Window Cleaner

No idea on this match really, Uruguay can't possibly be as bad as they were against Costa Rica, England can't possiblyy waste as many chances as they did against Italy or defend as poorly. 2-2 draw perhaps. Probably suit England better than Uruguay.

What will convince the itchy footed to stay on is vision of progress, already it needed more than just Mauricio staying to do that, it's about the plans for thr team next season, we shall see where we're aiming to go with the new signings which we should be closing in on by now. Still think there might be 2 or 3 more departures myself but perhaps not both Lallana and Shaw simply because they're overpriced.

And we seem to be making heavy work of it, Hants 22-2 after about 12 overs, hope we'll not regret not making them follow on.

Not made them follow on though, perhaps we're expecting the pitch to degrade or something.

Doubt if we'll be first in the queue though, a very sought after player apparently. He'll end up at Bayern Munich or AC Milan.

Wouldn't be surprised, he was already expensive at 27 million (no doubt spread over a long time and a lot of adds-on). Any more would be ridiculous, as I keep saying there's better for less. Better for us as well although that will depend on the new manager's preferred style.

Not a bad game all in all, England erred with their finishing, far too many shots from outside the box off target or easy pickings for Sirigu. Perhaps they thought that as it wasn't Buffon it was a village idiot in their goal, who knows.

Still a bit behind the forum and the bookies though aren't they ?

We used to have a bloke from Talksport in our global sponsorship office in London, not there now though, think he works for the Tennis federation or something. Grapevine and all that. MLind you the thought of it not being McKay might reconcile me to the choice of Koeman...eventually.

Think we'll be waiting a fair while for that then.

Club will be announcing it soon then I expect, probably hunting down KBilly's source as well.

Probably some lag time on the quoted odds, we'll see if it goes down suddenly or gets suspended at any time soon.

Well I think having a ground with a 15500 capacity helped us to not move up a gear at the start of the PL as well. When gate receipts were still important having about a quarter of the revenues of top sides certainly didn't help.

About right for the first part, what he says in his word jumble is that we've had few applications from people who at some time in their career have done well at football. Doesn't say how or when. He also talks of a list of potential managers who've been scouted in the past, do you thnk Mancini would have been on that list or Ranieri, doubt it, neither is young or up and coming really. So you then have to decide whether our manager elect will be from the scouted list or from the straightforward applicants, not so many clues as to that really. Basically it was just another wait and see gabfest. Didn't listen myself because I have a particular aversion to estuary accents.

As I keep telling you Gus Hiddink will take over the Netherlands side immediately after the WC,neither Koeman nor De Boer are in the frame. All the "want to get it done before the WC because of national team manager changes is well......bollorks. In fact anything our board have said is bollorks.

Well no, because we had to play Gazzaniga,Davis,Jos,Fox and Gallagher from time to time, even the best sides would lose with those players.

Spain....it's Netherlands vs Spain.

Bookies don't think, they usually just merely profit from what mug punters think.

Les Reed's interview was just a word jumble, I wouldn't take any particular part of it too literally were I you.

If the new manager selection has been finalised then I'd wager it doesn't get to Tuesday without being leaked.

Of course it has A N Other...........great manager.

All sounds very Kate Bush to me, one of my exs you know.....

Bat sh*t mental, haven't worked out what the spinach has to do with it. Bat green sh*t mental perhaps.

Chucking it in the trash will produce the exact same result in either case.

Good idea, think I'll tell mine that she's not important in the wide schemes of things and thus can be ignored when she goes on at me about watching too many WC games.