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Listed below are comments made by ApHeXrEpHlEx between Monday, 3rd November 2008 and Thursday, 10th September 2009.

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Capello can plot World Cup glory 8:57pm on 10 Sep 2009 Scottish person here. I think England and their fans have every reason to be optimistic. They haven't looked this good, in well, the whole 27 years I have been alive. So I think they do have a chance of winning it. And I wouldn't really mind if they did. Any English gloating is irrelevant to me as England and Scotland football wise are on different planets. If Scotland and England were close in terms of ability and results then there would be something to English boasts but as it is, and as it has always been, England are leagues above Scotland so it's never a surprise when they perform better. A good example is the Brazil and Argentina situation right now. Brazil will be loving getting one over on an Argentina team who do have the ability to out-perform them. More so than if Brazil were beating another less-able national rival. National rivalry and, national + football ability rivalry are two very different beasts.
Ghost of Owens inspires Bolt 9:25pm on 18 Aug 2009 Can someone explain what the image with the out of proportion body parts is supposed to be showing?
Jones looking for Pakistani nuclear certainty 10:38pm on 04 May 2009 Seen as how we are talking about everyone's nukes. What about Israeli nukes? They are ok, because they came with a huge dollop of holocaust guilt.

Bye Bye Comment, Bye Bye Free Press!
Does Dell covet Apple's design status? 7:08pm on 18 Mar 2009 Macbooks are nothing more than shiny boxes used to accessorise Latte's.

Computers for the fashion conscious not for the tech conscious.
"Get On" and support new campaign 03:29am on 13 Feb 2009 Hang the game, we are paying for the banter!
Mourinho will relish Man Utd test 10:38pm on 19 Dec 2008 Man Utd, Real Madrid, Juventus and Arsenal to go through in my opinion.

People can go on about current form (even though the game is in February and current form means nothing) The fact is, is that Real Madrid have a squad capable of destroying Liverpool any day of the week. I don't know why so many are treating this tie as foregone conclusion in favour of the reds. I at least understand the people who are hoping for a 0-0 at Real and a injury time deflection from you know who at Anfield. This at least sounds possible.

Real Madrid, player for player have a better squad than Liverpool, and it seems that after watching Real lose to Barcelona, many Liverpool fans are deluded with visions of grandeur. Just because Real couldn't beat Barca doesn't mean they can't beat the two man team of Stevie G and Fernancy Torres.

I can see Man Utd going through purely because Man Utd will be too strong for them over two legs and Fergie will have them fired up. Plus I don't see Jose's magic working with this Inter team especially against Fergie.

Juventus will put Chelsea out, narrowly. I don't think Phil is right man for the job, and has made life difficult for himself buying players who are on a downhill slide, as opposed to ones on the up and up. Unless Chelsea can steady the ship, and stop getting undermined at the once impenetrable Bridge. Juventus will sneak this one.

Arsenal and Roma is a tricky one. But I think by the time Feb comes around (Much like Real) the league will be lost for them and they will be playing for pride. And if Arsenals can turn on the style and the pace, they will have too much for Roma.

But as many football fans seem to have forgotten. Anything can happen. And ANYONE can be beaten on a given day even the mighty Barcelona. All I know is I CAN'T BLOODY WAIT for February. This is going to be EPIC......or over-hyped and unimaginably boring. Both are genuine possibilities in big name ties.

I don't see Barcelona winning it this year. They do seem unstoppable at the moment. But can they keep it up until Feb? I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that the EPL is a more difficult league to win than La Liga, so I don't think its a certainty that when Barca meet an English team this year they will be 1. Still on current form and 2. Guaranteed to win.

As I said before ROLL ON FEBRUARY!
Off the ball? 7:15pm on 15 Nov 2008 #238
So you chuckle every time we wave the Union flag at an England game eh,
have you ever been to an England game,i'm a member of the England supporters club and we would NEVER consider flying the union flag,have a look next time we're on TV and there'll be a sea of the cross of St George,that's England.I think you people are living in a celtic dreamland to assume that we are the only ones who want a GB team,we don't,its the Scottish prime minister and media stirring this up,i'm from the peoples republic of Yorkshire and we are English 1st and always.There also seems to be an assumption on here that the English consider themselves British 1st,wrong again,we're just like the rest of the UK,we're English 1st and always will be.I would suggest that when you do hold your referendum for independence you include us in it then you'll definitely win,we wouldn't mind an independence referendum down here but we've as much chance of getting that as we have an English parliament.Now where's my Argentina shirt.
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DUMMY THROWN OUT OF PRAM ALERT!!!!

You have to love the "you people" line. Classic!
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Can you even read? Judging by your response I think not. I was saying I find it amusing when the camera zooms into an england fan waving a union flag while shouting Engerland. If you cannot understand the hypocristy of this then there is little hope for you in this world my English not British friend.
Off the ball? 7:06pm on 15 Nov 2008 #227

I regularly travel a 600 miles round trip to glasgow to support a team that is very proud of its British roots and the union jack is very much on display.

Don't hear many English accents in Govan, plenty scots and a fair few Irish.

