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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!

no argument on the second point. and that's down to Sven and his poor tactics. the ref might have said he sent Rooney off for the stamp - but it was clear to me and the rest of england that the ref was giving a free kick for the challenge on carvalho until rooney pushed ronaldo. so despite what the ref and sven said, there is little doubt in england that he was covering his butt.

allez le Bleu

he was not sent off for the accidental 'stamp'. He was sent off for the push because Ronaldo sprinted accross the field to get in the refs face about it.

Demonstrates how poor Sven Goran-Eriksson was for England and how his tactics, vision and management of England essentially let them down. Lippi has done extremely well to bring on a very average Italy team and help the over achieve so far. Anyway - I am done with the world cup. A few days space has only reconfirmed by view that the Portugese were cheasting a$$holes, and that the Argentine referee had it in for England. We weren't good - and that's Sven's fault for poor squad selection and tactics - but how can anyone perform against cheaters and biased referees?

hey meazza - credit to italy.... HELL of a finish

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16 is driving me nuts

I think there is so much to like about JP. I have been in his camp simce we drafted him and I'll stick by him until he leaves the team. He's a great talent, that still needs the time under centre to develop and has potential to lead this team to the Superbowl. His attitude is exactly what you want from a QB, he could do some to get on better with the gusy on the team, but I think the last year and this offseason will help that and his work ethic has never ever been questioned... Fingers crossed that JP puts all of this together and we have our QB come September.

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Hiring a hot shot vaunted GM hardly panned ou t well though did it? I'll take a shot on the octogenarian after the last disater.

Ummmm you dont realise what it means for this nation do you?? A whole nation has been brought to its knees

easy... roo didn't deserve that

BASTARD ARGIE REF. BASTARD CHRISTIANO RONALDO. England were robbed by cheating diving Portugese bastards. I am not happy. Fug the world cup.

balls to em all.... COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!!

I believe you call it a Bubble Screen... And yeah it sucks in the NFL. In other, slower leagues it is a great play when thrown to the twins side.

Damn Inkman - what is your real job? Porn writer? Or is this a strange projection of your own fantasy?? Either way - where are the pictures of this transformation? and the ensuing gang bang??? Inquiring minds need to know!

Cos it sounds sleazy to touch up models routinely??

Evans Price Parrish Aiken Davis Wilson

Adu will be in Europe soon enough... I also think he'll play for Ghana over the US when his time comes....

Weak.

Slept with Ed....

Mannisco

I'm glad you recognised that I am being a littl e bit of a devis advocate here...

The thing is - nobody but the US expected them to advance... Welcome to the English experience of World Cup soccer - lots of hype, and lots of hope mixed with plenty more despair and disappointment. 40 years of hurt.