Have to agree with Aggy about teh early crossing - what did they hope to achieve with it when the Chelsea defence was already in place? I seem to remember some comment somewhere (maybe I am imagining it) about the coaching staff encouraging ealr crossing. But here it just seemed like needless sacrifice of the ball, sticking it into the 6 yard box for its own sake. The whole performance seemed under-powered to me. They need to change their tablets.

Not a top flight goal, but it was the 91/92 season, home game against Leicester, Kevin someone or other, went on to play for the dingles. I can still see it bouncing off Mimms onto the dimgle and past Mimms for a soft goal. Top flight one, I'd say any Man Utd one!

Really unconvincing all-round against a at-times poor Chelsea. Is this the same side that finished 6th last year? Jeez, we don't look like it. At no point did I ever think we could score.

Will be working in Bavaria when the tie is played, whether or not they'll let me get the time off for it, I don't know. Train times are here: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/e

Bong and a blintz? Cigar and a flapjack?

Er, think it should actually be: "You know what it is, you're just being flippant."

bang goes our unbeaten start to the season. :-(

I dunno, maybe teh coaching team can get hold of him and coach some hitherto unseen ability out of him. We could have the next Slim Jim Baxter/ Jairzinho/ Maradonna/ Geoffrey off of Rainbow on our hands. What is clear though is that having scapegoats is verboten. And that means no criticism of players! You're allowed allowed to pass comment on a player if you say that he is absolutely terrific, a World-beater and very nice to his Mum as well, of course.

Why is it when a Rovers player gets criticised some people's reaction is: "Rovers fans have always got to have a scapegoat". Why can it not be accepted that it is just an opinion. I mean there's no reason to have a scapegoat is there, there is nothing that's gone wrong for him to be scapegoated for, is there? I just don't rate Emerton as a player at all. I think he's just really ordinary, that's my opinion.

It doesn't follow that people who are good at picking players would be working in football. The only way to get into the industry is to be a half-decent player. Anyone who's in the industry but who isn't playing (agents, physios etc excluded) is a former player. I don't know maybe all us Emerton-haters have it completely wrong, and scuttling diagonally up the pitch and then turning round and passing it backwards or conceding possession is all part of some tactical masterplan, and repesents the height of football skill. If so, as someone not in teh game, it goes right over my head, I'm sorry to say.

What is it that you like about him so much, Brownie? The dead-eye 100% accuracy when shooting on goal? The touchline-hugging marauding runs? The dribbling skills which leave opposition defenders chasing shadows? He is the poor man's Stuart Ripley.

Duggie had his home phone number on the back as he could never remember it, and Ron had pi to 9 figures on his as he was always getting asked by school kids and it was always tripping him up.

Absolutely huge? More like gargantuan, enormous, rather jolly large, almost beyond the bounds of human mensuration.

Or even a flat cap salary?

It's too boring - there needs to be some naked women in the mix.

Did he bang along to it? (Out of time.)

From teh statements he's made on teh BBC website, I'd say he's dropped Beckham for good. Good, it shows he's got some nuts, unlike the Swedish bed-hopping nepotic turnip. Beckham's had it, his legs have gone and he is only good for free-kicks now.

Kiddies toy drums? Giving each drummer a paint brush instead of a drumstick? Only giving them half a drum? giving them a drum and drum stick but only after they've taken a heavy dosage of valium?

Couldn't they be given silent drums instead? I'd be most upset if one of these geezers tried to sit near me.

Two nightmares, one of them is being lost in a railway station with so many platforms it's not true, all of the trains are steam engines. The other one is being aboard a ship which is going to sink, I faff around trying to find the best strategy to survive then just stay on the top deck. The ship goes over and I keep on going down decks until I get to the bottom and enter an umbilical cord to an underwater world which I run around until I duel with someone I hated at school. not had either nightmare for a while.

Has anyone ever been sat right in front or behind him? I'd imagine that that was a bit painful?

Did he actually take the day off then? Or was he told not to train that day? I don't think your analogy is a valid one. Footballers are spoon-fed, it's their duty to carry their skills onto the field, the conditioning and training is the responsibility of the manager. What would training be like if everyone suddenly announced they were off to do their own thing? "Oh boss, I won't do the five-a-side, personally I feel I'd benefit more from a long run, so see ya later". "Boss these cones have been laid out wrong, can I change them?" "Boss, I've over-trained thanks to you, I am taking today over to allow my muscles to super-compensate" "Boss, these bleep tests aren't stretching me, I'm using my own heart-rate monitor and I'm not above 85% of my heart-rate yet" "Boss, I find these training routines mentally-unstimulating, either let's do soemthing different or I'll go home" Yes, it all sounds very feasible to me. You can't take your own work-place analogy and then suddenly apply it to football.

Why do clubs hire sports scientists and fitness coaches then? They shouldn't need them, the players know it all! You might as well have the players washing the kit, making the teas and giving the half-time talk. Did the players give themselves days off? No, the Swedish Turnip did. It's not so much scapegoating as laying blame where it's rightfully due.

I think anyone would be amazed if they ever saw a game there. Farcical.

So, Lampard wasn't fit enough because he was moaning about being tired, and the amount of games he played wasn't as many as that played by Arsenal in 1979/80. So, what you are saying is that Arsenal players in 1979/80 were fitter than Frank Lampard Juinor is now? Do you realise how ridiculous that statement sounds? You may have noticed that the game is played at a slightly higher tempo these days. Who knows whether Lampard complained to Eriksson about the training, or how tired he felt. If he did, it didn't actually have any effect, did it? The manager makes the decisions and is ultimately responsible for everything that happens on the pitch - period. He is responsible for switching the training round if it isn't working, he is responsible for tactics and selection NOT the players. Players can speak their minds but won't necessarily get their own way, and if they don't and the results don't come then they are entitled to speak out. One thing that I do remember is that Klinsman's training methods re-invigorated his team after a long season because he was prepared to accept new ideas. We needed something new to get the players going again. As it is, Lampard was clearly out-of-sorts and needed dropping. I never agreed with messing the FA Cup schedule up just to have more time off at teh end of teh season. It certainly didn't help us did it?