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Got a chromecast, a Bobba Fett dressing gown a mini Burger sliding device for the bbg (wtf?) and £130.

My treat was going to be IMAX 3d godzilla or that Tom Cruise one and then a bit of bait. ...didn't want to miss Spain Holland though, so we're going to the Beehive for a quick bite between the Cameroon game and that one.

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I wholeheartedly endorse this trend for clubs making a players performance review records public once they've been sold. "Hatem Ben Arfa was always capable of incredible skills, however he would go missing for 40 minutes between training and tactical sessions. Steve Stone found that he was hiding in the ice bath room gorging on Dime bars"

Sounds quality. We're getting a new boiler soon so i'm keen to get one for the gas too. I'll be producing powerpoint presentations for the family, setting them their targets and rewarding them on their quarterly improvements.

Respond with a dead link to the Star Wars Kid or Chocolate Rain, summat like that.

Did you supplier fit it free?

Racist or off your tits?

Graing has a quality pairing, top seeds and everyone's outside bet.

Wear it with pride...

Think World Cup Sweepstake Avatars should be the order of the day then There's every combo.... http://www.crossed-flag-pins.com/crossed-flag-pins-gallery.php

The trendlines show the ten minute average. We seem to concede pretty consistently at around 2 goals in each minute of the first half since Pardew arrived. that jumps to 4 per minute halfway through the second half, where overasll it's hovering more around the 3 goals per minute. For goals scored we peak just before halfway into the first, then are frequently below 2 goals per minute until stoppage ime when we see another spurt.

Was gonna say it needed some jaunty tropicalia

My two favourite countries Excellent work.

You get any of the top 8 seeds and there'll be demands for a new draw.

It kicks off in a few hours man. How long were you going to leave it?

Looks like a Trainspotting poster with them three pasty mutha's

TS could PM a numbered list of entrants (1-32) to someone Someone else could PM a numbered list of all the teams toa fourth member. Once both recipients confirm they have their PM, they can hoy the lists up here. Ensure's independent adjudication, like the lottery ...or just trust TS to do it random on bits of paper.

If I'd had a beard prior to the last year or so I'd be shaving daily for now, just to ensure I wasn't associated with wankers like Ashley Cole. Give it another year and they'll all have moved on to wearing berets or lumberjack braces and normal people can grow their beards back. Fish is now opening his ASOS bookmark and searching for "lumberjack braces"

Happy to switch my donation from £10/£2 for the board/sweepstake to a £8/£4 ratio instead.

Ashley learns from mistakes. He might not learn what we want him to, but he applies lessons learned. He sold Given, Milner and Nzogbia as our season spiralled out of control in 08/09 without replacing them and we got relegated. In 12/13 we were facing relegation again and we brought in half a dozen players to ensure survival. That's the plus side of him gaining some experience. Unfortunately he's learned that the Europa league is a ball and chain of a competition and he wants nothing to do with it, that an ambitious manager with an ounce of pride will cause him grief and that the club can lose a great deal of money on 8 figure signings too.

The amazing thing about it is all the opportunities he had to dismiss the idea as fucking thick. As soon as it popped into his head, as he came up with the lyrics, as he set up the camera, as he put the paint on, while donning the wig, as he actually heard himself singing the song, or spinning to face the camera, as he waited for the video to transfer to his PC, when he actually watched the horror show he had produced, edited it down and then as he waited for it to upload to Youtube. At no point in that laborious process did he have any moment of clarity and perceive what a knacker he was being. It's a metaphor for the life of every Sunderland supporter really. How they spend their life going to that place and embarrass themselves. None of these look at themselves and think, "what am a deein?"

If they balanced the draw better like that then the early rounds would be as dull a procession as the Europa League early stages. At least there are a few interesting groups with the current set up. The whole thing should go back to 16 countries tbh. Either that or group similarly ranked teams together. It would produce loads more fantastic games if Brazil, Argentina Spain and Germany were in one group and Honduras, Iran, Costa Rica and Australia in another. That approach would also do much more for football in nations where it's less popular.

Apparently there's a campaign to get this to number one