S-Clarke

Not sure tbh, i think it would be asking for trouble adding another out of form player who's lacking confidence. Theo needs a year of regular football before he should play international football again.

Sounds like you had a more entertaining night than the rest of us

I will bet your money that the team will be - James Johnson - Upson - Terry - Cole Lennon - Barry - Lampard - Gerrard Defoe - Rooney i just think Capello is too stubborn to make radical changes.

i'm sure he would have offered a bit more than heskey!

Rooney isn't fit, he shouldn't even be there IMO.

QF of Euro 2004 probably.

i tell you what, roll on the season. International football is ****e. (although i probably won't be saying that after a 0-0 at Dagenham)

i like capello, but he had no idea tonight. Was totally lost.

Slovenia is no roll over, possibly the hardest team in the group. They have the confidence and the points...who'd have thought that.

that was the worst 90mins of football i have ever watched in my entire life. It was inept, truy inept. Rooney looked like a conference player, no confidence, heavy touch, no pace. He's clearly not fit at all, probably playing at 40% fitness. Gerrard had the life strangled out of him to accommodate heskey, who did as much damage as a gust of wind. At least we had a bit of life with Sven managing us. Point of taking joe cole if you're not going to use him? SWP offers nothing, you'd thought he'd have learnt that by now. What a waste of a summer this has been.

James replaces green in goal. Carra and Heskey start. Gerrard moves to the left to accommodate barry returning in the centre.

he's doing better than just ok! it's a magnificent achievement what he's done there. He over performed with the squad in the CCC this season, but to get so close to the prem. after just being promoted to the champ is fantastic. next season will be different though, real expectation behind them. I'm sure he'll cope though, he's worked wonders there.

i know that there is a player in the academy at the moment that is ''very special'' - the club have been trying to keep him under wraps, but the coaching staff are so excited about him. wonder if this is the kid?

Perfect. home first, home last. No newly promoted teams in the first few weeks of the season. Nice

South Africa were totally outclassed today, Uruguay aren't any world beaters either. Shame, it's always nice for a host nation to do well in the world cup.

This makes things very interesting. The swiss can now go and top the group....spain will finish runners up without much trouble IMO, but the tough test is that they will possibly face Brazil in the last 16...

what a bizzare goal

0-0 or 1-1 imo

the slowest start to a world cup ever....

maybe through the middle? or as someone said above, punch right and lallana through the middle. lots of attacking options.

Good signing, instead of signing average players to create competition, we still sign the best this league has to offer. can't wait to see him play. Got a feeling we may seem him opperating in front of harding, with Lallana pushing to the right.

You’ve also got development of land, the SFC Catering Company and the possible development of Jackson’s farm. That is all designed to make money and offer a return on his investment. I'm not saying it's true, but an out of town 55k stadium with shops/cinema on the complex would offer alot more return than the current site. Personally I think Cortese is acting in the wishes of Markus and also what's best for the club, I don't see him disregarding fans as he'd be putting himself on a road to nowhere and I’m sure he realises that. I can see why people may query his interests though; he does come across as a very brash personality - very driven and not particularly friendly or approachable. So I can see why some people may read that as not being particularly bothered about the fans, but i don't think that's really the case.

He will not leave. The club will hold out for silly silly money that clubs will not pay, esp. since they've just done an expensive campaign with him heading up the new kit.

good shout. Hopefully one that hides avatars as well, the amount of times i've been caught at work looking at this...with MB's old avatar bobbing up and down on the screen.

They're like the opposite of us. Alot of their players struggle at club level (Klose/Gomez/Poldoski) - yet when it comes to the world cup they suddenly look like world beaters. I knew i made the right move putting Klose in my fantasy team, probably should have scored more tonight - but he'll always get chances.