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I've not got a problem with the boy getting injured mate. I just wish he would think before he opens his mouth. Either that or try delivering something to increase his stock before he starts having a pop - then people might be a bit more sympathetic to his point of view.

If he doesn't like it he can always fuck off. Either that or pull his fuckin finger out.

If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor.

I suppose it depends on the nature of the defeat (if indeed we do lose).

Jammy deflected winner in injury time - it's not like them

Did anybody else hear that stupid fucktard David Tanner interviewing Walter Smith last night? Tanner - "Walter, with Alex McLeish leaving Scotland for Birmingham can you understand why a manager would want to leave the national job to go into club management?" Smith - "Well I did it" Tanner - "So you can understand it then?" Smith - "Obviously" Tanner - "Thanks for that Walter"

I don't blame him. It's a fact of football nowadays that international jobs are often used as a stepping stone towards club management. For McLeish and Birmingham read Hughes and Blackburn. If somebody offered me a better contract to leave my current job then i'd probably do it if the circumstances were right aswell. He's walking into the unknown a wee bit with Birmingham though. I'm not sure if anybody really knows for sure what's going on behind the scenes there... Reporting Scotland are saying that Gary McAllister is the favourite on account of the good interview he gave before McLiesh was appointed. It'll either be him or Davies because they're both available for free. I don't think much of McAllister. Any time i've heard his punditry on Sky Sports i've always got the impression that he's trying too hard to be like Andy Gray, but he never seems to be sure of himself and doesn't half blether some nonsense at times. Davies doesn't come with the same calibre as Smith or McLiesh having neither managed in the Champions League nor won any trophies or league titles. However, his stock is higher than McAllister's given what he did with Derby. Jim Traynor made a good point on Your Call at the weekend when he said it's going to be extremely difficult to tempt a manager who is currently employed at a club to take the Scotland job because they're unlikely to willingly go from working with players every day to working with players once every couple of months - that's the bread and butter of management. So that rules out Jeffries, Levein and Calderwood.

I left with ten minutes to go on Saturday - as it is my right to do. The game was over as a contest and I wanted to beat the traffic. People can pontificate all they want, it's none of their fucking business.

That job looks tailor-made for Paul Jewell. It'd be interesting to see how he copes going into a job midway through the season though (if indeed he does take over).

Wenger said in fourfourtwo that he wouldn't manage England because he thinks the manager should be an English guy.

Scolari led the FA up the garden path then fucked them over just for a laugh. Mourinho will do the same. If the FA want to embarrass themselves again then that's up to them.

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I think it's on Saturday. Not 100% sure though.

I'm still hungover from Saturday. I can't ever remember being as drunk as that . It was a good laugh though, the result aside. We never really gave ourselves much of a chance conceding that early goal I was hearing that we'll be in pot 2 for the world cup draw so hopefully we'll get an easier group this time around Alan Hutton gets better every time I see him.

Aye, that's why over a million tickets were sold at the recent world cup. To be fair, people don't spend money on Sky subscriptions to watch the women's world cup, they spend it to watch the EPL, La Liga and Champions League. If there was as many sqillions of £$£$£$£$£$£ floating around the women's game as there is in the men's game then I could understand them deserving a bigger slice of the cake, but there blatantly isn't and anybody who says there is is kidding themselves. If all males were as reluctant to get it as you are, then no wonder lads are doing so poorly in their GCSE's and A Levels. It's not about comparison to the men's game, it's about comparitive compensation (for the wages they lost) with Sweden and the USA, who are of an approximate standing (including financially) in WOMEN's football. There's one paragraph in the article about that. There's another paragraph about the women's game being 100yrs behind the men's game. There's further paragraphs about broadcasting/sponsorship money issues. all it says about the mens game is that which it would not have had, if things had been left to run their natural course by the way. Women were playing football at the start, until the FA banned them. All it says about sponsorship issues is that they are looking for more sponsorship, and get more broadcasting. No where does it say that they want a slice of any pie that men want to gorge on. The point i'm making is that there isn't a market to fund high wages in British women's football. There is in the USA because it's more popular and there obviously is in the mens game for the same reason. Am I right or am I wrong? Wrong. lol. They aren't asking for high wages, but the minimum wage they have been given, which is approximately what £40 a day is, is insulting and in most cases will not cover any wages lost by being there. Hardly a way to inspire future players is it? There is enough money in the women's game to fund higher compensation for a one off competition like the world cup. So are they asking for higher wages or are they not asking for higher wages? I'm confused.

