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He's not playing for them. Worse. He's the coach. I think we should all don blonde mullets and whistle the whistley bit from Scorpions' 'Wind Of Change', in honour.

Started with The Stone Roses and Arcade Fire. Both, somehow, ended up with Big Country.

McManaman didn't do to badly at Real Madrid, won the Champions League, scoring in the final. I think he got a bit lazy due to his exorbitant wages - and spent a few seasons just warming the bench. Came back to England, eventually, to play for Manchester City, didn't really do anything there apart from lie on the physio's treatment table. Maldini - he's still playing for AC Milan, so I would suspect that he's still playing for the national team... the defenders tend to hang on for a long time in Italy. But a quick check at the 23 man squad shows that Maldini hasn't been selected.

I don't like it. For the simple fact that no matter who I put in, 3 songs later I always ended up with Big Country. Bagpipes are wrong. Making your guitar sound like a bagpipe is wronger.

I think he's retired through injury.

Apparently, Walcott is quicker than Henry - which is a frightening prospect for the opposition.

Well, Arsene signed him, paid massive money for, and at the time (4 months ago) he was rated the best teenage talent in Britain. The reason Arsenal haven't played him is because he's seen as 'one for the future', and with Henry popping in the goals as if they were Pringles, he felt no need to risk him ...yet. Next season will be different. Trust me, you don't pay what could rise to

Next time, pick a few of the guys from Lordi and qualification will be a breeze.

Being English, naturally I'm supporting England, but my hopes are not as high as they would be with a passionate manager in charge. Sorry, I like Sven as a person, but he doesn't strike me as a man to inspire, when the backs are against the wall tactically I find him a bit void of ideas. This doesn't make me a Little Englander.... far from it - I'd love to have have seen someone like Arsene Wenger in charge when Sven steps down. Getting back to the World Cup - yes, I think England have a chance. But then we've been banging that drum pre-tournament ever since the game was invented. It's l

As an additional little treat, I've finally got my hands on the last track from this show, I've upped it so now you can all check it out. The Flaming Lips - War Pigs Enjoy.

Had a cracking double bill of films over the weekend. First up on Friday was Grizzly Man that I picked up on dvd. This is a really intriguing film as there are a multitude of angles to take on this. Was Timothy just a troubled, alienated loner who only found peace in the animal world - someone who lived by the sword and was quite happy to die by the sword? Or was he a bit of a split personality - selfish in dragging his girlfriend along on his misguided adventures, and bitter at other human inteference - than himself - in the animal world coupled with a cosmic starchild 'isn't nature harml

My money was on Tweedy. It was a popbitch revelation - apparently she mentioned in a tv interview that she found Skinner quite fanciable, so he tried his luck and it worked - albeit very briefly. Respect due.

Never heard it called that before! Great reviews boys, but a word of advice - leave the haute couture commentary to Trinny and Susannah!

Here's the link to the show, just a few points to note, the sound cuts out almost a immediately for a few seconds - I dunno why. And it's a BBC recording so when Wayne talks about the Santas and Aliens on either side the stage they cut out him saying that the Santas represent Christianity (cue audience boo's) and the Aliens represent Scientology (cue even bigger boo's). There is also no War Pigs or Feeling Yourself Disintegrate on the recording.

Okay. Photos as promised. Here's one of Wayne on the street outside the venue - Support came from the wildly energetic Go! Team - hadn't worked out that taking the flash off my camera would have been a good idea at this point One for our resident Taffs (andrewdowdall and Welsh Rich). Drummer Kliph nailing his Welsh family heritage to the mast during set-up: I was right down the front so I managed to get a few good shots of the band: Being straight in front of Steven helped

Yup. I know they rarely kick their set around, no delving into the back catalogue too much. But there is a thought of if it's not broke why fix it? They dropped 4 tracks from Mystics, played Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, for the first time in 3 years I think. The tracklisting went: Race For The Prize Free Radicals Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1 and 2 Vein Of Stars In The Morning Of The Magicians The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song The Wand Cow And Duck Jam She Don't Use Jelly Felling Yourself Disintegrate Do You Realize? War Pigs Steven and Kliph were sensational. The multi-instrumental

I had it down as being Cheryl Tweedy for sure (cue Rich with a photo....) You live and learn!

Time to add today's token Rachel Stevens picture: Today's picture is in honour of me just finding out that The Streets' 'When You Wasn't Famous' is about her. I now think she rocks. It's official.

I'm not a fan of hers, and to quote Viz magazine, I think she's getting a bit long in the tooth to still be classed as the nation's favourite Voice of an Angel jailbait.

Talking of new stalking victims, sorry, favourites. This is mine - Michelle Monaghan, she was in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and is about to star alongside cosmic nutjob Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 3. and There was a pic of her in a skimpy Santa's outfit but I was denied access to the link off the google search. Damn work restrictions!

I'm in.

Bass guitar. Denim mini skirt. Bosh! Charlotte Cooper from The Subways

I'm on the first few pages so far, very engaging and has a surreal autobiographical feel to it, but I know that it gets a bit more warped and dark further on in the book, so I'm bracing myself for it.

This is the only picture I can find: like you said, difficult to tell if she's still got it. Back in my teenage days though, she out-foxed Kylie!