Switzerland, the only team in the 2010 World Cup to not only stifle Spain but beat them. Can anybody argue that they are not the best team in the world right now? Well okay maybe not, but the fact is Spain wouldn’t be world cup winners if it wasn’t for the help of one Englishman.
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Another world cup, another squad selection that seems to ignore something as basic as fitness and form. For all the talk “Big Flav” gave out about having no favourites it seems that what looks to have been a media/pundit influenced squad has backfired again.
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I was watching the first leg of the Champions League semi final between Inter and Barcelona last night, it was a brilliant game I think everybody would agree?

However, there was something that spoilt a lot of the game for me. Why do Italian fans insist on whistling every time 2 players come together? It’s so loud that you can see the players hesitate as if play has been stopped. As somebody watching it at home you are constantly wondering of the ref has blown or not, 90% of the time he hasn’t. It’s a crap way of supporting your team.

Liverpool play Arsenal today at Anfield. It says everything when at this time in the season Liverpool need every point they can muster to gain the momentum for a push towards 4th in the Premier League. Maybe somebody should have a word with Glen Johnson (this year their year blah blah blah)?

I’d quite like to see Liverpool win this, they always seem to up their game against top teams and make no mistakes, Arsenal are a top team this season. Not only would it hold back Arsenal but it would also give all Liverpool fans another false dawn like what happened after the completely out played and beat Man Utd earlier in the season. Surely every Liverpool fan must know by now that it’s not how the play in big games that the problem, it’s how they play against the rest, when to be honest, it appears as though Gerrard and Torres just don’t seem as interested.

Anyway, for anyone stuck with for a way of watching this game you can find details of how to watch Liverpool against Arsenal live online by following the link.

Look dickheads, remembrance day is about remembering ALL those that died in the First World War. I only hope that the authorities do the right thing is this case and use video evidence to ban these idiots from ever watching a live football match ever again.

Somebody somewhere needs a serious kick up the ass about this. It’s bad enough when they try to rape us over pay TV to watch the national team but to not show the game at all is even worse! Actually it does get worse than that because although the Ukraine vs England game isn’t available on your traditional TV it is being made available online. So if you have a PC and if you have a fast enough broadband speed then if you pay them £11.99 for this one single international game then you will have the honour of watching the English team play live.

If the internet company that bought the rights to this have to charge £11.99 to make it cost effective then quite frankly they just shouldn’t have bothered with the rights. Surely that would have caused whoever made them available to lower their asking price so that one of the traditional TV networks in the UK could have picked them up and shown the game live instead?

Anyhoo what is done is done now. I do have some good news for you though, it seems that the bookmaker Bet365 also has the rights to show the game online. So it might not be the same as watching it on your 47″ LCD in your sofa but at least if you do have to watch it online you can do it for free. All you have to do is open a Bet365 account and they’ll let you watch Ukraine v England for free.

Whilst I’m on about the world cup qualifiers (good luck to Ireland by the way) isn’t it great to see that both Portugal and Argentina might not qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Portugal for the diving cry baby that is Ronaldo and the cheating, fouling “who not me” asshole that is Carvalho, Argentina – well just for being Argentina really. If England can keep up their current form they’ll be going in as the highest scoring team from the European section and without Portugal and Argentina in the mix surely we must have a bloody good chance of seeing at least a semi final?

I can understand why Arsenal may try to defend their player getting a 2 match ban for what is at most a yellow card offence (if caught) but why are others rushing to defend Eduardo?
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Well no shit Sherlock. Arsene “I didn’t see it” Wenger is well known for being how shall we put this, ever so slightly one sided in his views (possibly only matched by Liverpool’s Spanish Waiter), but when he talks about the game at Old Trafford on Saturday he may actually have a couple of points.

First of all where was Wenger wrong in his opinions? For a start the penalty that Manchester United got. There was nothing “Old Trafford’ish” about that penalty. I’d love to know what percentage of penalties given away in the Premier League are of the result of keepers coming flying out with not a chance of playing the ball. Almunia on Rooney was just another one of them, clear as day and it would have been given as a penalty 99 out of 100 times. There’s also the constant moan from the Arsenal manager about the over physicality of English football. You’ve got to be joking me right? It’s become as pansified as an European league and if Arsene doesn’t like it then he knows what he should do, I’m sure there are plenty of teams in the dive happy Italian Leagues that would have him.

So what was Wenger right about? The tackle by Fletcher on Arshavin. That was as clear a penalty as you’d get, when you looked at the replay that was. The trouble is the refs don’t have video replays and I must admit that when I first saw it live it looked as if Fletcher played the ball. It was clearly not the case though and that should have definitely been a penalty. The fact that Arshavin scored a few seconds later doesn’t matter, they should have had a penalty. The other thing that Wenger was right to be angry about was his own sending off at the end of the game. Premier League refs just love to justify that “professional” wage bill and now it looks like the fourth officials are getting in on the game. The decision to send Wenger to the stands (or wherever the hell he ended up) for kicking a water bottle was a disgrace. The fourth official in this case should be suspended from duties for a month and find a months salary. If you want to make a name for yourself and get on the TV by making stupid, irrelevant decisions then there should be a penalty involved. After all they are supposed to be “professionals”.