It Was A Late One Last Night
BULLY BEEF
The buy canada goose parka uk Spanish are not all animal-stabbers. Some of them have no time for bullfighting and instead play football teasingly well for long periods before flopping embarrassingly in major tournaments clearance, causing Jose Manuel Ole! Ole! Ole! Fiver to lose the tenner it invariably places on them. But if Spain boss Luis Aragones gets his way, they will thrash Slovakia in a two-legged World Cup qualifying play-off on 12 and 16 November, before causing a sensation in Germany too.
„In recent years we haven’t been able to convert our talent into international success, but I’ve only been the coach for one year and I expect to turn this history around both in the play-offs and then at the best ideas about canada goose outlet online on pinterest finals in Germany,“ Aragones bragged, jangling his castanets excitedly.
Intriguingly, he then introduced a subtle change to his motivation technique and, rather than brand his opponents white sh*ts, politely added: „Slovakia are definitely not the team I was hoping for. Technically they might not be as strong as us but they make up for that physically, which will make it very difficult. Their defence is also very good so I have a lot of respect for them.“
Unsurprisingly, Slovakia were none to eager to meet Aragones either, with FA blazer Dusan Tittel admitting: „We didn’t want Spain and we were keen to avoid a big derby against the Czech Republic, so Turkey would have been our opponent of choice.“
Instead, Turkey go to Switzerland, on the same night that England play a friendly there against Argentina. While that prospect may not have the Swiss Army readying their nail-clippers, can-openers and other cutting-edge weaponry – the two matches are 123 miles apart, after all – it was bad news for Norway, who also wanted to meet Turkey but instead got the Czechs. „It’s OK, it was important to best place to buy a canada goose jacket in toronto avoid Spain,“ gruffed manager Age Hareide. „The Czechs are an opponent that I think will suit us.“ No they won’t, Age, they will beat you.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
„I do not see any problem in it, it just adds to the excitement of the Premier League that we can bring such top-class players to the Premier League week in, week out. That’s part of the business, the free market that we are in and it’s part of football“ – Steve McClaren comes up with a idiotic response to Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s concerns that Roman Abramovich’s billions are ruining football.
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THE RUMOUR MILL
Getafe’s rise to the top of La Liga hasn’t gone unnoticed by Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez, who has his eye on the club’s £3m-rated striker Riki.
Theo Walcott is putting out fires right, centre and left as he attempts to diffuse reports claiming he wants out of Southampton.
And Roberto Carlos has been offered a £13m three-year contract to see out his career at an unnamed club in Qatar.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Why Arsene Wenger dislikes international football No873: Alexander Hleb is facing two months on the sidelines after injuring a knee playing for Belarus.
Darren Fletcher and John O’Shea have signed new contracts that will keep them at the Trafford DevilBowl until 2009…
… while Owen Hargreaves has given Middlesbrough the brush-off and agreed to stay with Bayern Munich until 2010.
Brann Bergen are mulling over Bongo FC’s offer for their Austria defender Paul Scharner.
And Real Madrid have defended themselves in the wake of criticism surrounding their fundraising match for former player Ferenc Puskas. „Real Madrid has made a monthly contribution to Puskas,“ read a club statement, failing to justify why out of £900,000 made from their game in Budapest, just £7,000 found its way to the Puskas family.
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FIVER LETTERS
„I recently went to a wild pig show. I found the biggest boar there and shouted ‘Oi! Fiver letter-writer!’. He looked gutted“ – Neil McKenna.
„Re: Lanky-Cam (yesterday’s Fiver Letters). Perhaps Ray Fuel only caught Fat Frank’s goal on the news, as I think he’ll find that it was Crouch who calmly brought the ball out of defence to begin the attack. But hey, why let facts get in the way of yet another sly dig at Plug from the Beano?“ – David Anderson (and many others).
„Installing a Lanky-Cam on top of Peter Crouch would improve coverage of the best mens canada goose parka 2006 World Cup, but only for the first round“ – Phil Marion.
„This football talk is all very well, but whatever happened to Fred Savage of Wonder Years fame?“ – Dominic Wells-Cole.
„With Frank Lampard and Shaun Wright-Phillips in the England team the other night, I was trying to think up a dream team of sons-of-famous-footballers. buy canada goose jacket online cheap Having picked Paolo Maldini, I gave up as it became clear I was in danger of being forced to pick Nigel Clough and Jamie Redknapp“ – Dom Sykes.
„Before the nation goes overboard in celebrating England’s performance against Poland, I think we should question how much Sven had to do with it. Surely this was just the football equivalent of the old adage that if you give 100 monkeys 100 typewriters, one will eventually produce Hamlet?“ – Paul Gribbon. [Or benefits of canada goose jacket a funny daily football email – Fiver Ed].
„I was listening to the Super Series Test in my car this morning when former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson said ‘I would have liked to have seen Shaun Pollock bowling his swingers into the breeze this morning’. I sniggered childishly on the Fiver’s behalf“ – Dale Cose.
Send your letters to the.boss@theguardian.com. The best letter of the day will win a classy T-shirt from www.goalhanger.com. Today’s winner: Dale Cose.
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TONIGHT’S TV & RADIO
Sky Sports 1: Soccer AM’s All Sports Show (6pm) We thought the subject was closed, but like a Benni McCarthy-to-West Ham transfer rumour, the bizarre tale of people hanging their can you wash a canada goose parka spectacles from their underpants while sitting on the porcelain throne just won’t go away.
Live Victory Shield Preview (7.30pm) „It should be obvious why we do it,“ writes Terry Whitegate, the four-eyed freak that wrote in yesterday to voice his relief upon hearing he wasn’t buy canada goose jacket in canada alone in practising this dark art.
Premier League Preview (9.30pm) „How are we supposed to sleep off a hangover at work, making those little red elbow-marks on our knees in the process, without crushing our specs?“ he asks, clearly unfamiliar with the head-in-crook-of-arm-at-desk technique employed by certain members of Team Fiver in the wake of last night’s work „do“.
Victory Shield Football (12am) Meanwhile this confession comes in from Felix Edwards, with mentions of spectacles and/or pants conspicuous by their absence.
Radio Five Live: Sport On Five (7pm) „As a 10-year-old lad I accidentally burnt down my parents’ house,“ he reveals, although the version of the story we’re publishing anyone has got canada goose coat here has been abridged due to constraints of space. And because we can.
Talksport: Kick-Off (7pm) „It took me over 20 years to confess that it was my fault,“ he explains, failing to tell us if his parents saw the funny side and laughed at the good of it.
Newstalk black canada goose parka 106 (www.newstalk106.ie): Off the Ball with Ger Gilroy (7pm) Not really a confession if you’ve already confessed already, is it Felix? Anyway, if you have a guilty secret you’d like to get off your chest, unburden yourself at the.boss@theguardian.com and mark it Anonymity Is Assured, If You Ask For It.
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GREAT EXCUSES FOR DRINK-FUELLED TARDINESS NO 482: „I MISREAD THE CLOCK“