He will score enough to give is a 1 mill profit at the end of year ala Kuqi style

I can see Maclarens training now Running laps carrying a ball, then team instructions that once you are down 3 nil everyone flood forward Gonna earn his money

I hope France win 3-2 extra time victory OR France 1-0 awarded a dodgy penalty with seconds to go

Where is Torres? How the hell did Terry get in ahead of Neill? Reminds me of Pele's Top 100 players of all time, farce

I think out of those shortlisted Cannavaro or Maniche

Tripe Eddie France had a slow start but against Spain and Brazil they were fantastic, the dip against Portugal could have easily been players being cautious about yellow cards Spain, Argentina and Holland had one bad game the whole world cup, and it happened to knock them out. Germany was superb, Italy have had an excellent tournament. Brazil didn't reach the quality expected but were still devestating againt Japan and Ghana, Ghana and Australia played their butts off and were unfortunate not to go further. Portugal have done enough and shown glipses of the Brazilian European tag. In fact the only teams who got through the group stage who were crap the whole way through, both playing and watching, were Switzerland, England and Ukraine.

That's what some said about Cole Last year 31 starts 18 goals, year before 16, year before 19, year before 16 Wherever he goes he scores goals, isn't that what we have needed FFS?

I actually agree with you Eddie, you play the players as needed not just because they accompanied you on the trip Boa Morte for Portugal, Huth for Germany, half the aussie squad If you wanted to give him a shot however

Sorry Eddie I must have missed your post I can't say for sure Eddie, in Australia the World Cup was being ripped apart for the diving, are you saying there was no criticism in France after Henry's theatrics?

Yeh I mentioned it Roy, it did slip by without comment Back to the old, well were not as bad as them. When you get caught for bank robbery, I only took a quarter of the money the other guy took a half. Who gives a flying I could't care less if it was only done once it is cheating whoever the part to blame is BP, how can you defend Rooney against other posters calling him scum ect if in the same thread taint CR as a "greasy scumbag"? Do you feel because of his origins he is 'greasy' or a 'scumbag'?

Lucky or not he gets results in big competitions, that is the important thing. How do you reach the conclusion about McClaren? He was reaching Bolton status with his club side. I can't see anything changing with McClaren, he will play the same game as SGE without the results

I don't quite understand what you mean by B sides Portugal never got this far, France have Zidane retiring, the turmoil in Serie A, Germany were written off as inexperienced and no good What more could you want?

I don't think that is entirely fair Eddie, why not look at it as the smaller teams lifting to the big occasion The best World Cup stories come from the Cameroons, Senegals and South Koreas, smattered with the class of the big guns

Not at all, hopefully it brings more fans into the game and subsequently the possibility of more Rovers fans through the heroics of Neill and Emerton What I am getting sick of hearing is players dreams "It is like a dream, this has always been my dream, playing with blahblah has been my dream, my dream is being fulfilled" and of course the excuses from every team that 'should have won it'

Absolutely, but they didn't Baz, what happens if he comes good in the first 12 months? Then he has the opportunity to leave on a free

Who Abs? Rooney or Ronaldo?

I don't know why people can't get it, they had a great team but didn't reach the levels expected the whole tournament. I thought reaching the quarterfinals they way they were playing was a great result. Every team in the semi's deserves to be there otherwise they wouldn't be there. I hope that Portugal or France win it. Short memories for those who say England doesn't dive or cheat, have a quick flash back to Gerrard in the last friendly game before the tournament. It wasn't poor refereeing, it wasn't johnny foreigner diving, it wasn't lady luck. England were not good enough. (Neither was Australia before I get slighted because of my spectacles again)

I might be psychic, anyone want the lotto results?

I still think it is great, even with the diving and and refereeing it is throwing up some surprises I have enjoyed every minute of it except Australia going out and most of Ukraines games.

I apparently have a cheque coming as well Mine is from Kiqwi, an estranged african businessman looking to put his 300 trillion dollars somewhere We are going halves in exchange for the use of my account

Reminds me of the current crop of drama queens Are you Graham Poll in disguise?

Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks Start - Oh Yeh!! For those who have a soft spot for this series

Settle down FLB, it was meant in jest, I don't believe on either side, except in JIMMK2, that there is any deep resentment If you read my posts before hand instead of going off the handle you will see that I do actually like the company of Brits and my dislike of English sporting teams, when we are playing you none the less, starts at the whistle and ends on the whistle I was merely giving a reason as to why it is so much fun to enter into such banter with the English, and I will catagorically state that if we had Dutch heritage it wouldn't be the same Who do the English like playing in sport? Germany, Argentina, Australia, why? due to history we share. There is nothing personal in anything I ever say, it is meant for a rib and nothing more. Whether or not you would FLB, even the people that 'wind us aussies up' would still be welcome in my home for a bite to eat and a beer anytime. Yes I have been to England, yes I enjoyed it except for the over crowding of London, and I have many many heavy drinking sessions with English backpackers over a football game and loved every moment of it.

So did Henry

I need to find some running water to cool this burn