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Did you know Newcastle is twinned with Gelsenkirchen? I didn't until they mentioned it on fivelive a few days ago. 154945[/snapback] Aye, something to do with a shared history of coal and general industrial graft, I think.

"Zany"?

A dour one-nil to Germany thanks to a 3rd-minute rebound off Miroslav Klose's arse then.

With fans like this, how can Germany fail?

I want the Germans to win, which is a bizarre sensation in itself. I imagine Argentina will, though, and quite comfortably in the end - I just have a feeling that Podolski and Klose aren't going to cut it up front today, so it'll all depend on whether Ballack does his 90-minute Lampard impression again.

I'm really far too amused by the Gelsenkirchen song.

Canny comeback that.

No big deal when Croatian's the lingua franca of your national team, I guess.

Bollocks, the Lewisham thing isn't till next weekend. It's EuroPride this weekend. What a mistake-a to make-a.

Ah c'mon, how can you argue with unintentional comedy like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwnGXAnX7HM

And steal Fairtrade chocolate bars from the Oxfam on Gosforth High Street. The rebels.

And this site seems to reckon it's a 1pm start, FWIW: http://www.wcities.com/en/record/274,92785/46/record.html

Howay, get with the programme! http://home.freeuk.com/timarchive/html/body_hoppings.htm

Dontworry, behappy.

Apparently our ironic trip to the Lewisham People's Day (cough) on Saturday to see Eurovision has-been Nicki French mime to a few tracks on the Pride stage (double-cough) might be scuppered by the fact that it clashes with the England match. What a dilemma...

So you can link to pics from otherwise unlinkable sites like Geocities I s'pose...

The sell Bild in Brockley? 154332[/snapback] No, but the Internet's just about reached here.

True, now that Australia are playing in the Asian groups, I think it would be a fine idea to give Oceania an automatic qualification spot.

The ever-classy Bild tabloid has a list of "33 things to do on a football-free day" to help its readers cope. The first one is "look to see if your wife's still there"....

On telly? 154202[/snapback] Breakpoint Mountain

Proper Gosforth posho, you. 154201[/snapback] I was breastfed strawberries and cream, me. Hm...

The crap pub quiz I go to every Wednesday is off this week an' arl. Scandalous.

Love watching tennis live, though less so on the telly. Used to get myself down to the tournament at Jesmond every summer and work as a steward. Tenner a day and scran vouchers for getting a tan, watching plenty of tour-quality tennis and telling posh gits to shut up. Superb.

We'll get Danny to bite your ankles.

Toon R. Aider posted this poem to a Newcastle United forum. That very evening, her house was attacked by a gang of pasty-faced net-heads brandishing mallets!