Well, I'd say in Croatia most of the people care for such matches, and a smaller groups doesn't. It depends.

I don't care when Croatia plays against Andorra, but if England or any other big country comes, I do care - you see - Friday is working day and I got to stay mostly late with editorial stuff. Saturday I'm free.

I am kinda looking forward to Sweden and The Netherlands. Since forever The Netherlands are having finally a tough pill in their group.

So do I and all that Zlatan and Van der Vaart drama..
But sometime the good thing with NT , is to see how the players work with other players then Rossoneri players and Huntelaar has scored more now then the WC, maybe more playtime but I enjoy to see how he's doing..
Buffon likes Prandelli's Italy at least

Meh, I support my country as much as I support my club.

I just think Friday/Tuesday is crap because unless you live in the City where your NT stadium is, you can't go to the game unless you take the day off work. Stupid from UEFA, but like they give a **** about fans?

Imo the qualifiers are formalities. They put in the top teams in the weakest groups possible (due to seeding) How many times can we watch the San Marinos, Faroe Isleands, etc get hammered? Meh sure there are the rare occasions of two top teams getting into the same group but that's rare.

I know it's just another friendly, but here's Pato's tonight goal against Ukraine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh6JeBU0m6I

The more interesting bit is his goal scoring record under Dunga and Menezes. 1 in 8 and 3 in 3 respectively.

I hope Dunga is suffering somewhere!

Cool, the baby just keeps scoring. Nice goal too.

Here's another clip, which shows him hitting the bar as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwivOW8Z5ck

Wow, that was a great move. pity it hit the bar.

Thanks for the link.

Dunga...don't remind me of that guy. He crushed Brazil's tradition, he left Pato out with no reason and robbed Kaka maybe the last chance of winning a WC as a regular NT player, not that kid in 2002.

Amen to that bro. Amen to that. I hope he never shows his face to the public again! Not just Pato, he basically took a soulless Brazilian team - the likes of Fabiano, Melo and more should consider themselves the luckiest SOBs of all time to get in the starting XI. In the presence of real talent (which was left back home), they'd not even have made the substitute bench.

And no, I'm not just talking about Ronaldinho - he deserved at least a place in the 23, if not match action!

So, Locke are you looking forward for the Norway-Croatia clash today?

Nice

Brazil nursing him back to match fitness for us

Looking forward to tonights game.

Montenegro have surprised me at how well they've done, won every game 1-0 so far. Our group is quite poor, but Montenegro are a very new (and small) nation so they're doing well for themselves. Win tonight, then do the Welsh home and away and we should be through.

There were other players that deserved a NT spot more than Ronaldinho. Pato, Neymar and Ganso, just to name some.

Good luck tpday samira, you'll need it

It looks like Menezes will be following Milan-Chievo and Real Madrid-Milan to look up closely, among others, Ronaldinho. I really don't care whether he calls him in the NT or not, I just hope this pumps Dinho up to play a decent game.

Link

As I said, I don't share any concern about todays victor. Montenegro is overconfident; even more then Croatia when England crushed us 4-1.

ronaldinho had a better season than pato imo but then dunga caleed baptista

Who's not even a starter at Roma. And don't let me get started on Grafite. Yup, some of his choices were really poor.

I think they were more biased rather then poor. I don't think he intended to give Ronaldinho or Pato the chance, no matter how well they played for us.

Thanks Allready on the third minute, that damn Huntelaar scored, 1-0 to Netherland

Dam how did we let hunt go!We should have found a way to fit him into our system.
gooo zlatan!!

Faroe Islands 1-1 Northern Ireland.


England team

Joe Hart

Glenn Johnson
Rio Ferdinand
Joleon Lescott
Ashley Cole

Adam Johnson
Steven Gerrard
Gareth Barry
Ashley Young

Peter Crouch
Wayne Rooney

Lescott aside, well done Fabio.

Vucinic out for the away side.

NOOOOOO ! Toivonen made me celebrate too early

Is this the future of Azzurri?! wow...

Something is very wrong with the Italian football.

What a disgrace,at genoa.Bunch of serbian ******* may have postponed the game for more than half hour.If someone is watching whats happening,he'll know what I mean.Disgrace,what I can say/

Affelayy!!!!

Doesn't Mannone play for Arsenal? They have no luck with keepers if he does!

Yeah he does. they will probably blame it all on him, but I think if they can't hold on to a 2 goal lead against "Belarus", then the tournament's better off without them.

I'm really shocked and sad about this!

No one watching italy,serbia are breaking Genoa's stadium.
http://www.football-italia.net/oct12y.html

I don't usually do the hype of England players but this guy really impresses me. I remember seeing him at Middlesbrough and thinking he was a good player didn't realise he would get to this level though.

But he has something about him, I think he could be a really, really good/world class footballer in a few years, perhaps our biggest youth breakthrough since Rooney, at least if Man City don't ruin him. Though he does need to keep improving at a fast rate, he is already 23.

Why ultras are still allowed in the stadiums is beyond me. ****ers.

And people wonder why I have difficulty cheering for the serbian NT or any of its players.

Exactly!The match will start now,hope Italy beat their asses like 5-0.They seem to be fired up...Pirlo's expression didn't change though


Tennie:The serbian NT clapped for their crowd after what they did,I mean that's ****** up.I agree with you.

Zambro captain,awesome.

Johnson is a good player, I think he'll be fine in a 4-5-1/4-3-3/4-2-3-1, problem with him in a 4-4-2 is that he's not very responsible defensively. Great at going at his full back though. Hoping Ash performs well tonight, about time he got a start for England.

Suprising that Serbia lost aganst Estonia..
Sweden.. Come on Ibra!!

Travelling NT support is a little different than travelling club support. Still, though. What those...individuals...did to the stadium and the way they disrupted things....not cool. And I'm not in the least surprised to see this particular NT involved.

I thought he was alright when we played Switzerland at tracking back.

I think he's gaining an attitude problem the more plaudits he gets though, whereas Hart still carries himself well - at least for a footballer.

Yeah, I like Young in a Villa shirt but for England he hasn't really done it on the occasions he has been given, be interesting to see tonight.

Are you sure?? cause I read their keeper had been injured by a flare their ultras had thrown at the team bus.

Eurosport italia is reporting that Stojkovic (who's usually the starting keeper for Serbia) refused to play because the Serbian ultras had threatened his life after the Estonia game.

Those people should be put to jail.**** them,I was planning to watch football today.

Italy may have won the match. 3-0

They're right to call the game though. It's too dangerous to the players and to other fans to risk continuing.

Serbia should forfeit though.

What I've been watching in the past half an hour is an absolute disgrace. Match is being postponed again, probably will be suspended.

The same thing happened when Bosnia came to play in Oslo, fans throwing flares and smoke bombs for no reason at all onto the pitch and disrupting the match.

Hopefully no innocent people will be hurt when they try to clear the stadium.

I probably should be a shame to say this, but Why in h3ll did we let go Huntelaar and bought Zlatan..
3-0 and a wonderful goal too.

Oh I was just kidding, It's 4-0..

England aren't going to win this. Everytime we get in their half we're just getting kicked to peices.

Game suspended. I hope UEFA makes their voice heard and punishes those Serbian terrorists for good.

Is that supposed to be funny?