them.

Taking a look at their current squads, here are some players we could try to get, if they are relegated:

AC Milan

DF Marek JANKULOVSKI

DF Kakha KALADZE

DF Dario SIMIC

MF Johann VOGEL

MF Clarence SEEDORF

MF Massimo AMBROSINI

Juventus

DF Robert Kovac

DF Jonathan Zebina

MF Ruben Olivera

FW Marcelo Danubio Zalayeta

Fiorentina

GK Sebastien FREY

MF Stefano FIORE

FW Valeri BOJINOV

Lazio

DF Massimo ODDO

DF Luciano Zauri

MF Stefano MAURI

I don't think Lazio and Fiorentina will go down. They might start the reason with negative points but not in Seria B

people are more worried over Bellamy.

They seem to forget that AC Milan wants Emerton.

Now let's see what happens!!

Looking at the squad list I see Lee has already removed Bellamy but Amo is still there....

Just noticed that too. And Gresko as well. wasn't he released?

Numbers available currently:

5

10

11

17

18 (Gresko's number)

19

23

Scolari made the five guys with yellow cards (Deco, C. Ronaldo, Pauleta, Costinha and Nuno Valente) stay on the stands. They weren't even in the bench.

I hope that they'll make the team much better for the game against Holland. If we play against them like we played against Mexico, we'll lose.

Ghana will win 2-0.