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I'm amazed it's taken you several days to respond to that. You're losing your touch.

Might sound daft, but the one thing I'm fairly confident of under the current regime is our ability to shape a youngish player into a reasonably competent exponent of whichever position we need him to play in. I know it's hardly the pre-season clarion call we might be hoping for, but you've got to play to your strengths, however nebulous they may be.

It's easy to step up a gear when the team you're playing decides to self-destruct under the slightest hint of pressure. As a football romantic, I obviously love the idea of the Netherlands winning the thing, but if they manage to do so without stepping things up from the level they've reached so far then they'll be remembered in the same vein as the Greek team in 2004 - a bunch of unreconstituted cloggers.

Fudge? Only if you're buying the next round.

Had some lovely tablet at a wedding this weekend. Family recipe apparently.

i don't get why americans don't like nice lager. i just got back from vegas, it's light beer all the way out there. I don't think their taste in lager is any worse than most British people's like, do you? Even Bud Light is nicer than Carling. Aye. They have lovely stuff such as Leffe and Old Rasputin too. As for British taste, I don't know, has it not improved like? You still see piss like Fosters all over the place, but - and maybe it's just my exposure to wanky Lahndahn types talking here - I get the impression we've at least evolved to a point where something like Kronenbourg or Stella is more the standard pint. I realise it's not the same as hops lovingly cultivated by trappist monks, but still, compared with Bud/Miller/Corona Light...

Seems harsh.

Time to cull some of the pupils.

I really don't think they have like. The Dutch have had a far easier run to this point, group stage included. Still, a final between the two will settle the matter, so bring it on.

I was just going to say, not exactly the sort of thing I'd be saying to the papers about a crazed killer on the loose...

Happy birthday baaldy heed.

Yeah yeah Wacky.. He's crazy He no crazy, he wacky.

If that was all a big setup for the punchline, it was a lot of effort for the reward.

I look about 12 and Wacky was asking for pictures of me, does that make him a sex pest? Hey baby. I was on a train today with a bunch of spotty German 14-year-olds fantasising about Vanessa Hudgens. You'd have fit right in.

So what did I miss?

If we haven't started sending you obscene PMs yet, probably not. Off to a wedding tomorrow, so need at least one night of liver rest.

Nobody expects a stonking hangover.

4/6. Nothing earth-shattering but free money basically. And I'd have been happy enough to lose in exchange for Ghana going through. One of those risk mitigation things you do when you're a daft shite football fan.

Stuck a sneaky 20 on Uruguay to win the shootout, no way Ghana were going to recover from that. Pity though.

Now this has been worth watching, fuck the big teams!

And Gyan appears to be wearing his shorts inside out.

I love lashings of cream against my baked potatoes tttt. And a faintly fishy aftertaste?

Come down to the big smoke for it, be a good excuse for a mini forum pissup! Tickets aren't cheap mind. They're playing Manchester and Glasgow too if that's any good to you.

Tickets to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor in December. :( :suicide: