Listening to a couple of the radio stations this morning and the experts have started about the world cup qualifiers, but this isn't about England. The general consensus amongst the experts is that it won't be a proper world cup if the big name players aren't there because their countries fail to qualify. I say bollox, if you qualify you've got there on merit and if the big names don't turn up, well they should have tried harder shouldn't they.

Totally agree was listening to talk sport last night and the fella who was on with Goffy was saying the same thing, oh it wont be as good without messi and the argies. Well you plonker of course it will, the other teams have performed better therefore on current form will make for a better tournement, as these "lesser" teams are an unknown quantity.

I really like it when other nations are involved look how interesting it was when Senegal beat France, south korea beat italy. I cant wait for the next world cup with North Korea there even Gabon have a good chance. Combine that with us and a couple of home nations and it looks like its going to be a cracker, also cant wait to see maradonna face when potentially Mexico wallop them in the play-off.

it's a bit like the football authorities saying to Pools that you can't get promoted because you have no big names in you team.

It was similar to a recent cup final. Portsmouth v West Brom. All the plastic fans didn't bother to watch it because none of the " big four" were playing.

I remember Portsmouth v Cardiff...

Yes, I got my teams mixed up.