Don't know if anybody still reads this

but... who'd like to be involved in this year's World Cup group blog? It's going to start, hopefully, on 3rd March, 100 days before the first game, and during the tournament your regular interaction will of course be especially required.

Any good names for it would also be welcome. This is what we got up to in 2006.

HTV's video editing team takes the weekend off

The boys attempting to leg up home players with two scarves tied together as they run out is particularly special. And not one of those parachutists lands properly.

Highly recommended reading: Broken TV covers The Big Match Replayed

Let's talk about you

As you can tell, what with Sweeping The Nation, other online ventures and trailing in a distant third 'life', we haven't been updating Losing The Dressing Room a lot recently. We're loathe to just abandon it, so... do you want to join in? We're looking for co-maintaners for this blog to help us keep its mix of informed comment, uninformed whimsy and YouTube embeds that only really amuse us ticking over. (And, with a World Cup next year, also looking ahead to taking part in another seperate tournament spectacular) Email address is up there on the right. No time wasters.

Eeeeeeee!

Released March 29th, apparently.

The lack of activity in this place? Well, that'll be the next thing we talk about.

Famous dogs of football

Roy Keane's labrador Triggs, inevitably brought up in every football column today
Pickles
The one, apparently called Gullit, that Mourinho refuses to quarantine which led to a police caution
The one that bit a Torquay player and helped them stay in the league
The one that invaded the pitch during an England-Brazil game and weed on Jimmy Greaves that Garrincha later adopted

Any more for any more? (NB. Any correspondence about Stan Collymore will not be entered into)

Throwing the game

Physics doesn't suggest a reason why it shouldn't, but it still seems odd that a somersault throw-in can bring more height and length to a throw. To think that Rory Delap can manage 42m the normal way:

Hmmm

Susie Dent is going to have to learn to go "OHHH!" in the middle of numbers board answers, isn't she?

No, this is the greatest record ever

Folk & Røvere are a Norwegian hip hop outfit. A good start. Three years ago they released a single called Supermann, about a man lamenting that he can't do what the near-titular superhero can. How to further illustrate the concept?

Get Arne Scheie, veteran commentator for Norway's largest broadcaster, to read a list of 70s English footballer's names. Obviously.

"Joe Kinnear is rapidly turning into the Allen Stanford of Geordieland"

So suggests someone - a Newcastle fan, apparently - on the BBC website commentary of tonight's game.

Allen Stanford, should you not be up to speed with this, has come late into his chosen sport, declared the hugely successful and liked previous form of the sport "boring" and instead championed a cheapened form of the game with the aid of a pointless, divisive, player distracting injection of multi-millions.

That's more Mike Ashley, isn't it?