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anyone coming to the pub for this, I wanna watch it.

The bell for me.

im going to the tawny owl i think. hope it has setanta

Roaring Donkey is where you lot should go!

as in old 'fusion' bell in old town?

correct.

mind if i gate crash?

Just down the local for this one i think.

Im debating whether to make the effort to see this.....Croatia need all the support then can get I suppose....

This is an 8pm KO isn't it?

yes.

I am going to crack open a few tins of Tennants Super and drown my sorrows while watching it on the tinterweb cos I am fucked if I am paying out for Santana or going to the local pubs as they will be full of Portuguese wankers.

Not feeling too good. We will get beat anyway so.....

I have Setanta so will be sitting comfortably on the sofa watching it

 :harhar: :harhar: :harhar: :harhar: :harhar:

I'm going to gatecrash Luci's place.

Haydon Wick Working Mens Club  8)

It's nobodys fucking business whether I'm going out to watch this or not.

Keep your fucking noses out...................

You and your bloody ...............................................................................'s!

I like my .................................'s!

I like to think it implies that I could make my post longer and more stimulating if only I could be bothered...............

I wasn't asking for general interest, i want to know who's going to one near me so i can tag along.

Or it just shows you lack imagination, as well as hair.

You should know by now that most including myself feel impelled to post on threads whether it answers the question directly or not :D

I've got imagination! I can't imagine you with a girlfriend though, it's not that vivid.........

Valid point. What about a boyfriend?

To be fair I couldn't imagine you with hair until I saw a photo but seeing is believing.

Just because you think you're effeminate Si, doesn't mean people think you're gay.
(Which you may well be and fair play if you are, nothing wrong with that, each to his own)

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It does

Setanta are also doing free highlights at 10:45 for anyone who is interested!

Anyone got a link to watch it on?

http://www.justin.tv/rizl4

Ta!

Fuck that, new series of The Restaurant on BBC 2. It's no Kitchen Nightmares, but until Ramsay does another UK series it will have to do.

We're on the ropes at the moment.

Germans have just equalised away at Finland, 83rd minute, klose. 3-3 there.  Switzerland were 1-0 to Luxembourg until the 43rd min, now 1-1.  And Poland 1 up at half time away to San Marino.  There's no easy games anymore eh?

Can't get any streams to work at the moment. Stupid fucking Setanta means all the sites are flooded.

link not broadcasting. any got another?

You're all missing out on the restaurant, somebody wants to do a Welsh-Chinese Fusion place. 

live-footy's a nightmare, I managed to get the scotland match through justin.tv (direct), some hun fan has put it on there.  There are loads of eng links on there, although it's flash mainly not sopcast so quality not great.

Just type justin.tv into google and go from there!

Got one stream working on PPStream but it's about 5 minutes behind real time and the commentary's in Chinese.

try the justin.tv site sam like I say it ain't great quality but it's a steady stream and not that badly delayed

All the links on justin.tv are down because the site's so busy. Live-footy has died because it's so busy and Sopcost has also gone down and won't connect to the server.

Walcott!!

Huzzah... Comical defending by Croatia too.

Are you watching it or just listening Rich?

Try this one, the quality is poor but at least it's working

http://www.iraqgoals.com/en/?page_id=5

Park North!!

Ghey I hate Setanta...  I'm so bored I think I'm still gonna listen, least while we're winning!  :D

Ah nothing like a nervey defensive display after taking the lead.

Thought we were doing well up to the goal from the Swindon reject.

Nice one - not too bad it's watchable!  We need to push on, not sit on this...

I love setanta, watched the build up since 6:30 good 1st half 1-0 up, i wish more games were on setanta

me too bessie, me too.

The camera work on Setanta is appalling.  I wish the games were on terrestrial!

Walcott took his goal very well even if the keeper should have saved it.

Terry looks pretty poor - played some very dodgy balls upfield with no real direction.

We look our usual shakey selves at the back... But all is good, would be nice to be the first to beat Croatia on that ground.

Jon Champion was suggesting that the Croats are a 'rival', that confused me or do we declare rivalry against teams when they beat us more than once.

I think Croatia look very poor and was suprised by that.  James is still flapping a bit though!

Anyone else now having problems with that link?  I was enjoying that!   >:(

strange that even with a seemingly entire italian coaching staff our defence look as hapless as ever

We've got a clean sheet haven't we?  Can't do better than that..!

Least you're not as bad as our defence.  We're down to 10 men now.  Fuckin stupid tim!

Robert Kovac sent off?

Wheah Kovac sent off for trying to knock out Joe Cole....  EIEIO TO THE WORLD CUP WE GO....

Forgot to say, highlight are on FREE TO AIR on setanta, 11:30pm,  freeview (terrestrial), cable  and satellite, Setanta Sports 1 (ch 34 freeview, 423 Sky).

http://www.setanta.com/en/UK/News/Setanta-Sports-confirms-free-to-air-broadcasts-of-England-and-Scotland-highlights/
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OFF OFF OFF Croatian!

To be fair, well done to setanta, there's no way sky would have done that.

It wasn't a sending off though, was it? I'm not sure... can't do the leading with the arm thang though. Simunic should've got a 2nd yellow too.

Probably not and you have to give them credit, though with the negativity around Setanta they probably felt they had to do something.

They are still a shit company I would never subscribe to again though!

