AND FROM OUR WORLD CUP CORRESPONDENT

Last updated : 23 June 2002 By editor
LITTLE ENGLANDER
It's not all glamour being close to the England team - as Paul Newman, the former BBC sports correspondent turned Football Association spokesman, will testify. Newman has been grumbling about how the players use him to lodge complaints with the hotel management.

And the most bizarre gripe he has fielded? It seems that one of the players was upset after ordering a porn film, only to find that the prudish Japanese hosts had "ruined the movie" by digitally distorting the pictures.

GAY IRISH SEX SHOCK

"McCarthy gave Ian Harte a special cuddle after he pulled him off."

WIMMIN AND MATHS, EH?

Another girl who never got her Maths O-level:

"14 million of you were watching that game on ITV, that's 87% of the population." (Gorgeous Gabby Logan)