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Joe Garner get a tip as one of 10 to watch from the Premier website

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I would be shocked to see him this year at the senior level

Unpin please?

Cheers

Sorry Stella here are the real match photos courtesy of Getty images HERE

They got the captions wrong for jonathon douglas though.

And this site suggests that FC Barcelona have agreed fees with Juve for Thuram and Zambrotta for 19 million pounds!

I'd like to ECHO those comments as well.

Now we are talking!That the kind of news we want more of tonight,tchocky. what of Glenn at this time,Modi?

I am speculating that he currently negotiating Mido's transfer as we speak, however, as he has lost pleasure's phone number he can't complete the deal.

Well,text that bugger and tell him to get that deal done and dusted as we've got 32 board members on suicide watch and prozac is flowing like water at brfcs.com.People's psyche's are at stake here,Glenn!Get a move on.

Modi,

It's all gone quiet on Glenn's part,eh?No synopsis of the first half action,players that caught the eye,tips for the second half,etc...What are we paying him for?Where's Clive Tyldesley when you need him?

It was a pedersen header actually!!!

Just as you expected Modi

Hey blonde hair can be confusing from a distance

Still in the que for drinks,eh Modi?

C'mon Glenn,where are those texts?they been playing for ten minutes already!

Not as bad to my eyes as the grey and turquoise strip.Best of a bad lot with the away choices is my opinion.

DMF,

I believe on this link to the official site that the first blue and white choice and the red one at the bottom are the two choices.HERE

I suspect Maniche's performances have aroused some curiousity from many clubs regarding his availability.

I didn't believe he was as good a footballer as he's shown but that was based on his Chelsea appearances none of which flattered.

It would appear that the stats back up the assertation that the Italians are the worst buch of divers so far in this tournament. Here is an excerpt from today's Guardian:

"In light of the wayward officiating at this World Cup, which team has given referees the most hassle?" ponders Leo Green.

To best answer your question, Leo, we decided to call upon the all-knowing - if a little geeky - online oracle that is: www.informationbuilders.co.uk/ontheball/ which tells us, through the medium of graphs, statistics and suchlike, that the Italians are the biggest handful for World Cup referees. According to their figures, in the four games Italy have played, they've been guilty of 25 dives (more than any other team), four instances of referee-bullying (only Croatia are greater official tormenters), seven fake injuries and two expulsions.

Australia, however, are the dirtiest side in the tournament thus far. Guus Hiddink's men did little to refute pre-tournament allegations that they were over-aggressive by committing 100 fouls, two more than Ghana, 11 more than Mexico and Holland and 47 more than an angelic Brazil.

Full link

For Italy,i would go back to a 4-4-2 with Mcbride and Eddie up top,drop Convey altogether,play Dempsey on the right,move DMB to the left(his stated position)play Donovan as the attacking central MF and leave Reyna as the Defensive central MF.Unfortunately,I believe the options at the back are limited unless you are talking about blooding Conrad against Italy with us needing a result(shudder).Perhaps Bocanegra for Cherundulo.Clearly some changes have to be made by Bruce.This was a WC match and there appeared to be no intensity,no emotion even when we were chasing at 0-1 and 0-2 there was no desparation shown just kind of ho hum lwts knock around the park today boys.Our wide men never went at someone and most are their passes were backwards or square at best.How differnt it might have been if we had pegged back at 1-1 with Reyna's attempt.The display today

was lacking and must be improved if we are to get any points off Italy.Very frustrating to watch.

Colin,

I'd guess this might be one click

and then his comments about Blackburn being a fallback as a second here

maybe what is being referenced

One Scotsman's take on the US soccer scene here makes for a good read.

While perusing the camra site linked above,I noticed the Hastings Club won a prestigious award from camra

(see here ).On a visit over to Balckburn is this place worth going to visit for those of you who have been there?

I didn't know where to put this so I stuck it in this topic.Here on FSC's nightly sports news show they just listed the top list of 2005/2006 TV earnings.This was mentioned in this article on espn.the only reason I bring it up is b/c the TV showed Rovers in 10th spot with 44.1 million dollars (23,618,597 pounds).I did not realize we had earned that much!Good on us.I believe media revenue last year was 21.5 million pounds.Obviously,these numbers pale in comparison to arsenal,chelsea,mufc,etc.Perhaps next year will see these #'s push up toward the top 5 or 6.

48th with a bullet !! I gave away too many points in transfer penalties (100pts!!)

Still a fun game though.

  Do you really think we've now got a world-class manager to take us those two steps further?

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In a word,No.Let's see how he does before the knives come out though.

no

What would you grumpy lot known as England fans do if you won the Euro 08 tourney with McClaren ( !! ) as manager?there would be alot of crow to be eaten.