Fishdoll won't hear a word against Materazzi while he is/was wearing the NT jersey. While wearing the cugini jersey....well, ICK.

Wow, my search for the most perfect desktop wallpaper comes to an end. Thanks a lot!

Guys, guys, guys...and Tennie.
We beat Scotland 4-0 a couple of days ago. 4-0. In football. Norway. Norway beat Scotland 4-0. Norway won a football match. Norway scored goals. Norway didn't concede. Norway won a football match.

This is history.

It's all because of Carew. His play in the build up to that 3rd goal was Torres like.

He was outstanding, despite not scoring. He got Caldwell sent off, won the free-kick that led to our first and scored a perfectly fine goal which the ref didn't give.

milannews is reporting Dunga's call up list for Brazil's WC qualifier v. Argentina this Sept 5. No Milan players have been called up. link

shocking. I wonder why. No silva, no dinho not even pato. He calls up adriano but doesn't call pato? I just don't get him. But its brazil so i guess it won't make that big of a difference anyways seeing they'll probably win.

I think it's better for us. No injury worries. And Dunga really makes me wanna...

Even though the players won't be happy I think its all the better for Milan if they don't go

they are playing argentina....

Then it's even more probable that they will win.

with current form maybe, but argentina is still argentina. they have the best player atm along with other world class talent as we all know.

Exactly. Argentina are useless. I have a right to say this given that they haven't beaten us in 11 years.

Very much looking forward to England-Croatia in a few weeks time. Tried to get tickets, but to no avail. Victory would be very, very nice after the Euro2008 qualifying.

I hope you get the same guy to sing the Croatian anthem as last time, Kurt. I still giggle over that.

(from mediaset)

Here are Italy's call ups for their upcoming games:

PORTIERI: Gigi Buffon (Juventus), Morgan De Sanctis (Napoli), Federico Marchetti (Cagliari).
DIFENSORI: Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Domenico Criscito (Genoa), Fabio Grosso (Lione), Nicola Legrottaglie (Juventus), Davide Santon (Inter), Gianluca Zambrotta (Milan).
CENTROCAMPISTI: Mauro German Camoranesi (Juventus), Gaetano D'Agostino (Udinese), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Marco Marchionni (Fiorentina), Claudio Marchisio (Juventus), Angelo Palombo (Sampdoria), Simone Pepe (Udinese), Andrea Pirlo (Milan).
ATTACCANTI: Antonio Di Natale (Udinese), Alberto Gilardino (Fiorentina), Vincenzo Iaquinta (Juventus), Fabio Quagliarella (Napoli), Giuseppe Rossi (Villarreal).

I can't believe that Pepe is being called up while Cassano is left back.But I'm glad that he's finally dropped Toni, up next Iaquinta please

Zambrotta? Surely there's better full backs out there.

If it were up to Fishdoll, he'd start all three of the kids that were called up: Santon, Criscito, and Marchisio. And Rossi too, but Fishdoll figures at this point that he's an automatic start.

Modric broke something in his leg yesterday, so won't be playing in the upcoming qualifiers. Bad news for Croatia.

Decent enough squad. Just wish we could do something about the striker. Rooney is the only real World class one we have. Crouch has a good record for England and Heskey usually plays well enough, but not World class. Defoe is a bit hit and miss.

Some Croatian guy, think it may have been their coach, has today suggested that Coratian players have been targetted in games in so they can't play against England.

Firstly, England play against many foreign countries around the World and there players don't get injured, don't think the World revolves around you. Second of all, Eduardo and Modric were both injured in games against Birmingham, both by players renowned for going hard into tackles. Although, to say the Eduardo injury was any fault of the Birmingham defender is a joke, he shouldn't have even been sent off.

Hopefully Ukraine win, then it would mean anything but a win for Croatia at Wembley would be disasterous. With 1 point being enough for England to win the group.

Hahaha Where does that come from Kurt?

