oldjamfan1

The Beatles - Penny Lane

Sham 69 - Angels With Dirty Faces

Entertaining game between Colombia and Japan. Colombia down to 10 men and 1-0 down after 3 minutes have just equalized on 40 mins with a really clever free kick that was drilled under a jumping wall.

The Style Council - Have You Ever Had it Blue?

Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York

I like to think I have a sense of humour but it was a bit of an odd thing to say for a guy who is being paid to provide analysis of incidents in the game . I would have docked his fee.

Paul Weller - Shadow of the Sun or 5th Season; both off the same album, take your pick

A-Craze - She is So

Oh well, in your world this no doubt means that Scotland have technically qualified for the World Cup.

Tracy Chapman - Talkin Bout a Revolution

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

Bettye Swann - Today I Started Loving You Again

Very sensible piece of business, and from a supporter point of view, extremely heartening. In Tony we trust!

Crowded House - Fall at Your Feet

The Jam - Time for Truth Weller got some stick for this one - an attack on Jim Callaghan’s Labour government - but to be fair he was barely 18 when he wrote it.

Where’s Dryhorse? Thought he’d be on here gloating. I feel as though I’ve have had messages about the cricket result from every single person I’ve ever met in 23 years of living in Scotland. The irony is I had forgotten the game was even being played. The last time I saw a match at The Grange Lancs bowled Scotland out for about 70 and Freddie Flintiff knocked them off in about 4 overs, including a forward defensive shot that went sailing over the bowler’s head for 6. England should have had no trouble chasing 400 on that ground.

None of those examples explain to me under what criteria Ryan Giggs qualified to play for England when he had ‘the choice’ to make between Wales and England. I vaguely recall his team mate from the Greater Manchester schools team coming on here a while back and confirming that. But as I said I haven’t researched it at all, I just recall many people wrongly assuming he qualified to play for England having done so at schoolboy level.

Ocean Colour Scene - On the Leyline, Waiting

I’d be happy to stand corrected but I don’t think Giggs had a decision to make. He played for England schoolboys because he went to school in England, but that doesn’t entitle you to play for England at full level.

Apart from when he single handedly stuffed the Scots at Hampden Park in the Euro 2000 qualifier.

Cloughie did indeed pay us £100,000 for him before he had even turned 18. That was a lot of cash to Rovers at the time.

I think Duffer has celebrated vigorously a couple of times at Ewood for both Chelsea and Fulham but to be honest I have no problem with that - if a footballer can't enjoy scoring, especially against a former club, there's something wrong. I don't remember him going too overboard.

He got taken on at Ewood just ahead of my younger brother, they played in the same schools representative teams. Didn't Cloughie pay us a fortune for him while he was still a teenager?

Julian Cope - Reynard the Fox

Jimmy Case. Never capped at full international level and won maybe one under 23 cap? Part of the best club side midfield I have ever seen play live (Liverpool, late 70s-early 80s). The other two English members of that midfield quartet, the classy Ray Kennedy and prolific Terry McDermott, only won about 20 caps each. Amazing really, given how good they all were.