Are Paraguay any good ?

[Mordac]

Like it, loving the peabrain comment aswel, very good.

shall we just roll back the last 15 years of Enginsh European Glory..

Guys cant quite remember the dates, but how about this.

Man UTD
Winners - Cup Winners Cup, Winners - Champs L
Arsenal
Winners - Cup Winners Cup, Finalists - Cup Winners Cup and Champs L
Liverpool
Winners - UEFA Cup, Winners - Champs L
BORO
Finalisits - UEFA Cup

So let me get this right Celtic are just about on a par with BORO as lossing finalists against a second rate teams.

(- No offence BORO, but you are the weakest of the 3 amentioned teams)

You can add Chelski (CWC winners) and Arsenal also (sadly) lost the UEFA cup final in 2000.

[shaunbhoy]

Nice try Mordy, but he was on about ENGLISH teams, not froggy ones



hth


SB in "keeping 'em in line" mode

[Mordac]

Hysterical Shaun, hysterical.

[shaunbhoy]

Paraguay are okay, but they will lose to England. England will then trounce Trinidad and Tobasco comfortably, and draw with Sweden, thus winning their group on goal difference.
Media hysteria will hit new and frenzied heights as they ease past Poland and draw either Holland or Argentina in the quarter finals. The sun will be giving away "Remember the Falklands" or "Clobber the Cloggies" paper hats and the Carling gnats-piss will be flowing like water. Millions will leave work early and gather round giant screens in city centres jingoistically belting out Jerusalem/Land of Hope and Glory/Rule Brittania/The Great Escape/Swing Low etc. armed with plastic cups full of very expensive yet ridiculously frothy warm lager.
England will then have a winning "goal" disallowed due to some large clumsy defender climbing all over the goalie and/or a defender at some set piece, and the match will end with Holland or Argentina holding their nerve and winning it on penalties. Dozens of arrests will take place, a slightly higher number than the reruns of the disallowed "goal", as England fans once again show the world they cannot hold their ale, and the show will end with a tearful Gary Lineker presenting a dreary collage of near-misses and what-might-have-been moments from the previous 2 hours during which England's forwards, presented with the first reasonable defensive unit they have faced in the competition, once again display the inescapable fact that they could not collectively hit a cow's arse with a banjo.
Some poor Match Official will spawn countless websites calling for his castration, and 2006 will thus be remembered as the year that only Scotland brought home a footballing trophy to these islands.

Apart from a few minor tweaks, all going swimmingly to plan. All together now boys......."They're coming home, they're coming home, they're coming.....England's coming home......etc."

C'mon you Argies!!

[wendigo100]

This is what we want - a proper Scottish view of events, rather than mealy-mouthed rubbish from Gordon Brown! I can't see you rating Gascoigne's goal in 1996 as your favourite!

England are still on track to win it, but it would have been easier with Owen.

[Troll]

Apart from a few minor tweaks, all going swimmingly to plan. All together now boys......."They're coming home, they're coming home, they're coming.....England's coming home......etc."

C'mon you Argies!!

Surely had Scotland taken part this time then now would be the traditional time of their return

[shaunbhoy]

England are still on track to win it

Please.............STOP!!!

[Xenophon]

[sasguru]

Please.............STOP!!!

Nothing to laugh about - Owen's going out will fortuitously force the team to play in their best formation and they will not look back.

[DaveB]

Nothing to laugh about - Owen's going out will fortuitously force the team to play in their best formation and they will not look back.

As they trudge across the tarmac to the waiting return flight.

One all at full time and England out on penaties.