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It's mine the day before, so hopefully a dream present for both of us.

A lottery that the Germans (who practise a lot) always win, and England (who don't practise as much) almost always loses. Yep, nothing to do with practise. Damn those lucky Germans!

+1 Against the Germans or Portuguese.

And last?

True, but they have a scary amount of talent. France had an shocking manager last time, but got to within penalty kicks of winning.

Why can't England managers understand this? One of the best penalty takers of all time, but he still felt it important to practise. A lot. July-1990: vs. West Germany, World Cup, Semi-Final June-1996: vs. Germany, Euro 96, Semi-Final Jun-1998: vs. Argentina, World Cup, First Knock-Out Round Jun-2004: vs. Portugal, Euro 2004, Quarter-Final Jul-2006: vs. Portugal, World Cup, Quarter Final If it happens again this summer (especially against the Germans), I hope no-one is underneath my window when it happens, because a TV may come flying out of the window at that moment.

Practise doesn't guarantee success, but it improves the odds.

Robson, Hoddle, Eriksson and Capello all disagree. Which means England have had a succession of stupid managers. The only England manager in recent times who seemed to have partially prepared for taking penalties was Venables (and I hate saying that, because he was the biggest twat of the lot, otherwise). He actually won one shootout (against Spain), and matched Germany in a shootout on the first 5. Unfortunately he didn't consider the possibility of needing more than 5 players to take penalties.

I was thinking (and hoping!) the same thing. Pearce has learned the lesson the hard way, and now has seen the light. On the other hand, Capello appears to be very single-minded, and may be ignoring Pearce. If so, our only hope is that Pearce could try to have some penalty practise behind Capello's back.

June 3rd. Mark your calendar.

Indeed. England and Germany have proven that quite conclusively (in opposite ways).

Let's suppose England and Germany meet in the knockout stage, and it goes to penalties. And suppose someone offers you £1 million if you correctly guess the outcome. Who would you choose? More generally, suppose team A and team B meet in the knockout stage, and it goes to penalties. Team A has been practising penalties for 2 years, team B hasn't practised at all. And suppose someone offers you £1 million if you correctly guess the outcome. Who would you choose, team A or team B?

Oz eh? I bet you wouldn't want to cuddle one of these.

F**king unbelievable. Just when I thought England has a manager that could take us out of the dark ages, it turns out he is in the Bobby Robson (R.I.P.)-Glenn Hoddle-Sven-Göran Eriksson school of "why bother practising penalties?" That's right Capello, it's far too early to practise. There are a whopping 3 weeks before the tournament starts. Those idiot Germans have been practising since they were in their nappies. What good has it done them? Ok, they haven't lost a penalty shoot out since the time of the dinosaurs, and England have lost all but one in that time (the reason for getting knocked out of tournaments umpteen times).....but that's just bad luck, penalty shootouts are a lottery, right? :mad: http://tinyurl.com/2fd5r37 However, for someone as methodical as the England coach, it comes as a surprise to discover there have been no penalties practised. At this stage, he simply does not see the point. "It is too early to practise penalties," he reflected. "In any case, you could prepare for penalties and practise every day in training. But in a match it is different. "Shooting to win is not the same as shooting in training. "In training, the keeper is not very big. When you need to score to win, the keeper is really big and the goal is very small."

To be fair, in a year or so they may have a chance in the JPT. Oh hang on, do they allow non-league clubs to compete in that competition?

AA is Chainrai's lapdog. Chainrai possibly intends to be around long enough to siphon off as much of the parachute money as possible from the rotting P***** corpse. Hopefully you'll also be wrong but bloody close about them getting away with it. CHEATING BASTARDS

Tears of laughter I would guess. :smt042 But AA's cunning plan is to have them liquidated in the middle of next season, expecting the FL to be as spineless as the PL and not expel them there and then. Of course the CCC is not the high profile league like the EPL, so hopefully the FL will say sod it, middel of the season or not, if you liquidate you're gone, and all your results will be expunged. Oh how we'll laugh! CHEATING BASTARDS

I hope you're right. But, by not signing the CVA, HMRC could jeopardise the parachute monies. As it stands now, HMRC have inflated the original £18m owed to them to about double that, and also HMRC (along with the other unsecured creditors) will get an additional 20% over 4 years. So that works out at getting back, eventually, roughly 80% of the original £18m owed, plus they get to have P***** liquidated after 9 months and go after the crooks. So I am not optimistic that HMRC will oppose the CVA, or that the skates will be deducted any points if the CVA is indeed agreed. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the FL will hammer them regardless of a CVA being in place, either before the season starts, or 9 months from now when PFC change their name (to FCP, CBFC*, or whatever). *CHEATING BASTARDS' FOOTBALL CLUB

On the positive side, it will free up a spot for the skates.

But isn't the Ice Cream Doctor one of the creditors, with a claim of £5 million? If he gets 20% of that fictitious* amount maybe he isn't as stupid as he looks. * allegedly This one's my favourite : Got a feeling it is no longer "Pompey till i die" but rather "Pompey till it dies". :smt042:smt042:smt042 There's also a big difference between offering a contract and honouring it if it's accepted. They could offer £20K per week, but after a month or two not pay up..... .... again. :smt042 I wonder if the players remember their late payments from their previous contracts? As the great philosopher G. W. Bush said "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] - shame on you. Fool me — You can't get fooled again." I've marked my calendar.

Don't underestimate the sleaze that that cesspit of a club is capable of. For example, after administration hiring David Lampitt as their CEO, the former Football Association's head of football integrity. WTF was that all about? And AA meekly accepting HMRC's debt going up from about 18 million to 35 million? That means their share effectively goes up from 20% to 40% (of the original tax debt). And then we hear HMRC may well accept a CVA, as long as PFC is liquidated 9 months from now. 9 months, WTF?? The stench coming from AA and the rest of the corrupt club is worse than that of a rotten maggot-filled corpse of a skate left in the sun. Who knows what's going on behind closed doors? Spot on. Disgusting indeed. Maybe AA is desperately trying to sign up a squad, damned the cost, before the FL hits them with an embargo? CHEATING BASTARDS

Not if he uses this.

Has he signed yet?

You're right if the CVA isn't sorted out in time. But from what we hear it appears that it may well be. The timing of when all the other dirt comes out is also critical, methinks. If it comes out after they have started life in the CCC on zero points, the FL may indeed try to hit them belatedly with penalties, but the cheats (having established a foothold in the CCC) could take it to court, claiming that the FL don't have the right to punish them for crimes committed in the PL. They may or may not win. On the other hand, if all the crimes (that we here on SWF are aware of) become officially established before they get the golden share, then indeed the FL could deny them entry into the CCC unless they take a points penalty without appeal (similar to what happened to us). Blackmail I suspect. The creditors will be given the choice of 20p in the pound and accept the £10m salary budget per annum, or liquidation, no parachute monies, and 1 or 2p in the pound. CHEATING BASTARDS

But there's a difference. AA and the cheating bastards could argue that the FL cannot punish them for their actions, since they occurred in the PL.