A cursory glance at Dahlin's x-rays would confirm that he was not 'swinging the lead' but that aside if this is true then Sherwood is a twat of the highest order. The epitome of a rubber dinghy man. I expect every player wearing our famous shirt to give 100%. At all times, not just when the sun is shining. The inference here is that our premier league winning captain downed tools just when the club really needed leadership.

I can't be arsed to look but I can't think that he played many games for us at all, ten or so? It was the notion that he was signed as some sort of Ripley replacement that didn't really ring true in my head.

In my mind Perez was a full back?

Robert Palmer - Some Guys Have All the Luck

Good thread. In my view Hodgson is really good at galvanising/motivating/organising average players but has often been found out when dealing with top class pros (or those that think they are). He basically lost the dressing room after an initial honeymoon period and I felt that players like Sherwood (who I understand despised Hodgson) let us down really badly that season. Fast forward a number of years and Woy had a similar effect at Anfield. Ironic that even that ended for him at Ewood Park ultimately. But even having said all that in terms of the final league position these things can still turn on pivotal moments and that Forest home game, had it gone the other way, would have made all the difference and could have seen us survive.

Brilliant ha ha ha

The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

The Questions - Tear Soup

Electric Light Orchestra - Zoom

Steve Pilgrim - Beautiful Blue

The Jam - I Got By In Time

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Every Day I Write the Book

Couldn't agree more - I was just curious to determine whether Vinjay felt like that too or whether he was just unable to bring himself to use the prefix with Fergie.

The latter for me without a doubt. Haven't missed the actual footie at all

There are always exceptions, and my repulsion for him is obviously not remotely linked to his knighthood. I don't remember being especially outraged when he was made a knight, to be honest (other than my general disagreement with the honours system). Anyway I think its a fair bet that he would have had his knighthood taken away had he been alive when the shit hit the fan. Vinjay's intolerance of Ferguson and the Jimmy Savile example aren't really the same, but I guess you knew that anyway

Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas

Damien Rice - The Animals Were Gone

I am a simple soul and my view on this has always been just keep the finger on the pause button just now. People are talking as though the 2020/21 season will be a normal one when we have no idea really. It may well be much more palatable for that to be the season that gets scrapped or modified in advance, where all parties know the rules before they kick a ball, while we get on with finishing this season off in as 'normal' a way as possible, whenever that might be. But football should be put on hold indefinitely just now. I realise that this will have financial implications, but other industries are finding innovative ways to deal with things, there's no reason why football can't do likewise. Why players should get more than £2500 per month while there is no football being played is quite beyond me. The fact that they usually earn a bucketload more than that should have provided them with a cushion for more difficult times and if it hasn't, then welcome to the real world chaps!

Just as a matter of interest would you not recognise any knighted person as 'sir' or do you just decide on the Vinjay scale whether the award was warranted or not. I fundamentally disagree with the awards system myself (though it has improved in the last 20 years) but that said I do use it when referring to knighted people (Sir Kenny Dalglish, Sir Ian Botham, Sir Nick Faldo, Sir Andy Murray and yes, SAF, to name but a few sports ones) because whether I like it or not, that is their title.

The Pretenders - Don't Get me Wrong

Nilsson - Everybody's Talking

Junior Walker and the All Stars - I'm a Road Runner

Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now

The Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears

The Band - King Harvest (Has Surely Come)