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Last year's Champions League offered up such a moral dilemma for me with Milan playing my two most loathed Premiership teams back to back: morally I wanted Milan to go out as they should never have been there in the first place, but I was relieved that they didn't...

You lot always flog your stuff right after I spent obscene amounts of money elsewhere... Timing lads!

I've always liked the Italians, but after them cheating to do Scotland - where I've studied for three years - I'm cutting ties. I've always liked the Czechs, like Spain they're proper underachievers given the players. I'd like to see them do well I reckon.

I very much agree with this, and it's more to do with the attitude to the game we have in England than it is the talents of the players. Like I said a few pages back, with fifteen minutes to do we did nothing but take the ball and smack it in the general direction of the Croatia box, and the...

Many many thanks!

Yes, but they've been shit the entire campaign, with or without United players. I really don't know why you even picked that hole about no United players being there on Wednesday when we've been dreadful regardless of it. (Edit: not to mention the fact you could easily replace United with...

I reckon it'll be the best European Championships to go to in ages. Cheaper flights, less nobs: I'm sold.

The problem with Gerrard, even with a dedicated holding midfielder there (which granted, Barry isn't), is that when he gets a sniff of that captain's armband he seems so obsessed with winning games on his own that he's bombing back to take the ball off the defenders and try hollywood balls to...

Said flatmate made a good point about Croatia actually: it's probably helped them a lot that Bilic was Under 21s coach, and so moved on from coaching Modric/Corluka/etc on a regular basis there to managing them at full international level. I don't know how many years he's coached Croatia's young...

Thing is, you could also say Lampard: England's best player and top scorer in the last Euros. Doesn't mean it applies now...

Ignoring the Gattuso/Gerrard thing because I've said already I think he's better... Gerrard is a great player in the right circumstances and so is Lampard, but for whatever reason they're not doing it at international level, and haven't since Euro 2004 (where Paul Scholes played on the left...

Only once he moved to the right. Me and my flatmate were talking about that final this morning, and we both agreed that Hamann, Smicer and Carragher were much more vital to that win. Good dive though. As for Totti, how did I forget the Lucas Neill thing in the last world cup? I had it in my...

32 goals in 50 games last season, and 8 in 11 this year would indicate that Totti being better than Gerrard isn't so laughable. But anyway, I'm off down the pub. See you lot later!

Aren't all the best rants? That plus finger wagging. You could get a seat in the commons ;)

@hucks: It's been a gradual thing over the last couple of years for me, but last night just confirmed it. Two years ago you couldn't doubt his ability as a player. But he's slowly descended into a self-parody; this walking Roy of the Rovers impersonation that's so obsessed with the idea of...

There was an interesting blog on the Guardian's site about how Gerrard has always been better suited to the right, and Liverpool's best pairing in the middle is Mascherano and Alonso (and it brought up a great point: it was only when Gerrard moved to right back in the Champions League final that...

Carson's perfectly competant; I don't blame him for dropping a howler when he's been thrown into his first competitive international in the deciding game of the group stages, behind a make-shift defence. I was glad he made those saves in the second half, because he doesn't deserve to be hung out...

Limited's an odd word to use, when he's got most of the attributes that make Stevie Me great for Liverpool (tenacity, never-say-die attitude, so on and so forth - granted he doesn't have the shot and passing range, but that's why he's alongside Pirlo) but he's more mature, doesn't get caught out...

Regardless of all this, Totti retired from international football about three years ago and Del Piero hasn't played under Donadoni. What struck me about Italy was that in the build up to the Scotland game, there was talk of who they'd play alongside Pirlo and Gattuso in midfield; De Rossi or...