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Now take a look at the team that beat Germany 5-1 in Munich. That game was a hell of a lot closer than it looks on paper. The Germans had left their shooting boots at home, much like in the game against Serbia, (I recall Ballack contriving to miss the target completely from about 5 yards out) and Owen just couldn't miss.

I thought it was a photoshop job.

Heskey has *always* been like that. The only thing you can blame Capello for is picking him. Which is a pretty big black mark against him, tbh.

It isn't Capello: he had the side practically purring in qualification. Like he says, it's all in their heads. They've bottled it and seized up. I suppose it's possible someone like Mourinho could charm them past their mental block, but that's what it is. Mental.

Agree totally. Shame that fat head had to open his fat mouth. Joe Cole is just what England needs.

Capello: "That's the most important thing, the respect of the other players." As if Terry would understand anything about that...

So Carra had a word & Rooney decked him!!! Are these rumours doing the rounds in Liverpool? Clearly. Can well believe the first, not the second. Is this from the same source that gave us the scoop that Kris Commons was banging Ms G? While Mr G was paying some teenage lass to get rid of kid Afraid I have no idea what you're talking about. He did it now because he knows he won't be dropped, what with King and Carra being unavailable. The man's an unmitigated cock.

So Carra had a word & Rooney decked him!!! Are these rumours doing the rounds in Liverpool? Clearly. Can well believe the first, not the second.

Wouldn't put it past him. The rumour that Rooney decked Terry is definitely too good to be true though.

Allegedly, Carra told Terry to "shut up and stop sulking", called him a "snake" to his face, and now refers to him as "Hissing Sid".

That's brutal.

A million times? I'd say it's pretty much the same thing, perhaps less crazy. After all, Kenny did actually win a few league titles and a couple of FA Cups. Still crazy, though.

Got my hands on a vuvuzela about 2 a.m. last night, pissed off my nut, and I must confess I was parping away like a proper cunt till I staggered home about 6 a.m. I probably owe half the town an apology. On the other hand, I've had to listen to the same stupid fucking comments on England's performances from half the town, so sod 'em. You should have seen the face on the Frenchman that sells cheese at the local market on Friday. He must have had every bastard and his dog making "witty" observations to him all day long. I almost felt for him. Almost.

Says more about SSN than Liverpool fans. Why would the Liverpool fans they show be any more representative than the NUFC ones they show?

No, both SK and Japan won their groups. Haha gosh I always remember them getting knocked out in the group stages but you're right. Just goes to show you how much South Africa suck at life. South Africa blows at football

I'd rather have Hodgson to be honest. Dalglish has been out of the game for 10 years. Legend though he is, it'd be awfully risky appointing him manager. Besides, I think it's right that an English manager who's proven he can do the business gets a crack at a big club. Not that he'll have any money to spend.

There's instructions here on how to buy+download or create an mp3 that cancels out the vuvuzelas. They are too shit scared incase someone pulls out the racism card or how the African people are still being oppressed. End of the day they are fucking annoying and I cant comprehend why someone would pay all that money to see a worldcup game and then blow on a plastic horn for 90 mins It's not oppression if you're behaving like a twat. Of course, it might be depending on who gets to define what behaving like a twat is. In this case, there don't seem to be many who don't think blowing a vuvuzela constantly for 90-odd minutes doesn't count as twattish.

Nah. Let's beat the shit out of everyone. After all, it's what English fans are best known for.

We boo the opposition national anthems, I'd rather hear a buzzing sound than booing. It's not even the opposition.

Too right. You don't invite a load of vegetarians around for dinner and then serve up steak tartar while showing 'em the photos from that bullfight you went to. That analogy isn't fit to describe the situation. The proper analogy is: You're invited to dinner at a foreign friend's place. You both like steak, but since his wife is cooking, she'll be pouring a 'special' sauce on the meat made using her own recipe, and you'll act like a nice, polite guess and eat the steak, even if you think the sauce is shit and the steak's less tasty because of it. Then you go home and complain to your own wife that the sauce was shit and that you'd have preferred it if they just served fish and chips. That's what we're doing now, isn't it? Anyway, I think I've got it. If you invite someone to the theatre, right, you don't sit there munching popcorn and nachos, and slurping Coke so loudly that they can't hear a fucking word the actors say. Unless BRIAN BLESSED is in it, of course. You could take a pneumatic drill along and still hear him.

I'm sure we all agree that pelting players and mass brawls are wrong, but just because you draw the line a little further back other people doesn't mean they're "whining maggots" or "mongs". i didnt call anyone a 'mong'. i said they were whining, which they are. i also agreed that the noise was annoying but i'm not miserable enough to suggest its ruining the world cup. no-one's got a god given right to dictate what sort of noise should or shouldnt be made at a football match, they just sound like spoiled kids. Nope. Adam^ did. You called us "maggots". Sure we're whining. What are Internet forums for if not a good old whine? If one of us did have the right to dictate what noise should be made at a footie game, there'd be no need to come and have a good moan in this thread, would there? ok, you use it whine, i use it to whine about whining. it's about perspective though isnt it, accept that you dont have any control over it, accept its not going to stop, start enjoying the world cup more. or allow it to really bother you and have it ruined for you, it only happens once ever four years mate. It doesn't bother me that much, except during the SA game. It'll be the England team that ruin if for me. As always. More than anything, I just think it's retarded to blow 130dB horns constantly for 90 minutes. How does anyone get anything out of that?

I'm sure we all agree that pelting players and mass brawls are wrong, but just because you draw the line a little further back other people doesn't mean they're "whining maggots" or "mongs". i didnt call anyone a 'mong'. i said they were whining, which they are. i also agreed that the noise was annoying but i'm not miserable enough to suggest its ruining the world cup. no-one's got a god given right to dictate what sort of noise should or shouldnt be made at a football match, they just sound like spoiled kids. Nope. Adam^ did. You called us "maggots". Sure we're whining. What are Internet forums for if not a good old whine? If one of us did have the right to dictate what noise should be made at a footie game, there'd be no need to come and have a good moan in this thread, would there?

Nice one. Wish I had a megaphone. I did drive a busker away from our table at the café earlier with the app, though.

I'm sure we all agree that pelting players and mass brawls are wrong, but just because you draw the line a little further back other people doesn't mean they're "whining maggots" or "mongs".