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i'm sure any decent football magazine in yer newsagency would still be going, i don't know where people have got their wallcharts from, so many of my mates have got a freebie w a newspaper of their choice, others from some other publication or source, for instance i got my cheap and cheerful one...

agreed, agreed. i thought Simao coming on would give a Camoranesi like boost for Portugal, but not to be. at least Sven got the Ivorians a little less cautious in the second half, pushing up a bit more.

heard off a pal who was brought up in Seoul before the game, he wrote "The other Korea, Good luck! Fighting!!" Maicon is a legend. Clive T did start to arse-lick Brazil a bit toward the end w some demonstrably false stuff about how only they can move it about like this. our kid's a big City...

because it's an adidas ball it's been in play in the Bundesliga since January 1. because the EPL is in hock to Nike and Umbro, no such for them... oh apparently quite a few leagues have been using it.

i love the Cypriot bit of your fod in particular Matt, makes me think of that debate an uncharacteristically drunk C Hitchens had once w a Greek-American restauranteur in DC about the comparative merits of halloumi and kasseri cheeses (i am not making this up)

funnily enough, the only people i personally know that do get offended by them are WASPy liberals (my oldest mate's mum springs continually to mind, for one)

well put. i had to laugh at the almost hysterical reaction of what i felt was a mood of OTT gloom and lacerating self-flagellation from some England-supporting quarters (no one here, but when i logged on to my Facebook status feed after the match i got some then) after the recently-out-of-form...

granted, i would bite my own arm off to actually live in Italy... ...actually, it's more just Brazil ('90 was the first i remember, and i loved Italy then and four years later, hmm)

must say in 2006, all the Jogo Brasil shit from Nike drove me fucking spare. it seemed to be all over the place. (not seen any this time.) don't know about any one else (please comment if you want), but out of more-than-one time winners, i don't mind Uruguay either way, adore Argentina, really...

glad to hear you're not out anyway :) start of the second and Eto'o wide again, just put him in the middle M. Le Guen

please tell us your finger hovered over the keyboard, and then you were distracted by a colleague, and the window closed itself down? Matsui has certainly shown flashes for the Blue Samurai, although just about the biggest entertainment thus far for me has been the commentator speculating about...

poor Danish left-back. a nothing special Dutch cross, he just headed in an OG (touched a team-mate on the way in too) when it would've been far 'easier' to successfully get it out.

i'm absolutely peaking off them, top stuff, someone said on Twitter it reminded her of La Monte Young (i've also had Metal Machine Music and Japanese noise off other mates, but i think the Young is perhaps fairly accurate, whereas those other two were being a bit flip... ...lol, talk about...

agreed. and the Wendy's dollar menu is good, as it goes. i wish the UK had less McD's and BK, and a few more Wendy's in their places. (they have them in Japan and France, after all, which are two countries that are hardly renowned to being inferior to us Brits in the national cuisines stakes in...

i hope Paraguay give the Italians a proper knock tomorrow.

agreed, generally had a little bit more going forward. battle of the dodgy keeper's on Friday night (also a shame as he'd look good up until then). i have two West Brom mates, what w the Koren goal and Algerie bringing on a Wolves, it's a moral victory in the pubs of Smethwick...

New Malden, Surrey? ;)

BTW, just tbc in my last post, that was a rather OT seeing the angles thinking-aloud re Ankara ramble. i'd hope it doesn't sound like i was soft-soaping a massacre; y'all know me and can take it as red i wouldn't do that. (neither was Oliver, i'd say.) i just meant, Ankara will obv want...

that chap could cause all sorts of headaches for the AFA if he keeps on doing what he has been doing

i think Erdogan wants to play out all the angles, Ankara are still interested in the EU, they've got that new free trade zone w Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, they may look to make a regional grab for hearts and minds by playing up a bit more against Israel in future so that those in the region look...