Middlesbrough lost 3-1 at home to Southampton yesterday. It was Charlton who lost 4-1 at home to WBA. I doubt our loss to Boro would have been so heavy were it not for Tugay's first half dismissal. I also doubt the margin of Charlton's defeat would have been so severe had they not played most of the game with ten men.

Was he scouted out by Graeme's orange pal Dale?

I adore that song. Seriously.

Newcastle play the second leg of their UEFA Cup quarter final on Thursday 14th April. As of this morning we know that game will take place in Lisbon. To ask them to play an FA Cup semi final within 48 hours would not be good. Within 72 hours is bad enough. Why they can't play our semi-final that weekend and the other one the following weekend is totally beyond me.

I think if they want to scrap replays for certain clubs in certain rounds, they should scrap ALL replays in those rounds. Having one rule for one and another for everyone else is a recipe for disaster.

Or the music off the Hovis ad? Given our new negative stifling tactics, what about "I'm Bored" by Iggy Pop?

I think he worked that out about 20 minutes from time last night. Two free kicks, which represented our only real chance of nicking a goal, sailed right over everyone and out for goal kicks. Not good. Needs to find his range. If we can sort out the delivery from set pieces, I think we are good enough in the air to start scoring more goals.

Can't agree on many points here... Out: Gray, Amo, Short, Tugay, Bothroyd - fair enough. Too long in the tooth or not good enough. Gresko needs another chance with a proper left-sided midfielder, which we now have. It would be utterly stupid to spend all that time and money getting his cruciate sorted out, then give him away in the summer. He wouldn't command a very big transfer fee, if any at all. Douglas showed in the latter stages of 2003/4 that he has the potential to be Premiership standard. How can you say that he isn't on the basis of a handful of appearances this season? Keep him, loan him out if he's not quite in the first team squad. Emerton. Who's going to pay £4m? For the fee we'd get I think we'd be better off with him in the squad. Flitty. Blue and white through and through. Would die for the shirt. Combative midfielder who showed yesterday that he can still play a big part. Gally. Being made a scapegoat for the recent lack of goals. You try playing alongside Dickov. Still has a lot to offer. Dickov has earned another season. Keep Jansen? Sentimental claptrap! Keep Nissa. No problem at all with that. I don't know what the lad has to do to earn a bit of credit. If we get rid of everyone you suggest we'll have a smaller squad than Burnley! Wierd that just as things start looking up, everyone has to go...

Yeah, we signed him from Everton.

Ah, but you miss the point DMTP. 14,000 of those Rovers fans don't count because they're made of plastic or something...

IMO Mokoena has a ten-bob head and his distribution is pretty awful. I'll give him a chance to settle in, though. Nelsen looks an accomplished centre half, but let's not get carried away.

How many other Jordan (Orvil) s do you think there are? Only 21 eh? Must have had a hard paper round...

"The Clarets were more than a match for their hosts and were arguably the better side in the second half." Yes, I think you'll find a few thousand people who would argue with that, actually. Funny how the "reporter" cannot point to a single scoring opportunity for Burnley during this period of "domination". "Blackburn had run out of ideas long before Morten Gamst Pedersen fortunately struck the winning goal." Yes okay. MGP was actually aiming for the corner flag, but fortunately for lucky Rovers it nearly ripped the back of the net.

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I noticed that last night. I said to my friend "Have you noticed? We don't have a single Englishman on the field." Then about a second later Hyde hit that cross/shot that drifted in at the far post, and not another word was spoken about it.

Oh, give over... In the words of the Thin White Duke: Now your smile is spreading thin Seems you're trying not to lose Since I'm not supposed to win All you've got to do is win

Aye, reeto... The first yellow is for the slightly mistimed tackle, and presumably the second is awarded just for being Robbie Savage. Is that right? I did like his posturing towards your fans before the kick off. I found it quite hilarious, in fact. He was ###### in the first half though, I'll give you that.

Perhaps one day the Brown Cow and the White Bull will have a Beige Calf...

Oh aye... kids.

Well, if they win, FA Cup prize money will be up from £60k to £120k. If we can get past Leicester it's £300k. A final appearance will net the Blues a cool £900k. Gate receipts will be around £570k. Subtracting costs and splitting the leftovers will probably net both clubs around 200k. All ballpark and guesswork, of course.

How old is she?

It's only red cards that lead to immediate suspension. I think with yellow card accumulation the ban starts seven days after receipt of 5th/10th/15th yellow card.

Burnley 24-02-2005 £600000 (Bargain, obviously) Stoke 01-07-2003 Free Stoke 27-03-2003 Loan C Palace 05-02-2002 £2200000 (They paid that after sseing his efforts for Leicester?) Leicester 27-07-2000 £5000000 (!!!) Wolves 07-09-1999 £3500000 Bristol C 01-06-1998 £1200000 (How the hell did Bristol City afford that?) Gillingham 06-01-1997 £250000 Brighton 24-11-1994 Loan Hereford 21-01-1994 Loan Norwich 05-02-1993 Trainee Totals £12750000

I work in Leeds, and I thought it was chuffing hilarious! In all seriousness, it hasn't been the career move he was expecting, has it?

LET ME SEE YOUR BOOTS!!! (as a room full of 11-year-olds discharge into their pants) Unnecessarily scary, lanky, Dingle freak.