Wake up and give me some predictions for Engerland v Azerbaijan what is tonight in the northern hemisphere. At St James Park. As you are no doubt aware Poland stuffed them 8-0 at the weekend. According to Sven it was a freak result and we should all be satisfied with a 1-0 win. But that's just happy go lucky Sven with his cautious approach. I am saying we'll go mental and win 2-0. Rooney's desperate to score, and Michael Owen is looking forward to getting his 30th England goal, which will put him level with Alan Shearer. So that's what I say, although we could get six.

In goal for Azkaban is 'Leaky' Dmitri. And their manager is 1970 Brazilian World Cup winning captain Carlos Alberto who scored the greatest goal of all time - fact. But that won't help them.

Give me some news about Australia's World Cup campaign. Didn't they play in Sydney against Iraq recently? I could look it up on the Interweb but that's no fun.

This is a very poor quality picture I took of an internet kiosk thingy on the Holloway Road. It is about Sven's gonna play Joe Cole against Northern Ireland. Which is tomorrow (from where I am sitting where it is 2:25pm on Friday, 25th March not whatever it says below).

I think we will huff and puff our way to a resounding 1-0 win. In fact, I am going to have a bet that it will finish 2-0. Although I think we are good enough to win by three clear goals and in all probability, I will be disappointed if we don't score four and Rooney gets sent off. Do you agree?

Hoppy Easter

It's Easter, this is a rapping bunny rabbit:

http://www.grayace.com/dex/bunny.html

Mara-doner

How many kebabs has that young man consumed since the heady days of 1986, eh? He'd probably give Gazza a run for his money with the old lamb sandwich.

Todays interesting yet dull fact comes all the way from India, who refused to play in the 1950 World Cup because FIFA told the players they would have to play in football boots, rather than barefoot. Hmm, well there you go.

The elegance of Diego Maradona, 2005-style.

Goleo

The World Cup 2006 mascot is called Goleo Vi. Vi is a strange name for a mascot, let alone a male one.

He is described as follows: At just 18, the rascally lion is still young but already brimming with confidence in his own abilities. He combines the looks of Lothar Matthäus, the elegance of Diego Maradona and the all-round ability of Oliver Bierhoff.

This sounds pretty dumb as is, but is much funnier when translated to and from Spanish using altavista's babelfish translation tool:

In hardly 18, rascally the lion continues being already young but brimming with confidence in its own capacities. He combines the glances of Lothar Matthäus, the elegance of Diego Maradona and the versatile capacity of Oliver Bierhoff.

Oh to have a versatile capacity.

Hoots mon

To test the image function, I will now post a World Cup related moment:

This photo clearly defines the angle that we will be pursuing on this blog - one that is cheap however sports related, and at the expense of the scottish.

Also, occasional nudity cannot be ruled out...

...nor can the wearing of a Tam o'Shanter.

World Cup 2006 Blog

It's 2005, so the most natural thing is to create a World Cup 2006 blog. This is for many reasons, not least of which is to pollute the search engines with even more gubbins so that real companies are pushed out of existence (onto page 2) by mindless arse wafflers like us.

Now, can I post pictures on here? Let me find out...