Pilko

Best goalmouth scramble ever

England U21's 2-0 up against 9-man Austria.

Anyone watching England U21s? They're the only team in my 8-team acca that hasn't either won or is winning (admittedly after 37 mins only); how are they getting on?

Uruguay, France, Mexico, Croatia, Ukraine edit: arguably Greece also

that friendly against Jamaica was mint. Easiest international hattrick you'll ever see. He claims a goal deflected in off someone's arse and a tap in, accurately whips a penalty into the stands and then finishes from six inches out to net the match ball.

Bots/spiders. Read the rules, you can't make libelous comments like that.

Nor do I, especially seeing as Rooney and Owen played up front during a lot of Sven's tenure. Can't believe Stewart Downing was playing for England in 2006.

Mainly U21s acca: Italy, England, Scotland, Belgium, Spain, Germany (U19), Holland, France (U20) About 17/1

Sammon Lump on Austria

I did think it was odd for him to get his debut at Brighton if we were just going to dump him in the summer. Good on him.

Unless we're still in that silly practice of counting wages in the transfer budget, those two only cost a princely £2.8m or something to bring forwards. I'd argue that we'll make that back over the improvement in our league position this season thanks to those signings (and the others ofc).

Agree with that. I can remember him being dominated by Matthew pissing Bates in the Boro home game.

Hang on... DaMarcus Beasley played for the USA last night? At left-back? Fucking hell, I didn't even hear the crypt door open.

Anything near to what that article intimates (Harper, Simpson and Gosling out, centre-back, striker, winger in) would be a pretty darn excellent summer. In an ideal world someone would be stupid enough to pay big money for Tiote and we could get a few more players in.

Aye, hence why I'd never actually place 0-0 as a bet. You get the same odds but if it's 1-0 with an o.g. you lose.

3/23/2013 10:56:33 AM 105/ 114 W:0.50 Single Rangers v Stirling Albion/First Goalscorer No Goalscorer 18/1 Won C £0.50 £9.50 Wish I'd put more than fifty pee on it now what a class bet. Based purely on the snow making things hard.

Cheers Wales. Stake of £5.50 returned £24.50ish, canny for a single.

Went on Wales at 7/2.

Excellent news. I hope this doesn't detract from the witch hunt against a) the cunt in question b) the FA and c) Wigan Athletic

If he starts he'd be a great anytime goalscorer bet. Problem is, with it being San Marino, the odds on every player plummets so the defenders go down to like 5/1 anytime.

What does it say to Haidara when he comes over here to play his football, and our FA are more concerned with ensuring their officials don't get butthurt than they are for his own physical welfare and safety on the pitch?

Robin van Persian

This "we don't want to re-referee games" thing is absolute nonsense too. If that's the case, then they need to completely get rid of the red card appeal system because that's the same fucking thing. Same goes for the "mistaken identity" yellow card appeal system, needs binning, because that's re-refereeing too. I've been saying it for fucking ages, the "Respect" campaign is an absolute load of shite. Why the fuck should players and staff respect incompetence? The complete and utter farce surrounding nearly every single controversy in English football is worthy of absolutely no respect whatsoever. You think the FA are showing us, Haidara or our fans any 'respect' by essentially saying "if you can make a tackle appear legal, then it must be, even when it's not"? There's so so many agenda-ridden people at the top of the FA and they all need binning off. That'll never happen though, it's a fucking corrupt old-boys club where they say and do whatever they fancy. Football really is well and truly fucked unless something changes.

I bet if Ray fucking Stubbs had bleated on about the tackle enough he'd have got banned.

For once it's at least nice to see the media are on our side.