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There's this Europe-wide music competition that takes up the odd minute of my time here or there.

Send some of that down here. The last week has been smog-insulation-layer-tastic.

Lowest Common Denominator Scapegoating, I guess - though Simeone never got a tabloid dartboard dedicated to him in 1998. Bet he's gutted.

evil Swedish overlord in "stamping petulant Scouse mong's foot by remote-control" shocker

Germany I suppose, lesser of several evils...

South Tyneside is Wuppertal, apparently. Same neck of the woods, same sinfully ugly industrial heritage.

The Gelsenkirchen website reckons it's Newcastle. Maybe Shields just wanted to bask in the reflected glory.

Bollocks man Gemmill, stop quoting my hastily-deleted failures to recognise rhetorical questions.

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.