Match of the Day vs The Premiership

Chiles seemed strangely liberated by the absence of Strachan and Hansen, for the worse.

Thanks, Mooro. You were in my dream last night.

Chiles is rubbish, I'm goping to stop sticking up for him and defending him from now on.

What would be nice, something that would be very good, is if they had Souness on as guest pundit. I enjoyed seeing him on full-on psycho stare mode last night. That's exactly how he looked at me, you know, when he was parked behind the chip shop while his lackey went and got him some chips.

It's become part of my Sunday night routine now (I like to be in bed by the time the Saturday goals replay rolls round) and I think I'd miss it. The missus likes Chiles.

The remarkable thing about the kissing debate was that two hoary old footballers made a highly-trained journalist look like a complete homophobe while they came out of it smelling of roses. In a way. Perhaps it is 'LAD CULTURE' gone doolally.

'Why do manangers celebrate more nowadays?'
'Blah blah'
'Yes, but why do managers celebrate more nowadays?'

On Saturday, my mother laughed at Linekar's reference to his eight year-old son and said that she liked Linekar because he's got a twinkle in his eye.

All three were rather fruity late on on Saturday night.

So, Chiles had the temerity to start a debate about The Kissing Time?

Lineker / Hansen / Lawro were so relaxed on Saturday that it was as though they were still waiting for the cameras to - 'roll'.

The former Liverpool duo delight in mocking the ex-Blue! don't they.?

they will be relegated

I think the hampsters will stay up. I'd love to see Portsmouth relegated though, I'd be able to watch matches without wanting to find that berk with the bells and rectally insert them (in him, obv)

I think Tottenham will stay up.

but they didn't look like Premiership material until March 2004, and entering the top flight as the play-off winners, they were always going to be favourites to go right back down again.

I am sorry about my spelling. From now on, I will call him Gary L.

PF, I once saw Souness behind the chip shop on Great Western Road next to Kelvinbridge underground station in Glasgow. There's like a little alley behind it which cuts all of thirty seconds off your journey. He was sitting in his car with somebody else while someone (presumably) went in to get his chips. He looked at me in a very unpleasant way and I was a bit frightened. Of course, he was King of the Castle then, but now he's not. So his glowers are less powerful.

I liked the way that Strachan wore his shirt untucked.

Strachan is so lovely and cute, I just want to tuck him up in bed with a hot water bottle and read him a story. Does anyone else feel the same?

I am sending Chiles to do a report on your workplace, Mooro. You can hang around in the background making wanker signs.

Were you in bed in time, Mike?

I don't know about weeping, just resigned chuckling at the thought of ever having had a chance against mighty Liverpool, really.

NB: They talk about *it* there, I should have said.

Chiles would make a bad Have I Got News For You guest presenter, I fear.

I am sorry that you wasted your time on Liverpool wins, Mike: that does sound unfortunate.

Can't you multi-task, Mike? I was sadly googling Liverpool scores and watching MOTD2 at the same time.

I have said elsewhere that I would like Strachan to be the Scotland manager just for the press conferences. He is the reason I watch MOTD2 (that, and being too much of a cheapskate to get Sky Sports)

There's a wall in the way. Or ten feet of hallway and a right-angled turn if we're talking about the telly in the bedroom.

I should make clear that only my choice of subject matter was appalling, not my partners in banter.

I missed HIGNFY entirely. We may have been skirting Tarporley on the A54 at the time, or eating curry at Moreton Cross.

Do you like it when the camera doodlebugs the stadiums before matches?

Do you mean in a drifting blimp stylee or the crash-zoom from space? I like 'em both. There's a touch of ITV about the latter but, being the Beeb, I'm sure those aerial maps are meticulously researched.

(Mark C: the last LP I bought was the first Bee Gees album on cassette for 35p so we could listen to New York Mining Disaster 1941 in the car. So, no.)