Marcos

He is helping Everton though by continually making stupid mistakes that keep Liverpool below them in the league !

GO ON G-MAC !!

Westwood and Kaymer take the first point, beating Mickleson and Johnson 3 and 2. Hopefully looking at 2 - 2 at the end of this session, 1.5-2.5 to the US wouldn't be too bad either.

That's like me going on to a GTA forum and asking people for a list of their top ten video games, but not allowing them to pick any of the GTA series!

Why can't you vote EWR, but can TEW or WMMA?

Frentzen and Fontana?

1. Bruce Springsteen 2. Meat Loaf 3. Don Henley 4. Steven Tyler 5. Brian Johnson 6. Elton John 7. Elvis Presley 8. Roger Daltrey 9. James Brown 10. Rod Stewart

I don't really see what your point is. We all know that Scottish football is a bit shit, however, Ego said something about having a decent run every now and then, we have had teams go on decent runs four or five times in the last ten years. If we are talking about just now then we are very poor, but "every now and then" doesn't suggest that.

In the last ten years we have had two different teams in a major European final. Both Celtic and Rangers have reached the last 16 in the Champions League. Celtic have beat Lyon, Juventus, Porto, Man United, Milan, Villareal, Valencia, Liverpool and Barcelona. Rangers have beat Monaco, Porto, Lyon, Stuttgart, Werder Bremen, Sporting Lisbon and Fiorentina. Hearts have beat Stuttgart and Bordeaux. Aberdeen have drew with Bayern Munich. Seriously we may not have good consistent runs every year, but go and find a country with 5 million residents who have had as many good nights in Europe in the last ten years as we have. I'm sure you will be struggling. Although when it does come about, it makes it even more special. I don't know what it's like to support a team who make it through to the semi-finals of a European competition every year, who complain if they don't win the thing. I remember watching Kilmarnock get hammered by Kaiserslautern (including a top of his game Youri Djorkaeff) and thinking it doesn't get much better than this. 13 years on we still have a great bond with Kaiserslautern fans, all because we know that these European days are very special and very rare around these parts and we make the most of it when it does come about.

1. Eric Cartman (South Park) 2. Butters (South Park) 3. Milhouse (Simpsons) 4. Yosemite Sam (Looney Tunes) 5. Jerry (Tom & Jerry) 6. Sideshow Bob (Simpsons) 7. Homer Simpson (Simpsons) 8. Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes) 9. Speedy Gonzalez (Looney Tunes) 10. Kenny McCormack (South Park)

Full Voting List 1.Arnold Judas Rimmer - Red Dwarf 2.Edmund Blackadder - Blackadder 3.Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers 4.Niles Crane - Frasier 5.Alan Partridge - Knowing Me, Knowing You/I'm Alan Partridge 6.Uncle Albert - Only Fools and Horses 7.Fin Tutuola - L&O:SVU 8.Lister - Red Dwarf 9.Reg Hollis - The Bill 10.Gregory House - House MD

Michael Clarke?

A bit ironic for an Arsenal fan to be making Young Boys jokes considering their transer policy over the last ten years! Might bring a bit of harmony to the rivalry though, now that both North London clubs are playing with the Young Boys

People actually argued that the Scottish league was better?

But it's not like the people in England are poor....since this did start as a US/England thing. People can choose to be all sentimental about it but that is the nature of sports everywhere. Not everyone can go to the games. I've lived in the US for 10 already and have never come close to getting an opportunity to attend a Super Bowl. I would love to sit front row at Yankee Stadium but there is no way I can afford $2,600 per seat per game for those seats. We can choose to bee all sentimental about it and fill every sporting event with kids from poor families but guess what...it'll never happen. As much as someone of us might not like it...sports are a business. So yes, this "US citizens are rich" argument is stupid because it's not like everyone in England, Australia, France, Italy, Spain and Germany is poor either. Marcos and others can keep crying over stupid "our game" mentality but heck, England wasn't even one of the original FIFA members. Like I said before the whole "our sport vs your sport" logic is ridiculous in this era when all the sports are becoming global sports. I know that sports are becoming a global, what I am trying to say though is that there is some feeling of history in going back to play in the country where the sport was made. And allowing the people of Britain to go and watch the sport that there ancestors created on the biggest stage of them all would hold a lot of sentimental value. People who want to go and watch the best players in the world, in some of the most famous stadiums in the world will be able to in a matter of hours travelling, which you probably wouldn't get in the US. What I don't get though is this "we shall bring it to the US to continue to evolve the game in the country". Let me ask you this, why should you, a country who holds American Football, Baseball, Hockey and Basketball in higher regard than "Soccer ",get given the greatest footballing show in the world for the second time in your generation, when most Brits have never witnessed it in theirs? I pay upwards of £500 a year to go and watch my football team. I go and watch my team get beat 4-0 in the pissing rain in the middle of some shitty wee town in the middle of nowhere. I go alongside a bunch of people on a three hundred mile round trip to Inverness, on a winters day, with the heavy snow and the freezing air. I go and support my team, even though they don't have the greatest players in the world. MLS fans don't know how lucky they are with their league, when I compare it to the SPL. They see world class players (maybe past their prime) playing week in, week out. I don't, I see a bunch of youngsters, a bunch of unskillful, hard tackling battlers. Watching football like I do, and most Scottish and lower league English fans, should be a crime. Yet we still pay the money, we still watch the games. Why? Because we love our teams, and we love the sport. Yet these fans should not be allowed to see the World Cup, the most skillful players of that generation, playing in their country, because some other country wants to host it for the second time in 24 years, to help them develop the game. When that most of the people in that country would still rather go and watch NFL, NBA, MBL and the NHL than the MLS.