I think England have got some fabulous individual players but they don't have a good team. Read into that what you will. Personally I think some of the criticism being levelled at the current manager of the national team is legitimate.

Aye, that's why over a million tickets were sold at the recent world cup. To be fair, people don't spend money on Sky subscriptions to watch the women's world cup, they spend it to watch the EPL, La Liga and Champions League. If there was as many sqillions of £$£$£$£$£$£ floating around the women's game as there is in the men's game then I could understand them deserving a bigger slice of the cake, but there blatantly isn't and anybody who says there is is kidding themselves. If all males were as reluctant to get it as you are, then no wonder lads are doing so poorly in their GCSE's and A Levels. It's not about comparison to the men's game, it's about comparitive compensation (for the wages they lost) with Sweden and the USA, who are of an approximate standing (including financially) in WOMEN's football. There's one paragraph in the article about that. There's another paragraph about the women's game being 100yrs behind the men's game. There's further paragraphs about broadcasting/sponsorship money issues. all it says about the mens game is that which it would not have had, if things had been left to run their natural course by the way. Women were playing football at the start, until the FA banned them. All it says about sponsorship issues is that they are looking for more sponsorship, and get more broadcasting. No where does it say that they want a slice of any pie that men want to gorge on. The point i'm making is that there isn't a market to fund high wages in British women's football. There is in the USA because it's more popular and there obviously is in the mens game for the same reason. Am I right or am I wrong?

Aye, that's why over a million tickets were sold at the recent world cup. To be fair, people don't spend money on Sky subscriptions to watch the women's world cup, they spend it to watch the EPL, La Liga and Champions League. If there was as many sqillions of £$£$£$£$£$£ floating around the women's game as there is in the men's game then I could understand them deserving a bigger slice of the cake, but there blatantly isn't and anybody who says there is is kidding themselves. If all males were as reluctant to get it as you are, then no wonder lads are doing so poorly in their GCSE's and A Levels. It's not about comparison to the men's game, it's about comparitive compensation (for the wages they lost) with Sweden and the USA, who are of an approximate standing (including financially) in WOMEN's football. There's one paragraph in the article about that. There's another paragraph about the women's game being 100yrs behind the men's game. There's further paragraphs about broadcasting/sponsorship money issues.

Aye, that's why over a million tickets were sold at the recent world cup. To be fair, people don't spend money on Sky subscriptions to watch the women's world cup, they spend it to watch the EPL, La Liga and Champions League. If there was as many sqillions of £$£$£$£$£$£ floating around the women's game as there is in the men's game then I could understand them deserving a bigger slice of the cake, but there blatantly isn't and anybody who says there is is kidding themselves.

They'd deserve more if there was a huge worldwide interest in women's football. There isn't and they don't.

Oooooo!! Somebody's in the huff because because he didn't get his Champions League reforms through

Limiting the number of foreigners in the EPL will serve no other purpose than to turn one of the best leagues in the world into a league on a par with the German, French and Dutch leagues. If English players were good/hungry enough then they would get a game. Limiting the amount of foreigners would be burying the head in the sand, basically saying, "foreign players are better than ours so we'll just ban them and pretend they don't exist". It's folly. Investment in grass-roots kids football is the only way. I also think that young professional players are paid too much too early. A lot of them think they've made it when they're 21 because they've paid off their mortgage and drive a fast car. Players need to retain their hunger, drive and ambition if they want to succeed at the highest level.

I'v only seen him once against Dundee United. He made a couple of decent stops and wasn't at fault for any of the goals. He's doing reasonably well in a crap team. Falkirk get a good press because Russell Latapy plays for them but they're a poor outfit. They try to play football the right way but that doesn't win you games in that league. Artur Boruc, Alan McGregor and Gregorzs Szomutulski are probably the three best 'keepers in the league at the moment.

Never seen any Newcastle players in public. I did serve Claudio Caniggia in Tescos when he played for Dundee though.

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