Keefaz

Are Peterborough sponsoring themselves?

Don't. Horrible Horrible Club. This is what I'd have thought. Mingers.

Someone did try on an escalator coming out of one of the Metro stations, fucker just about had his hand in my pocket and I hadn't noticed but my mate behind me had and gave him a clip. Fair enough. I had a rucksack nicked in the train station. It was quite a clever ruse in that they distracted me by one of them going to the bin next to me and pretending to vomit in the most horrific manner I've ever heard.

His sister said he headbutted her six time and bit her, standard family squabble imo.

If you haven't had anything stolen in Barcelona you haven't been to Barcelona.

Capello picked two complete idiots in defence. That was a big mistake.

Oh I'd not open a sports bar, a nice little place in the vein of Taller de Tapas will do for me and the Mrs. Great place that. Damn, I miss my city. Aye, it's well boffo.

I suppose the point is that it's hard to give a toss about a team you have no real connection with. I remember in Fever Pitch Nick Hornby also adopts Cambridge United (I think) for a time and really took to them.

Just go, man. Flight's about 10p.

Cambridge City are also in the area and I'dcertainly recommend Histon or City over United. You'll get a much better non-league experience at them as opposed to the billy big bollocks attitude the fans have down at the R Costings Abbey Stadium. Aye. I think I'll take in a few matches in the area. Histon are in the Conference as well, right? I remember them beating Leeds a few years back.

The fact is there were probably some very good designs but as soon as the thing got to a committee and they started talking about brand cohesion and shit like that then whatever good stuff they came up with initially was doomed.

He was from Cambridgeshire, but aye, fair do's.

Which of you has an adopted team? Since it looks like I'm gonna be living in Cambridge for some time I was thinking about taking Cambridge United up as my temporary team. Has it worked for any of youz? Do you feel like cheating back-stabbing wankers?

Loads of countries have TV licenses. At least some of our money goes towards genuinely excellent television: foreigners get to watch utter shite day-in day-out.

Aye, and you're the most underperforming nation of them all!

Like Dunga gives a toss what Cruyff says.

Just spat in the direction of the camera. Don't blame him either, tbh.

I wish he'd learn English, like.

Spain have to drop Torres, tbh. They've been fortunate that Villa's bang on form, but Torres' presence isn't aiding the team at all. They need someone playing with confidence making the right runs and getting results from them in order to get the best out of whichever midfield they choose.

I wonder if it's possible to work backwards from a player and see how he developed? You take a Sheringham who was in many ways an atypical English player: slow, but read the game miles better than anyone else, brilliant touch and range of passing. How did he get to be like that when so few English players are?

Maybe a better approach would be to ask: how can we get the best out of the English system? We're never going to be like Brazil or Holland. Play to our strengths: pace, strength, aerial ability, etc.

Trying to get the bird to time our trip back to the homeland for the appropriate weekend. Worth it to kick lumps out of all you lot.

Could he be the man to re-build the England team? He would need to start being bolder with his choices, that's for sure.

Very good read. Thanks for that. "But one element of the academy’s success is that the boys are not overplayed, so the hours at De Toekomst are all business. Through age 12, they train only three times a week and play one game on the weekend. “For the young ones, we think that’s enough,” Riekerink said when we talked in his office one day. “They have a private life, a family life. We don’t want to take that from them. When they are not with us, they play on the streets. They play with their friends. Sometimes that’s more important. They have the ball at their feet without anyone telling them what to do.” " I think this is an important point. A lot of the kids I know who are promising players are on two or three teams and play matches all the time: even two a day sometimes.