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The problem with the marking scheme for English A-level in England and Wales is that there are absolutely no marks awarded for actually answering the question. It's just a starting point from which you have to fulfil various "assessment objectives", such as analysis of language, demonstration of understanding of the context of the literature, comparison to other literature, and of course spelling, grammar and fluency of your response. Consequently, we saw a Gatsby essay that had just spewed out an American Dream essay with no real relevance to the specific question but had been awarded 25/25. My point being that essays can be marked objectively if you specify clear areas which students have to demonstrate ability in, but the system kind of fails over here.

and ajax?  You hate the dutch, eh? You know a lot about soccer too and call yourself ajax and want nothing to do with the dutch.. wait a second, what's wrong here?

It was a joke, a quote from Austin Powers Goldmember. If you read the whole sentence you could see I couldn't possibly be serious. And ajax* is named after the warrior. And I'm deanosrs anyway.

Exteberria is injured at the moment. At Euro 2004, he was selected ahead of Joaquin.

Would stay and chat further but I've got 500 words of French to write for tomorrow morning.

Come on, Joaquin better than Ronaldo? Joaquin can't even beat Esteberria into the national side. Ronaldo is absolutely lethal down the flanks, he has been producing some absolute magic this season.

I won't argue about anything else because I don't have time - apart from this: Makelele should not be allowed on a football pitch. First of all, he isn't that great, secondly, anyone who did what he did against Monaco last year should be permanently banned. I'm sorry, but trying to get another professional sent off is completely unacceptable. The same goes for Rivaldo in the World Cup 2002 against Turkey. That's the one thing I cannot stand - just plain cheating, nothing more to it. Unfortunately diving has become part of the game now... and it's more a question of who doesn't do it than who does, and in the same way I'd say this is Ronaldo's main negative point. But: there is a crucial difference between diving in play to earn a penalty, than purely to get a member of the opposition sent off.

I can remember reading why Arsenal are still playing Henry, basically Aliadiere is out, Bergkamp is an old man, Reyes is playing in midfield, Wiltord and Kanu have moved on... there's no-one else, literally. It's the same situation Liverpool have atm.

Anyway, my world XI:

----------------------Buffon-----------------------

Thuram-------Nesta-----Ferdinand---Maldini

---------------------Keane------------------------

C.Ronaldo-------------------------------Robben

-------------------Ronaldinho--------------------

-------------Henry----Van Nistelrooy-----------

Subs: Rooney, Ash. Cole, Cannavaro, Nedved, Vieira, Shevchenko, Puyol

Coach: Sir Alex Ferguson

The only difficult decisions there are Maldini at left back who's a little past it, but I wouldn't play Carlos there in a million years, I'd only consider him as a wing-back - he is immensely over-rated in terms of free-kicks and defensively flawed. And Keane at DM... close run between him and Vieira, but I'm a Man Utd fan so that's where bias comes in I guess. Easiest decision by far Ferdinand at centre back. I'd go so far as to say he's the best player in the world, virtually faultless for Man Utd this season, he controls the back line, and is incredibly calm on the ball under pressure from forwards.