ProfessorFart

I'm here for the beer and high quality swivel chairs.

Oddly enough, this will be exactly 6 months after the last unofficial piss up.

I pray daily that whomever introduced the whistle to Thailand shall die slowly from a massive kick in the throat.

Agreed Jack!

The Kiwis are being awfully quiet today!?

Why do they always blow out in tournaments when they always have quality players?

France were very plain last night and they still hammered Spain.

Its beyond me!

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I must admit its great hearing these Aussies talking about 'Diving, cheating Italians' and sounding like proper football fans at last!

I have to extend my Work Permit and Non Immigrant 'B' this month.

My non Immigrant 'B' was good for 3 months and my WP was accordingly stamped for 3 months when I collected that.

When I was at the Labour Dept here in Nonthaburi they said that first I extend my visa in BKK and then go to them and they extend my WP.

Is that the case? Is it really as straightforward as that? Are there any extras to pay?

Beware. Don't hail a false dawn.

There have been a few sides in recent years who have done well at World Cups and then faded away into obscurity. Cameroon, Bulgaria and Nigeria spring to mind. OK Aus have played well as did the aforementioned teams but it could well be a case of having 22 good players around at the right time as opposed to any real change in the quality of Australian football.

What Australian football needs to do, or rather must do, is to capitalise on this success and build up the domestic league into a marketable product.

Once this is done you will start to retain some of your talent in Australia and improve the quality of your home league even more, instead of allowing all of your promising young talent being snapped up by big European clubs as is the case now.

OK, the cream of the crop is always going to be snapped up by Europe but if you can build a domestic league which can generate enough income to tempt some top level players to stay, and even tempt in top players from Europe who may be nearing the end of their careers, you'll then have the infrastructure in place to be producing top level players consistently at International level.

I was up 'til gone four o clock in the morning to watch this!

Well, its nice to see you Aussies having a moan about diving. Welcome to the Wide World of Football fellas!

Now, maybe you can see where we Poms have been coming from for so long now?

Spanish referee though fellas.

Its going to be like the Italian Olympic Springboard Team tonight I'm afraid Aussies.

An amusing thing to do especially if you will be drinking with Italians tonight is to make some scorecards and give them marks out of 10.

11.30 Sunday morning...................?

Watching that has made me strangely nostalgic for grey autumnal English mornings......

As Lampard10 says, the only stat that counts is the scoreline.

Possesion and shots on/off target are all totally irrelevant if you can't score!

Updated , I have since found Farty's predictions.

Fat lot of good that did me....

Are there enough games left for a late surge up the table....?

When Rooney gets the ball, defenders genuinely sh*t themselves.

There aren't many strikers with that quality in the world and any side would die to have a player like that in their team......even Switzerland.

Indeed! Come on Aus! Put the Italians to the sword. Play the way you did against Croatia and its in the bag.

Well Lampy has summed it up nicely for us!

Last 8 in the World Cup and we haven't hit our bootstraps yet but last night showed that its coming. Individual players have had good games but not real unity as yet but there were signs last night that its only a matter of time now. Beware Portugal and Brazil.

I paid 100B as well and that was 2 years ago!!

Its well worth a visit as well. The monks there are interesting guys and a few of them speak pretty decent English.

Ignore malicious reports about the animals here being mistreated. They are spread by a particularly nasty 'NGO' whose own conduct has been called into question several times.

I though that was England's best game to date. They loked comfortable throughout bar the freaky bounce of the ball which gave Ecuador their sitter. Bring on the Portugese who frankly look pretty ordinary!

NIce story though! Isn't there a flim about it....?

In Bangkok meter taxi drivers stand to lose their licence if tthey are caught not using the meter. WOuld you risk losing your livlihood or would you use the meter?

My problem wasn't the money but the aggressive attitude of the drivers.

For ages they would take the 5B no problems. It certainly never used to be a problem and then things began to change although I had no idea what bought this change about.

Tonight when I finish work in Nonthaburi, I'll get a Songthaew home. It will be 7B for me and 7B for everyone who gets on. The drivers take the cash with a smile and a quick word of thanks.

No problems! Just hope I don't have to hang off the back.

The bus thing never worked. The Baht Bus mafia are too powerful and now they're having fancy 'conferences' to make it official that ripping off tourists and foreign locals is quite alright! <deleted>!

Out of principle I switched to using bikes a long time ago.

I'd drop Lampard and play Lennon.