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Sandi Toksvig on Friday night's "News Quiz": "It's been promised that the FA will conduct a 'root-and-branch review' of the England team setup, led by the top banana of the FA, Brian Barwick. Meanwhile, the White Star Line have announced a root-and-branch review of the Titanic's maiden voyage, to be led by the iceberg." I love Radio 4.

Wacky Jnr seems to be hedging a bit and as I like to have a dabble now and then I'd like to take that bet Mr. Fish, if you don't mind. so to clarify you're willing to bet five English pounds that Sam Allardyce will be sacked and we lose our next two games? I'm willing to bet five English pounds that Sam Allardyce will be sacked IF we lose our next two league games. Is that clear Mr. Fish? I hope you didn't think that I thought a 'fiver' meant $5.oo in Yankee money You should have insisted on that fact, at least you'd only be £2.50 out of pocket.

Can't see us qualifying from that group looking at the group of players we're likely to have in the team by then. I know everything is a bit doom and gloom, but if we can't appoint a coach capable of getting England though that group and/or don't have the players I think maybe England should give up international football. That's what we say every year after we bomb at Eurovision, then we end up sending another bit of tacky Europop that gets a grand total of 19 points because we convince ourselves that "it's what Eurovision's all about". The FA and the BBC should join forces to become one big miasma of cluelessness. Might at least cut costs a little.

Can't see us qualifying from that group looking at the group of players we're likely to have in the team by then. I'm just loving the thought of the England fans looking for a fight on the mean streets of Minsk and Almaty, to be honest.

Group 1 Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Albania, Malta Group 2 Greece, Israel, Switzerland, Moldova, Latvia, Luxembourg Group 3 Czech Republic, Poland, NORTHERN IRELAND, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino Group 4 Germany, Russia, Finland, WALES, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein Group 5 Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Estonia Group 6 Croatia, ENGLAND, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra Group 7 France, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Austria, Faroe Islands Group 8 Italy, Bulgaria, Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Georgia, Montenegro Group 9 Holland, SCOTLAND, Norway, FYR Macedonia, Iceland

Croatia again.

England get Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Andorra (and a top seed still to come). Tricky journeys...

Asia first, Europe won't be up for a wee while yet. Australia just got drawn with China and Iraq. Wonder if they still reckon it's easier to qualify this way than via Oceania?

No they're not, which is why singling them out for special mention makes you even more pretentious. I like to give the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. no point in saying I had a sausage sandwich... it would be a lie.. True, far better to portray yourself as the great innovator. "Have ye heard of a thing called butter? Gold in colour and slippery to the touch..." (As a postscript, I feel seriously unclean for using a Little Britain reference for comedy purposes. Sorry everybody.)

No they're not, which is why singling them out for special mention makes you even more pretentious.

Everton are streets ahead of us too though. We'd only have lost the equivalent game 3-1 though. :boogie:

It's the type of arrogant comment he usually delivers seriously though Still. Him and me aren't exactly busom buddies either but I'm afraid you'd have to be an utter spastic not to get what he was saying.

It was sarcastically delivered full stop, you pack of retards.

He was pretty awful today. Not that anyone exactly excelled themselves.

And to think they drew against us and should have won. Fickle fans or what?

On behalf of the lad who sat to the right of me at the Reading match and spent the entire game drunkenly questioning my Newcastle heritage, *MONG-FACED CHEER*.

Fine for me mate.

5th-row tickets for "Chicago" next Wednesday with the lovely Frances Ruffelle in the lead role. 2-for-1 offer so not too much of an evil rip-off.

Saw them a couple of months back. Canny night out, and Jenny Lewis is pretty captivating when she gets her rawk star head on.

Beatles - Across The Universe

Correct. Probably for the best really.

Sorry. But aye.

"Eight groups of six teams and one group of five will contest the European qualifying competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The nine group-winners will qualify directly, while the highest ranked eight of the nine second-placed teams will contest home and away play-off matches for the remaining four places. In determining the rank of second-placed teams, only results against those finishing 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th will be counted." So one second-placed team won't even make it into a play-off? That seems... harsh

Not me not I... http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=16241

I'd dare someone to turn up wearing one of these: http://www.shotdeadinthehead.com/products/...=763&wy=445 ...but I imagine Doherty would be too monged to notice and his fans can't read anyway.