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watching the early game in a pub with people over the age 3 is a dream Ive been dreaming every friday night for the last 3 years

Aaaaaaaaaah' date=' isnt that cute......Barrett has a Play Date. Too bad MOBE wasnt around last weekend, eh Barrett?

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Don't worry Booche, you will be on your knees too.

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slightly older john nic column:

I'd been eating almost nothing except celery, carrots and peanuts for a week. I wasn't on a health trip, I was just trying to stay alive. Not for no reason were amphetamines given to women who wanted to lose weight. As an appetite suppressant it works very well; take a lot and you lose interest in eating at all. Then you get into a destructive cycle whereby you don't want to eat and therefore have no energy, so you hoover up more speed to keep you going and thus feel even less like eating. That way lies madness.

A healthy person had told me that by eating celery, carrots and peanuts I was getting all the important nutrition I needed. So when we were running down our dreams on the road in California, I existed on them for whole weeks at a time supplementing them only with fine alcohol and hash cakes.

However, I had no idea what the narrow, if healthy diet was doing to my body. The first time I'd been on it for a week, it had a most unexpected side effect which naturally came to mind this Sunday while I was watching the West Ham debacle.

I hooked up with a girl after a gig in Marina Del Ray who was good enough and corrupt enough to invite me back to her condo by the beach to party until the sun rose. At the time I was an expert in partying till the sun came up, so it was something I was happy to do. I throw my guitar into the back of her car as she pulls up outside the club. The old Mustang is all turquoise and white stripes and look like it belongs in a movie. As she hits the gas it roars magnificently like a wild animal. In a beat up, cap sleeved t-shirt and denim cut offs, she looks like a cheap movie star version of a kid who has gone off the rails. That'll do for me. I've never had much fondness for the rails.

She shows me into her condo and it's all white and silver and looks like the sort of place someone who had taste would have, which made me wonder what the hell she was doing with me. A print of the movie poster for Endless Summer is on one wall and an abstract oil painting is on the other. It's clean but I'm not after being up already for 36 hours. I can only hope I don't leave a stain on the white sofa as we fool around and take our clothes off.

Being a kind girl with a fondness for pissed Englishmen, she offered to provide oral relief upon my person. Hurrah!

Now, I like to get the politics of these occasions right. I don't consider it obligatory or necessary for the lady involved to swallow. I mean, if I was her, I wouldn't. Not unless I was lacking potassium in my diet. So I inform her of this and as it turns out she understandably has no interest in swallowing and that's fine with me, so at the crucial moment I inform her of impending developments in order that she can remove herself from the scene of the crime.

This turns out to be a good move because the poor lass would have drowned, so capacious was the volume of what I shall, for uncharacteristically polite reasons, call my man gravy. It was as much a surprise to me because you get used to the volume you produce don't you and this was perhaps five times the normal amount. It was like I had been fitted with a garden hose and turned the tap on full blast.

The girl wasn't exactly a blushing virgin, but she claimed never to have seen anything like it, and I had to agree that it was a bit freaky. I had briefly wondered if it would ever actually stop, and if not exactly how would the police explain my dehydrated corpse to my mam and dad. 'It was an extreme case of fatal spunking sir.' Or maybe ' He came and he went.'

I have no idea how the human body works, and I don't want to know for fear of becoming a hypochondriac and thinking that every twinge is a tumour.

However, later the next day I met a man who had some medical expertise, all be it only an expertise in knowing what drugs to take from a pharmacy should you ever feel like robbing one. And he told me that it was all because of the sheer volume of celery I'd been consuming. Apparently celery does something to your lymph glands which causes the voluminous explosion. This was confirmed to me later in a chance meeting in the Rainbow Bar and Grill with a Sunset Strip rocker who said it was a well known thing in the porn industry.

You see there are always consequences from how you live your life. You can't escape them. Whether you eat a vast amount of celery, or like Anton Ferdinand, you large it up in South Carolina for four days while your club is in peril, lie about it to your employers and manager and then play like a drain while sporting an arse so fat that it makes Robbie Fowler look anorexic. There are consequences to everything. In this case the consequence is relegation and the destruction of your professional reputation.

Many of the West Ham side stand as the perfect illustration of exactly how not to be a modern footballer. Even when Zamora scored the third goal yesterday, his first instinct was to point to his name on his shirt - in other words, 'it's all about me', not about the team. Zamora is a journeyman player who should be on his knees in gratitude for the fortunes he's earned by being average at Spurs and West Ham. Few men have less reason to large it, even if his girlfriend is in the top-notch dystopian reality show WAGs Boutique, which people tell me is some sort of competition to see who is, or maybe has, the biggest c**t.

When your club is infested with men who think they are far better than they are, when they are more concerned with playing cards for big money on the way to the game, when you can only think of yourself and not your club, it all works against you in the end, and the results are self evident; almost a self evident as the consequences of a blow job after you've been eating lots of celery.

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I havnt felt that good since Archie Gemmel scored against Holland in 1978 ;)

SWEET 16TH FOR SCOTLAND

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Scotland have climbed to their highest ever position of 16th in the FIFA world rankings.