The Union Jack is regarded by many as a symbol of Britishness in all corners of the UK.
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Having been born in Govan and spending the first 21 years of my life there (I'm twenty six now) and being a lifelong Rangers fan. You aren't telling me something I don't already know. Although I would argue that there are plenty English people in Glasgow. Maybe not in Govan itself though.

My point was is that it is laughable that some of the same people who think England and Britain are the same thing, who will slag off Scotland, parade a flag about that has the Scotland flag in it. It is funny to me thats all.

The same things happens with some Rangers fans. They parade the union flag about and talk about how they hate England yet in essence they are waving the England flag. Of course they will sing GSTQ and RB but will also seem to append the word b*****d to the word English most of the time but yet have no problem with the English players who have played for them in the past (Hateley, Gazza, Butcher to name a few) . It is basically the same hypocrisy that lets a football fan not be a racist toward a black player on his team but is still a racist toward black players on other teams as well as black people on the street. It just doesn't make sense.
Off the ball? 11:35pm on 13 Nov 2008 #70
We can't be giving ANY other nation a reason to question why the UK gets to have 4 national teams. It would only take one incident for some countries who dont like the idea (maybe claiming it gives the "UK" an unfair advantage) of there being 4 home nations to start causing a stir.
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I doubt this would happen. I don't how anybody could say the UK has unfair advantage for having 4 teams. Just take a look at the recent past winners of the World Cup. the UK could have 12 associations and still win nothing. I don't think other nations are overly worried about the football might of the UK.

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At footabll matches, England fans wave UK national flagas if it were their own, the England team sing the UK national anthem "God save the queen' and the English fans sing "rule Britannia." If the English FA take Great Britain's football position at the Olympics then the English take-over of all things British is complete.
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Try as they may to wave the UK flag as if it were their own. If English fans want to wave a flag with a Scottish flag backbone I am fine with that. Every time they fly that flag they are showing support for Scotland in my eyes and it make me chuckle.

English people can use the words England and Britain interchangeably if they like too. It is still incorrect. England is England. Britain is England, Scotland, and Wales. The United Kingdom is Great Britain and Northern Ireland. These are the facts. And Average Joe can say what he likes but people like them who don't know basic information about their home country that they supposedly love get no respect from me.

Just as infuriating are my fellow Scots who base their hatred of the English on a Mel Gibson film because they are too lazy to read a book. I am a Scot who is against independence. Actually, it's not that I am against it. I am against Salmond. He cares nothing for Scottish independence he just wants to ensure that it is his name that goes down in Scotlands long history as the one who secured independence. He is a wee snake glory hunter.
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I get the sense that all over the UK people are mad about this for the wrong reasons. I feel as though some people on both sides of the issue are of the mold "I don't vote in political elections because my vote doesn't matter"

How suddenly these people become interested in politics when political issues start seeping into football.

From a football history standpoint it would be sad if the UK associations were
to merge.

The issue to merge the associations for the sake of Britishness is a double-edged sword. On one hand, much of hatred between England and Scotland, nay, most of the hatred in the entire UK is football related. But if you merge the associations it will increase resentment. But who is to say that in the long run it would or would not ease relations between the nations of the UK.

While change can sometimes comes overnight. Peoples acceptance of it doesn't. We have to remember that each coming generation is on average more accepting than the last. It was not so long ago that Mark Walters was having bananas thrown at him. Now look at the all the races gracing our football leagues. Acceptance comes with time.

Even if the football nations stay separate which would be ideal. I wish that the citizens of the UK could have more of a sense of togetherness as opposed to the separatism that plagues the UK.

If Salmond stops trying to make a name for himself, Scottish people stop watching Braveheart for the thousandth time, and English people stop thinking that they should still have an empire which covers 2/3 of the world then maybe we can get along a bit better. I hope for that day soon.

But keep the football teams separate just because of the history. You can't erase the two teams who played in the first international match of the sport.
Coming to Maradona's defence 10:10pm on 03 Nov 2008 Brilliant blog again Tim.

I don't think you are ever going to be able to convince the England mainstream on this one.

The only reason England fans are still up in arms about this is because:
1. It worked
2. It was such an important game

If he had tried to handball it into the net and missed it would have been forgotten. This is part of the problem. We only seem to care about cheats if they manage to pull it off. In every league in the world there is blatant cheating. Such that it has become "just part of the game" But it is still cheating and much of it goes unpunished. The crazy reactions only occur when it is in an important game and/or the cheating directly changes the course of play. In the sake of fairness shouldn't we get the witch hunt out every time somebody cheats rather than only when it changes the game in an important match? Cheating is just as unfair toward the other team whether it is a Championship game or a Champions League final. Cheating is cheating and every team does it. So lets punish them all every single time.

I don't expect England fans to ever be able to forgive him for it. Why should they? Any other country would react the same in Englands place. But I don't think that cheating was as big a part of his game as some people make out. He was a wonderful player. No matter what England fans think of him for that incident, I know they are smart enough to recognise him as one of the best players in history.

Whether he will be a good manager remains to be seen.

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