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It started in the Dubliners on Monday night after 500 miles came on the jukebox. The lads who started it sung "Alvaro", but its hardly surprising that some people misheard given the industrial quantities of Pilsener being consumed ;-)

The ground sold non-alcoholic beer.

Schalke got charged 66 Euro. Allocation of 600 (Schalke website).

There are two types of football journalist. Those who were influenced by Brian Glanville and those who should have been. At one time he was about the only English journalist to know anything of substance about football outside Britain. In the pre-Fever Pitch era his book about the World Cup was...

I think Mancini and his staff deserve a lot of credit - its no accident that the number of injuries have gone down. Before the takeover we had to take a few risks on injury-prone players, as the funds available dictated that. People like Mpenza were all we could afford. After the takeover this...

Tried going to the Villarreal shop in Castellon earlier to see if I could get tickets, but its a public holiday in Spain today so it was shut

While the site is down, Google still has cached versions of some pages. There's an email address listed on this page. That link works for now but may end up disappearing.

It would be nice to get Bolton so that the Cup would be won for either Neil Young or Nat Lofthouse, but I couldn't really begrudge Stoke getting to their first ever final. However, I want Bolton to win, and here's why: If City win the Cup and qualify for the Champions League, the other finalist...

I've managed to arrange it so that the "Did You Know?" section on the front page of Wikipedia will have "... that Neil Young scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final?" in it tomorrow afternoon.