Sky Sports News. Think the guy that said it is Markovic, somebody from the Croatian FA. David Gold has hit back at him for the claims and fair play to him. Even if he is a total tosser.

He's the Croatian FA president. But don't bother with him Kurt, he's a very old man who used to be a good player and coach but got stuck in the 1970-ties where does things happened.

I watched Lee Bowyers tackle on Modric and there wasn't any chance it could have been an intentionl injury.

It was a huge surprise to me. It was a foul, but then Modric stayed down and I thought he'd just took a big knock or something. Was amazed that he broke his leg in what seemed like just a normal challenge. Very unfortunate. You got any other players missing for the game?

Indeed. Pletikosa (first choice keeper) is out, and some others are also still questionable...

Italy's midfield is gonna be a bit odd. Rino's injured, De Rossi is suspended. Marchisio's wife just gave birth and he's got a minor injury so he may not be 100% focused.

Ambro called up?

nah, Lippi doesn't like him. Doesn't like Cassano either.

Cassano I understand, but Ambro not being called up even after last season is more then unfair.

Lippi just wants a Italia team full of Juve players and Pirlo lol

Yep, and he called up Pepe because he's another Zebra

And Di Natale. (also a zebra). He's been on a scoring run in the league -- hopefully he'll remember to do the same thing while playing for the NT.

Shock, horror: Bilic defends Eduardo's dive.

I wonder what the odds are on either an England player diving to win a penalty, or a Croatian being fouled, but getting booked for diving? One of them is so obviously going to happen, and I'll laugh.

Scotland-FYROM

Scotland need to win really in order to keepr their hopes alive for their first qualification to a major tournement since 1998.

Scott Brown, 1-0.

EDIT: 2-0 McFadden. It's down to the Dutch on Wednesday to make sure this lot don't mek it to South Africa.

And speaking of the Dutch, they beat Japan 3-0 in their friendly today. Goals by Van Persie, Sneijder and Huntelaar.

Unfortunately for Sneijder, he went off on a stretcher shortly after scoring, having heard a 'crack' in his ankle. The dutch doctors don't think it's anything serious.

Shevchenko scored for Ukraine in their game v. Andorra.

Finally, Albertino scored for the Azzurrini yesterday but they lost the game to Wales 2-1. People aren't happy about the results and fingers are being pointed at the coach, the defense, and some of the 'senior' U21s (notably Balotelli).

Good to see Ukraine win, and by alot to increase their GD. Croatia have 2 huge games, both must-wins I reckon against Belarus and England.

England 1-0. Lampard penalty.

Or Panucci



Lippi does favour his beloved Juve, but not excessively. I hope Amauri dosent get called up, he dosent deserve to get called up or play international football, the prostitute

For such an "honest" team and "honest" player the English do dive alot and so does Rooney. What am i saying, Rooney dosent dive, he just looses his footing

Not saying he dived for that particular penalty today, but he did foul the other player.

It weren't a penalty at all, just 50/50. Rooney was being dragged all over the box and then had a bit of a swipe at the defender. Just get on with the game refs.

I agree with kurt -- it didnt' look like a penalty or a dive. Nothing should've been called.

Defoe, 2-0. Very nice finish.

He's on fire this last few months. 5 for Spurs this season I think, 5 for England (this while only playing a total of about 100 minutes!).

2-1. Great football down the left, good finish.

FT 2-1.

Hungary 0-1 Sweden, Mellberg! Italy still 0-0.

wtf is marchionni doing on the national team let alone starting?!?!? lippi must be mentally retarded.

Beautiful, beautiful own goal by Kaladze diving header! it's funny how we're counting on this guy to come and save our season

OH MY ***** GOD!!!!!


Another own goal by KALADZE!!!!!!!!!

Well, as an Azzurri fan, I'm grateful to Kaladze for what he did today. As a Milan fan, he needs to not be on the pitch at the San Siro again, thankyouverymuch.

What a legend!

Denmark leads Portugal 1-0 thanks to an absolutely superb goal by Bendtner.
Bendtner vs Portugal