aka Dus

Honestly Paul, I studied this for a couple hours on Saturday and it still doesn't make proper sense. To cut a long story short, I've decided to apply for Cat 3 tickets as I can get more of them and it's just f cking easier. But regarding Cat 4, this is what I THINK are the basic most important rules... Your application is sorted by 'household'. A "household" is defined as one surname at one delivery address. So aka Dus from 23 Anfield Road can apply while aka Dusette from 23 Anfield Road can also apply. The key passage on FIFA.com is ""For price category 4 single match tickets may be ordered for a maximum of up to 3 games per person and one additional "guest". This means 2 tickets per game for up to 3 games...... The applicable criterion is the sum of applications in which persons appear as applicants and applications where persons appear as visitors on other applicants' applications." I THINK what it means is that if your name appears on an application for Category 4 tickets to more than THREE games, they can kick you out of the draw. So, make sure that if you apply in your own name for Category 4 tickets, you apply for no more than 3 games in the first phase. And make sure your name isn't on anyone else's applications. So for example, I can apply for 2 Category 4 tickets for each of Swe-T&T, Swe-Par and Swe-Eng and name aka Dusette on my application. But that means neither her name nor mine can appear on any other application for a Category 4 ticket for a game in the first phase. Obviously, only one application per household is permitted for this phase of sales, so no multiple entries.

Xabi versus Lil' Mickey.... Hmmmm....... (no question mark necessary. Rafa, you genius....)

I am Ken Earley.

I don't mind the footbal show depending on the guests. It's not the same since Ger Gilroy left the show though. Ken Earley does his 'round up' by ghoing through a few fora like this and ripping off what he reads.

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I don't think he's weird for taking the money. Of course he should. I just think he's weird.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story...=europe&cc=5739 Money for nothing Ernst Bouwes A biography of Winston Bogarde may finally shed some light over his time at Chelsea. Why did he come and why did not he leave? 'Deze neger buigt voor niemand' (This black man bows for no one) is written by Dutch free-lance journalist Marcel Rözer and seeks to answer those very questions. In August 2000 Winston Bogarde thought his future was in Newcastle. Bobby Robson was keen to take him on a free transfer from Barcelona and only his signature was missing from a long-term commitment. At the last moment however, Chelsea stepped in with an offer that doubled the one from Sir Bobby. There was no doubt in Bogarde's mind: he would move to London. Except for a small Lost in Translation-moment during the medical test, when Bogarde insisted his knee-injury was 'recurring' rather than 'recovering', all parties happily agreed to a four-year contract worth a reported 2 million pound annually. Afterwards Bogarde met manager Gianluca Vialli, who told him: 'I am so glad that you are going to help us!' Three weeks later Bogarde arrived at Stamford Bridge to gain match-fitness with the reserves, only to find out that Vialli was fired. Oh, no, here we go again, was his reaction. When Bogarde went to AC Milan three years before to join Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids, his dream of recreating the best days of Ajax in Serie A was shattered when Arrigo Sacchi got the boot before a game was played that season. In came Fabio Capello. Within weeks Capello had enough of the meddlesome Dutchmen, who constantly argued with him over training set-ups and tactics. In Holland assertiveness is considered a boon for a player, in Italy the managers think otherwise. Capello named them 'professori Hollandi' and that was not meant to be complementary. An unfortunate backpass in Udine, causing defeat, did not help Bogarde's case, after which most of his Milanese days were spent in the stands. Then Barcelona coach Louis van Gaal relieved him of the boring training sessions at Marinello. The 97-98 season seemed a happy one for Bogarde. He was part of the title winning team and earned a recall for the Dutch team. However, just before he should have replaced the suspended Arthur Numan in the semi-final against Brazil at France 98 he broke his ankle in training. The next year Barcelona were suffering a below-par season which resulted in the sacking of Van Gaal. The new manager, Perreira, did not care much for Bogarde, sending him on a free transfer although there was still a year on his contract. Therefore the interest from Premiership clubs suited him well that summer. Unfortunately, Bogarde's gut feeling was on the mark that evening at Stamford Bridge. Vialli was replaced by Claudio Ranieri and soon Bogarde ran into the same kind of trouble he had already experienced with Capello. His cavalier approach on the pitch is diametrically opposed to the caution of Italian tactics. And Bogarde has some secret buttons which, if pressed, can agitate him quite quickly. Unable to handle this big, menacing brother Ranieri relegated him to the reserve team. Later Bogarde did not even have a squad number or a shirt and spent his days on the training ground with Chelsea's youth team. He never considered a premature termination of his contract, whatever Chelsea offered him. 'That money is mine', he said. To understand this, the book returns to Bogarde's upbringing. The youngest of a family of 13, whose father, a volatile man, infrequently came home. Bogarde still does not care for him and has not seen him in years. He loved his mother though and vowed to build her a house in Surinam, which sadly was only finished after her death. When his father was not around, his youth was ok. He mainly played football, although he says: 'If I had not succeeded as a player, I would have become a criminal; a big one.' His family tends to disagree as they say he is far too nice to step into the underworld. We'll never know as he did succeed in football as part of the successful Ajax team of the nineties. Not extremely talented, but physically and mentally very strong. But sometimes his pride and determination got in the way. 'Everywhere I came I had a disadvantage. Because I am black,' he says. Maybe, maybe not; there is no clear evidence of racism in the book. A turning point in his career in Holland is when the salaries at Ajax surfaced in the spring of 1996. Several black players seemed to earn much less than the white, while the offered extensions on their contracts did not make up for that. The situation exploded during Euro 96 resulting in the expulsion of Edgar Davids and most of the coloured players left on a free Bosman transfer. So when Bogarde earned a satisfying amount at Chelsea he decided to stay out his time at the club or leave when he could make the same money elsewhere. Bogarde explains: 'Why should I throw fifteen million euro away when it is already mine? At the moment I signed it was in fact my money, my contract. Both sides agreed wholeheartedly. I could go elsewhere to play for less, but you have to understand my history to understand I would never do that. I used to be poor as a kid, did not have anything to spend or something to play with. This world is about money, so when you are offered those millions you take them. Few people will ever earn so many. I am one of the few fortunates who do. I may be one of the worst buys in the history of the Premiership, but I don't care.' He did feel humiliated, when he had to walk along his former Chelsea team-mates to play with the youngsters. And he hung a calendar on the wall of his London appartment to cross out the remaining sixty days of his contract, like a prisoner would. Off the training ground his life those days consisted of Bacardi-cola, phone calls home and large stacks of DVD's. Eventually the 14th of May 2004 arrived : he had won the battle. He shook hands with some employees at Chelsea and a couple of players and left for the airport. The contract was over. Now he is a partner in Global Music Entertainment which organizes rock concerts in Holland. His football career is behind him, although his wish is to bring the national team of Surinam to the World Cup of 2014

