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He looks a lightweight on those comp vids

Clearly you haven't been to Cumbernauld Or Fall River, Massachusetts

Short and sweet. If you seem like you're forcing jokes, people will know. Just make it heartfelt and people will enjoy it.

Great news about the scouting overhaul...I'm tired of Newcastle, Everton and smaller clubs snatching up good talent on the cheap... More positive signs that we are heading in the right direction!

I think he sounds more like the dude from Hot Chocolate

I disagree- his singing style is very unique and expressive. He struggles in live performances these days, but you can forgive all these old rockers for that.

Yep, I'm pretty certain it'll be a depressingly negative affair. But Italy surprised me today, because after they got the first goal, they didn't all retreat back and defend, they kept attacking. It's actually an enjoyable Italian side to watch. UEFA and FIFA et al should entice teams to play attacking football with bonuses for X number of goals scored in tournaments...

Agreed, and I think he should be played upfront just behind him. Arousi Holman Zog Ireland Weimann Bent Arousi? The Feyenoord player, that's his surname, I believe

Agreed, and I think he should be played upfront just behind him. Arousi Holman Zog Ireland Weimann Bent

After watching Italy dismantle Germany, my money is on them to win this one, 1-0.

Yeah, that was baffling too...they just seemed to lack the will to win, really. Italy were by far the superior side in all aspects. Strange to see a heretofore dominant German team like that just collapse... I really hope the final is an open, positive match, but I fear that it will be another negative, defensive standoff that will end in penalties.

I think he's **** ace, always good value I bet he will get a second yellow in the second half as well Yep, idiotic move taking his shirt off, but what do you expect from him

Loving this game...much better atmosphere than yesterday's..two beautiful goals by Balotelli, fantastic passes from Cassano...I expected Italy to revert to traditional form after the first goal, but they kept going after it...I expect Klose to come on for the second half for Germany...should be a great second half!

Reckon Bin Laden would be elected by your fellow UK citizens as a Member of Parliament within twenty years, do you? Queen Elizabeth's own son is the colonel-in-chief of the British soldiers that decided to massacre innocent marchers in McGuinness' home city, and then take forty years to admit it. Elizabeth is also the head of state of a nation whose government refuse to release files to the Irish government about British security involvement in blowing up 26 innocent people (plus one unborn) in Dublin. I doubt McGuinness brought these issues up. Why? Both sides are moving on. Yours is a dangerous, chip-on-the-shoulder, stuck-in-the-past attitude that would continue the bloodshed, be it in Derry or in Birmingham. Two people shaking hands. Not a huge deal, but it's the type of thing that stops war/terrorism and saves lives. It's great that it's happened, and just a pity it didn't happen sooner. Well said

Really shit game tonight...should have been a classic, but both teams were playing not to lose. Depressing approach to say the least. I think the Germans and Italians will show more attacking intent, and it should be a much better game. Can't get much worse...

If you're heading out for a drink tonight, have a tequila. But read this poem first: Tequila by Alvaro Mutis translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander —for María and Juan Palomar Tequila is a clean flame that clambers up the walls and shoots over tiled roofs, relief to despair. Tequila isn’t for sailors because it blurs the navigational instruments and dismisses the wind’s tacit orders. But tequila, on the other hand, enraptures those returning by train and those driving the train, because it stays faithful and blind in its loyalty to the rails’ parallel delirium and to hurried greetings in the stations where the train pauses to testify to its inscrutable destination, errant, subject to the inevitable laws. There are trees under whose shadow it is wonderful to drink it with the parsimony of those who preach in wind and other trees where tequila can’t stand the shade that dims its powers and in whose branches it stirs up a flower blue as the warnings on bottles of poison. When tequila waves its fringed, serrated flag, the battle halts and armies return the order they intended to impose. Often two squires accompany it: salt and lime. But it is always ready to start the conversation without any more help than its lustrous clarity. From the start, tequila doesn’t recognize borders. But there are propitious climates just as certain hours suggest it, knowing full well: to fix the time when night arrives at its stores, in the splendor of an afternoon without obligations, in the highest pitch of doubt and hesitation. It is then when tequila offers us its consoling lesson, its infallible joy, its unreserved indulgence. Also, there are foods that call for its presence: those springing from the ground from which it, too, was born. Inconceivable if they didn’t bond with millenary certainty. To break that pact would be a grave breach with dogma prescribed to allay the rough job of living. If “gin smiles like a dead girl,” tequila spies on us with the green eyes of a prudent sentry. Tequila has no history, no anecdote confirming its birth. It is so from the beginning because it is the gift of the gods and, usually, when they promise something they aren’t telling tales. That is the office of mortals, children of panic and habit. Such is tequila and so it will be keeping us company all the way to the silence from which no one returns. Praise be, then, until the end of our days and praise the daily effort toward denying that end.

Now the Syrians have fired on the search and rescue plane the Turks sent to find the two pilots that got shot down... Turkey has called for an emergency NATO meeting... Turkey's problem is that none of it's allies really likes or trusts them

He's billed as a holding midfielder, and we need one...the price is right, he's in his prime...sign him up!

What does SHE have to lose? A few flag wavers behind police barricades? Don't care about HER, should point out this may backfire on him too Sinn Fein are part of the establishment now though, aren't they? To hardliners, he and Adams both sold out a long time ago.

What does SHE have to lose? A few flag wavers behind police barricades?

I remember hearing "Ashes to Ashes" for the first time, and being absolutely stunned at the pure awesomeness. One of the greatest pop songs of all time.

I imagine RIRA will have something to say about this...

I'm a WoW refugee, totally burnt out on it. I got really tired of the end game raiding bullshit where you'd have one eye on the fight and the other on your dps meter....it got too tedious and technical for my liking, and pugging was just brutal. I'm jonesing for a bit of video game action, and because I'm familiar with Blizz, I think I could pick up Diablo 3 easily. When you team up with other players, is it the same kind of anxiety-ridden damage race that WoW raiding was? How is this game better than WoW and why should I buy it? Cheers

Haven't heard much from Bowie in a while now...

Yep, Turkey will be looking for assurances that US-UK-France are unlikely to give. I think the Turks end up taking this one on the chin.