I don't know, it's too jerky to tell really...  Judging by the injury to Cole may have been for dangerous play?  Suggestion of an elbow?

Odd change - Jenas for Cole.  Not sure if Jenas would have been my choice...   ???

I still despise Setanta...  on 606 this morning people were whinging that it was impossible to unsubscribe, saying they take levels of customer service to a new low.  If it's worse than Sky I definitely don't want to know!

Why are they so shit Batch?  I quite like Setanta.

GOOAAALLL!!!

Why did we let Walcott go?!   ;) ::)

It's not the product, although I am a bit peeved it costs more for the full amount of football (Sky + Setanta). But that's life. It does give those who don't want to pay sky £££ some football for far less money.

It's their business practices I despise, particularly their cancellation policy. Shady fuckers. I an go into specifics but I fear we'd be here all night.

an arsenal boy eh?

well thats my work for tomorow done and dusted

Easy, easy easy. 3-0.

Dreamworld.... 3-0, Rooney.  I'm gonna start fingering myself...

I also might start fingering walrus.

Its all about Heskey,  hes had a fantastic game.

Walcott will get the plaudits but Heskey has been outstanding leading the front line.  Rooney has left Heskey isolated at times,  but he still chases the ball and has been excellent

We've (as in England) gone from utter shite to world beaters in 4 days........

Cue the red tops creaming themselves about how we'll win the world cup for the next two years.....

Twats.

Better than having Chic Young bang on about how it's the end of the world after one defeat in Macedonia.  I've given that twat some stick on the bbc blog I can tell ya.

just so you know, there are no world cups until 2010.

For Walrus, who no doubt is glad he asked....

1. When I joined, their T&C stated 30 day cancellation. They have since upped this to 60 days, but they do not write to you to let you know. They simply update the T&Cs on their website 1 month in advance (as state din the T&Cs). If you miss it tough shit.

2. All cancellation requests MUST be done in writing. This is crap, but even when you do write there have been multiple case of a) 'losing' the letter, b)customer services giving the wrong address to write to. They provide no confirmation of your cancellation date so you never know.

3. They claim the 60 day cancellation starts when they process the letter, not when they are known to have received it. This means cancellation can take nearer 90 days than 60.

4. Their customer support lines can easily take a minimum of 30 minutes to answer, which I guess is not unique to Setanta but unacceptable  none the less.

5) Customer service representatives are either badly trained or blatantly lie. I was told the cancellation period started the day I telephoned, it doesn't.

6) They seemingly ignore all emails to their customer service department.

So if you do subscribe, never ever use a credit card. There is no way of cancelling payments using this. Direct Debit is your friend.

It still took 2 goals and 10 ten for Rooney to get going... I love it teams that aren't England fall apart.

You know what I mean.......

So, bad customer service was an understatement then?   :D

Tbh I can't afford both SS and Setanta, and despite getting England away games, I'd still opt for SS every time, although I'm a bit gutted I'm not watching at the moment...

4-0... no, ghey, Capello OUT!

Nearly 4. Am I  right in saying Croatia haven't been beaten at home until now?

And kept 9 clean sheets in last 10...

Let's go over the top, England World Cup winners, best team since 1966 etc etc..

3-1.... arse, have to take the shine off it.   >:(

booo 3-1, the fightback is on

Deary me, that was a poor goal to concede. Not even we can fuck this up... right?

Walcott hattrick!

Hatrick hero. Yippppeeeeeeeeeee.

I'm reaching for the phone now to order Setanta....

Great result, I hope this gives Walcott the re-kickstart he needs!

Would be superb if it was another 5-1... the headlines would write themselves.

make sure you all check arsenal.com tomorow for any news from thursdays press conference.

thanks.

Hightlights of the England game is on Setanta after. free view to everyone till 12.

Considering it should have been a free kick to us for nearly taking Terrys eye out with his boot, Im not too concerned!

Oh and there was nowt wrong with Lampards goal either!  that was excellent build up!

how orange are the studio guests aswell?

looks like a tribute to that lazy fucking nigger Ron Atkinson.

Do one!

Ive got a Arse filter on my Computer

Maybe, but if you look at it again, it doesn't touch Terry who then realises he's out of position so falls over. Boot to the face = blood/or bruising... there was none of that. The goal was poor and have no doubts that Capello will be unhappy with it. There was nowt wrong with Lampard's goal.

I enjoyed that game though... Bring on Kazakhstan :D

What a superb performance, really excellent, especially so when you consider what we've had to put up with for the last few years. I honestly thought that we'd lose tonight, and would have definitely been happy with a draw, but that was way beyond what I thought we'd achieve.

I think Joe Cole's injury has probably saved him getting a lot of criticism for not ever being on the left wing!

Walcots got odd hair hasnt he,looks like Spock

Still a high boot though but woot!  we won and in style!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITN are showing the highlights after the brainwashing propaganda fest. And now they're telling us why Setanta are the devil...

i was in a Q&A with Walcott after the FC Twente home leg...

Sunday journo: have the lads got a nickname for you?
Walcott: Yea, Lewis Hamilton
journo: You're a bit quicker than him.

Damn I was going to ask you out you spoilsport  :-[

A pleasing win but they did have10 men for much of the second half. That said i think we still would have won. Good old Theo has neary equaled Hesky in the England goal scoring charts.

Terrys a pussy.

Shaun Taylor would have won that header!!!