Darren Jackson was on the telly yesterday (who's a Scotland player) pointing out that maybe it'd have been a draw if Boydy hadn't been so fat - which I thought was good to at least have a laugh about the game, we got beaten by the world champions - no bloody surprise there. What worries me is that it looks like Morocco are a brilliant team. Yes it looks like Scotland will not progress to the second round, still Adrian's point about us being bollocks doesn't really stand, in a country of about 6 million people, we do very well to even qualify - and your team's shit... by the way.

The Spanish TV expert kept going on about Scotland's lack of skill and ability - as if that matters! He obviously fails to grasp a very basic piece of Scottish wisdom, a phrase I heard several hundred times when I wwent to see Scotland against Italy at Ibrox - quite simply, these fancy teams from exotic places "don't like it up 'em". Brazil certainly seemed uncomfortable with it up 'em the other day. I'm looking forward to Holland - Belgium tonight. The other great thing about the World Cup is that the atmosphere is highly reminiscent of international It's A Knockout, complete with airhorns. And I'd just like to reassure Anna(?) - it doesn't depend on nationalistic fervour, far from it. I like football, I like the World Cup, but I'm in no way nationalistic. My irrational love of the Style Council made sure I stood up proud and declared myself Internationalist. Nationalism's pish. oooh - bit of politices there. Speaking of which, I was amazed to see bloody Ben Elton still on telly. I really do think he should stand aside and make way for some bright young talent, such as our very own Dave.

ps: London list people, some of us are out for a night out in Glasgow this weekend, so I hereby declare a competition to see who can have the most fun. Reports on Monday morning please.

My money's on the Glasgow mob. Unless the Londoners get their Kerplunks out. Elisabeth from Canada can say the word "Genevieve" without making it sound like a Rick Wakeman b-side. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------