Scott McFly

Somewhere Simon Cowell is thinking "lol, Scotland." If there was one thing I wished would've changed from Burley's time in charge (and there were a lot of those), it's that we'd play two up front and Levein's started with just Miller. It's not often you have Scotland's two best strikers playing for the same club, they obviously know how the other plays, so why not play Boyd up front with Miller? Do we really need Thomson in there? Or Robson? I gather Levein has said Boyd will come on at some point, here's hoping he tries two up front at least for a bit. EDIT: Get in, 1-0. Czechs have had all the chances though. And Levein brings on Boyd but takes off Miller and sticks with the one up front. *sigh*

Yes, the discipline in this instance refers to the work ethic of the players and ability to follow instructions, not how many yellow/red cards you've received. Basically, there are no "leaders" and everyone is just doing what they like.

And er, I got nothing for my 20 on Burnley. Fix plz.

Very good. That picture's misleading though, it looks like Brown is totally Kozlov-ing Lafferty (wrestling reference #2), but it was just a bit of a scuffle and Lafferty just threw himself to the ground to make it look as if he'd been headbutted Zidane-style.

Glad to see Kyle Lafferty's cleaned up his act and doesn't go flying at the slightest touch to get someone sent off. Oh wait... Well Rangers pretty much have it in the bag now, which has been pretty obvious for most of the season. Not even Robbie Keane can sort out the mess that is Celtic under Mowbray.

Bet 2 - 20 on Burnley Doubler: Stoke 1-1 Arsenal

Had a few small bets I just threw on last minute, looks like one's gonna come up - Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham and just needed Villa to win today. Stuck on £2.50 and will get a tenner back, no biggie, but every win is nice no matter how small.

Fuck it, let's hope shitty Wigan show up. Bet 3 - 20 on Spurs. Doubler: Fulham 1-1 Birmingham Also, who voted TCO's bet down?

That went well eh

Fuck. That is fucking nasty. Not sure pulling it apart like that is going to help much though. >_>

I'm so going back and looking for mistakes now

Well, some points is better than no points. Keeps me in the hunt I suppose. How the fuck did I get 150+ points behind the leader, wasn't I 100+ points ahead of second place at one point?

I know Stokerino mentioned about it, and said he didn't buy this, but seriously, the Czech Republic aren't that good anymore, and are definitely beatable. Fine, we'll swap you for Switzerland if that's the case.

No problem. That'll be 5 credits.

Bet 2 - 25 on Fulham Doubler: Arsenal 2-0 Liverpool

Fuck sake, Scotland shafted yet again. Italy AND France in the 2008 qualifying and now Spain and Czech Republic. Christ, I'd even have taken England over Spain. And literally any of the other pot 2 teams over Czech Republic. Oh well, let's hope Levein and the boys can pull some magic out of the bag.

Bet 1 - 20 on Bolton. Doubler: Sunderland 1-1 Wigan

Terry and Barry Ferguson should go set up their own nation they can captain. With blackjack! And hookers!

Correct. Now the movie reference for that one is the courtroom scene in Liar Liar where Jim Carrey gets his client off the hook for shagging another man (which would break the conditions of her pre-nup agreement) by realising that she lied about her age in order to sign the pre-nup in the first place thereby making it null and void.

He got banned for 3 games for blatantly hitting Craig Fagan in the face in an off the ball incident missed by the referee in the game against Hull. So they appealed the ban (which did allow him to play in the Carling Cup semi against Man City) but it came back to bite him in the ass since the appeals board called the appeal "frivolous" and increased it to a four game ban. Now he's appealed it again. And I wouldn't be shocked to see it go up to 5 games because the initial offence was so obviously violent conduct and would've been a straight red had the ref seen it. Absolutely nobody knows why he's still appealing against it since it was a red card offence and the first appeal was definitely "frivolous" at the least. Really it's like that scene in The Breakfast Club where Bender keeps getting more days' worth of detention because he keeps speaking after the principal tells him that one more word out of him and that's what he'll get, and eventually ends up with about 6 months worth or something.

Overturned on a technicality rather than them being innocent just to add. But still, I'm not a fan of this "hey we'll punish you but no doubt you'll appeal against it and get it reduced to next to nothing or just have it thrown out altogether". That's why I have to laugh at Rio Ferdinand's current situation.

Robbie Keane would be the entire Celtic machine. They're shit. Well, him and Aiden McGeady.

Hahaha, latest rumour is Robbie Keane on loan from Spurs to CELTIC. That's hilarious. And Hutton to Sunderland on loan is now confirmed.

Holy shit, I'm in freefall.

Damn, was gonna stick it all on Bolton, but had a change of heart when about to post and split it with Arsenal. Crap. Oh well, here's a risky punt: Bet 1 - 20 on Hull. Doubler: West Ham 1-1 Blackburn