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My mate works for the Daily Post and I told him about this and I thought he was about to explode in a rage. He wanted me to point out their deadlines are the same as the nationals, so they can't lift stories out the newspapers. Plus, the Red/Blue ratio on the Post and the Echo is not what you might think, he said they even have Mancs working there.

How many professional players do Arsenal have on their books that are English? It has to be some kind of record. Cole is leaving, so that leaves Walcott, Gilbert... any more?

Paul Stewart x 100000000000000 What a whopper. Remember against United he tried to clear, gave the ball to Giggs and United scored. He went off with a hamstring injury caused by clearance and was never seen again...

I think part of the problem here is that, as a nation, England is a very guilty nation. We try and blame everything on ourselves. It cuts through our social fabric. It's why we are so hopeless at winning things at sport - for some reason, English competitors rarely have the drive and self-belief to do it, and when they do they are often slated by everyone else - and it's why so many people are insecure, and feel the need to act tough abroad or in town centres at night and so on. Almost every country at the World Cup had a hooligan element - Croatia and Poland were particularly nasty - but that goes largely unreported in this country and in their own country. England, however, has that guilt and feels necessary to bash ourselves because of it. Just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's okay. But we need a bit of perspective when looking at these things. You can't say "oh, but they are other countries so it doesn't matter"... well if that's the case, why should we be bothered when we go to these "other countries" and start smashing them up? It's not the English disease. It's the human disease.

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Great player, but a complete and utter loon whom some insiders are praying does not become FIFA president because apparently he wants the following: to ban tackling to ban most physical contact to punish bigger clubs for being big by paying money to the smaller clubs scrap the champions league slash most national leagues cut european world cup places

"PELEEEEEEEEEE....... What a SAVE! Gordon Banks... picked that one out of the net!"

Well done!

"And FAIRCLOUGH!!!..............SUPER SUB STRIKES AGAIN!" "Barnes... and Barnes again.... three!" "Here's our friend Bruce Grobbelaar again" "Where is this leading us? It's leading us to the hospital, Brian!" It's funny how you can kind of guess the ages of everyone by what they put as their favourite commentary moments. Here's an old Coleman classic, can anyone say who it's referring to? "You can't get any cooler than THAT!"

Oh dear, that United kit is real.

What on earth is going on?!

Are you sure about that?

Conspiracy theories are always less interesting when you find out the truth.

No. Penalties is fine. Let's face it, the teams have had 120 minutes to sort themselves out. It's their own fault if they can't do it in that time.

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I've just seen something barely believable... football fans voted the most entertaining team in the World Cup as.... Portugal!

The deadline was 23:59, an hour or so after the final finished.

They should just have the captain go up first and pick it up like the good old days.

What is it now... 19 semi-finals and finals yet only two goals? It's okay though. He's a big game player, is Thierry!

I think that headbutt was that bad that Zidane shouldn't ever play football ever again. It was good to see him attempt to perform football's first open heart surgery operation... while the game was still going on. As for the television replay thing with the fourth official... that could well set a very dangerous precedent. However, it was so blatant and everybody on telly had seen it that maybe it was for the best that it was spotted and acted upon. It's not like it was a "was it over the line" or "was it offside" moment upon which the very essence of the game exists... this was an all-out assault. If he did that in the street he'd be put into jail.

Or a Conti miss... AND THEY'VE GOT A CONTI MISS!

Can't see a problem in them airing their views. Let's wait to read what they say before passing judgement, eh?

What's Henry doing there? And Ballack?! And Ricardo?!?!

When I was growing up, every Evertonian would do the "Reid's cross GRAY!" commentary when we played football.

A few old Coleman ones here... You can't win matches if you miss open goals! Newcastle were undressed!