The Chelsea players take their wags for a meal after a match when Torres turns up alone...

"No missus today?" Asked the waiter.

Torres replies: "Well 3 open goals and hit the corner flag from 6 yards out ... so getting better!"

Good to see Roy a bit more adventurous with his tactics against Montenegro....pity they didn't always play that way.

Wonder what he'll do against Poland?

Craig Bellamy carried his daughter on the pitch to mark his last game for Wales against Macedonia..

She also got Wales' Man of the Match.

When it comes to football I have a few remarkable stories I remember. Here's another one.

This one was told by som student at lunch In the vocational school I went to.

We were talking about English football when he told us this story

" I won a trip to watch a top game in the English first division(that was the name at that time) The trip was to be over the weekend, depart from home Friday afternoon and home again Sunday at noon(I'm not sure here)

OK I won a trip to England, and I won a two night in a 4 star hotel and I won a free ticket to this football match but that's all.

He looked at us and continued...
Did you know where I was placed ?

We all shaked our heads

I was placed on the first row right behind one of the goalies. There I sat a whole game. OK the atmosphere was fantastic but that was all about it."

So now when some betting or other companies is giving us a chance to win at trip to see a match in England I ALWAYS write to them and ask where the winner will be placed-where his/her seat is.

OH by the way.

He said following

If I had known this I had given away the ticket to some other fan of that football team and I had tried to get a better ticket to some other football match in that area.

This story was told to us about 95-96, but when his travel to england was I don't know or remember.

I don't know whether the story is true or not I just share it with you.

Markus

The FA release 18,000 tickets to Polish fans for Wembley clash.

It'd be rude not to let them use their home advantage I suppose.

Gus Poyet, in an attempt to lift player morale has fielded the Sunderland team, in a practise game against 11 dustbins.

The match had to be abandoned after the dustbins took a 5-0 lead.

I I see the poms want to play the Socceroos. They obviously want some goal shooting practice.http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/eng...014-2viy3.html

England need to beat Poland first...and that is no certainty but I will be watching the game live tonight.

Job done 2-0 with our boys doing Canada 3-0. Seems like we might be meeting at Wembley.

Could also end up in the same group in Brazil.

Could well be...it was great seeing Hodgson once again picking an attacking team...not that he had much choice.

Well I'm not seeing a stellar future for our mob. two 6-0 drubbings by Brazil then France saw off our imported coach and there appears to be some friction within the team with Lucas Neill making some very strange comments about the younger members having to step up. Given the way he played against Canada, I'd say the boot is on the other foot.

Our FA have already said they don't expect England to win the next competition but are hopeful we'll the 2022 one at the latest :har:

I'm so pleased that we made it.

Rather than having to look ahead to a summer of disappointment because England haven't qualified for the World Cup, we can instead look ahead to a summer of disappointment because England have qualified for the World Cup.

If Polish people only do the English jobs that nobody else wants..

How come Sunderland have never had a Polish manager?