“Nobody in Europe likes England” claims Jack Warner, the corrupt Trinidad and Tobago football executive who is trying to block Englands bid for the 2016 World Cup. JW is a bit of a wanker really, he also on record as saying “England invented the sport but has never made any impact on World Football”. Clearly he wasn’t born in 1966 (although Wikipedia says he was born in 1943 making him 23 at the time) when the 3 Lions lifted the trophy - one of only 7 nations to ever lift the most important sporting title on the planet.

Jack Warner is the vice president of FIFA and is trying hard to bring the World Cup back to his neck of the woods - at Englands expense. However, I’m not sure he’s really in a position to bitch about anyone as he has been accused of corruption on BBC’s Panorama for repeatedly taking advantage of his position for financial gain. FIFA’s auditors, Ernst & Young, estimated that his family made a profit of at least $1 million from reselling 2006 World Cup tickets that Warner had ordered.

The MLS and LA Galaxy are probably pulling their hair out in frustration at the moment. Not only are the Galaxy sitting at the bottom of the MLS standings, with a pathetic 3 wins, but Davy Boy Beckham, aka, Goldenballs is injured yet again. Already suffering with a swollen left ankle, Becks has now messed up his knee. With a million soccer moms all paying big bucks to buy into “package” ticket plans just to get a glimpse of his magical feet (and hopefully inspire little Jonny or Christie to play soccer and not drop the game for Baseball, Basketball or Football (or boys)), the Beckham magic is quickly loosing pace. The fans at the Home Depot center actually booed last night when he was replaced after just 30 mins…. Oh boy, this sounds like the Gazza - Tottenham to Lazio move from 1992… I hope it doesnt all go pear shaped.

That being said, I was pretty pissed that Beckham didnt play for the Galaxy against the Rapids on Sunday, I bought 11 tickets for friends and family, and the Galaxy, already a bad team, fielded a team of reserves (no Donovan or Xavier) and were promptly stuffed 3-0. Pffft.

I was quite surprised to see an iPhone ad during the Oscars last week. With all the free publicity being generated for Apple, I really didn’t think they’d need to advertiser until the summer - if ever. Seriously, when my mum tells me she’s heard of a tech gadget, it means it’s pretty much made it to saturation point. Without a doubt, the iPhone will be completely sold out at launch, and for months going forward, I’d expect to see them selling for $1200 on eBay. All that being said, Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ bet paid off like a gushing Vegas jackpot. The avalanche of headlines and TV news stories about the iPhone - which hits the market in June - already have generated $400 million in free publicity, says Harvard Business School professor David Yoffie. “No other company has ever received that kind of attention for a product launch,” Yoffie says. “It’s unprecedented.”

Apple really is like a rock group - they have fans, they have fanboys, they have an audience who are happy to fork out hundreds of dollars on new products. In short, they are everything Samsung, LG, Sony and Microsoft strive to be.

New Order’s 1990 hit World in Motion has been named the best English World Cup song by football fans. World in Motion, which was in the charts as England reached the semi-finals at Italia ‘90, came top of a Littlewoods Pools poll of 1,500 fans. The BBC’s theme tune, Nessun Dorma, for the 1990 finals, came second. Another classic, Three Lions ‘98 by The Lightning Seeds featuring David Baddiel and Frank Skinner was third, with another 1998 song, Vindaloo by Fat Les, the writer of World in Motion, in fourth.

In addition, the great song, This Time (We’ll Get It Right) by the 1982 England World Cup Squad as the worst World Cup anthem, which, in my opionion is a shame, but then again Kevin Keegan, Trevor Brooking and Ray Wilkins on vocals doesn’t sound like a chart-topper to me.

It was followed closely by the Spice Girls’ 1998 effort (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World. Spice Girls… Says it all really.

Umbro and England showed off the new/old retro away jersey this week. To say it looks kick-ass is an understatement. The red jersey, with golder lettering and numbers is a nice nod to the 1966 World Cup winning team, I’ll repeat that - the 1966 World Cup winning team yet still looks incredibly modern. I’m rather hoping Beckham, Owen, Rooney and co. will be raising the golden globe this summer in Germany, whist wearing the new shirts…

Come on England! Come on England!