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LOL. i never knew LWL was a paper mag, i've read (and greatly enjoyed) the online version. i also used to love picking up FACT in little record shops, was very exciting! still love the site, the best there is, IMO. used to read Adbusters a lot back in the day via a uni library. can imagine...

lovely idea from Simao on about 44 there, Portugal really should be 2 up at HT.

there's no magic wand, natch, but as i think Jenks said upthread, deploying him as part of a, say, 4-2-3-1 (please) would be a start, because that would indicate Gerrard is going to get more license, we could have two genuinely frightening wide men (well, they have the ability to make a nuisance...

heh heh, sounds about right. if something happens to Durres or Bohs, i doubt it crosses the threshold. Real or Chelsea, you say? well! something must be done.

well of course. and the BBC telly far from covers itself in glory. although in footballing terms, SKY is far more sober than its printed sibling. (that's damning w faint praise, i am aware. still, just saying.) specifically just to mention Milner, as dd528 mentioned injuries, if Milner had been...

i'd say a lot of the English press doesn't, actually. some surely will, of course. mind you, look at the dross * lower down, say, La Liga or Serie A. (a close mate of mine is a big Valencia fan and claims half of Los Che's starting line-up is, essentially, pretty rubbish. i couldn't begin to...

one quick English-specific note: when we discuss the English press and their analysis of the FA, we generally mean the Sun newspaper. to generalise, none of the broadsheets ever take an overly hysterical tone when discussing the FA, and the middle-brow tabs, in my long experience, tend, if...

chilling, brilliant piece. cheers Cracker. 6 months for pissing off some corporate prick? jesus wept. an utter fucking disgrace. and 15 years meted out in 48 hours?!

this was in Prospect once, which Grizzleb did laud ^ i love this. Brad Pitt said not so long ago that he felt the best reportage/journalism (long format, anyway) was to be found in the sheafs of reports Human Rights Watch put out. (not magazines, true.) a lot of young magazine writers these...

he will have to settle this in the morning. Lithuanian would perhaps be less socially acceptable than Latvian, mind you.

i always knew you were an apologist for Serb aggression, Tea. it's how you mix your crisp packets in the pub w such ease and panache, it was a dead give-away ;)

happens all the time at Old Trafford, and for the most mundane of reasons ;)

top mag. used to sub to Private Eye, now just pick up maybe once or twice a year, but generally remain always impressed on the whole. used to sub to the NYRB, which i still have quite a bit of time for. alongside the larger essays and reviews, little fragments of verse sometimes crop up, that...

probably just because it's fresh in my memory (i do have a shit one), but that game now (only caught the arse-end, but saw highlights, and missed NZ-Ita, damn! - except for last five), the absurdly card-happy guy in charge of Ger-Ser, and the overly fussy showing for USA-Slvn, have been the...

Owen i love you, you are a legend for the Deuce stuff. just taking the South West/Ghost one now. this is great. cheers!

good questions. tbf, purely wrt Group F, even before the tournament started, Paraguay and Italy were the two likely qualifiers there. (though ever since i became a Valdez fanboy in '06 i've had a soft spot for Paraguay tbh.) Dutch could be European 'most likely', i still think what...

i've been in a huge magazine malaise for a long time now but they have meant a lot to me down the years. Jockey Slut is probably my fave defunct mag. i may not read old faves like the Economist, the Wire, Vibe or the New Yorker much (or at all) these days, but as a stand-by they're still...

incidentally a good mate of mine, United fan and not an England fan (like a lot of United fans tbf), says he wouldn't be surprised if Rooney had an op after the WC, 'he's not really looked right since getting injured against Bayern'.

yep. drove me spare. i gather Capello has said he'll change things for the next game. fingers crossed. he is starting to drift into waters marked 'indefensibly rigid', that's for sure. agree w M_B about 'attack mode' for Gerrard (funny you should mention Xabi A, as if the Spanish have any...

:D at least the Carra booking, i thought, means the better, faster Dawson in the next match. there again, he'll probably play Upson... ...Joe Cole and Lennon starting, it can't be too hard for him to work out, can it?