Well, the Sun have gone with the speech impediment thing as tomorrow's front page story. Because, as we all know, it's hilarious. Ho ho. W instead of R. Ha.

He'll do alright. Not brilliant, but alright. It won't be enough, we'll still be seen as the laughing stock of world football, and loads of people will be banging on about the death of football in this country, while spending four figures a year on watching football in this country.

What do I expect from Euro 2012? Nothing. t'll be unfair on him to do otherwise.

the sun take classroom bullying into the national arena

Erics Inner Monologue wrote:



Yeah, Ian Montone. I don't know him though and he's not a Barnsley supporter.

Free travel hairdrayer? Handy.

Harry Truscott wrote:


Then he's a fucking nobody.

Were you expecting the Sun to have the Leveson enquiry on the front page?

garcia wrote:


Is Simon Cowell claiming that Cheryl Cole (is that who that is?) is a cyborg that he created in a laboratory?

Even by that papers standards that's incredibly lame and unfunny.

Didn't Bobby Robson ban the press from the England camp? Surely that's the way to go until they start behaving like adults.

Yes but that is because you are an intelligent considered OTFer but not everyone is like you out there

Unless, you are a mentalist and I have forgotten.

a journalist who attended the press conference at wembley said that when david bernstein mentioned the fifa wankings there were barely suppressed titters from the media.

Sean of the Shed wrote:


This is about right, I think.

I think he's a good shout, on the basis that England are, in world terms, the kind of side he's had a lot of success with. The big drawback is, the players don't know that. And a cautious, conservative (temperamentally - I'm not referring to the apartheid thing!) guy like Hodgson is unlikely to go balls-first into the press in the manner that stripping all the prima-donnas from the squad would require. For other reasons - some outlined on here, some expressed nicely on Zonal Marking - that might be the wrong thing to do in any case.

I don't think there's a good outcome to this. Either a good and decent man gets unjustly pilloried, or England do well in a major championship. Both are cruddy outcomes.

Incandenza wrote:


I would have thought that, in keeping with the page, they'd have written it as "Cowell: I Created Cerrrl".

But then, the name of the newspaper would then have to become "EEEEUUURRRRRRRRNNNNNGGGG! TITS!"

The "Woy" thing has been pretty common on here though too.

Gerrard has given his backing. These are his genuine feelings and have nothing to do with the available captain role. Definitely not.

Harry Truscott wrote:


Yeah, I've used it myself, but... that is - or at least can be, and often or usually is - a fairly affectionate long-standing nickname. It's certainly not open full-spectrum bullying, the way the S*n cover works. At worst, I'd say there's an element of low-level snickering to it. At worst.

Ah yes, the woy thing, and finally in The Sun. Only 30 years since the gag was done in Life of Brian, and done the utterly unfunny way.
Are trained chimps running the tabloids in England?

torres wrote:


So I've heard...(?!)

Sir Reginald Dangleberry wrote:


Just looked it up on YouTube. Brilliant. Great line from Paxman too; 'he also has a couple of convictions for violence, and once played for England.'

Has Brian Woolnough resigned from the Star yet?He's been penning articles for about three months now that began along the lines of "Redknapp a certainty for England job", "When Harry takes over..." and "Why wait until the end of the season? Harry's the only possible candidate for the job, Spurs whould let him get on with it now", etc.

Although Hodgson's teams failed to perform at Anfield, it's worth noting that Dalglish's Liverpool have fared hardly better in the league, despite spending close on £100m improving the squad Hodgson left. Clearly Hodgson is the keen proponent of 4-4-2, a system most English players like and have been brought up playing, the only banana skin will be finding the right combination of players to fit his system and stick to it, and not falling into the trap of playing the big name players just because of who they (think they) are. With Rooney out for the opening two games, if the unthinkable happens and England win or draw their opening two games with say Wellbeck and Defoe up front and playing well, does Roy have the balls to leave Rooney on the bench from then on?

This is a terrible dilemma. How can I simultaneously hope England lose, with particular embarrassment suffered by most of their senior players, yet also hope that the hysterical anti-Hodgson Liverpool fans are left with egg on their faces too?

It's traumatic, that's what it is.

Anyway, St George is not the patron saint of Romania, St Andrew is. Unless of course we're talking about Hagi, who sort of is.