mockney piers

Aaah, the joys of taking sabatical over a world cup summer. I'll be in the railway in tulse hill, my first pub visit for an England game so far.

me, roree, and a bottle of whiskee

France ... Sorry .... sorry does not compute.

Talk about timing, switched over 10 seconds before the Uruguay goal. My god, this could happen!!!!

'And you thought England had problems.....' England being their own worst enemy, but compared to the french self destruction they are mere amateurs!! If s Africa score another and Uruguay win 2-0 would that be the most remarkable qualification of all time? In fact would that be enough?

Well I'm loving this, s Africa 2-0 up and France down to 20 men. As with too many other dodgy decisions though, that were never red. To be honest yellow would have been harsh.

Oooh yes!! What's south African for ?go...ol! ?

You can't tear holes in that err so to speak.

I loved the article, sadly I tink its conclsion that 'A gormless 1-0 defeat tomorrow might lead at least to a few hard questions being posed. I can't wait.' is sadly utter bollocks. It hasn't in the past and it won't again. Platini's recently passed regulation that Clubs can only spend on transfers and wages from their turnovers, outside investment can only be ploughed into facilities etc, will probably have much more far reaching consequences than yet another meek exit from a tournament.

Me too jimmy. Me too.

?Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

I don't think we have the luxury to drop him, sadly.

With the quality of gol you could say i missed about 20 o's. Mind you hardly a towering performance from Torres (baddamtish). Ghoul defo an English interpretaion of how that word is pronounced. Think daft S American commentators.

?Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

No room for Mick McCarthy in the bottoms? He, even more than vuvuzuelas, makes me reach for the mute button. Edit- oops, how did I miss that No1 matthew? Sorry.

Nice to have some goals at last wasnt it. Behrami sent off, West Ham not having the best of world Cups. Odds on Franco getting crushed under a falling piano please quids.

Me too Keef. But JTT has it right, ITV for the first time ever is trouncing the Beeb in the studio stakes, and that's almost entirely down to Chiles, the previously dull as dishwater Southgate is a revelation with someone to bounce off and even more so Desailly, it would appear he's not made of wood after all. Even those stings with the cars aren't actually especially annoying.

I think it's just common or garden, run of t'mill irony ther mr devil ;)

Demographic change is down to a fundamental shift, prawn sandwich fed, soprano led metamorphosis of how the game is perceived, funded, marketed, advertised and appreciated. A couple of banning orders does not a cultural shift make. And as for only the middle class boo, seriously, fuck off.

What keef and quids said. Don't boo?!? several months of savings to watch a lacklustre performance because the overpaid self-absorbed shagsacks have a 'brittle' relationship with their manager!? Do me a favour. First up against the wall if you ask me never mind the booing. Cunts. Don't boo. Laugh I nearly paid my licence fee or something. But let's face it, core of the team are the same wankers who haven't produced for 8 years. And we are surprised?!? In Portugal thy thought they had a god given right to win it, but we could all see they did nothing but lazy average football that would win nothing. Nowt has changed, plus ca change etc. Don't boo?!?!? I've been begging for this not to happen for 4 years and lo........ Go on N Korea!!!!!

I normally really like Lennon but it just wasn't happening. When SWP came on I tuttted. The missus asked why as she likes him, and I said he's alright but generally against poor opposition. Took me a moment to realise that's what we were playing. Someone really should have mentioned that to the players. As for Heskey, pretty much. He does have a work rate plays his role well, which sadly, for a striker, doesn't actualy involve scoring. Did anyone see his house on WAG Come Dine With Me the other day, the porno tele that rose up in purple velour?

Terry, terrible. Gerrard was Carlton Palmeresque, Rooney static, Lampard anonymous, Lennon pointless. Johnson started ok bu just got worse, Barry as ok but how often did he try and get things moving only to look around and see everyone shuffling along staring at their feet. Heskey tried bless him, but seriously, enough already. Subs were uninspired tactically but we at least improved with each one. I'm wih quids, change shape, get Cole on and get some bloody ephedrine on Rooney, I think this season has spent him.

True, but England raise their game against better opposition, well sometimes, and even then tend to get noble defeats or creditable draws against the odds. I don't know why we bother really. Luckily I have the champions elect Spain to follow. Oh bugger!!!!

I know what you mean boneyard. Brush fires and running over zebras, weirdly cathartic. And what's with the convoys, thy can't ALL be that lost?!

Ooh. 8/10. May not have the surreal quality of previous work but there is real verve and panache about this one, not to mention juuuust enough dash of plausability to reel them in. But yeah, family room might have made this a torville and dean!!