England Team's WC 2006 Shopping List

From The Guardian .

The list of things the England team is taking to Germany :

Wow they even get spf 30 sun tan lotion. And packs of my favorite orbit gum. not bad.

CEREALS
• Rice Krispies 3x8x450g
• Coco-Pops 3x8x450g
• Frosties 3x8x450g
• Cornflakes 4x10x250g
• Shredded Wheat 2x12x12g
• Alpen (No Added Sugar) 2x6x560g
• Weetabix 2x12x24
• Minibix 2x8x500g
• All Bran 2 x 8 x 450 gram
• Porridge 2 x 8 x 750 gram
• 25 boxes of Frosties
• 25 boxes of Crunchie Nut

DRINKS
• Ribena Blackcurrant Cordial 20x6x600ml
• Robinson's Orange Cordial 12x8x1Litre
• Benecol drink (little ones) x70 packs of 12
x23 trays of each flavour, banana, chocolate & strawberry 69 x 24 Yazhoo
(500 ml)
• Sachets of Coffee Nescafe (for bedrooms) x4 boxes of about 1,000 in each
• Tea Bags x1000 each approx
• Long Life Milk Sachets x 1000 each approx
• Sugar Sachets x 1000 each approx

MISCELLANEOUS
•Alpen Chocolate Fruit & Nut Bars x20 boxes
• Nutri Grain Blueberry 10x24x37g
• Nutri Grain Orange Tangy 10x24x37g
• Nutri Grain Apple 10x24x37g
• Jaffa Cakes (large ones) 12x9x15
• Jaffa Cakes Mini packs (small ones) 10x12x6
• Birds Instant Custard Mix 12x1x75ptns
• Pudding Rice 10x2Kilo
• Salad Cream 5x6x440
• Maple Syrup 16x250g
• Rice Krispie Bars (variety of flavours) x 4 boxes
• Muffins x200 of each 120 grams of Chocolate, Cherry & Blueberry (3 month
life span) (The Fabulous Baking Boys variety would be preferred)
• Sainsbury's Cranberry & Yoghurt Balance Bars x10 boxes
• Sainsbury's Whole Grain Fruit & Fibre Bars x10 boxes

TOILETRIES & NON FOOD ITEMS
• toothbrushes electric if possible x24
• toothpaste x24
• shower gel [ radox or similar] x48
• shaving foam x24
• shaving oil x 24
• Vibrating razors mach 3 or 4 x 24
• razor blades mach 3 or4 x24 packets of 10
• shampoo x 24
• styling mouse x24
• continental adaptors x 60
• adaptors for electric toothbrushes x24
• aftersun x50
• suntan lotion factor 30 x24
• suntan lotion factor 15 x48
• suntan lotion factor 8 x 24
• lipscreen x 48
• waspeze x 48
• autan insect repellent x 48 spray and 48cream
• soap - imperial leather x 48 bars
• dairy milk x 12 boxes of 48
• boost [blue] 12 boxes of 48
• orbit sugar free gum 6 peppermint and 6 spearmint [boxes of 20 ]

Mohun Bagan Announce Tentative Squad

It's been a day of reflief and jubilation for Mohun Bagan fans as the Prodigal Son cum Legend, Jose Ramirez Barreto, by far the best Bagan player of the decade has announced his decision to turn out for the Mariners in the 2006/07 season. Its time to Joga Bonito!

According to the Times of India Kolkata edition dated 30th May 2006, Baichung Bhutia, India captain and best player of the NFL in 2005/06 is also tipped to be signing for Bagan this season. Personally I'm not very pleased with this decision. He's a class act no doubt, but then he's played way too many seasons for EB. He should stay there and not ruin the sanctity of the Green and Maroon jersey, a replica of which i have had the recent fortune of acquiring. If he had any professional motivation, like a favored player or coach, or emotional motivation, as in Barreto's case, his move would have been justified but what can be said of a player for whom money is the sole motivation. Not to mention the fact that his transfer would also mean he would be dishonoring East Bengal's 2-year contract offered to him. This man really lacks character and all the class in the world cannot make up for that. I'm sorry Baichung, you don't deserve to be a Bagani.

Noel Wilson departure to Mohammedan is also a bit disappointing for me as I thought that despite his failure under Jahar Das he is a very good holding midfielder, the very kind needed to destroy opposition attacks and quickly launch counter attcks. But, the team management thought otherwise or maybe he felt he wasn't respect enough at Bagan. Whatever the case, Farewell mate.

The tentative squad according to ToI:

Goalies: Subrata Pal, Imran Khan, Sangram Mukherjee (Salgaocar)

Stoppers: Manas Das, Dulal Biswas, Sanjeev Maria, Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Adhiraj Singh, Eduardo Coelho, Deepak Mondal (Mahindra), Dhanraj Ravanan (Dempo)

Midfielders : Mehtab Hossain (WHOOP!), Dharamjit Singh, Tomba Singh, Chinmoy Sarkar,Basudeb 'Legend' Mondal, Sushil Singh, Subhas Chakraborty (Mahindra), Satyajit Bose (Mohammedan), Gautam Debnath (Mohammedan), Suman Dutta (Mohammedan), Micky Fernandes (Salgaocar)

Forwards: Sushil Singh, Jose Ramirez Barreto (Mahindra) , Baichung Bhutia (East Bengal), Surajit Bose (Mahindra) , Ayan Chowdhury (Tollygunge)

Positions Unknown:
From Ever-Ready: Lal Kamal Bhowmick
From TFA: Shilton Paul, Lalam Puiya

Bob Houghton is Coach of the Indian Football Team

Bob Houghton is Coach of the Indian Football Team