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Well I watched the match on Foot+ yesterday and the absolutely couldn't be more pro-Arse than that French commentators said that there was a hint of a foul, they dismissed it in a flash because well Giroud is god innit. Giroud is a very dirty player but as we all got told last week against Ukraine he does it so well he deserves to get away with it. I've a recording, I'll have a look at half-time in the Spurs-Citeh game.

looked like hamstring or maybe a dead leg.

didn't think they were a better team at all, just got lucky when we got sloppy. We were poor in attack though, good build up, not much at the end of it.

I'd expect him to be rethinking that now. We looked very weak in defence without Lovren and with Shaw being injured. Can't see Yoshida wanting to stay in the background for ever so we might need a CB.

that would be 2-1 to us then, think JWP will score today.

****i* no Lovren, a zero pointer for us today then.

Football is a team game, a bad team can make a good player look crap and a good team can make a crap player look fairly good.

don't get your hopes up. The French CMs for Brazil will be Cabaye,Pogba,Mavuba and Matuidi, only a long term injury to one of those 4 will give anyone else a chance. Hodgson has said he doubts if there will be any new faces whatsover in his WC30 and France will be exactly the same. It's over for Morgan this time round I'm afraid.

Unless he can finds a Swiss gran or something he can book his summer holidays from now on. Won't get picked for France unless he moves to a CL club in January of course but he won't do that.

We've just had a 2 ft snow dump, pretty exceptional for mid-November.

Shaw will soon be of no particular interest to Southgate anyway.

shouldn't be too much of a problem for them really. Lovren didn't play last Friday, thought he was a regular starter for Croatia as a rule.

not Koscielny anyway, he got sent off last Friday for a free for all wrestling challenge on the Ukrainien CF. Sagna won't start, neither will Giroud so that leaves err sort of none'ish Arsenal players in the French side.

Giroud isn't starting, it will be DD's pet binky Benzema. DD's mate Zizou has obvious been shouting at him as neither Madrid player started last friday but they'll both start tonight even if Varane is far too green for the occasion and has a dodgy knee, no doubt will be having cortisone injections.

Well not to put too fine a point on it but in my opinion DD would like to be coach of a New Zealand team.

WC goes to work ya know. A regular job, not poncing about all day with golfers and other hobbledehoys. So what can I do for you ?

Indeed, if you've run 1h40 for a half you could be looking at around 3h35 for a clean run marathon although you'll not get that at London. You can run a 3hr marathon off 50 miles a week if the training is right.

Depends on the outlook of the new manager really, depends if he watches a lot of English football or not I'd suppose, depends on who influences his choices, his immediate entourage etc. Deschamps puts a lot of faith in big clubs and CL experience, if you don't have any you'll probably get totally ignored by him. His current 23 Tottenham 1 Marseille 3 Juventus 1 Monaco (but ex Barcelona)1 Paris SG 1 Newcastle 4 Lille 1 Arsenal 3 Manchester City 2 Manchester Utd 1 Real Madrid 2 Lyon 1 Liverpool 1 Bastia 1 (3rd goalkeeper) So the real oddity is the 4 Newcastle players (all with CL experience) but only Remy started last Friday and as we know he an ex Marseillais. No player in the current 23 is without CL games in the past. A new manager would probably mean a total clear out.

The preparation "classic" for a decent marathon is a 20 miler about 5 weeks before the big event. That's why there are so many of them just before the London. You can try to do it by halves though, the best formula being a doublet at 7 weeks and then 4 weeks. You'll find all this stuff in your usual Bruce Tulloh training plans, don't know if you still get them in Runners World though, should be still available on line somwhere or other . The fact that you're "tempo running" already which is a Tullohsian term tells me you might already have one though. Always used Tulloh plans myself although I know him slightly, he was coaching Jeremy Barton (and Nerukar) at Oxford and Jem's an aquaintance of mine.

Yes a lot of it, they, like us, don't understand why he's not been called up. Mind you we don't have Stars,Suns and Mirrors to help our national team manager with his choices. However it's not just non-selection that's incomprehensible, he's not even on their radar. No-one calls him from the DTN at the FFF, no-one watches his games, he's just a forgotten man as far as the FFF is concerned.

Problem is DD has made a right old foxxing mess because his is not up to the job and just calls up the same old players time and time again. I don't doubt he also gets a far old bit of interference from people who should have nothing to do with the choice of players. It is said that a players agent (probably his as well) exerts an undue influence over his choices.

If they go out tomorrow night, they're well capable of winning by at least 2 goals and at least forcing extra time. Trouble is will they fancy it, they all say they do but then they said that last week as well. I am absolutely certain that a truly competent manager could still get them through but with DD's just give it to Francky instructions its so easy to counter.

It really depends on just how desperate you are to go, I'd think you could find a ticket from an agency but it's going to cost you upwards of 150£. There's an agency that sells Arse tickets to French tourists and I'm told that they have a decent number still available for Saturday.

That's not normal really, you need to get it checked out before you run again..