Watching ‘World Cup Goals Galore’ on BBC3 which also has a fantastic music soundtrack. Some great goals and memories. Although I get thoroughly sick of the media hype and the endless analysis, you can’t help but get excited about the World Cup now. It looks like Rooney may yet be named in the squad. It doesn’t look like Carrick will play the ‘holding role’ but Carragher might. Let’s just hope he can produce a forward pass and that he doesn’t keel over with cramp in extra time.

Full fixture list, localised TV Schedules, print out and keep wallchart, pictures of the stadiums, group tables, X-rays of Wayne Rooney’s metatarsal and all of this in an Excel spreadsheet. For a man who can’t even spell Pivot Table, this is a truly staggering achievement. Or maybe there isn’t much to do of an evening in New Zealand. Graham Paramore, the worldwide football community salutes you.

Maybe Doug’s right. Perhaps WordPress isn’t a suitable blogging platform for serious technical Web journals (with 473 lines of 10046 trace) after all. The latest theme (Solipsus 1.5) announced for WordPress is described thus: Black & Brown design, inspired by Adult Swim of Cartoon Network. That’s all folks !

Why did all the England players have tiny, little mascots apart from Michael Owen who had a strapping teenager who was actually taller than him ? What with that and Crouch’s ludicrous robotic dancing, I thought I was watching a night of alternative comedy, not an international friendly.

In April 2002, I got off my barstool and actually went to see a Manchester United game. The fixture was at Upton Park and I was in the Bobby Moore stand as I was the guest of a West Ham member. United won an very entertaining game 5-3 and Beckham scored a fantastic goal (lob from outside the box). All of this made it very hard to keep my mouth shut. ...