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Quick question - If I apply in my own name and include 3 mates, does that preclude them from applying themselves or does it preclude them and me from being listed on someone else's application? By including Passport Numbers FIFA make it easy for themselves to check double applicants. I think this states that joint applicants can't apply again. Can some other less tired brain shed any light? Cheers >>> 5. What is the maximum number of tickets per person household? Are tickets transferable? Individual tickets are on offer in four price categories. Per household, you may apply for a maximum of four individual tickets for up to seven matches in categories 1-3. In category 4, the cheapest category, the maximum is two individual tickets for up to three matches per household. In the TST category, you may apply for up to four TST series per household. A "household" is defined as one surname at one delivery address. Each household may only apply for one price category per match. This price category also applies to all joint applicants named on the application form. You may not apply for tickets to more than one game scheduled for the same day. Only one application per household is permitted per order period. A "joint applicant" is defined as a person listed by the applicant by name on the application form. No-one is permitted to re-sell or re-allocate any ticket allocated to him/her, without the approval of the Organisation Committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany . The right purchased with the ticket to attend a particular match is invested in the person of the applicant or joint applicant and is non-variable and non-transferable, but with the approval of the Organisation Committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany . Any attempt to re-sell tickets without the approval of the Organisation Committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany will be deemed ticket touting / black market trading and will result in cancellation of the ticket. Any kind of ticket lottery organized by organisations that are no Official Partner or Supplier of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany? is excluded.

when we played Anderlecht. But he's signing for Fiorentina for 4 million yoyos. Didn't think he was good enough for us anyway but a decent player

Change the record Ferguson. Harnessing the old siege mentality wont save you this time. You cant polish a turd.

Which is why Juve bought him. They can fire any kind of ball at him and he'll kill it dead. Can't remember who exactly, but one of the other coaches said as much the other week. Think it was the Roma coach.

I'm not Swedish and you clearly haven't seen him play more than the games v us last season. And you certainly haven't seen Ronaldo play recently.

Sacred Cows / Periods of mourning.

He doesn't choose his transfer fee. He's the leading assists provider in Serie A this season having scored plenty last season. Among the top 4 or 5 strikers in the World and the only centre half I've seen play him well was Carra.

Police have today admitted that George Best was not in fact buried in Belfast last week and that in retrospect the decision to cremate him in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday morning might have been a mistake.

1 off the top of my head is Togo v S Korea, which I'll be going to (weirdly)

It was Cobs, obviously.

Heh heh. He's the sideshow Bob of football. After his time.

Reassuring to know. wouldn't the other RAWK lads fancy seeing England? Anyway, it's a lottery open from tomorrw Monday to Jan 15th or something. Makes no difference how early you apply once you do before the closure of the application period. They'll draw who gets the tickets Jan 31st.

3rd phase sales start Monday at 11. doubtful many englad tickets will be available but worth trying?

Will take in Sweden's two non-Ingerlund group games. Based in Berlin from 9-17 June. Will try get to USA!USA!USA! v Czechies in Arena auf Schalke or Brazil-Croatia same day, maybe spin down to Frankfurt to see friends and Togo - South Korea etc etc By planning early we can get good deals and have enough money to get to Paris for a few days in May. Anyone else thinking of travelling? Rushian?

Sounds like a coach talking about GH-era Liverpool...

Said it before will say it again. 2002 the whole of Europe and this forum were quaking in their keyboards about Real Madrid winning everything forever with their galactico policy. Despite the differentiator of Madrid's boardroom, Chelsea will have their time like Mádrid but it won't last forever. And it'll go t1ts up sooner rather than later. They're a good team and I'd imagine it will be us that replaces them at the top with our current manager at the helm.

All we have to do is keep an eye out for the debt collectors from those mysterious Hedge Funds when they arrive looking to talk to the owners of Manchester United about missed repayments.