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I watched the beginning but had to miss virtually the whole game. Who did well/poorly for the US? I know it was a B team, but one or two may have booked their tickets.

I see that St Mirren have got a couple of shopgirls from Braehead as part of the sponsorship deal.

Had a quick glance over it. Appears to start talking at length about his family life and housing situation halfway through. What a mental. Same thoughts here, then realised it was exactly the type of thing I'd expect to read on N-O Did you read through to the end? My favourite bit is when, after he's fallen out with - and is not speaking to - his sisters, he smashes up the pot plants they got him for Xmas. Closely followed by the Louth Fire Brigade sending him a bill for their services after he crashes his car in a hailstorm. There's a few NO ones I'd read. NE5, for one.

I'd far rather he generated some sort of consistent end product. I wouldn't give a monkeys if he never got a cross in if it meant we were consistently playing against 10 or 9 men!!

Thank fuck Rooney is so, so good. Would love to see Lennon generate some opposition red cards at the World Cup. He has had a long rest, and some full backs will visibly shit themselves.

I think Defoe's done well, better than I expected at the link-up play.

Penalty, frankly.

Think Walcott's done pretty well really. Johnson's been OK going forward and ropey defensively, Baines the other way round. Milner is OK if he's not asked to do anything complicated (like play CM internationally). The CBs have done better as the game's gone on. Gerrard's touch and passing have been woeful, for the most part, and Carrick's not done himself any favours. If he works out a good midfield then we'll be OK. Ref, that's rubbish.

I'm happy for us to do what Inter did to win the CL. Dour, but organized. We're not capable of better against the top sides - and Mexico are a top side.

Quite. We look terribly disjointed in the midfield though.

He always does, yet is still fast and clever. Mexican guy was never going to win that header, hate those challenges.

Fkn great, England v Mexico is on Fox Soccer. Perfect excuse to do sweet FA today.

Surely the best review of the season just gone. http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=258313.0 Worth a little of your time. Nothing like adding the personal touch.

Actually weirdly disappointed. I saw "3D pub finder" and for a couple of seconds thought that someone had done something like google streetview, only with pubs. Like, you could name a postcode and it would zoom into the nearest pubs.

Some of those kids are brilliant. Would be better if Michael Brown had been playing.

The boy can't even start for MLS? Good to know. There are some lunatics on the Nigerian forums who think he ought to displace same NT players starting every week in top European leagues. He's not started a game this year, but I can't tell if he's been injured/away with the Nigerian squad (?). The Crew are a pretty stodgy team with an unconvincing RW so if he's not injured he must be doing pretty poorly in training....

Not today, but yesterday saw Columbus Crew play Chivas USA. Minister Babatunde (Baba?), Ekpo was only on for about ten minutes (if that) but looked OK. Still a bit of a headless chicken.

Poor tackle. I missed what the ref did - did he book Boateng?

This is like the Portsmouth semi.

Michael Brown. At least you know what you're going to get.

He also had a strain injury before his operation and...(think it's called stiffness in English..) = pain on movement = faster after operation. Might be like that kid in Roy of the Rovers who could kick the ball like a corkscrew after his op. That would be nifty.

That RAWK thread posted somewhere in here is amazing reading http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=257942.0

Fly Emirates = too close to Arsenal for me.

Lerner does appear to grasp that, but that might be understandable given his history. The NFL side he owns, the Cleveland Browns, had their franchise moved to Baltimore in the mid-90s but after much legal fighting they were resurrected (after a 3-year hiatus). I think this is the only such example. Their first post-hiatus owner was Randy Lerner's dad.

The main difference being what the squad was competing for. They won't get relegated next year. I'm not clear on the funding of Liverpool's debt and on what exactly a stupid price would be. Presumably the yanks would want to break even but if they haven't actually put much of their own money in, what would that take? The bulk of the incoming money would have to service/pay off the debt. Is that right? don't see your point if (if) the rumours of 800m - 1bn price tags are correct for liverpool no-one in their right mind will pay it FYI we were relegated BECAUSE of mike ashleys poor decisions in all aspects of running the club, at the time when he tried to sell many people wouldn't have touched us for relegation...he essentially made it happen so it's a very poor comparison So....why did you make it? I thought it was quite a funny comparison! I didn't really have a point, other than that I don't know how much of their own money the yanks put in. As a result, anyone coming in might be stupid to pay much more than the debt itself.