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Now I know Australia won last night but Fox Sports continue to suggest this was Thailand's last chance.
They must win - or get a draw to stay alive was the verdict from Australia's best football commentator, Simon Hill. Simon is always on the ball, pretty much always correct on this stuff so I was surprised when he went down this line again and again.

7:1 win vs Adelaide last night. Oh yes oh yes oh yes. Ra ra ra. We actually are the best in the World and everyone else is, slowly but surely, learning to live with it.
The question being repeated everywhere is, how come only eleven and a half thousand people saw one of the greatest football spectacles we might expect to see in club football?

There has long been a strand of anti-intellectualism within football which can occasionally be somewhat distasteful, to say the least. It's the culture that saw Graeme Le Saux labelled as "gay" because he read a broadsheet newspaper and collected antiques. It's a culture that keeps professional footballers in a state in artificial infantilism until the end of their careers in the misguided belief that this will engender some sort of "team spirit".

By Chris Wright

AC Milan drew 2-2 with Barcelona in the San Siro, thanks chiefly to a late goal from Thiago Silva and the drama was almost too much for a certain rampantly unimpartial somebody...

God bless you Tizzy, and all that sail upon ye.

More T-Crud madness on Pies.

Images via fcbarcelona.

It seems that when it comes to Lionel Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo's relationship status, even our overactive imaginations have failed to keep up with actual events.

Deep breaths.

Remember last week when we assumed the couple were back 'on'? This assumption was based, quite reasonably, on photos of the couple draped all over one another on a boat.

FIFA Ethics Committee member and decorated Australian football commentator, Les Murray, has withdrawn allegations made in his new book that Australian captain Lucas Neill had instructed his team mates to defy the orders of the then Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek immediately prior to the 2011 FIFA World Cup game against Germany in Durban last year.

British Eurosport's ubiquitous football commentator Tim Caple was doing his level best not to say there were "no easy games in international football these days." Some clichés are oft-repeated because of the element of truth therein, but there were certainly no "easy games" in the first round of matches at this year's Women's World Cup in Germany.

Brace means "two".

It is used when a football player scored two goals in a single game.

So when you read an article about results of a football game or heard a football commentator blurt out "brace", it simply means the footballer contributed "two goals" for his team.

Referees seem to have gone card crazy in the SLeague this season. A whopping 12 yellows and one red were issued at Gombak United a couple of nights ago while last night there were nine yellow and one red. One guy even got a yellow for trying to take a corner outside the white lines; something that I've been seeing more and more frequently over the last couple of years.

By Chris Wright

It's no secret that Tiziano Crudeli is easily Pies' favourite bellow-lunged, blood vessel-shredding football commentator and this, dear friends, is why.

While covering (in saliva, mostly) Tottenham's slim victory over his beloved Milan in the Champions League earlier in the week, T-Crud let rip with an uncontrollable gamut of emotions revealing just why Direttastadio (Italy's answer to Soccer Saturday) keep him penned away behind a thick perspex screen

See if you can pinpoint the exact moment when a) Peter Crouch prods Spurs in front and, b) when Zlatan Ibrahimovic's 'equaliser' was disallowed in the dying minutes.

One is a former football commentator, who loves the sexist banter , the other is a 'pub-landlord' who's job is to give sexist banter...and it just so happens that they look a like...

I bet your bored of Andy Grey themed new at the moment and for that I apologise.

By Ollie Irish

One down, one to go. Quite literally

Sky Sports sacked Andy Gray this afternoon, in the light of new evidence of offensive comments the Scot made off-air in December 2010.

Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, said: "Andy Gray's contract has been terminated for unacceptable behaviour.