Three Lions On My Shirt

Here's a link to RaW Sport's own version of 3 Lions for the 2006 World Cup.
Watch out for my dodgy vocals in verse 2 :-)

World Cup Prediction Competition

Right, it’s coming up to the world cup so that means prediction competition time. The idea is you predict which team will get through each round of the tournament up to the winners and also the score for every game.

Send me an email / leave comment if you wanna play!

Points:
Predicted before the competition
· 5 – Correctly predicting the winners.
· 3 – For each correct team in each round.

Predicted before the kick off of the game in question
· 3 – For the exact score in any game.
· 1 – for the correct result in any game.

A score can be revised at anytime before kick off and if no score is given a default of 0 – 0 will be entered.
The qualifying teams cannot be changed after the start of the tournament.

For games that go to extra time / penalties only the score for 90 minutes will be counted.

The positions will be decided by:
1. Number of points
2. Predicting the eventual winner
3. Points predicted for scores
4. Points scored in a complex algorithm that takes gives more weight to games where less people have correctly predicted the score.
5. Bribes given

For fixtures and form etc see

I’m not charging money because it’s too much hassle to collect it all,

The Day Of Rockening

Here are the results of the Warwick dury...

1. United Kingdom
2. Ukraine
3. Greece
4. Sweden
5. Lithuania
6. Russia
7. Romania
8. Denmark
9. Finland
10. Latvia
11. Moldova
12. Germany
13. Ireland
14. Croatia
15. Norway
16. Armenia
17. Switzerland
18. Malta
19. Turkey
20. FYR Macedonia
21. Israel
22. France
23. Bosnia & Herzegovina
24. Spain

Eurovision

Watched the Eurovision semi finals yesterday...

Six middle-aged, serious-looking men from Lithuania stand on stage dressed in suits, looking like bank managers refusing a loan application. Then, as the song – half nursery rhyme, half football chant – begins, five of the men come to life and throw themselves into the performance, singing, shouting and, in one case, bellowing into a megaphone. “We are the winners of Eurovision!” they say. The sixth man stands motionless for two minutes before springing into action with a frantic dance that has to be seen to be believed. If this was the Eurovision Dance Contest, we’d have the winner right here.

... And this song qualified. Love it!

If I Were Sven...

Sven has never seen Theo Walcott play yet has still selected him for the world cup. Chris has seen Theo play - does this make him more qualified to be England manager? The question for Chris would be, who would you pick as an England XI out of the players you've seen?

Here's mine: (remember...)

Goaly:
KEVIN PRESSMAN (Leicester)

Defence:
RIO FERDINAND (Manchester United)
GARY NEVILLE (Manchester United)
SOL CAMPBELL (Arsenal)
GARETH BARRY (Aston Villa)

Midfield:
DENNIS WISE (Coventry)
MATT LE TISSIER (Southampton)
GARY McSHEFFREY (Coventry)
KIERAN RICHARDSON (Manchester United)

Attack:
WAYNE ROONEY (Manchester United)
ANDY JOHNSON (Crystal Palace)

World Cup Knock Out

Here is an exclusive announcement of 23 players who wont be selected in Sven's England squal going to Germany

Goal Keepers:
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
King Og of Bashan
John Lesley

Defenders:
John Wesley
Earnie Shavers
Ransford Goodluck
David Sheffield
Barry Chuckle
Pinky Le Grelle
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Anju Bobby George

Midfielders:
Urriah the Hittite
Boris Johnson
Poppy
Dingham
Ray Slijngaard (from 2unlimited)
Count Nicholas Ludwig vin Zinzendorf
Ronald Regan Junior
Tariq Aziz

Strikers:
Paul Chuckle
Sally Gunnell
Emile Heskey

Long Weekend

Found this brilliant script from the Sketch Show...

RONNI: (grabbing her bag) Right, see you tomorrow, then.
KAREN: (putting on her jacket) See you tomorrow, then.
RONNI: Oh! I'm not in tomorrow!
KAREN: Are you not?
RONNI: No! Day off tomorrow!
KAREN: Oh, when will I see you then?
RONNI: Well, it'll be the day after tomorrow, won't it?
KAREN: Well, I'll see you then, then!
RONNI: See you Friday!
KAREN: Oh, no! 'cause Friday is Good Friday!
RONNI: Oh, so when will I see you, then?
KAREN: Saturday... Sunday...Monday's Bank Holiday...
RONNI: Monday is Bank Holiday...
KAREN: So, I'll see you Tuesday!
RONNI: See you Tuesday!
KAREN: Alright. Bye!
RONNI: Oh, no! Tuesday we're all off!
KAREN: Oh, so Wednesday! Wednesday! I'll see you Wednesday!
RONNI: Yeah, won't be 'til Wednesday, will it?
KAREN: A week tomorrow!
RONNI: What a long time!
KAREN: Yeah!
RONNI: Oh, no! 'cause I'm off on holiday on the Wednesday!
KAREN: Oh, when do you get back?
RONNI: The 13th.
KAREN: Alright!
RONNI: Bye!
KAREN: Bye!
KAREN: Oh, no! I finish work on the 12th!
RONNI: Oh, I'll never see you again!
KAREN: No!
RONNI: Bye, then!
KAREN: Bye!

He's As Tall As A 6 Foot 3 Inch Tree

According to this website, here are some celebrities I'm the same height as: (thanks Jonny for link)

Gun lover Charlton Heston.

Grill seller and father of George, George, George, George and George, George Forman.

US Military Leader General Norman Schwarzkopf.

It's A Wonderful Life actor James Stewart.

And the model Fabio.

Bovine Line

Martin, in his latest blog entry reminded me of a recent train announcement I heard while going to Croydon on the train.

"We are sorry for the delay to this service but it was due to a cow on the line..."

that's fair enough, bit odd but you can let them off i spose. but...

"...between Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International"

Now what on earth is a cow doing on a train line in the middle of Britain's 2nd biggest city? Any suggestions?