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Fri 01 Jan 2007All kinds of everything - and MorrisseyFROM Jordan to Morrissey. The bizarre connect-the-dots link here is the Eurovision Song Contest. The pneumatic one didn't make it out of the UK final a few years ago, but this year it seems very likely that the Manc one will be representing the country he professes to despise.First thing here - and this is nothing against our Eurovision representatives this year, Dervish - but why oh why didn't anyone at RTÉ have to balls to get Morrissey singing for Ireland this year? After last year's contest, Morrissey did say (commenting on how the pitiful UK contestant, Daz Sampson, trailed home near to last): "I was horrified but not surprised to see the UK fail. Why didn't they ask me?"