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Got to be Benfica in the next round...that fuckin dirty great budgie flying round the stands before the game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21782595 England squad, usual suspects, Rios back...looks like if Taylor was even considered his place went to Smalling.

Ooff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQYYLk1L59I

So much for the strength of the coalition The Tory MP David Burrowes has written to the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC, asking him to review the eight-month sentences imposed on Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce on the grounds that they are "unduly lenient". Is he doing this becuase he's a pathetically mean spirited busybody, or because he's a tory, or do the two things go hand in hand?.....

Who? Keith bell?

Steven Taylor's dad. Prison warder. Nails.

Think Ausman may have jinxed it anyway...we're fuckin miles away from the final, 450mins of football at least.

You had to be in the ballot that closed in the last week in January to get a ticket for the final....unless you use ebay or a ticket agency, which will be tricky as you need to prove you are the person named on the ticket. I'm in the ballot. Was in 2007 too, got an email telling me I had 2 tickets...it was waiting for me when I got back from Alkmaar

I think if Sky and their advertisers "lobbied" Fifa hard enough theyd get their way....worked for Qatar, which a far more fuckin ludicrous situation than a cross border league. Sky have few avenues left in this country (or Europe as a whole I imagine) in which to grow their business, not sure if Scotland's 5-6mill is worth them growing into so that might stop it. One things for sure, tv will decide if it happens iyam.

See I think you're right about that, the clubs would resist it, but tv and those who advertise on tv would love it, and at the end of the day its their money the clubs eventually get. If they can apply enough pressure etc...how many Scots who havent got a sky box or got rid of it would get a new subscription if they were going to be able to watch Cetic v manu or Ranger v Liverpool?...

Because of the social problems that those with issues cause for the emergency services etc?... or should we just shoot them?

Aye, in these days of global satellite TV coverage then the "not done it on the world stage" thing is a bit irrelevant iyam. Kids in Bombay and Bangkok only saw Pele and Maradonna once every 4 years, if they were lucky. They can watch Messi every week.

I'm not suggesting we're going to get fee for him, am saying we hold him to the terms of the contract he signed last year. If he wants to go home that much and kiss goodbye to that much money then its up to him.

Obviously his heart isnt in it at SJP, but unfortunately for him his contract is still held here. Ashley should play the hardest ball possible with San Lorenzo. This could set a very poor precedent if he's allowed to walk away. And if a deal was hatched for him to wait until Mbiwa had settled in until he'd "get an injury" then Pardew and the club in general should stop fuckin lying to us.

Heres a warning for all you twitterers....be careful who you abuse, they might come and find you, and they might be a professional boxer http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/11/curtis-woodhouse-keyboard-warrior_n_2853594.html?ir=UK+Sport

So, to prove my point in a way, you agree with everything the present Government do and stand for, because theres pretty much one way praise from you for them, and very little, if any, criticism of them...is it fair to say that?...

Good shout he could be in the next England squad. Hugely impressed with his performance in both games v us this season. Kicked Tiote up in the air a couple of times last month Pardew knows him, we've been linked before but he's not French, his surname is Spanish...and they'll want 10mill+.

Is it just me or is that a really fuckin strange thing to accuse anyone of, whether its true or not?....

As debut premier league seasons go I'd say there wasnt much in it...Carroll had 11 goals by late January and 13 in 29 overall, Benteke has 12 with 9 games left having played 26. We'll see. Benteke's stock is rising and if a top club fancies him theyd better get him before next summer's world cup. Same with Carroll in a way...if he makes the plane to Brazil and plays well..thing is I can't see him going back to Liverpool, but I can't see anyone paying him 80k a week either...

I knew youd post that if your not on the Kop its in excess of 700 quid to watch Liverpool next season....thats a lorra cash....

On the other hand.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-21747116

Four months from the Ashes and Australian cricket has become a global laughing stock after four players were dropped from this week's third Test in India – with the most senior of them, the vice captain Shane Watson now considering his future – for not handing in their homework. That was the irresistible, if slightly unfair, summary of the decision of Mickey Arthur, the team's South African coach, and his captain Michael Clarke not to consider Watson, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja for Thursday's game in Chandigarh after they had failed to respond to a request from the management to pinpoint the reasons for Australia's heavy defeats in the first two Tests. Arthur said that Johnson and Khawaja forgot, and that Watson and Pattinson had failed to respond inside the five-day deadline. None are thought to have claimed that their submissions were eaten by a dog. Watson, who was said to have underestimated the importance of the presentation, later boarded a plane for Sydney to be with his heavily pregnant wife but admitted he is now thinking of quitting international cricket. Before his departure, he told The Australian newspaper: "Any time you are suspended from a Test match, unless you have done something unbelievably wrong and obviously everyone knows what those rules are - I think it is very harsh. In the end I have got to live with it. That is the decision they have made and at this point in time I am at a stage where I have to weigh up my future with what I want to do with my cricket in general. "I am going to spend the next few weeks with my family and weigh up my options as to exactly which direction I want to go or keep on. I am going to have to sit down and work that out with my family. There are a lot more important things in life. I do love playing cricket and that passion is still there and I feel I am in the prime years of my cricket career." Michael Vaughan, the former England captain who has turned into a regular Aussie-baiter on Twitter, summed up the general incredulity when he tweeted: "What is going on with Aussie cricket? Didn't realise you had to do an essay to get selection these days!" The former Australia batsman Mark Waugh said he had ''never heard anything so stupid in all my life''. However, Arthur described the decision as "a line in the sand", and even compared it to England's omission of Kevin Pietersen from the decisive Test against South Africa last summer because of the damage he was doing to team spirit. "We pride ourselves on attitude," said Arthur, who took over as Australia's coach after their defeat in the last Ashes series. "We have given the players a huge amount of latitude to get culture and attitude right. We believe those behaviours are not consistent with what we want to do with this team, how we want to take this team to be the best in the world. "I believe those four players unfortunately did not meet my requirements so those four players are not available for selection for this Test match.' "I asked the players at the end of the game [Australia's second Test defeat in Hyderabad] to give me an individual presentation, I wanted three points from each of them technically, mentally and team, as to how we were going to get back over the next couple of games, how we were going to get ourselves back into the series. "This has been the toughest decision myself, manager Gavin Dovey and captain Michael Clarke have ever had to make. It's a tough, tough decision, but the ramifications for that within our team's structure and the message that it sends to all involved in Australian cricket is that we are serious about where we want to take this team." Arthur added: ''It's extremely tough to sit here and make that decision. I wish it wasn't the vice captain, I wish it wasn't Shane Watson and Mitchell Johnson. They are leaders within the team and are very professional with the way they go about their business. But this was a moment where we had to make a statement irrespective of who the players were." Johnson, Watson's fellow Queenslander, has not played in the series so far but Pattinson – whose elder brother Darren played a single Test for England – has been their best bowler, and Khawaja had been expected to replace Phil Hughes at No3. Australia now have only 13 players available for third Test and that could be reduced to 12 if the wicketkeeper Matthew Wade fails to recover from his ankle injury. Fuckin homework!

And criticising Labour for not regulating the City Fuck knows how you can keep a straight face on that one CT....Thatcher's "big bang" was designed to keep a tight hold of regulation and didnt plant the seed in any way, shape or form for what happened in 2007...no, not at all...no...

I've never voted Labour in my life CT. But I do know theres no votes in austerity

Is he any better than Carroll?....