- Paul Mason
- 13 Jul 06, 03:20 PM
John McDonnell, Labour MP and chair of the has called journos to an "important announcement" tomorrow morning. Unless he is going to replace Steve Mclaren as England manager I think it is safe to assume he is going to announce his candidacy as a leadership challenger to Tony Blair.
This has been on the cards for a little while now but the timing, and the choice of McDonnell, were not a foregone conclusion and seem a little bit early compared to intel received by me previously...I am making calls but here's what I surmise at present...
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- Paul Mason
- 13 Jul 06, 09:22 AM
While the world has been glued to the story of one man and his ability to destroy the thing he helped create - I mean of course Zidane and the French footy team - on the other side of the world the Aussie public is coming to terms with football failure. I am indebted to Idle Scrawl reader Lisa, from Melbourne, for this priceless list of valedictory comments from the "Socceroos". It proves that, wherever football goes, Colemanballs goes with it.
"Germany is a very difficult team to play . . . they have 11 internationals out there." - Zeljko Kalac.
"Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough." - Mark Viduka.
"I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona." - Vince Grella... (and many, many more: read on)....
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