The US should not be anywhere near hosting the next two world cups. 2026 is fine with me, unless Australia isn't counted as Asia, in which case I would be delighted to see it go England, Australia and then Qatar. I agree totally with everything metalman says. Brazil is a footballing nation, England is a footballing nation, South Africa is a 75% footballing nation, Germany is a footbaling nation, Japan/South Korea are mainly footballing nations, France is a footballing nation. Yet we should give the World Cup to the States, because it would help them develop the sport? Screw that. Don't give it to England in 2018, don't give it to the country with the history. It would be like if American Football became a worldwide sport, could you imagine the response from the Americans if we kept the competition outside its homeland for more than 50 years, to help other countries develop it. There would be an uproar! Why should FIFA help it out by giving you the world cup, when you are still promoting the NFL, NBA and MBL above the MLS? When all your young college students are pushed towards they three sports rather than football. Football is only the fourth biggest sport in America (if that, I don't know where hockey features). England deserves 2018, they created the game, they come up with the rules, they have the stadiums, they have the transport links, they have the fans, they have the passion, they have some of the best football teams in the world and some of the best players in the world. It's not usual for me to be on England's side, but if countries like Italy, Mexico, Germany, Brazil and France are allowed to hold it twice then why shouldn't England? 2022 is a bit more cloudy though. Which means the US might have a chance Australia should host it. USA have had their world cup to develop the sport in their country, let the Aussies have the same chance. And to be honest I believe the Aussies would be a great host. They don't have many major enemies (excluding Italy and Croatia probably), and everybody loves meeting an Aussie in the pub! Although that shouldn't involve itself in the arguement. If the US got '94 to help them develop the sport in their country, then the Aussies should get '22 for the same reasons.

Sorry to bring this up so late, but I have just noticed it. If the US were to get either the 2018 or 2022 tournaments then I believe it would be an absolute travesty. For the fact that you have just hosted one, for the fact that it in each set of nominations there is better candidates in each, and because I want to go to one of the tournaments . If 2018 doesn't go to England then there is something wrong with the selection process. The home of football should not have to wait this long to host another World Cup. They have the stadium, they have the fans, they have the transport links, and it is right on my doorstep. 2022 will either go to Qatar or Australia. Both areas of the world, the middle east and the back of beyond, where the World Cup deserves to go! 2026 looks to be America's best shot at getting the World Cup to me.

At least the result will keep a singing Terry Venables off of our TV's for another four years. Stupid advert! And now we can get back to supporting the only UK resident who actually had a chance of winning anything this year. Shame he's Scottish, or he would have had a knighthood already!! Might not want to click that link Englishmen

You might have got away with this horrible sarcasm, were it not for the fact that one of the moderating staff is also a Kilmarnock fan, and does not take kindly to sarcasm about his club! See you in a week !

Another thing, why is our British songs so bad? I'm actually thinking about making my task for the next year to be to create the lyreics for the 2011 British song, we suck that bad that I may have a chance

I always compare Eurovision songs with how they compare to Lordi in 2006, they won me £60 and are probably the best band I've seen in the Eurovision ! No-one measured up to them this year, although my money did go on Turkey and Romania each way, so all is good! Adding to my Eurovision playlist this year, joining Finland 2006, Belarus 2007 and Norway 2009 will be Belgium 2010, Romania 2010 and Turkey 2010,.

I would take boring football and survival over silky skills and relegation any day of the week.