11th November, 1997: England have drawn with Italy in Rome, Man U have beaten Juventus. The Premier League is clearly the best league in the World and England will win the World Cup without breaking into a sweat.
18th March, 1998: England have been beaten by Chile, Man U are knocked out of the Champion's League by Monaco. English players have no skill and England will go out in the first round of the World Cup.
It all happened in the space of just over 4 months!!
Scholes spent less time on the left wing than Tony Blair.
- F365 review of England's dire performance v Slovakia
"I wouldn't trust Newcastles back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels."
- Jonathan Pearce, as Newcastle are beaten in the FA Cup by Wolves 3-2
"Where the hell did Sunderland get the unmitigated gall to call their new ground The Stadium Of Light?"
- Danny Kelly, 'Football's Great Imponderables', F365.Com
Join the Royal Air Force.
- Billboard ad displayed during England v Argentina friendly in Switzerland
Percentage Swearing Complete: Rooney 97%; Keane 83%; Chomsky 65%.
- Some alternative Premiership statistics from BBC's "Broken News"
To think of football as merely 22 hirelings kicking a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and cat-gut, Hamlet so much ink and paper. It is conflict and art.
- JB Priestley
"I want to believe in Houllier's Liverpool. I want to detect a grand plan. I want to stop shouting vulgarities at TV screens every time I spot Vladimir Smicer. Trouble is, I can't do any of these things. I can't look at Djimi Traore without seeing a new-born pony."
- Vincent Hogan, "The Irish Independent"
"I can't beleive they gave Giggs a yellow in the box!"
- Homer, watching a Man Utd game in England, "The Simpsons"
