World Cup

Bugger - The bloody French got through to the next round :(
Why is it that us English hate the French so much? Is it because we see them as arrogant? When we go there on holiday, the lazy waiters can't be bothered to speak English. The swines! Mind you - how many waiters in England do you know that can speak French? Yes the French are an arrogant nation - but are they truly any more so than us? Sadly no.

However - most of them are greasy and smelly and have bad breath. And they are French! So sod 'em!

Good luck to the Aussies against Italy (Don't start me off on the Italians lol)

Come on England!!!!!!

Referees in the World Cup

Well, after my last posting about the quality of referees - I felt I had to write again after seeing the worst display of reffing in years. There I was, slagging off the refs from small countries and then what happens? A bloody English Referee nearly costs a crappy football nation their moment of glory. Graham Poll has never been my favourite as a ref but in this match - he was a disgrace. He missed two of the most blatant penalties ever - then booked a guy 3 times before he decided to send him off after the match had finished! As well as booking players for next to nothing. And this is the guy that was among the favourites to officiate in the World Cup Final?????? FIFA are an absolute shambles.

OK rant over - So glad the Criminals managed to get through after this fiasco. Would have felt really guilty to my aussie friends if he had cost them the match.

Keep smiling Berk - they are doing well. And Miniberk - if you ever find your way here - being in the land of Fat People right now, I doubt if there is even any coverage of the Football over there lol

Take care - and Come On England!!!!!!!!!

It's Time!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. Time to take a deep breath. Keep calm. Don't panic. I can do it. I know I can. The timings pretty good. Been waiting for this for a long time. I think I have worked it out properly. I should be able to see almost every match live on TV for the World Cup!

Well, what did you think I was talking about? It's only the most important month in four years! How long am I going to be happy? England winning matches? How long before I get frustrated? Useless referees being fooled by Johnny Foreigner diving all over the place. We are English old boy. We would never stoop to such a thing.

Ok ok - maybe we would nowadays. There has been a trend for our boys to start doing the same thing in recent times. But is that really the case? Those of us old enough to remember players such as Frannie Lee, Rodney Marsh etc will recall that they were doing it back in the early 70's. Why is that when foreigners do it against us, we look at them as cheating scum? When someone like Beckham or Cole or Gerrard do it, it suddenly becomes clever play - Why? What is the difference? Cheating is cheating. Unless you get away with it that is. That is the real point. It seems as though for years England has suffered at the hands of people pulling fast ones and we have fallen by the wayside at the quarter final or semi final stage yet again. Maradona's hand of God in 86 in Mexico. The Germans diving in 90 in Italy, The FA employing Graham Taylor in 94, The Simeone dive and attack on Beckham in 98 in France. It's time for England to get smart. And to stop moaning about how unlucky we are all the time. Get on with it and do as the Romans do.

All this brings about another moan. FIFA insist on having referees from all over the World. A very good idea - in theory. But in practise, it just doesn't work. You have got referees from some obscure outpost that have never officiated at a match with more than 4 goat herders and a dog watching. The look like rabbits caught in the headlights. They are way out of their depth and make mistakes galore. They miss blatants things such as Maradona punching a ball off his own goaline, punching a ball into the net at a different time. Who can forget the brutal attack on Patrick Battiston by Harald Schumacher in the Semi final of 82. The guy stopped breathing for a short period while he was on the pitch. The referee was a disgrace. Not only did he not give a foul, he didn't even speak to the Assailant! Battiston suffered a loss of teeth and broke some of the vertabrae in his neck. Schumacher stayed on the pitch somehow and eventually made the difference by saving a penalty and sending his team into the Final.

Ok - Rant over for now.

Good luck to all the teams in the World Cup. May the best team win THE biggest trophy in the beautiful game!

Come on England!!!!!!!!!!

666

So - we are supposed to believe that today is an evil day? Because it is 06-06-06? Bumholes!

It's like star signs / astrology. Who actually believes in all this? There are approx 60 million people in the UK alone. So, by the reckoning of any Astrologer, that means that 5 million (give or take a few) are expecting a windfall or a death of someone close etc. What a load of crap. I can remember as a child that my mother would read three tabloid newspapers every day. The first thing she would do upon opening the paper, would be to search for the horoscope. She would insist that they were extremely accurate. If that were the case - why would she need to read all three? Surely they would all say the same thing if they were accurate? Then again - she always was a hypocrite. Everything was true when it suited her. What a silly twat.

More later - you will have to excuse my little rants every now and then. I can be very diplomatic when I want to be - but I can also be an extremely argumentative little gobshite when I want to be :)

Aussie Berk's Birthday

Life can be funny sometimes. It's not my birthday today - but it almost felt like it was. I sent a card and a little pressie all the way to the other side of the world. Not only did it manage to get there without some Aussie postal thief nicking it - but it actually got there in time! I am still amazed. As well you all know - Australia is made up mainly of thieves, murderers etc so to actually sneak a small parcel through and to find someone over there still in gainful employment to actually deliver said parcel - wow 2 miracles in one.

Anyway enough of all this joviality. I did manage to get through to Rizlablue on the phone (yes, they have these downunder nowadays) to wish her a Happy Birthday. It was good to talk to her actually. As always. It's nice to know that there is someone out there with as sick a sense of humour as I have. Like me, she is a total loon!

I'm really glad that she had a good day. Made me feel kinda warm inside. What a twat I must be? Ah sod it - who cares?

Happy Birthday Crutchpiece!

xxxxx

It's Me!

Hi guys.

Not much to start off with really. Some Berk in Fremantle got me into this blogging lark. Blame her if this is boring you already. Incidentally, it's her Birthday tomorrow - 6th June. She really is a berk. Happy Birthday Crutchpiece xxx.

I will be back with some information/news about me. just got to think of something vaguely interesting first!

ps - Good luck Maddy. I hope everything goes well on your travels! x