Yes, yes we were watching.

This review by Darius Tahir, frequent TSG contributor and now noted photogenic nosebleed level master

It's appropriate the scorelines of the past two games were just nearly opposite—if Scotland is the high for Jurgen Klinsmann, then we certainly hope Brazil is the low for Klinsmann.

The culture of association football is sometimes best regarded as a blank canvas onto which we can project just about any value system. Over the years, it has come to take on its own ecosystem as a world of its own. It has clearly defined seasons, its own judiciary which mirrors but seldom matches that of the outside world and it demands its own autonomy, free from what it haughtily describes as "outside interference.

Lately we've been getting hammered with spammy new user accounts here at On The Pitch (dozens a day). It was becoming an administrative nightmare, so we've taken a few steps to try to reduce the load on our server and still make it easy to comment and participate in discussions.

1. We've enabled captchas for creating user accounts and for posting comments anonymously.

I can explain. This morning, I went to the official UEFA website to look at their stream for the draw, but my desire to view this tasteful spectacle was dashed against the flying rocks from James Cameron's political science fiction blockbuster Avatar (That was an enjoyable figure of speech, regardless of relevance.

Adebayor se ha convertido en un fenómeno en Twitter el mismo día en el que ha decidido dar un giro radical a su imagen: se ha cortado sus características trenzas. También conocido como ‘Avatar' o ‘Adenabor' por sus compañeros en el Real Madrid, como desveló ‘Marca', y ahora por los internautas, el reciente fichaje de Florentino Pérez sorprendió a los presentes en Valdebebas este miércoles.

If popular convention is true, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

And if you're a porn star, there's no such thing as anything short of excellent publicity, because the good ship dignity sailed long, long ago.

Last night on Chiambretti Night, a popular Italian show which can only be described as supremely Italian, a porn star outed herself as an escort to Serie A and Azzurri players.