The community seemed to lose interest once his voice started going a bit pitchy in the middle of the AC/DC run. The fact that he rallied and finished the tour as strong as he started was missed by most.

Which attempted assassination? The one after his fall when he's in bed? That's the only one I can remember (vaguely).

That's what I thought ^

If a kid or even several raise allegations of sex offences on someone (MJ in this case) the police look for evidence. They raid his house and find all this stuff and yet somehow it doesn't seem to count against him in court? Was it even raised in those court cases and if not why not?

And he somehow got away with it.

True, we've arguably ended up in the more favourable half of the draw. It's very possible if we'd won the group we could have ended up playing a strong Croatia side and if we'd won that probably Italy in the QF. I would choose Hungary/Portugal then a France QF over that.

Yes QF should be an absolute minimum really. Particularly considering the extended format and relatively easy group we had. Although candidates to replace Hodgeson aren't really screaming out. I'd rather look at Hoddle again over Redknapp.

I could see someone like Moyes getting it simply by default. I think Neville would have been the longer term plan if he hadn't made such a hash of the Valencia opportunity. I'd have liked Koeman if he hadn't just gone to Everton. Van Gaal did well with Holland at the last WC so he could be an option although it doesn't feel like a great fit and I'm not sure he'd want to be back under the UK media spotlight again so soon.

We won a lot of games under Cappello but it was generally dreadful football. That 2010 WC was a disaster, 2 coma inducing draws and a not much better 1-0 against Slovenia followed by a battering by Germany. His win ratio may have been good but the 4 matches that really counted were horrendous.