They have not played a senior international since October but continue to climb as other countries lose points accrued over previous seasons.

Their rise comes about due to the complicated FIFA points system, with Scotland having nudged ahead of Switzerland, Cameroon, Mexico and Denmark.

Points gained over the course of a year are included in full, however results from any preceding 12 months count only for 50%, with that figure decreasing to 30% for a third year and then 20% for a fourth year.

Former national team boss Walter Smith instigated Scotland's rapid climb, with the team having been positioned 88th two years ago and 62nd a year ago.

FIFA introduced world rankings in 1993 and Scotland matched their previous highest ranking of 20th place last month.

England are unchanged in sixth in the latest list, with Northern Ireland overtaking the Republic of Ireland by climbing two places to 47th. The Republic slipped five places to 51st.

Argentina climb to the top for the first time while World Cup winners Italy fall to second place.

Brazil drop to third, having lost top spot to the Azzurri in January, while France remain fourth in the list released by FIFA on Wednesday.

Germany and the Netherlands remain static inside the top six, while Portugal, Czech Republic and Spain complete the top 10.

Panama enjoy the biggest leap up the rankings, climbing 20 places to 54th, while Finland are the leading movers and shakers in Europe, improving 15 spots to sit 33rd.

Canada suffered the biggest slump, dropping 16 places to 103rd.

Cameroon head the African contingent in 18th place while Mexico (21st) lead the way in North and Central America.

Iran (34th) are the top Asian nation, ahead of Australia, who drop one place to 40th.

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LARSSON INTENDED TO RETIRE AT CELTIC

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Henrik Larsson has revealed he planned to retire from the game when he left Celtic - before Barcelona stepped in to sign him.

Larsson joined the Spanish giants in 2004 and helped them win the Champions League last year, before recently enjoying a spell at Manchester United on loan from Helsingborgs.

The 35-year-old told BBC Scotland: "I had been at Celtic for seven years, but I thought it was time to do something else.

"I really didn't have anything lined up, when I got a phone call from my wife saying Barcelona were interested."

Larsson revealed he was determined to lift Europe's top prize to avoid a repeat of the pain he experienced when Celtic lost the UEFA Cup final to Porto three years earlier.

The Swede came off the bench to set up both Barca goals in a 2-1 victory over Arsenal in Paris.

"I didn't want to lose that game, because I had already lost one final, and I didn't want to go through that again," he said.

"It's so terrible when you lose a big final like that.

"It was my last chance to win a major trophy, so I was pleased.

"It was pure happiness, and one of the best days of my life."

Larsson left Old Trafford earlier this month to return to Helsingborgs and he is eager to play on in his home country.

He said: "I'm almost 36 now, and I have to say I'm going to keep playing as long as I can, even though playing in Sweden isn't as high a level as Spain or the Premiership.

"But it's still the thing I love to do, so I'm going to keep playing for as long as I can."

Larsson was talking to his former Celtic coach Murdo MacLeod and [color:blue]ex-Rangers striker Gordon Smith in an interview to be broadcast on Radio Scotland at 8pm.

Interviewer Gordon Smith is my uncle, he married my aunt Josephine Clarke. He also played for Leeds and was the manager of Queens Park in the Scottish Division Three. Kinda neat to see his name on this article.

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If Chelsea can pull this off they definately deserve to be Champions. Its a good thing they own just about every player worth anything.

Chelsea's fixture pile-up

Sat, March 31 - Watford (a) - Premiership

Wed, April 4 - Valencia (h) - Champions League

*Sat, April 7 - Tottenham (h) - Premiership

Tue, April 10 - Valencia (a) - Champions League

Sun, April 15 - Blackburn (neutral venue) - FA Cup

Wed, April 18 - West Ham (a) - Premiership

Sat, April 21 - Newcastle (a) - Premiership

**Tue/Wed, April 24/25 - Liverpool or PSV Eindhoven - Champs League

Sat, April 28 - Bolton (h) - Premiership

**Tue/Wed, May 1/2 - Liverpool or PSV Eindhoven - Champs League

Sat, May 5 - Arsenal (a) - Premiership

***Tue, May 8 - Manchester United (h) - Premiership

***Thu, May 10 - Tottenham (h) - Premiership

Sun, May 13 - Everton (h) - Premiership

**Sat, May 19 - FA Cup Final (Wembley)

**Wed, May 23 - Champions League Final (Athens)

*Subject to postponement.

**Subject to winning matches in previous round.

***Not yet officially arranged.

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Im not particular about who is playing I just wanna go for a pint and watch the game with you lads.

Sportsnet schedule looks like this so far:

7:30 AM Liverpool v Arsenal

10:00 AM TBA

12:30 PM Watford v Chelsea

Looks like I'm gonna lose another bet! ;)

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Sportsnet schedule looks like this so far:

7:30 AM Liverpool v Arsenal

10:00 AM TBA

12:30 PM Watford v Chelsea

Looks like I'm gonna lose another bet! ;)

I would imagine the middle game will be ManU v Blackburn. Chelsea V Spurs on April 7th. You might have a chance to redeem yourself.

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